Rock, Paper, Scissors
13 June 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Richard Osmond won the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock, Paper, Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017.
Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with...
Details
13 June 201972 pages
9781509894574Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[Richard Osmond] has made a remarkably intelligent, moving and even-handed cycle of poems out of [a] close brush with death in Rock, Paper, Scissors which manages to sew together firsthand reportage, menacing translations from Beowulf, and quotations from the and quotations from the Koran. Not to be missed.The Tablet
