Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers
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13 November 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Beneath the sharp social satire lurks a psychological insight, a sensitivity to a profound cultural inheritance’ The Times
In 2023 the poet John Stammers was struck by a sudden and life-threatening health crisis and came very close to death. By some miracle he survived and was able to return to the poems he had been writing which now, inevitably, took a...
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13 November 202564 pages
9781035082681Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Beneath the sharp social satire lurks a psychological insight, a sensitivity to a profound cultural inheritanceThe Times
A frame of reference ranging from the scabrous to the desolately chic, as if Tristan Corbière were trying to get over an affair with Angelina JolieClive James
His talent is unignorableCressida Connolly
One of Stammers's most impressive qualities is the ease with which he moves through a whole range of styles and tones, his constant capacity to surpriseGuardian
