The Farewell Tourist

By Alison Glenny

Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glenny's The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In "The Magnetic Process" sequence, a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ships. Their scientific instruments and observations measure a fragmented and uncertain space where conventional perspectives are violated. In a series of histories--of the Atmosphere, of the Honeymoon--footnotes reference vanished texts.

By turns mysterious, ominous and evocative, they represent connections to an obscured narrative of disintegration and icy melancholy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1988531292
• ISBN13: 9781988531298
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Otago University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"