
The Quarantine Notebooks
In March 2020, at the start of lockdown, Muscaliet’s Deputy Editor, Moyra Tourlamain, invited the Muscaliet authors to join a very informal project. There were no
In March 2020, at the start of lockdown, Muscaliet’s Deputy Editor, Moyra Tourlamain, invited the Muscaliet authors to join a very informal project. There were no
This spring marks the beginning of Muscaliet Press’ third publication cycle, after two extremely busy yet rewarding years of publishing. We would like to say
Muscaliet is delighted to unveil its re-designed website, featuring much more content than before – including a News Blog and a Newsletter that we hope
What happens happens, whether it’s the political madness of 2016 when most of these poems were written, or the way the words fall (or fail to fall) on to the page. If anything, [Happenstance:] is a journal; if anything else, it’s a random mix of action and reflection. As Charles Bernstein puts it: “the poem said in any other way is not the poem.” So it is with [Happenstance:] in which, in the words of ‘Sit Crooked Think Straight’: “writing follows its own bloodied nose.”
Shelley Drowns is an account of the last three weeks of the life of the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Through a day- by-day recovery and detailed examination of the surviving evidence, John Worthen reaches an extraordinary conclusion: that the most likely cause of the poet’s death was suicide. The probability that ‘Shelley drowns Shelley’ not only offers to correct all previous biographies (including his own, recently published major work) but to change perceptions of Shelley for ever.