{"product_id":"9781913850074","title":"Out for Air","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Todd, Olly \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; literary studies\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 16 May 2022 by Penned in the Margins in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 77 pages\u003cbr\u003e139 x 215 x 13 | 130g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless \/ beyond the cantilever \/ of reality'. Each poem is its own event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut. Todd writes with a tangible physicality, solid as a curb, so that the language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' LUKE KENNARD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925189394691,"sku":"9781913850074","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781913850074_cb968061-8830-44ba-baea-d3c62e4f30c7.jpg?v=1731417140","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781913850074","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}