Over the last two years, Anthony Etherin’s Twitter page has featured hundreds of constrained micropoems, most of which fit into one of two categories: palindromes (and their variations) and poems whose lines are perfect anagrams of each other. "Cellar" sees a selection of seventy-five of these poems retyped on a restored 1930s’ Imperial typewriter.
Anthony Etherin is a writer of experimental formal poetry.
He frequently tweets short palindromic, anagrammatic and formal poetry @Anthony_Etherin.
Anthony's poetry uses both traditional forms and strict lettristic constraints, sometimes simultaneously. Included in his oeuvre are palindromic and anagrammatic sonnets, anagrammed palindromes (two or more palindromes that are anagrams of each other) and 'aelindromes', a letter-based constraint of Anthony's own invention.
His chapbooks are Cellar (Penteract Press, 2018), Danse Macabre (above/ground press, 2018), Quartets (Penteract Press, 2019), Otherworld (No Press, 2019), and Thaumaturgy (above/ground press, 2020).
His full-length collection “Stray Arts (and Other Inventions)” was published by Penteract Press in October 2019.
A distillation of some of Etherin's most polished, ambitious, and precise works, showcasing an artistry of constraint that borders on acts of self-flagellation before the gods of words. A singular example of constrained poetry and its ability to better reflect the unique mind of its creator than any generic, confessional way of presenting inkborn sound glyphs to the eye. Highly recommended.