An Experiment in Navigation - Softcover

Rupert Loydell's second Shearsman collection is another large compendium of his many-faceted experimental writing. "More than ever, Rupert Loydell's new book An Experiment in Navigation reminds me that he is a painter. By which I don't mean that his writing is primarily visual, but that he rejoices in discovering what his medium is capable of." (Jane Routh) "Loydell renders with equal deftness the plainsong of direct statement and melodious phrasal waves of speech. While he acknowledges that it is '. . . easier to map out fictions and wallow in distant clouds that deal with linear time', Loydell gives terra firma its full due. His work displays engagement with the figurative "folded pocket map". (Sheila E. Murphy)

Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor of Stride magazine, and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Tangents magazine. He is Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and lives in Cornwall with his family and hundreds of boxes of records and books.He has published several collections of his own work as well as half a dozen collaborative volumes, and has edited a number of anthologies of contemporary writing.