Pelt

Poetry. PELT contains poems 'Pelt' and 'B. Splinter'. 'Pelt' is a two book work comprising 'The Two Brothers' and "Shore Body.' The first book is a splay of past written in an accumulatory mode. The paired book 'Shore Body' deals with the same location and personage, but develops it through the onset of teenagehood. It includes a 5 book work rooted in North Devon. 'B Splinter' is an odyssey of wartime '40s a driver with a bee on the windshield for company. Nicholas Johnson is Co-Founder and Senior Poetry Editor of Big City Lit, and online literary magazine. He is a MacDowell Colony fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Lyric Recovery Festival Award 2000 at Cargegie Hall. "His poetry carries us to a super-reality of its own"--David Gascoyne.