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Twenty-five surreal colleges by Long Island artist John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, wooly mammoths, are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded. The works in this book challenge artist, poet, and reader alike about the nature of creativity There is also an interactive CD of The Arches available. View the collages on computer and create your own images from the templates and dip art provided. Listen to the author reading his own poems, and write your own response to the words, images, and specially commissioned score.

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Tony Curtis is an established and acclaimed poet, novelist and critic. He has written and edited over forty books, most recently his debut novel ‘Darkness in the City of Light’, which was shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, and ‘Where the Birds Sing our Names’, an anthology of poems for the children’s charity Tŷ Hafan. He was Wales’s first Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan, where he developed and directed the M. Phil in Writing. He was awarded a Gregory Award in 1972; won the National Poetry Competition in 1983; and the Dylan Thomas Award for Spoken Poetry in 1993, judged by Dannie Abse and Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy. He had a Cholmondeley Award in 1998 and a D.Litt. in 2004. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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