Full-colour, Perfect-bound Paperback, 210 x 148mm, 48pp

The protagonist of James Knight’s Chimera is an imaginary organism which, in a series of increasingly complex visual poems, evolves from embryonic cipher to something monstrous, unstable, and expressive. The book explores the transformational, hybridising processes of visual poetry, as well as the violence and chaos inherent in language.

 James Knight’s Chimera is a torrent of liquid fire that moves inexorably forward, as all time is bound. Visual-masses explode to form abstract yet symmetrical structures, each yielding its own variety of elements: shredded text, colour vibrations, unresolved narratives, graphic distortion sputtering into chaos. The rhythm of the poems reorganises itself around each mass, undermining any projection of simple continuity. James Knight is one of the most exciting voices in visual poetry today, and this book is another ‘must’ from Penteract Press. — Astra Papachristodoulou

omnivorous tome // ominous bomb // hex-haunted text // semtex under syntax // p03m rendered atom // cellular crepuscular // maps anatomies enter incinerator modulator // p03try’s dna explicated // fabric of fibre’s fabrications // spectre of splinters // p03try’s past present future ascend through illusion triumvirate // binary annals annihilated // dissembled resemblances // reassembled assemblages // pageant of pagination // the chimera // anew animal walks mausoleum // mauls page. — Miggy Angel

James Knight is an experimental poet and digital artist. His books include Void Voices (Hesterglock Press) and Self Portrait by Night (Sampson Low). His visual poems have been published in several places, including the Penteract Press anthology Reflections and Temporary Spaces (Pamenar Press).