! All'arme / ? And what...if not, Eilish Martin

'! All’arme / ? And what... if not' is at once experimental, interdisciplinary and intercultural. This collection teems with close observation and glancing intimations of human frailty and the minutiae of the natural world.

This tête-bêche (head-to-toe) double book brings together lyrical fragmentation and narrative drive, language play, intertextual dialogue and textual innovation with unsettling anxieties and deep care for public and private worlds.

The 96-page collection catalogues some small part of what Martin herself has referred to as the ‘compulsive journey’ of her poetry-making and verbal-visual improvisations across the past ten years.

‘Eilish Martin’s '! All’arme / ? And what... if not' invites us to consider how poetry in print operates through some of its first principles: the alphabet and punctuation. Its materiality; its privileging of the fragment; the embedded silences; its interdisciplinary urges spotlighting the porousness of borders; and its nod to translation as a transformative and communicative practice—all these are both a call to arms and refreshingly irreverent.’ (Words by Christodoulos Makris).

Published by Macha Press
Softcover
96 pages
210 mm x 210 mm
ISBN: 9781068769900