Paper Doll

Name: Paper Doll
Brand: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited

Flipped Eye Publishing Limited

Paper DollAuthor(s): Katherine Lockton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781905233601, 978-1905233601\nSynopsis\nProudly staking a landmark for the UK's Latinx community, Katherine Lockton's dbut pamphlet, Paper Doll, strikes the poetry landscape as disruptively as a meteor scars earth with its impact. Documenting a shape-shifting existence between activist and survivor, immigrant and alien, lover and loner, this is a tract of the unseen made visible and given a striking, defiant vocabulary. Having fallen from a building as a child in Bolivia, Katherine seems to have retained an ability to stack images that zip along, only leaving an imprint of their meaning as the poem descends to its conclusion. This quality, combined with a contrasting directness makes reading Paper Doll a profoundly affecting experience. There is no smooth ride to be had here. As the poet puts it in the poem The Paper .