A Full Cone [Paperback]

A Full Cone is Miles Champion’s second Carcanet volume. It features a substantial body of new work as well as a selection of earlier writing.

“It has often been noted that the pace at which Miles Champion’s brilliantly intelligent poems unfold is rapid. Ideas and images tumble into words and the words become present as moments of conceptual or emotional consequence. But, though high velocity is in the making of the poems, there is no swift taking away. The moments aren’t rescinded; the poems are not a demonstration of lyric evanescence. Champion’s work, rather, is about phenomenological consequence, and consequence lingers, lasts. This is a collection of monumental significance—and the work is gorgeous.” —Lyn Hejinian

"It has the beauty and weight of a real thing in the world, and is just full of dark senses and wonders." —Adam Piette,Poetry LondononAs When

"The pleasure is that each poem is a different kind of challenge... the invention is spectacular and always ‘up.’” —Larry Price
 

"Brilliant stuff. A Full Cone is one of my books of the year.” —Andrew Taylor, Stride Magazine
 

Miles Champion was born in Nottingham in 1968. He edited Tom Raworth’sAs When(Carcanet, 2015) and Ted Greenwald’sThe Age of Reasons(Wesleyan University Press, 2016), and, with Trevor Winkfield, co-authoredHow I Became a Painter(Pressed Wafer, 2014). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.