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The title sequence, which gets its first complete publication here, takes the familiar tropes of detective fiction and turns them inside out, to hilarious and touching effect. This book is completed with seven further stories, in which the humour sometimes gets very dark indeed.
"His tone of voice is cool; the unexpected turns in the plot, the apparently false then righted moves, are redolent of improvisations familiar from bebop or swing standards." Anthony Rudolf
David Miller was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived and worked in London for many years. His previous book from Reality Street was Spiritual Letters (I-II), a sequence of prose poems published in 2004.
2005, 1-874400-33-4, price £7.50, 140pp
An ongoing prose poetry project of which two series, included in this collection, have been completed to date. The other three texts collected in this book were written in 1995. Born in Australia, David Miller has lived and worked in London for many years. Recent publications include The Waters of Marah: Selected Prose 1973-1995 (2003). His Collected Poems were published in 1997. The book features a cover by artist Ian McKeever.
If “experiences at the limit of what can be apprehended” be the working definition of “sublime”, then Miller’s is and is not a sublime work, since it hovers within and beyond the limits of what can be apprehended, and in this is a speculative and phenomenological poetry. — Norma Cole
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David Miller
David Miller