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A science-inspired sequence that positions poems as technology Tierney’s new collection, which takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms, positions the sonnet as a piece of technology, a means of transmission through time and space such that the original experience — the source, if you like — can be wholly reconstructed with no loss of information. Lossless is a sequence of spare sonnets of slant rhyme and compact syntax that c...

Midday at the Super-Kamiokande is part existentialist cry, part close encounters of the other kind. Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café.

Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist." -- Eye Weekly

Matthew Tierney's debut collection of poetry is full of trains and visions. From Japan's subtle intricacies to the harsh realities of the Trans-Mongolian Express, Tierney captures the experience of movement and the freedom and dislocation of the traveller with potent imagery and persuasive verse. Whether searching for his own history in his grandfather's past in Wales, or stumbling through a Japanese lesson, Tierney's poetry pulls you into the...

To be human is to cope with knowing. In the early 1960s, Leonard Hayflick determined that healthy cells can divide only a finite number of times. Known as the Hayflick Limit, it sets an unsurpassable lifespan for our species at just over 120 years. Shifting focus between the limits of the microscope and the limits of the telescope, Matthew Tierney gives voice to a range of characters who scrape out meaning in a carnivalesque universe, one that...