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The Psamathe Centre Journal (Vol. 827) is framed as the poetry edition of a centenary arts journal from Psamathe, a fictional inverted underwater city built upon the bones of a whale fall and populated by those displaced by the catastrophic failure of the Atlantropa dam. Within this elaborately constructed fictional world, poems attributed to various Psamathe Centre residents are presented as collaborations with the Sentient Room, a dream-state technology that translates the poet's abreactions into text, and which also, between sessions, illustrates and ultimately distorts what it has made. The collection's formal range is considerable, moving between lyric fragments, list poems, found forms, and visually malfunctioned pages in which the poems themselves are corrupted by the machine. Jack Bennett's achievement is to hold the playful architecture of the frame and the emotional weight of what it contains in genuine, unsettled tension.

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Jack Bennett is a poet, short fiction writer, and artist based in Manchester. In 2022, he won the Edge Hill Vampire Bites competition with his poem 'Fragments of Paole', which was judged by Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew. His first publication was Lunette, a pamphlet of prose poetry published by Broken Sleep Books in 2023. The Psamathe Centre Journal is his first full collection of poetry.

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