He lives in Edinburgh and runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press. His debut novel Dead Souls is published this year by W&N. It’s become a guilt verdict on his countryfolk worthy of Thomas Bernhard. Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry books 81 Austerities (2012), Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (2015) and After Fame (2020), as well as numerous limited-edition titles.

By the novel’s end, Riviere has extended his satiric range far beyond the monstrous poetry scene. Time after time, the reader is brought to a point of soul horror – the horror of doubleness, nothingness, meaninglessness. Never in my life have I so missed the little. Catapult, 26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64622-028-1 In poet Riviere’s provocative debut novel (after Kim Kardashian’s Marriage ), poetry enjoys a booming market and the London. His 2015 collection, ‘Kim Kardashian’s Marriage,’ for example, was entirely created from second-hand language. Riviere harvests language from various sources to create some of his poems. But the novel goes deeper than flesh wounds. Dead Souls, by the English writer Sam Riviere, is hard to stop reading because it’s written as a single paragraph almost 300 pages long. The English poet and publisher Sam Riviere is known for works that challenge ideas of originality and authorship. The cumulative effect is exhilarating: Riviere has turned paranoid pub talk and midnight doubts into a prose poem of laceration.

I’d say it was satire, and it is that, but it’s also a meticulous analysis coming from a place of despairing intimacy. The writing is merciless the rage is genuine. Within a couple of pages this subject matter became clear and I thought, 'Oh God, why bother?' But a hundred pages later, I was thinking, 'Why bother with anything else? Why bother with lunch?' This is a brilliant and brilliantly entertaining novel. Summary: Later that evening, at the bar of the Travelodge near Waterloo Bridge, our unnamed narrator will encounter that very same Solomon.

It is a single-paragraph novel, written in raging, recursive prose, about the small world of English poetry. Dead Souls is Sam Riviere’s Thomas Bernhard phase.

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