Asteronymes

By Claire Trévien

Formally inventive and intricately composed, Ast ronymes is a book of redactions - and an elegy for places and people that have been ruined by time, erosion or neglect.

Ast ronyme, n. (French). A sequence of asterisks used to hide a name or password.

In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Shipwrecked House (Guardian First Book Award longlisted), Anglo-Breton poet Claire Tr vien takes us to a place where ancient stone circles collide with the language of the internet.

Tr vien becomes curator of imaginary museums, indexing objects and histories with a quixotic energy. The stunning central sequence recounts a journey across the Scottish island of Arran, where myths are carved into remote caves and a mountain hides behind a 'froufrou of gas'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190805834X
• ISBN13: 9781908058348
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"