In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act of verbal dexterity and inventive syntax in pursuit of a new kind of communication. Set against landscapes fallen just short of paradise, but which retain the possibility of redemption, these poems work intimately with the reader, interrogating us and encouraging us never to settle for inadequate answers. Formally adventurous and wide-ranging, Terror examines ideas of conflict, betrayal, sexual and divine love, history and hope, and holds each up to the light of our own fate and frailty, in search of a language which might console us, a language with which we might commune in our most private and fearful moments.
Terror is a thrilling and powerful debut.
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Toby Martinez de las Rivas' publications include three full collections from Faber & Faber. Black Sun (2018) was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Terror (2014) was shortlisted for The Portico prize and Michael Marks award. His most recent book is Floodmeadow (2023). His work is included in Penguin Modern Poets 7 (Penguin, 2018) with Geoffrey Hill and Rowan Evans.
Blackdowns
To narrate is to relent: in me there shall be no relenting,
storm baiting the fields with light, the deathless instant
of outhouses, cars prone on gravel in searing greyscale,
the copse hard by the storage tank deepening its covert.
Who steps with me into the shadows, allegiant, sudden,
if not you, from the foothills out across the bare Levels,
the briefest image regnant even at the point of collapse.
Now turquoise lightning thrusts among the stark ridges,
the water discloses in a moment the shape of its tresses,
the torn birch is lashed, stumbles, immaculate with fire.Station III
desolate
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