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Please Do Not Touch

Casey Bailey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Burning Eye Books

Published:3rd Jun '21

Should be back in stock very soon

Please Do Not Touch cover

Walk around any stately home, museum or National Trust property and you are likely to see the words please do not touch more than a few times. The irony is in most cases the sign is telling you not to touch something that was stolen from another land, something that should have never been touched in the first place. Please Do Not Touch asks important questions about these things, about the world and the lives that they have shaped. How have the ill gotten gains of colonialism shaped our society today? How does the noise of the crimes of the past reverberate into our present day soundscape?

'This is a beautifully shattering collection. How delicately it unstitches small and personal disasters on the page. How Casey flattens Birmingham and soaks our hands into its soil so we too feel it’s warmth, it’s grit, the seeds that may still germinate one day. Wow.' - Caleb Femi

ISBN: 9781913958053

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

80 pages