{"id":3317,"date":"2013-02-25T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:43:38","slug":"the-shipwrecked-house-human-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/the-shipwrecked-house-human-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: The Shipwrecked House &#038; Human Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 21 March,   7pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebellpub.co.uk\">The Bell<\/a><br \/>\n50 Middlesex Street<br \/>\nLondon E1 7EX<\/p>\n<p>Nearest tubes: Aldgate, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street<\/p>\n<p>Join independent poetry press Penned in the Margins for the launch of two debut collections: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/the-shipwrecked-house\/\">The Shipwrecked House<\/a> by Claire Trevien &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/human-form\/\">Human Form<\/a> by Oliver Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>Entry is free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px #000000 solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/classic\/cover-images\/humanform_cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"269\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px #000000 solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/classic\/cover-images\/shipwrecked_cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Human Form<\/h2>\n<p>Both human and humane, Oliver Dixon\u2019s debut collection of poetry maps a city and its inhabitants \u2013 from starlings and plane trees to a Stockhausen-listening street cleaner. But <em>Human Form<\/em> is as much a reflection on an interior world on the cusp of change. This book is a search for form, modes of utterance, combining elegantly crafted lyrics with dense blocks of prose poetry and fractured texts. Dixon is a poet open to invention and re-invention: reflective yet lively, philosophical yet grounded, a brilliant observer of people, place and moments of uncertainty coalescing into meaning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/human-form\/\">Pre-order \/ find out more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Shipwrecked House<\/h2>\n<p>Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by Anglo-Breton poet Claire Tr\u00e9vien. These poems are sketches, lyrics, dreams, and experiments in language as sound.<\/p>\n<p>Tr\u00e9vien\u2019s is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and \u2013 like the sea itself \u2013 constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; one woman turns into a snake, another gives birth to a tree; a glow-worm might be a wasp or \u2018a toy on standby\u2019. Struck through with brilliant and sometimes sinister imagery reminiscent of <em>Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em> or an Angela Carter novel, <em>The Shipwrecked House<\/em> is a unique and hallucinatory debut from a poet-to-watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/the-shipwrecked-house\/\">Pre-order \/ find out more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 21 March, 7pm The Bell 50 Middlesex Street London E1 7EX Nearest tubes: Aldgate, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street Join independent poetry press Penned in the Margins for the launch of two debut collections: The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trevien &amp; Human Form by Oliver Dixon. 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