Subject: Lobe Scarps & Finials by Geraldine Monk
Lobe Scarps & Finials by Geraldine Monk
£8.95 / $14.50. 104 pages
Leafe Press are excited to announce
the publication of the latest book by Geraldine Monk. This new collection
features the controversial "A Nocturnall Upon S Lucies Day", a newly revised
"Raccoon" and three new sequences: "Glow in the Darklunar Calendar", "Print
& Pin" and "Poppyheads".
The book is available on Amazon, but it
would help Leafe Press if you bought it directly from us via our
website.
Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since
first being published in the 1970s she has published a series of major
collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared
extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in
poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie
Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt
Companion to Geraldine Monk was brought out in 2007 by Salt
Publishing.
‘Monk is more attuned to the physical heft of words than any
other poet working in English today’
Simon Turner, Horizon
Review
"Monk’s latest collection shows a continuing foray into the
alchemy of language and a reclamation of the visceral soundscapes of loss and
celebration...the poems can seem little miracles of construction."
Chris
Emery, Jacket Magazine on "Noctivagations".
“Geraldine Monk’s poetry
activates words, makes them events rather than hollow vessels for received
understanding. They play, clash, spark and rub up against one another in
unpredictable ways with unforeseen consequences.”
Julian Cowley, The
Wire
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