Mark Russells Come to the River is set over the weekend of an academic conference in a hotel in a city very much like Glasgow. In this collection of prose poems, Russells characters suffer disorientation and subject others to clumsy and eccentric social interactions. They stumble and bully their way through the chaos of identity, and wrestle with the peculiar nature of academia.The narrative follows a capricious academic over the course of three days as he tries to deliver a paper, never entirely certain who he is, where he is, what his paper proposes, or even if he has written a paper in the first place. Come to the Rivers characters are ambivalent to others pain and discomfort, shameless with the truth, and habitually unreliable. Come to the River explores how people cope when the comfortable and predictable lives they appear to be living turn alien and incomprehensible. Praise for the author and work"Mark RussellsCome to the Riveris a collection of prosepoems which follows a continuous narrative, centred around the polite depravity of an academic conference.Come to the Riversuccessfully ties together elements of poetry, drama and fiction, creating a unique and often compelling collection with hints of innovative dramatists like Beckett, Chekhov and Miller alongside contemporary surrealist poets like Selima Hill and Vahni Capildeo. Russells prosepoems are lucid, wry and affable. Essential reading." Charlie Baylism, Editor, Anthropocene, Broken Sleep Books, Poet, Drag...

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