Touch Screen
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Touch Screen
By (Author) Philip Armstrong
Otago University Press
Otago University Press
11th June 2025
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Impact of science and technology on society
Physical Properties
Paperback
88
Width 150mm, Height 230mm
Description
The word touchscreen entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface. In this absorbing collection, Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh touch and screen strangely reconfigured in todays complex technological world.
In poems that range from the personal lyric to retellings of myths and stories long held in the human imagination, Armstrong explores the rapidly evolving interface between human and non-human worlds.Touch Screen brings us face to face with being alive here and now,and asks the urgent question: Can you feel it
Reviews
Armstrongs nimble voice is both hilarious and profound. Anne Kennedy
Author Bio
Philip Armstrong lives in tautahi Christchurch and teaches literature, writing and human-animal studies at the University of Canterbury. His essay On Tenuous Ground won the 2011 Landfall Essay Prize, and his first poetry collection Sinking Lessons (Otago University Press 2020) was the winner of the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.
