Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include ''Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse'' (Miami University Press 2012), ''Between Cup and Lip'' (Miami University Press, 2008), ''For the Good of Liars'' (

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2006), ''Adjunct: an Undigest'' (

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2005), ''Before and After Mallarmé'' (Survivors' Press 2005), ''Two renga'' (collaborations with the poet

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, in the

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1999), ''me generation'' (

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1997) and ''iter atur e'' (

1995). Between 1994 and 1997, he co-edited (with Robin Purves) eight issues of the experimental/modernist poetry journal Object Permanence. In 2001, the imprint was revived as an occasional publisher of pamphlets of innovative poetry, and has so far published work by the poets J. H. Prynne, Keston Sutherland, Fiona Templeton and Andrea Brady. He was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at

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. Judith E. Wilson Fellows, University of Cambridge. An audio CD of Manson reading from "Adjunct: an Undigest" was released by Stem Recordings in 2004. ''Adjunct: an Undigest'' was included in ''

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'' in 2006.

References

* ''Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007'', (Eds.) Robin Purves & Sam Ladkin (Litteraria Pragensia, 2007) * ''Chicago Review: British Poetry Issue (53:1)''. (Ed.) Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves, 2007.

External links

Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse
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