Nicholas JOHNSON
Pelt
£7.50 pbk
64 pp 250 x 180 mm
publ April 2005.
Cased, numbered with additional holographic material £20.
Contains poems 'Pelt', 'B.Splinter'.
Pelt is a two book work comprising 'The Two Brothers' and 'Shore Body'. The first book is a splay of past written in an accumulatory mode. The paired book 'Shore Body' deals with the same location and personage, but develops it through the onset of teenagehood. Pelt concludes a 5 book work rooted in North Devon.
B. Splinter is an odyssey of wartime '40s Europe: a driver with a bee on the windshield for company.