top of page
books · pamphlet · Vik Shirley
PAMPHLET
Some Deer
Subtitle
Vik Shirley
£8.99
£14.00
RRP £12.00
ISBN 978-1-916938-65-6
Here in the forest, rife with collective hallucinations & mishaps, rumours & grudges, moon juice & gravel walking, anything is possible. The constant babble of elusive deer language keeps the inhabitants and reader sane, as deer fly and deep-sea dive, become fussy eaters and start chat show trends. The deer show us ourselves at our worst, best and most ridiculous in their pure nonsense/no nonsense way. After all, who hasn’t had plastic surgery to look like Andrei Tarkovsky without realising everyone else has done that too?
PRAISE FOR SOME DEER
In Vik Shirley’s supremely capable hands language becomes a playground, a laboratory, a lighthouse and a place where surprise becomes the glittering and life-enhancing norm. There are poetic earworms here that will hang around in your mind for a long time.
— Ian McMillan
What a relief it is to trample through a world of poems without the problem of people in them. What's left behind is only our pop-culture, or a cardboard cutout of a priest, say, or a hunter, propping…
— Zachary Schomburg
More praise ↓
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vik Shirley is a poet and writer from Bristol now living in Edinburgh. Her books include Corpses (Sublunary Editions) and The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN). She has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham. Vik co-edits Surreal-Absurd for Mercurius and Firmament online for Sublunary Editions. Her work has appeared in such places as Poetry London , PN Review , and Dreaming Awake: New and Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United…
Read more ↓
More from the list
bottom of page