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About the Book
Replicas is a kaleidoscopic collection riven together with a wide range of traditional poetic forms and techniques. The vast majority of the poems have a twin. The work as a whole acts as a mosaic of mirror images, intertextual reflections and thematic refractions. The poems are a rich blend of magic and realism. Hughes is fascinated by physical, psychological and ideological boundaries, the possibilities they present, and how we navigate them. There are symbolic existential odysseys and anecdotal parables garnered from the poet’s assignments as a press photographer.
He is both a Romantic and a cynic, his language and ideas peppered with intimate compassion, brazen humour and playful candour. It is a spaghetti junction of a world, but to stand alone gives the individual the potential for self-determinism and hopeful curiosity.
He is both a Romantic and a cynic, his language and ideas peppered with intimate compassion, brazen humour and playful candour. It is a spaghetti junction of a world, but to stand alone gives the individual the potential for self-determinism and hopeful curiosity.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Poetry
- Additional Categories Literature & Fiction
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Project Option: 5×8 in, 13×20 cm
# of Pages: 90 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781006338908
- Publish Date: Oct 30, 2021
- Language English
- Keywords Simon Armitage, Poetry, North of England, Oslo
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About the Creator
John Hughes
Oslo, Norway
John Hughes was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, Great Britain in 1970. He has worked as a milkman, landscape gardener, newspaper photographer, occasional proof reader and a fish terminal goods inspector. He currently lives in Oslo, Norway, photographing art and antiques whilst working on his music project Love in Exile. He studied Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University under the guidance of Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Schmidt.