Alan Riddell: Eclipse - Concrete Poems [2019] paperback ZRACE 000 copies have been sold

000 copies have been sold in Sweden alone

In this exquisite little volume

Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will

taking its place alongside the recurring themes of "love

and progresses to take instruction and become a baptized member

Alan Riddell: Eclipse - Concrete Poems [2019] paperback ZRACE 000 copies have been soldIn this volume of typographical (or "concrete") poems, Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they're made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine the professed message of the pieces. When Eclipse was first published in 1972, concrete poetry was still a relatively new art form, and this book was the first substantial one man collection to be published in Britain. Now, almost fifty years since its