About this Event
no more poetry is delighted to announce the release of our 30th book and one of our most distinctive publications to date: Gravity and Gravel, the debut poetry collection from Liv Moriarty — a book-length essay of diagrammatic concrete poetry.
the collection opens with a spiral: how might the speed of a body (or any object, for that matter) both determine and be determined by the motion of all other bodies? the book propels a question of physics into a meditation on interbeing:
“time and space… snowballing together as they fall toward themselves.”
Moriarty’s poetry situates the perceiver and the percept within a shared gravity of time, tracing — through lines, marks, and arrows — how these relationships spiral, overlap, and entangle. “It’s up to the viewer,” Moriarty writes, “to imbue this gap with meaning.” like the space between lightning and thunder, sound and light, the book explores the poetic implications of space and sensation.
guided at points by Weil, the collection contemplates the physical and existential impositions of gravity — not to resist or deny the force, but to provide a vantage point from which to consider its counterweight: grace. the work rests on the assertion that our shared experience is one of gravity, uniting all human, animal, and inanimate bodies alike. we begin and end with the ground, together, weighted by the momentum of unstoppable time.
located between all that pressure and mathematics is love and pain and the everyday. the book gives us a chance to pause and let “the commas translate into a series of wormholes.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bard's Apothecary, 24 Crossley Street, Melbourne, Australia
AUD 0.00 to AUD 33.08
