Press release for Glass Scissors by Bobby Nayyar.

1. Glass Scissors is the debut poetry collection from
Bobby Nayyar, author of West of No East and The
No Salaryman. Written in three movements – Love
& Thunder, The Theatre of Unrest and Into the Blue
Forest – Nayyar exposes a British life plagued by
inequality, racism and vanity, yet fortified by love and
kindness.
A central theme of the collection is the volatility of
memory as seen through the prism of decaying mental
health, which culminates in the shocking, eponymous
poem of the collection.
Confessional, raw but never crude, Glass Scissors
confirms Nayyar as a young, British writer to watch.
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limehousebooks.co.uk Bobby Nayyar was born in
Handsworth, Birmingham in 1979.
He read French and Italian at Trinity
College, Cambridge University,
then Comparative Literature at the
University of Chicago. He has been
published in the Mango Shake
and Too Asian, Not Asian Enough
anthologies, and journals including
Wasafiri and Aesthetica. He founded
Limehouse Books in 2009. He
published his debut novel, West of No
East in 2011, and The No Salaryman
two years later. Glass Scissors is his
debut poetry collection.
Glass Scissors
‘A great new voice to the world of fiction’
Words of Colour in praise for West of No East
by Bobby Nayyar