Marc Atkins The Logic of the Stairwell
Published 15 February 2011
Paperback, 80pp, 8x5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611610
"As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces and scenarios. Here, in his writing, that world is disclosed in meticulous detail. It amounts to a reserve collection of the felt unknown, a whole new dimension that lies just beyond the familiar, on the edges of the utterly strange" —Rod Mengham
"This fascinating, intoxicating and often hallucinatory book ranks
amongst the best prose poetry collections of the last half-century. Atkins
is a Surrealist visionary whose prose creates a murmuring dream in every
sentence, a visual universe in every paragraph. His Logic of
the Stairwell takes you into a world of verbi-voco-visual
intrigues that explore the mechanisms of perception and memory while blurring
accepted boundaries between the narrative and the lyrical, the sensuous
and the philosophical, the essential and the residual."
—Michel Delville, author of The American Prose Poem
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