FOR THE GOOD OF LIARS
Peter Manson

For the Good of Liars is Peter Manson's first full-length collection of poems and contains work written
between 1993 and 2005.

1-903488-44-3. May 2006. 66 pp.
GBP £8.00 / USD $16.00

Peter Manson was born in Glasgow in 1969.  His publications include me generation (unclassified verbal and visual work, Writers Forum 1997), Birth Windows (poems, Barque Press 1999), "Two renga" (collaborations with the poet Elizabeth James, in the Reality Street Editions 4-pack Renga+, 2002), Before and After Mallarmé (translations, Survivors' Press 2005), and Adjunct: an Undigest (prose, Edinburgh Review 2005).  An audio CD of extracts from "Adjunct: an Undigest" was released by Stem Recordings in 2004.  Peter Manson was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge.  He co-edits the Object Permanence pamphlet series with Robin Purves.

LINKS:

Freebase Accordion, Peter Manson's website
Object Permanence
Stem Recordings
BEPC author page
Poem, "Switch for Breathing", in mp3 audio
Review of "Birth Windows"
Review of "Renga+"

Reviews of Adjunct: an Undigest in:

The Guardian
TLS
Books from Scotland

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cover image: 'Painting no. 52' by Mandy Ure

from For the Good of Liars

Love Poem


Take this toward summer hampered tempo
you will evolve legs bearing other night armour
to be pressed memory vaguer departing head
among these solo versions late ichor sorted edge

The hair part of song length opening credit status
let flow solid as warning new and hollow black
hand again stepping clean on hope of ádept
annex the light become clear balding surface

Our story back in the sonar dip tank
by which simple sketch article twelve comets
pale criminal rest easy is over cautious
the rest is grateful.