Description
Throughout this collection of psychological realist experimental prose-poetry, shards of experience & fragments of dreams hint toward the narrator’s enigmatic relationship with an ever-elusive young woman. The ensuing confusion & desperation set the tone for a pervasive sense of frustration & loss, for things, opportunities, & persons lost–things lying in failure & in ruins–that unite these dreams & fragments . . .
Bolsover has done something wonderful . . . highly charged, psychological, experimental poetry at its best. The imagery is sublime . . . totally unique voice. This is a book to be cherished and read again and again. – Matt Duggan, Erbacce-Prize for Poetry Winner 2015, Into the Void Poetry Competition Winner 2016
Read a poem from the collection, “the failure of communication (–the gesture). …”
Cover art © Gareth Dutton | garethdutton.com
Mark Bolsover has a PhD in English Literature from The University of Edinburgh, and works as a freelance writer, based in Edinburgh. He has short experimental prose-poetry published internationally, with FREAK CIRCUS, Into the Void, Ink in Thirds, 404 Ink, Spinebind, & forthcoming in an anthology of “multimodal work” with Twelve Winters Press. His piece, “eye contact (or,. . . –an only optical love),” was a winner of the Into the Void Poetry Competition 2016.