Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds
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Author: Stephen Watts
First written on a typewriter in the 1980s, the manuscript for Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Lost, found again in 2012 and typed onto a laptop with minimal editing, it is a text for and of our dissonant times.Its non-linear narrative moves between London’s Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants.Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is a lucid memorial text by one of the most astute and sensitiveof writers on the relationship between landscape and time. The author’s distinct and visceral poetic sensibility combines a fierce honesty, rooted in the realities of places he has lived and worked in, with a beautiful and explosive imaginative lyricism.
ISBN 9781913513078. Prototype Publishing. pb. 96 pages.
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First written on a typewriter in the 1980s, the manuscript for Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Lost, found again in 2012 and typed onto a laptop with minimal editing, it is a text for and of our dissonant times.Its non-linear narrative moves between London’s Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants.Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is a lucid memorial text by one of the most astute and sensitiveof writers on the relationship between landscape and time. The author’s distinct and visceral poetic sensibility combines a fierce honesty, rooted in the realities of places he has lived and worked in, with a beautiful and explosive imaginative lyricism.
ISBN 9781913513078. Prototype Publishing. pb. 96 pages.
reprinting