Rubbles - by David Spittle (Paperback)

About the Book

Rubbles is a swirling, errant and wild collection by David Spittle which echoes Prynne in its linguistic complexity and use of rhetorical flourishes as a critique of popular culture.

Book Synopsis

Rubbles is a swirling, errant and wild collection by David Spittle which echoes Prynne in its linguistic complexity and use of rhetorical flourishes as a critique of popular culture. Somewhere between "putting your head between a sanding belt and a circular saw" and "the would-be Russian elegy for expecting the unexpected item in the bagging area" Rubbles is by turns grandiose, innovative and an often thrilling assault on language, where "the path clears/by the use it gets".

Review Quotes

'Permanently at risk of drowning in the hyperconnected and terminally lonely waters of social media, tech overload and pandemic distancing, the self in Rubbles surfaces at beautiful moments into a child's perception, grounded in the vegetable, the invertebrate and, above all, the mineral worlds. There's an astonishing visual storyboard sequence spent in the company of a pet stone called Paul, a small world carried in the pocket for comfort. Almost every page here feels like a completely fresh negotiation of what a page can be, how variously language can be made to sit there and why should you stop at language anyway, since a page can contain almost any mark you might choose to invent for it. It's a hilarious and alarming book: utterly whacked, ethical as all hell, and I love it.'

- Peter Manson