Remora gathers four decades of poetry from Stuart Inman across four chronological sequences, spanning 1988 to 2023. The collection is shaped by a sustained engagement with the surrealist tradition and its fellow travellers: Rimbaud, Sade, Gherasim Luca, Alice Paalen Rahon, Magloire St. Aude. Formally, the work moves between compressed lyric fragments and expansive prose meditations, the latter articulating a poetics of analogy in which language breaks identity apart to release connections unavailable to ordinary logic. Elegies, dream-poems, and lyric inhabit the same atmospheric register throughout: a world of beautiful, corrosive uncertainty in which the self is perpetually in dissolution.
 
ABOUT Stuart Inman:
Stuart Inman is a surrealist painter, photographer and poet who, after a lifetime living in London, has moved to rural Wiltshire where he now lives with his partner and chickens. Apart from his creative work, he has also written an MPhil thesis on Surrealism Since the War, With Particular Emphasis on Surrealism in Czechoslovakia.