Complayntes for Doctor Neuro & other poems

<p><em>Complayntes for Dr. Neuro</em> is John Matthias’s first volume of poetry since Shearsman’s publication of his three volumes of collected poems in 2011 2012 and 2013. The present book ending with the title sequence about being forced to confront some of the very neurological problems in fact which have in many earlier poems been something of a theoretical pre-occupation also represents the more experimental side of his work that has tended to preoccupy the critics who have written on him over the past three decades along  with translation-based work (Virgil the Chinese Shijing Rimbaud) a run of austere shorter poems many of an elegiac cast and some graffiti-like riffs. Matthias has always written in several styles and those are once again on display in this volume. The notes include an important gloss on the title poem 'A Poetics of Parkinson’s.'</p>