Static Exile

George Ttoouli

All the houses in this city
have ghosts. The shops in Little India
and the stalls in China Town all
full of ghosts. Sometimes you’ll see a pickup
  
full of ghosts, Sri Lankans, Tamils,
making their way to a construction site,
under bridges or in alleys
howling with airconditioning units.
   – from ‘Ghosts’

Static Exile is a powerful and meditative debut collection which combines acute political observation with caustic humour.
George Ttoouli draws on his Greek heritage through daring re-imaginings of myth, whilst the title poem remakes the Godzilla story for the 21st century; an energetic and experimental satire of the paranoid rhetoric of modern Britain. A work of both tenderness and fire, Static Exile is a call to arms that introduces a bold new voice in poetry. 

Review quotes

“I don’t expect poetry to make me laugh my ass off, but this totally got me.”
China Mieville
 
“‘Ghosts’ is my favourite poem ever.”
Luke Kennard