An Interesting Detail
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:24th Apr '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 24th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative, powerful poetic voice
'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker – to any of us – in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCK
An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voice
The poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanello’s prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.
Expansively intelligent, pained, persisting, spectacular, this collection rises out of the depths, from the “echoes and the afterthoughts”, at the uncanny intersection of memory and history -- FRAN LOCK
What’s interred is not resting. Campanello pulls at every detail to disarm, discern and dismantle pieties and imprecisions, encouraging us to dig deep into subtleties -- SO MAYER
These startling prose poems surprise us with something rich and strange, plunging us into a world that hovers somewhere between blog and myth -- PHILIP TERRY
An extraordinary collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the past. The poems weave through circles and loops, echoes and repetitions, formally and thematically -- RACHEL BOWER
Our relics are released from their sterile cases … Degeneration, preservation and the wonder of both are contained in these poems. A beating heart in perspex -- NASSER HUSSAIN
An unsentimental personal archaeology, sifting the moraine of the everyday and wryly cataloguing both the trivial and the profound -- RICHARD SKELTON
ISBN: 9781526680594
Dimensions: 196mm x 124mm x 12mm
Weight: 87g
80 pages