I don't know how many folks here are familiar with the Scottish writer Peter Manson's work, he's a fascinating writer and a very interesting translator, too.

Miami University Press is pleased to announce the publication of

Peter Manson's Between Cup and Lip.

Between Cup and Lip, Peter Manson's first American book publication, contains 18 years of previously uncollected work. The book forms the missing link between two collections published in Britain, For the Good of Liars (Barque, 2006) and Adjunct: An Undigest (Edinburgh Review, 2005), demonstrating the continuum between the prosodically-dense, endlessly considered poetry of the former and the procedural work of the latter. Manson has taught at Cambridge University and other institutions. He lives in Glasgow, where he edits the small press Object Permanence.

"'Ah more eh...oh oh'. In the light of Faraday's candle Coleridge channels Loewenhoek and Whalen (I was thinking) as Peter Manson shakes the frayed carpet of culture and, as a fearless Duprat caddis fly larva, makes jewels from the motes. Even the bits of themselves the poems create make interesting shadows. 'Groups of words which didn't describe the image but which were it'. Yes. Wit, intelligence, a dispassionate view of self: plus images that are not words. Nothing to want for in this excellent book that moved my chitin heart."
—Tom Raworth

"Peter Manson is the language veterinarian, elbow-deep in the mysterious interior of our discourse, groping intimately to clutch the dark beauty of its palpitating offals, approaching the apparatus of its speech-making from entirely the wrong direction. If every word was once an animal, then every animal was harmed in the making of this book."
—Chris Goode

There are two ways to order the book (more news about UK distribution later). You can order it via the Miami University Press website at http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/details...n_cupandlip.htm. Click on the price ($15) and you'll be taken to the online store of Pathway Books. For international orders, email pbs@pathwaybook.com for information about shipping charges.

After the boxes land at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley-early next week, I'd think--it will be available via SPD at http://www.spdbooks.org/. SPD offers a variety of international shipping options.