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Remora gathers four decades of poetry from Stuart Inman across four chronological sequences, spanning 1988 to 2023.
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Formally, the work moves between compressed lyric fragments and expansive prose meditations, the latter articulating a poetics of analogy in which language breaks identity apart to release connections unavailable to ordinary logic.
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Elegies, dream-poems, and lyric inhabit the same atmospheric register throughout: a world of beautiful, corrosive uncertainty in which the self is perpetually in dissolution.
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Notes on Swimming, Arthur Lawson's debut pamphlet, draws the queer self into a sustained nautical idiom in which bodies dissolve into sand, sink like whales, or wake feathered as swans.
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The result is a quietly disquieting collection, attentive to how readily a body might forget its own shape.
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these extraordinary and mysterious poems prove that Arthur Lawson is a poet to have on your radar, one to look out for.
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Notes on Swimming is admirably vulnerable, shifting in and out of dreamscapes to uncover buried grief.
— C.H. Lieberman
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Cosmic Sadness gathers five sequences in which Jean Portante's imagination expands to an interstellar scale, Zoë Skoulding's facing-page translation carrying the French of La Tristesse Cosmique into the English language without settling its restlessness.
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Punctuation follows the run of images rather than the logic of sentences, drawing the book's preoccupations with language, etymology, and migration into a wider literary cosmos and reordering its world at every scale.
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Jean Portante stands among the most singular voices in contemporary poetry. — Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
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The Psamathe Centre Journal is the poetry edition of a centenary arts journal from Psamathe, a fictional inverted underwater city built upon the bones of a whale fall & populated by those displaced by the catastrophic failure of the Atlantropa dam.
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Jack Bennett's achievement is to hold the playful architecture of the frame and the emotional weight of what it contains in genuine, unsettled tension.
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A real achievement.
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It is a place both written yet unwritten, where survival is the only way out.
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Love these illustrations! Chris Riddell illustrated many of my childhood favourites.
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Accompanied by Chris Riddell's illustrations, the collection reckons with the cruelty embedded in inherited story while restoring weight to figures the source narratives leave bruised or unheard.
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