The Problem of the Many

The best collection I’ve read in ages: every poem contains something unexpected and unexpectedly powerful. This is serious, modern, ambitious and bold work - the kind of poetry you hope to find, and rarely do’ - Nick Laird

If Timothy Donnelly’s second collection The Cloud Corporation was, as John Ashbery called it, ‘the poetry of the future, here, today,’ then Donnelly’s third collection, The Problem of the Many, is the poetry of the future. In astonishingly textured poems powerful and adroit of human experience, Donnelly confronts - from a contemporary vantage point - the clutter (and devastation) that civilization has left us with, enlisting agents as far flung as Prometheus, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Jonah, NyQuil, and, especially, Alexander the Great.