Roll Again

£8.00

Games are not just pastimes or diversions. They allow to us to bat about ideas, meet and overcome resistance, come together with others (or find new ways of being with ourselves), and create new works as by-products of our play. Games and poetry cross over in these goals, and this book gathers together new games with creative, poetic elements, in a jostling, joyful compendium for rainy days, holidays – all days, really.

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Description

“This game takes a minute to play – since you should never spend longer than a minute in a library on fire.”

Looking for a different kind of challenge? Here’s a collection of rules and instructions – for games to play on your own, with friends or enemies, outside or in. Most are designed to be very short, but one or two may last a week, a month, or a lifetime.

There are role-playing games, dice games, creative games and battles, extracts from the likes of H. G. Wells and Charles Cotton as well as new work by contemporary writers.
But Roll Again is also an experiment in literary form – it includes texts which are more poem than game. It urges readers to dive into the ambiguous space between imagining and enacting, and in so doing rethink the meaning of everyday experiences.

Additional information

Weight 118 g
Dimensions 16 × 11 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Sidekick Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

120

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

793.01 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K