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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Press contact:bobby.nayyar@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