Hardback, 148x210mm, 148pp (Paperback Edition Sold Out)

Through a series of forms both old and new, Anthony Etherin explores the range of poetic formalism, from its simplest structures to its most complex — thereby following the path from lucid, lyrical scenes that learn to breathe despite their binds, to geometric ideals that tease the breaking point of meaning.

“The world needs Anthony Etherin, whose fascination with language — particularly anagrams, palindromes and sonnets — has inspired him to create poems like none that have been seen before. Sometimes bizarre, occasionally obscure, they can also be strangely beautiful. And they’re always fascinating. I’m a great admirer of his work.” — Anthony Horowitz

“Anthony Etherin does it again! He continues to render all my own virtuoso ventures obsolete. I truly covet this book even more than its prequel.” — Christian Bök

“Anthony Etherin's heroic explorations of the possibilities of poetry engendered by order imposed on the apparently random lead him to ever more fertile territory. Anagrams, palindromes and countless variations on such things establish a landscape of lyrical and magical coincidences. It is not so much that such things can be done at all but that they propose a condition between the will to make and the will to discover. The poem is in the patterns in the grass.” — George Szirtes

About the Author...

Anthony Etherin is a UK-based writer of constrained, formal and experimental poetry. He tweets @Anthony_Etherin, and archives his work online at anthonyetherin.wordpress.com.