Lies Blurring Here by Adam Piette Alice Kavounas love and desire emerge not

love and desire emerge not as consolation

war and spiritual upheaval

director of The Complete Works

the losses and the gains

alighting on King Lear

Lies Blurring Here by Adam Piette Alice Kavounas love and desire emerge notLies Blurring Here by Adam Piette is a richly textured, formally various collection that thinks through dream, memory and perception as mutable states where self and world repeatedly unfasten. Moving between nocturnes, necropastorals, ekphrastic sequences and lyric meditations, the book is steeped in intertextual conversation, from Apollinaire and Dickinson to Kafka, Dante, Sappho and Lully, yet remains acutely local in its attention to Derbyshire