‘Where there is waiting, a language opens’: Susie Campbell’s The Sleeping Place, Reviewed by Stephen Sunderland
Stephen Sunderland Reviewed The Sleeping Place by Susie Campbell (Guillemot Press, 2023)
Nicola Winborn Reviews Toys for Telepaths by Stephen Nelson (Red Fox Press, 2023)
Nicola Winborn reviews Toys for Telepaths by Stephen Nelson (Red Fox Press, 2023).
The Poetics of Sex in ‘The Bare Thing’ by Len Lukowski (Broken Sleep Books, 2022), Reviewed and Interviewed by JP Seabright
Len Lukowski, reviewed and interviewed by JP Seabright
dancing in the womb and its poetic of becoming: Susie Campbell on Rezia Wahid
Susie Campbell reviews Dancing in the Womb by Rezia Wahid (Hesterglock Press, 2022)
A Review of James Knight’s (dis/re)membered (Steel Incisors, 2022) by Dan Caldwell
Dan Caldwell reviews James Knight’s (dis/re)membered (Steel Incisors, 2022).
Great Novels of the Twenty-First Century
This is less a list than a series of recommendations; it is unranked and serves as a jumping off point into the fabulous world of twenty-first century fiction. Some of the authors are well-known, others may surprise you. Each book has been lovingly hand-picked by a Mercurius editor/contributor. No doubt the list contains glaring omissions. But perhaps that doesn’t matter.
A Review of Amanda Earl’s Genesis by Katy Wimhurst
Katy Wimhurst reviews Amanda Earl’s Genesis (Timglaset, 2022).
Rereading Stein
Andrea Mason, Alex Mazey, Franco Cortese and Susie Campbell respond to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine’s 1978 feature, Reading Stein.
GenderFux by Jem Henderson, Jonathan Kinsman and JP Seabright (Nine Pens, 2022): Reviewed by Pragya Suman
Pragya Suman reviews GenderFux by Jem Henderson, Jonathan Kinsman and JP Seabright (Nine Pens, 2022).
Ghetty Gospel by Isaac Harris: Reviewed by Pippa Sterk
Pippa Sterk reviews Isaac Harris Ghetty Gospel (Good Press, 2022)
The Poem as a Spell in EP Jenkins’ Rituals (Broken Sleep Books) by Katy Mack
Katy Mack reviews EP Jenkins’ debut collection, Rituals (Broken Sleep Books, 2002).
Water vapour hangs like memory in the air: a review of Alton M. Dapanas’ Towards a Theory on City Boys (Newcomer Press) by Cat Chong
Cat Chong reviews Alton Dapanas’ autotheoretical prose poems, Towards a Theory on City Boys (Newcomer Press).
Laura Tansley’s Notes to Self (Trickhouse Press)
Laura Tansley’s Notes to Self documents an imagined future whilst preparing for the end of the present moment, and the rebirth of an entirely different one.
Under-dreaming My Days Away
Nothing of the Month Club, is a book of mainly prose poems. More poetic and lyrical than Kharms, it is Vvedensky, the absurdist’s fellow OBERIU founding member, that springs to mind, in terms of style
The never-ending quest…
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