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'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker – to any of us – in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCK An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voice 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. Campanello’s 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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What’s interred is not resting in Kimberley Campanello’s 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 -- Pádraig Ó 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. It’s 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

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Kimberly Campanello’s recent projects are MOTHERBABYHOME, a 796-page visual poetry-object and reader’s 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.

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