A collection of brilliantly intelligent and experimental poems.A Full Coneshowcases Miles Champion's innovative approach to language and form, offering a challenging and rewarding experience for readers of contemporary poetry. This volume features a substantial body of new work as well as a selection of earlier writing, demonstrating Champion's evolution as a poet.Champion's poems tumble ideas and images into words, creating moments of conceptual and emotional consequence. This collection is perfect for those seeking poetry that pushes boundaries and engages with complex ideas. It is a monumental work that lingers and lasts, offering a gorgeous exploration of phenomenological consequence.Target audience: Readers of contemporary poetry, literary scholars, and those interested in experimental writing.
"It has the beauty and weight of a real thing in the world, and is just full of dark senses and wonders." —Adam Piette,Poetry LondononAs When
"The pleasure is that each poem is a different kind of challenge... the invention is spectacular and always ‘up.’” —Larry Price
"Brilliant stuff. A Full Cone is one of my books of the year.” —Andrew Taylor, Stride Magazine
Miles Champion was born in Nottingham in 1968. He edited Tom Raworth’sAs When(Carcanet, 2015) and Ted Greenwald’sThe Age of Reasons(Wesleyan University Press, 2016), and, with Trevor Winkfield, co-authoredHow I Became a Painter(Pressed Wafer, 2014). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
US-residing, British-born poet Miles Champion makes a welcome return to British surrealism in his first collection since his legendary Compositional Bonbons Placate (1996)
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