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‘Cut Up’ (Vanguard Editions, 2023)

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noun
The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. 

adjective 
INFORMAL
(of a person) upset, saddened, hurt.
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‘I’m amazed - Skinner has sustained the idea over so many inventive and entertaining found poems. It really makes you look at those familiar words with new eyes.’
— Andy Jackson

‘Skinner’s imagination and creative risk-taking finding joy in form and constraint is always inspirational.’
— Lisa Kelly
 

‘It’s like pulling streams from the cultural unconscious into consciousness! Extraordinarily effective.’
​— Wendy Vaizey

‘Am really enjoying the linkages and remixes of song lyrics in Richard Skinner's inventive Cut Up.’ 
— Katie Griffiths

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