David Rushmer was born in 1965, and works at the English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge. Remains to Be Seen is his first full collection, and contains key poems dating from the 1990s, with the majority thereafter composed in the 2000s. They include work previously published in the pamphlets: Sand Writings , The Family of Ghosts , and Blanchot’s Ghost.

The recurring themes of the poems deal with the magnetic uctuation of elements, the ethereal versus the material. e spoken voice versus the physical self; the origins of a written ‘other’ and the genetics of the corporeal and how writing simultaneously validates and negates identity by leaving traces of the writer, signifiers of something no longer there, waiting in abeyance to breathe new life, resurrected in the body of the reader.