Edition of 50 copies, hardback, sectional cloth cover with hand-dyed marbling, dustjacket with woodblock illustration
RRP: NZ$45.00
Available: Parsons Bookshop in Auckland
These new poems are a synthesis of mainstream, experimental and other aspects of postmodernist writing. They are varied and hopefully ‘push’ the imagination into surreal but meaningful places. They are concentrated pieces and dependent on space for effect and need to be treated as separate individuals. Although themes are not clearly obvious, the poems are connected by those human factors we live with every day and certain mnemonics appear and reappear.
Extract from a review in Poetry NZ from Iain Britton’s second collection, Liquefaction:
“Britton knows the value of the visual form in poetry. His work in this new collection continually retains pleasing and consistent form. At all times too, the visual is supported by fine rhythm and powerful meaning”.
Siobhan Harvey – Writer, Editor, Poet.
Since 2008, Iain Britton has had three collections of poems have been published: Hauled Head First into a Leviathan, Cinnamon Press (UK), Liquefaction, Interactive Press (AUST) and Cravings, Oystercatcher Press (UK). He has published widely in New Zealand & abroad in such magazines as Agenda, Stand, The Reader, Warwick Review, Wolf Magazine, Horizon Review, Blackbox Manifold, Great Works, Harvard Review, BlazeVOX, Meanjin, Heat, Jacket, plus Poetry NZ, Brief, Turbine, Trout and the NZEPC Home & Away online anthology.
also, here is a link to the blog with more images http://kilmogpress.blogspot.com/2010/12/iain-britton-punctured-experimental.html
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