Shadow Times

by Paul A. Green

This latest collection from Paul A.Green includes poems that have appeared in the magazines Black Box Manifold, e-Ratio, International Times, Litter, Junction Box and the chapbook Here Comes the Alchemical Revolution. They've also been performed live at festivals, clubs and colleges or have been recorded, most recently on the CD Symbols and Sounds with musician /producer Greg Segal. Paul's previous collection 'The Gestaltbunker' (Shearsman Books 2012) was described as ' thrillingly dystopian' (John Goodby) and 'a cause for celebration' (Brian Marley). 'Green's experimental faculty.. inhabits new voices and styles with confidence and ease.' (Sean Hewitt.' This new book explores the the shadow worlds of time, space and memory, as old journals are exhumed and remixed, old friends mourned and celebrated. Thelonius Monk, the Lurkers and Nostradamus are also paid their respects, as are the Surrealists while the presence of Aleister Crowley often lingers in the sub-texts. It's above all a probe into our current Chaosphere, forcing language and form beyond the outer limits...

118 pages, Paperback

Published August 18, 2019

About the author

I grew up in London, and studied at Oxford and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Poetry and short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, ranging from New Worlds to Poetics Journal, while my novel The Qliphoth is available on Amazon, published by Libros Libertad. A digital version for Kindle is also available, published by Libros Libertad UK. My Selected Poems were published in 2012 by Shearsman Books.

Another novel Beneath the Pleasure Zones was recently published by Mandrake of Oxford and a sequel is due next year.

Plays include : The Dream Laboratory (CBC Canada) ; Ritual of the Stifling Air (BBC Radio 3); Power_Play (Capital Radio); The Voice Collection (RTE Ireland) ; The Mouthpiece (Resonance FM London); Terminal Poet (New Theatre Works Hereford) and Babalon ( Travesty Theatre London ).

Other audio work has been broadcast on CBC, WFMU-FM and the Pacifica Network. A selection can be found on the Radio QBSaul podcast and at www.culturecourt.com. founded by my long-time collaborator Lawrence Russell, which also features my essays and reviews.

Video work includes The Slow Learning, a collaboration with digital artist Jeremy Welsh as The Quantum Brothers. Recent work on-line includes our latest multi media collaboration A Beginner's Guide to Radial City. A selection of texts and images from the project is available in e-book format, while one of the Radial City stories is featured in the recent Unthank Books short fiction collection Unthology 2