Shearsman Books

Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700325

Scott Thurston's second Shearsman collection consists of three long sequences of poems, and represents a significant development from his first collection, Hold.

Momentum aims to recuperate what may be had of a lyric tradition refracted through a post-Language sensibility; generating, amongst other things, responses to Proust, Shelley and the experience of dancing. Change and time are intrinsic to the book’s accumulative structure and the way in which the line-breaks argue with syntax attempts to show the process, the movement, of thinking in language in time: not a stream of consciousness, but rather more like a wier, a wave, or a rubble-filled alleyway.

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