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The Games

Published by Out-Spoken Press
Launching September 29th 2018

The Games is a book of play with language. In Scots and English, it mucks about with sound poetry, found poetry, computer-generated poetry, dirty poetry and others ways to blur and bust the borders of genre. Its themes are ecology, power and sex: how can you have fun in a system that’s trying to take power away from you? The Games makes and breaks rules in an effort to live a full life in a full world.

UK Book Tour 2018

  • 29 Sep: London, Poetry Café: Book Launch with Raymond Antrobus and Katherine McMahon
  • 13 Oct: Cheltenham Literature Festival: Out-Spoken Showcase
  • 16 Oct: Bristol, The Space: Out-Spoken Press Tour
  • 26 Oct: Plymouth, Ocean Studios: Out-Spoken Press Tour
  • 27 Oct: London, Roundhouse: Out-Spoken Press Tour
  • 8th Nov: Glasgow, Category Is Books: Book Launch
  • 9th Nov: Edinburgh, Lighthouse Books: Book Launch
  • 13th Nov: Birmingham, Impact Hub: Out-Spoken Press Tour
  • 14th Nov: York, The Basement: Out-Spoken Press Tour

Praise for The Games

Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016

“Harry Giles is our smartest young poet. It’s good to see the Scottish traditions thriving – reinvented, challenged, and cropping up in unexpected places. They are savvy and funny too.”
—Kathleen Jamie

“This poetry disarms, barbs, takes risks. It is true poetry: vital, funny, humane, wrathful, pulsing and peculiar, in thevery best of ways.”
— Jenni Fagan

“Pure joy would be to stand, eyes closed, in the playground of Harry Giles’ mind.”
— William Letford

Praise for Tonguit

Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2014
and the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2016
A Scottish Review of Books Pick of the Year 2016

Praise

“An unusually adventurous and promising collection” — The Guardian

“Varied experiments amplify Giles’ ability to speak to the literati and the casual reader alike” — The London Magazine

“A thrilling mash-up of mongrel dialect and contemporary vernaculars, giving it inventiveness and freewheeling energy” — Causeway/ Cabhsair

“Tonguit is the best new collection of the year” — Eildon Tree

“Harry Giles’ impressive first collection shows every sign of a particularly Scottish alertness to language, political radicalism and intellectual play… Tonguit shows the sharpest new tongue in Scotland at its most seditious, lively and visionary best.” — WN Herbert

 

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