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  • Endtimes
    Alan Wall
    We always live in the last moment of history. No one has ever come any further in time. All ages shape their own apocalyptic vision, a way of understanding the perils and revelations that perennially surround us. Endtimes explores such visions over the last two thousand years, since John of Patmos first looked out of his window and saw FINIS written in vapour trails on the blue...
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  • Doctor Placebo
    Alan Wall
    Doctor Placebo finds himself at the end of the western intellectual tradition, and on certain mornings feels almost as old. As a medical practitioner he broods about his patients; as a writer he broods about his poems. Sometimes the two intermingle and he can’t remember whether he is a doctor moonlighting as a poet, or a poet moonlighting as a doctor. One thing at least remains...
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  • Gilgamesh
    Alan Wall
    This volume features two long pieces: the title work - a translation & partial transposition of the Gilgamesh epic - and the mixed work in verse and prose, Jacob, originally published in the 1990s and long unavailable. In both works history, myth and the present collide. Jacob was shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize when first published. ...
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  • Alexander Pope at Twickenham
    Alan Wall
    Accompanying Alan Wall’s Gilgamesh is his new collection of shorter poems and sequences, the centrepiece of which is the London section, in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of old masters who have lived in London or its environs: Alexander Pope, of course, but also Thomas More, Johnson, Coleridge, Keats, Burton, Rosenberg, Pound and others. Then, ’Lenses’ deals...
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