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  • front cover of The Untogether by Jeb Loy Nichols
  • front cover of I Need You to Tell Me Something Different by Jeb Loy Nichols
  • front cover of Adrift: The Always Outsider by Jeb Loy Nichols


The Untogether


front cover of The Untogether by Jeb Loy Nichols

“…(Nichols) has written a soul-searching meander littered with the bitter–sweetness of his music. ‘The Untogether’ is narrated with a Mid-West drawl sharpened by NYC, and generously seasoned by the author's more recent stint in rural Wales. A voice that emanates warmth, his sparse style is punctuated, staccato, with dry wit – discover and re-read.” New Welsh Review

“This is not a love story. With this haunting, modernist account of lives struck by loss and threatened by love, Jeb Loy Nichols emerges as a singular voice.” John Williams

“Venturing briskly through what is not said, ‘The Unlanguaged’ demonstrates a proper ‘allegiance to the peripheries’. The waiting times. Remaindered dreams. Short aeons following the vortex in a coffee cup. The karma of memory reads like a very imaginative shopping list. In stance and style, Jeb Loy Nichols summons the vagrant spirit of Douglas Woolf, that great master of going-with-your-fate. Here is a supple intelligence in play. A sprightly and welcome voice in a time of stalled metaphors and gassy rhetoric.” Iain Sinclair

Soft cover, £8

ISBN: 978-0955527241




I Need You To Tell Me Something Different


front cover of I Need You To Tell Me Something Different by Jeb Loy Nichols

‘I Need You To Tell Me Something Different’ is a story of rural life, told through a series of prints and cryptic messages. Art Today called it “… a dazzling display of technique and visual ambition. The new pastoralism is here.”

Soft cover, signed, £10




ADRIFT, The Always Outsider


front cover of Adrift, The Always Outsider by Jeb Loy Nichols

‘ADRIFT, The Always Outsider’ is a series of eleven poems inspired by the friendship between the singer / songwriter Larry Jon Wilson and Jeb Loy Nichols. 32 pages, hand bound. 15cm x 11cm.

Soft cover, numbered and signed, £7


Snakes

He told me once
about his new daughter and how
she tottered all over the place
wanting, very much, to be alive
and how
in the evenings
he went out with his gun and shot snakes.
The snakes he said
were mostly of the poisonous variety.
He said he often drank too much
and that the fury of the gun
brought him back to himself
and his daughter
and the wife he had little time for.

We left him alone
eating awful things
his skin bad
sleeping in a friends house

I should have asked
on behalf of the snakes
poisonous and otherwise
that were here before your child
and will be here after too
and are vital and lovely
in a multitude of ways
is it not possible to find
some other route
to that best
and sometimes worst
part of yourself



© Jeb Loy Nichols, 2012