New and Selected Poems
by Julian Stannard
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Pub Date Jan 13 2025 | Archive Date Jan 24 2025
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Description
New And Selected Poems brings together a quarter of a century of exceptional writing.
Julian Stannard started his career as a writer in the Italian port city of Genoa. He has written at length about Liguria and Italy in general. His work has been translated into Italian and he finds his place in a rich Anglo-Ligurian tradition. This gathering of poems from many collections infuses his love of Italy with a clear-eyed view of modern Britain.
These are poems which can wrong foot and amaze. His satirical appetite draws on Rabelais, Gogol, Swift, and Lear. Stannard ultimately creates an unmistakable voice – the commonplace is made strange and yet even stranger still.
2010 Winner of the International Troubadour Prize
2024 – Awarded the Lerici Shelley Prize
Advance Praise
Praise for this Book
‘“You’re awake now./You’re at the end of the line” – there’s something end-of-days about Julian Stannard’s poems, but it’s a gleeful, sharp-toothed, epicurean form of oblivion towards which they rush, “extinguished – it would seem – by rapture”. These are poems of love, “naked, blissful, snookered” and death “the beginning of history/or the end of history”. Stannard’s writing often occupies the red zone; of old wars, too many cigarettes and unlikely encounters with figures real and imagined from history, music and the screen. “The love microbe slips off its bathrobe” here – these are open, insouciant poems which relish and entertain, serving up a cocktail of literate enthusiasm and “Ligurian tumescence”. Fleet-footed, both sophisticated and bawdy, this New and Selected is a “knocking shop of our glorious epoch” and a reckoning-up of a singular, joyous and entirely original body of work.’ —Declan Ryan
‘If Baudelaire wanted to put his finger on the pulse of contemporary poetry, he would find it in these poems. Brilliance on acid.’ —Astrid Alben
‘Julian Stannard demonstrates better than anyone that “humour is a serious business”, that poetry is a space in which you have to earn the right to say absolutely anything you want, and boy, has Stannard cleared that space and earned that right. The ghost of Miles Davis becoming a Banyan tree, talking bulls, Priti Patel in a wicker basket followed by an eye disease called Priti-Patelitis, well-regulated dumplings, Bruno the rabbit-catcher – anything can stray into the frame of poem, and usually does. These poems are a fully-realised world.’ —Matthew Caley
‘Julian Stannard sketches the paradoxes of life at home and abroad. His poems have the rare quality of taking us by surprise while simultaneously delighting us. Once discovered, we can't wait to share them with friends.’ —Massimo Bacigalupo, Professor Emeritus, University of Genoa
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781784633387 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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Featured Reviews
Mimi R, Reviewer
New and Selected Poems by Julian Stannard is a witty, engaging poetry collection that spans 25 years of his career. His style, which is the perfect balance between sarcasm and sincerity, is deeply appealing and accessible to any reader, not just poetry buffs.
Stannard's primary focus is his time spent in Italy, but the poems also reflect other travels. Each poem is more than a description of beauty, they are all laced with wit and aurate perceptions about the world around us. It takes a special kind of writer to craft an effective 2-sentence poem, and Stannard is one of them.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to explore this collection.cc
Vania V, Reviewer
Julian Stannard’s New and Selected Poems is a collection that brings together 25 years of his work, offering readers a chance to explore the unique style he’s developed over his career. Inspired by his time in Italy, especially in Genoa, the poems celebrate the beauty of Liguria and its culture while also reflecting on life in modern Britain.
Stannard’s love for Italy shines through in his writing, but he doesn’t just focus on its charm—he balances it with sharp observations about the world we live in. His poems combine humor and insight.
This collection is perfect for readers who enjoy poetry that mixes vivid descriptions, cultural reflections, and a touch of humor. Even if you’re new to his work, this book is a great way to discover Stannard’s unmistakable voice.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to explore this collection.
Mira S, Bookseller
I really enjoyed reading this selection of poems from an author I hadn't read anything from before. They captured me early on and threw me into another state of mind with every one of them. I enjoyed reading poems from different collections so that I had a great mix of very contemporary themes and those that I liked or even dreaded to remember. Of course, poetry is very subjective so not every single one spoke to me the same but I remember enjoying a fair share for different reasons.
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