The Indescribable Thrill of The Half-Volley

Facing up to Benjamin Péret's demand that poets 'show by total non-conformity their opposition to the world' this little book embodies refusal. It's perverse offering of 97 ways of looking at what cannot be seen refuses, in particular, to grow into a 'well-greased body of work'. Playfully anti-misrerabilist in their attack, the poems take the ball early and smack it in different directions all at the same time.



Jeremy Over