Matthew Haigh – författare

Longlisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2020Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to produce poems that range from the blackly comic to the surreal, from the nonsensical to the prescient. Many of the poems confine themselves to the precise aesthetics of magazine columns, doing away with line breaks entirely to find new meaning in their Modernist forms. Added to the mix are a range of free verse poems more traditional in form. This monster hybrid of styles, of fact and fiction, aims to replicate the untrustworthy, hyperbolic stream of media that absorbs our lives every day. This radical work creates a futuristic landscape of human emotion as product – a pink, shattered diamond refracting our chaotic times.

New poetry by Matthew Haigh, author of Death Magazine (Salt) and Black Jam (Broken Sleep Books). Vampires is a rare book: devastating both for its dazzling linguistic flair, and its moving central story—an elegy to a lost, beloved aunt. Family life bleeds into gothic fantasy, video games and arcade classics, an ode to our beta-version hearts.