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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew HaighPublish date:2021-11-18Pages:36
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bad Betty PressISBN-13:9781913268213ISBN-10:1913268217UPC:9781913268213Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Death, Grief, LossSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.09 inchesWeight:0.1301Product ID:SCH4BP5953

Matthew Haigh's Vampires is a rare book: devastating both for its dazzling linguistic flair, and its moving central story-an elegy to a lost, beloved aunt. Rich with references that place us firmly in the late 80s and early 90s, it reminds us that childhood is leaping from a bridge into mist. It's a heady read, in which family life bleeds into gothic fantasy, into video games and arcade classics-with their endless potential for death and rebirth. Every word is lacquered, effulgent, cut like crystal, packed with E numbers, fizzing with energy. Vampires is a dream resurrected, a surreal MTV video, an ode to our beta-version hearts.



Language:EnglishPublisher:Bad Betty PressISBN-13:9781913268213ISBN-10:1913268217UPC:9781913268213Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Death, Grief, LossSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.09 inchesWeight:0.1301Product ID:SCH4BP5953
Haigh, Matthew: - Matthew Haigh is the author of Death Magazine (Salt, 2019) and Black Jam (Broken Sleep Books, 2019). He is the co-editor of Hit Points: an anthology of video game poetry (Broken Sleep Books, 2021). Death Magazine was longlisted for the Polari first book prize in 2020. His work has been highly commended in the Forward prizes, commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize, and published in journals including Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Magma, Fourteen Poems, The Guardian and Poetry London. Further work has featured in anthologies from The Emma Press, Bad Betty Press and Sidekick Books. He has performed at a number of festivals including Cheltenham and Gloucester Poetry Festivals, Swansea Fringe and the European Poetry Festival. In 2021 he was a judge for the Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition and interviewed for Edge Magazine on the relationship between poetry and video games. Matthew lives in Cardiff.
Publisher: Bad Betty Press

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