An Interesting Detail

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An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative, powerful poetic voice

An Interesting Detail invokes time spent, wasted, well-used, shared, and the power of language to alter our experience and the experience of others.

The poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanellos prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.

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Whats interred is not resting in Kimberley Campanellos brilliantly unsettling scrutiny of the dead hand of nationalist language and lineage. Turning the postcard shape of the prose poem into a be here against wishful nostalgia, Campanello pulls at every detail to disarm, discern and dismantle pieties and imprecisions, encouraging us as readers to dig deep into subtleties, to read for every pin-sharp return of phrase, every line in its ongoing. -- So Mayer, author of Truth & Dare
Kimberly Campanello is an extraordinary poet ... This work is a confrontation, a lamentation, a powerful objection and a revolution -- Pdraig Tuama
These startling prose poems, like those of Rimbaud, surprise us with something rich and strange, plunging us into a world that hovers somewhere between blog and myth. Its as if an anthropologist had come down from the stars to examine our life, raking through everyday habits, fridges, our favourite leggings, abandoned yachts, to reveal hidden kinship patterns, forgotten customs and half-buried rituals bristling with renewed possibilities -- Philip Terry
The quotidian becomes charged. Our relics are released from their sterile cases. The museums of the future are held open. Degeneration, preservation, and the wonder of both, are contained in these poems, confidently, and well. A beating heart in perspex. Hold your breath, your self, and read -- Dr Nasser Hussain, author of Love Language

Author Bio

Kimberly Campanellos recent projects are MOTHERBABYHOME, a 796-page visual poetry-object and readers edition book (zimZalla, 2019) culminating in a durational performance, and sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication (with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media) in conversation with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.