Published 2020. Paperback, 142pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848617346 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

This greatly expanded volume combines a revised version of the 2007 text of The Memory of the Drift, Books I-IV (also published by Shearsman Books) with a fifth book, 'A New Walking Age', plus out-takes and abandoned, but related pieces, and prefaces the whole with a long related work, 'Airborne or Still'.

The book's title, which refers both to Charles Olson and the Situationist International, gave evidence of its sympathies and intended range at the outset. The Memory of the Drift began as a text written out of, and concerned with, a counterculture that was inevitably defined in largely negative terms (there has, after all, been so much to refuse) — it has become increasingly dominated by a perception of the practice of writing as an operation performed within a greater magical current.

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