Analogue/Digital brings together poems first published in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7, and other anthologies and magazines mainly from the 1990s, with recent poems relating to travels - particularly in Australia. In between, there has been a switch from analogue to digital technologies, and this informs the selection, in which themes of loss, survival and changing horizons are reflected in the radical shift. Old and new worlds speak to each other, with their various means of recording the world - past and present - vying for attention.
Analogue/Digital brings together poems first published in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7, and other anthologies and magazines mainly from the 1990s, wi...
The title poem of this collection chronicles the eighteenth-century trial of Captain John Bolton for the murder of his apprentice girl, Elizabeth Rainbow, in a small village in the north of England where Paul Munden has spent most of his life. The poem's reflection on the life writing process is complemented by other shadowings, glimpses of strange complicities and dark pastoral musings.
The title poem of this collection chronicles the eighteenth-century trial of Captain John Bolton for the murder of his apprentice girl, Elizabeth R...
