The Beat the Pulse the Wave
the new collection from Jeremy Dixon
The first 40 pre-orders will receive a limited edition badge made by Jeremy.
Life comes at you in waves, sometimes they carry you to new shores, sometimes you risk drowning in the flood. Life is a pulse, a heart pumping the blood of now and the blood memories of the past and of your ancestors. Life is a beat, a dance, a festival where you watch Portishead in a field as the sun sets. Life is the rhythm of all three together, it is the beat, the pulse, the wave that brings you to this moment. Jeremy Dixon pauses to consider and celebrate that which was, that which is and that which could be.
If this book was a keyboard technique it would be the glissando: Jeremy Dixon hits every note in a smooth, expressive and always arresting performance. From the music of the Eighties to Ancient Egypt, from King Canute to the Blitz, this is a collection that zooms across time and space, remembering ancestors and allies along the way. Past conflicts cast a shadow over our own turbulent times, and ecological change is documented with wit as well as concern. Despite rising tides and shifting dunes, the tone is resilient and the flow of life is fierce: an ancient green knight is rediscovered to have an irresistibly erotic charge, a spring spirit awakening queer desire and radical hope. The Beat The Pulse The Wave is an exuberant and accomplished collection, an irresistible glittering literary mirrorball guaranteed to thrill any reader who dares to tie on the red shoes.
Nancy Campbell, author of Disko Bay
Jeremy Dixon
Jeremy Dixon is a poet and maker of Artist’s Books. He was born in Essex and moved to the Vale of Glamorgan as a teenager, living there for over 45 years. His poetry has appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Found Poetry Review, HIV Here & Now, Impossible Archetype, Lighthouse Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Roundyhouse and other print and online magazines. He has been published several times by Arachne Press, including his debut pamphlet IN RETAIL (2019) and in the recent bilingual Welsh/English anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd (2022). We published Jeremy’s first full collection, A Voice Coming From Then in August 2021 and it WON the poetry category for Wales Book of the Year English Language Poetry…
