The Glimmer

By Shazea Quraishi

The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists' colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their after-life, contemplating what remains of us after death. Among the artists she encounters are a painter of miniatures, a war photographer, a light artist, a ghazal singer, and dancers from Tanzteater Wuppertal, as they reflect on the impulse to make work and meaning in a world where value is increasingly monetised. Within the extended narrative are self-contained poems ranging in form from syllabics and ghazals to OULIPO-inspired anagram poems, drawing on found text and verbatim speech to bring a choir of voices to life. The title work is followed by two elegies. The Glimmer is Shazea Quraishi's second full-length book of poetry, following her debut, The Art of Scratching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780376332
• ISBN13: 9781780376332
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"