Book launch – Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong
Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Touch Screen by local poet Philip Armstrong.
In this absorbing collection, the poet dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh – ‘touch’ and ‘screen’ strangely reconfigured in today’s complex technological world.
All welcome, refreshments provided.
About the book
The word ‘touchscreen’ entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface.
In poems that range from the personal lyric to retellings of myths and stories long held in the human imagination, Armstrong explores the rapidly evolving interface between human and non-human worlds.
Touch Screen brings us face to face with being alive here and now, and asks the urgent question: Can you feel it?
In this absorbing collection, the poet dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh – ‘touch’ and ‘screen’ strangely reconfigured in today’s complex technological world.
All welcome, refreshments provided.
About the book
The word ‘touchscreen’ entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface.
In poems that range from the personal lyric to retellings of myths and stories long held in the human imagination, Armstrong explores the rapidly evolving interface between human and non-human worlds.
Touch Screen brings us face to face with being alive here and now, and asks the urgent question: Can you feel it?
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