Emporium

Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs. Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on holiday, a transfixed girl in blue jeans, two lascivious figs, and a god who wanders shopping arcades. Drawing on avant-garde and traditional influences, this collection of poetry maps a surreal hinterland where the dark humor of absurdity lies in wait. At times comic, political, satirical, and erotic, this compilation is stocked with curiosities, jokes, and horrors.

Ian Pindar is a freelance writer, an editor, and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Joyce and a former editor at J. M. Dent, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and at Harvill Press.