Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
How to Swallow a Pig
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2004
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550226492
- Publish Date
- Nov 2004
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554902545
- Publish Date
- Sep 2004
- List Price
- $11.95
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Description
Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions,strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions, including one on the dangerous arts of pig-swallowing. With all the lyricism and wit which have made his columns in NOW magazine and his Dr. Poetry segments on CBC’s Wordbeat so entertaining and provocative, this collection gathers for the first time the very best of Robert Priest’s short prose. A fabulist in the tradition of Borges and Cortazar, he brings to these postcard pieces the same poignant, and twisted but brilliant sensibility which has made him one of the most entertaining and challenging poets of his generation.
About the author
Robert Priest is known as a poet for both adults and children and has been published widely and internationally. He is also a performing musician, a songwriter and playwright (creator of the well-loved children’s play Knights of the Endless Day) and leads literacy workshops in schools. He has released numerous recordings for children with the musical group The Teds and a spoken word CD. Robert Priest lives in Toronto, Ontario.
