Books by Ralph Hawkins

"Hawkins' method is to eliminate whatever is not interesting, and his poetic line is as rapid, sporadic, shifting, polyvalent, slight and self-reversing as consciousness itself. [...] The removal of conventional connections leaves a vast space for originality: his style is located in the edits, the jumps." -Andrew Duncan

Written by a poet whose works minimize the gap of 'constructive effort' between the basic seeking of pleasure and pleasurable sensations, and the 'mediated' pleasure of the poem.

This is Ralph Hawkins' first full-length collection in some years and brings one of the most original voices of his generation back before the poetry public. Besides the title collection, this volume contains the 'Pushkin' poems, and two further new sequences, 'Uruk' and 'The Littoral Zone'.