Touch

This fifth collection builds on the same creative collaboration, and – in a change to the previous format – collates all five chapbooks in a single volume. The five chapbooks explore ideas and emotions associated with the six senses – sight, sound, smell, touch, taste, and the mysterious and elusive ‘sixth sense’. Sensory perception and knowledge are crucial to human activity but are often taken for granted and modern life bombards us with sensory stimulae to such an extent that we may sometimes feel the need to escape from the smelly hubbub and visual cacophony of our lives. In such circumstances we are often trying to neutralise or negate what our sense impressions tell us. Yet the senses are so profoundly important that we could barely exist without them. When we pay attention to them, we often find ourselves attuned to what is subtle, aesthetically pleasing and especially suggestive – or pungent and unpleasant.