About the Book
Looking over your shoulder to the estranged past of having migrated to another country can be treacherous. Orpheus' Loot explores this transition with abandon and wonder. The excessive delights of Oslo provide the territory for a collection of predictive and confidential writings.
Hughes is a soothsayer and mentalist. His melancholic impulses, capricious humour, and mercurial encounters with an array of peculiar characters are the catalysts that enable him to loot the nature of rootlessness, addiction, and dislocation.
Love freezes in the winter nights and melts mysteriously away in the heatwaves and hangovers. Peace of mind is thwarted by doubts and derangements. There are buried treasures to savour here if you can find yourself exiled on a new map.
Hughes is a soothsayer and mentalist. His melancholic impulses, capricious humour, and mercurial encounters with an array of peculiar characters are the catalysts that enable him to loot the nature of rootlessness, addiction, and dislocation.
Love freezes in the winter nights and melts mysteriously away in the heatwaves and hangovers. Peace of mind is thwarted by doubts and derangements. There are buried treasures to savour here if you can find yourself exiled on a new map.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Poetry
- Additional Categories Literature & Fiction
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Project Option: 5×8 in, 13×20 cm
# of Pages: 114 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781006011580
- Publish Date: Jan 08, 2022
- Language English
- Keywords Simon Armitage, Hughes, Norway, Oslo, poetry
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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.