Books Books
Category: Art and Photography, Individual Collections, Non Fiction, Poetry, Poetry and Art
Number of pages: 68
ISBN: 9781854112378
Publication date: November 1, 1998
Price: £9.95
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Category: Art and Photography, Individual Collections, Non Fiction, Poetry, Poetry and Art
Number of pages: 68
ISBN: 9781854112361
Publication date: November 1, 1998
Price: £14.95
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Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis.
Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a crazed Noah – all are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches. Like the collages, his poems may ask as many questions as they answer; but the combination of verse and visual is, like many forms of art, a lie which enables its creator to tell the truth. Certainly the works in this book challenge artist, poet and reader alike about the nature of creativity and the relationship between image, thought and reality.
The Arches is available with interactive CD-ROM with which you can view John Digby’s original collages and create your own images from the templates and clips provided. Listen to the author reading his poems, and write your own response to the words, images and specially commissioned score.
John Digby
Born in London, John Digby has worked for many years in the United States. A poet and artist, he specialises in pure paper collages.
Tony Curtis
Poet, critic, essayist, expert on Welsh Art, Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in West Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including his latest: From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems. He has also written volumes of critical work on poets and artists and edited popular anthologies of poetry. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales, where he established and was Director of the MPhil in Writing for many years. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature and has toured widely reading his poetry to international audiences.
