Shearsman Books

Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610378

In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of Ancestors and Species, Tom Lowenstein's new poetry is pared down in this
volume to the briefest of utterances.

A long expensive journey. The landscape
grown stranger. A space at the end
where there's no more to interpret.

* * *

Continuum of non-existence
interrupted by this interesting
temporary interlude.

Download a sampler PDF of work from this book.

Some comments on Tom Lowenstein's earlier poetry:

"Tom Lowenstein's poetry is probably unique in Britain."
—Peter Riley

"Your writing is unlike anything else—very new and alive, very strange and memorable." —Ted Hughes.

"An extraordinary work . . . a coherent, massive collection, integrating ethnology with a potent language and a discreet and truly courageous author presence. It's quite formidable." —Christopher Middleton on Ancestors and Species.

"One of the most significant events in the 1980s was the publication of Lowenstein's Filibustering in Samsara. This bypassed all the politicised style moves of the time and found its way out into a poetry of awesome complexity, depth and forward momentum." —Andrew Duncan

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