Full Colour, Hardback or Paperback, 210 x 148mm, 104pp

Taking inspiration from genre and pulp fiction tropes, The Robots of Babylon explores the range and potential of constrained formal poetry — presenting palindromes, anagrams, sonnets, and their variants, as well as several new literary restrictions invented specifically for this collection.

“Full of beauty, both lyrical and logical. Etherin's adherence to poetic constraints reveals something that feels like the music of the universe.”

  — Jane Espenson

“‘The enemy of art is the absence of limitations’, said Orson Welles. For proof, meet the art of Anthony Etherin, a poet whose gift for elegant wordplay knows no bounds. This new collection, The Robots of Babylon, is spring-loaded with his elastic English.”

  — David Astle