Full of playful glitches and malfunctions, this debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's New Poetries series and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review is a poetry of misses and near-misses, distortions and uncertainties. The poems capture a feeling of deja vu, a sense of something not quite right, out of place, though hard to put your finger on. They are filled with pop-cultural references and registers, responding with a collagist's eye to music, painting, photography, television and film. Frequently funny and even more frequently fun, Bagnall's poems cut across continents, memories, dreams and rooms.

About the Author
Rowland Bagnall was born in Oxfordshire in 1992. He studied English at St John's College, Oxford, and completed an MPhil in American Literature at the University of Cambridge. His poetry and reviews have appeared in various publications, including Poetry London, the Los Angeles Review of Books and New Poetries VII (Carcanet). He lives and works in Oxford.

Reviews
`These poems move from memory to disaster to artwork to movie to prayer in an uncannily frictionless manner... a beautiful and eerie book.' - Oli Hazzard; `I frequently laughed, I re-read poems out loud, I went outside and read them again. And what's going to keep me doing so indefinitely is the poet's defiant and hard-won sense of wonder.' - Luke Kennard



Book Information
ISBN 9781784107352
Author Rowland Bagnall
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 6mm