Torque Press are very happy to announce that Carol Watts's new chapbook is now available for sale.

this is red is a sequence of eight poems that deal with surveillance and the culture of visual saturation, in particular through a focused and deeply considered meditation on a single CCTV still that serves as the central 'emblem' of the collection.

Concerning this is red, Allen Fisher writes:

Response to the visual as a complex of knowing and distortion into language makes a demand on all participants, writer, reader. Here in This is red offers a density of seeing made possible through sequential and continually framed perception and frail or desperate engagement. It gives the potential which has been realised to record internal apprehension and near narrative reading. This is red holds attention to digital image and its considerable blur – its energetic ambiguity and concreteness of understanding. The apprehension has been graphically drawn through – that is thought through – providing the reader with promise and clarity; an apprehension addressed as colour and tone addressed to "you" as singular and as collective figure at once – shifts from one to the other.

this is red is available from Torque Press by writing to:
Jane Glenn, English, School of Humanities, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, tel. +44 (0)20 8059 3410, J.Glenn@soton.ac.uk.
It costs £6. Please also enclose 50p for postage and packing.

this is red (Torque Press Poetry 002, ISBN 978-1-906851-02-6) is the second in a new series of poetry chapbooks that continues the original series from the 1980s and 1990s.

Piers Hugill