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King of Terrors

Jim Johnstone

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Coach House Books
03 January 2024
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What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?

Written after a brain tumour diagnosis,The King of Terrorsis a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we're never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar.

""There is a moving, fierce intensity to The King of Terrors. Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, 'each bloody / mouthful a sentence fragment.' These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone

despite a future only as certain 'as the body // it inhabits'

offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself.""

Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected Poems

""The King of Terrorsis a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living 'between / age and agency.' Haunting, stark, and lyrical,The King of Terrorsis charged, as all the best poetry is, with the shock of the mortal.""

Sarah Holland-Batt, author ofThe Jaguar
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Imprint:   Coach House Books
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 10mm
ISBN:   9781552454701
ISBN 10:   1552454703
Pages:   96
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jim Johnstone.

Reviews for King of Terrors

“Infinity Network is a spare, sculpted, and devastating collection that fearlessly explores the outermost range, reverb, and implications of identity politics and techtopia as pale substitutes for human vitality and interdependency. “ – Virginia Konchan, On the Seawall on Infinity Network “Dog Ear poses personal impressions and collective questions - what we leave behind, if anything, in the physical world - by cultivating images and semi-narratives that are deeply, and sometimes, ridiculously human. In doing so, Johnstone's poems confidently confront love, death, and spectacle.” – Brick: A Literary Journal on Dog Ear “Johnstone’s poems realize that 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky' was permeated with 'Nothing to do, nowhere to go, / I wanna be sedated' from its very origin and, by now, has given way to it entirely.” – A. F. Moritz, Hamilton Arts & Letters on The Chemical Life


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