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Kimberly Campanello’s recent projects are MOTHERBABYHOME, a 796-page visual poetry-object and reader’s edition book (zimZalla, 2019) culminating in a durational performance, and sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication (with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media) in conversation with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.Campanello takes a quasi-archaeological approach to past and present in these grounded yet transportive poems. The Irish-American poet has a gift for drawing inventive, unexpected connections between objects and their meaning, be that historical or transitory, and the results will reward your time and re-reading
- Maria Crawford, Financial Times, Best Summer Books 2025
Fierce, breathless, seducing the ear by rhythmic propulsion and monosyllabic control, and all while teetering on the blurred boundary between short story and prose poem . . . She meditates on power, the environment, writing, and questions the supposedly redemptive power of chronic pain . . . The opening gambit reveals a poet disenchanted with – or perhaps no longer satisfied by – poems situated in the stratosphere, amid “church” or “cathedral bells” ringing, nor in the dark, indescribable mystery that is “beneath the sea”. Campanello’s poetics are startlingly inventive, even as she admits “books don’t know what’s inside their covers, or they don’t care”. This is a work to care about
- Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Guardian
Expansively intelligent, pained, persisting, spectacular, this collection rises out of the depths, from the “echoes and the afterthoughts”, at the uncanny intersection of memory and history
- FRAN LOCK,
What’s interred is not resting. Campanello pulls at every detail to disarm, discern and dismantle pieties and imprecisions, encouraging us to dig deep into subtleties
- SO MAYER,
These startling prose poems surprise us with something rich and strange, plunging us into a world that hovers somewhere between blog and myth
- PHILIP TERRY,
An extraordinary collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the past. The poems weave through circles and loops, echoes and repetitions, formally and thematically
- RACHEL BOWER,
Our relics are released from their sterile cases … Degeneration, preservation and the wonder of both are contained in these poems. A beating heart in perspex
- NASSER HUSSAIN,
An unsentimental personal archaeology, sifting the moraine of the everyday and wryly cataloguing both the trivial and the profound
- RICHARD SKELTON,
'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker – to any of us – in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCK
An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voice
The poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanello’s prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.
An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative, powerful poetic voice
An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative, powerful poetic voice