John Lobb was a New Zealander who spent the 1960s and 70s studying and teaching at the State University of New York in Buffalo, one of the major hubs of late 20th Century poetry in the United States. He wrote a dissertation on the modernist poet William Carlos Williams, published in American journals, and collaborated with major poets from the Black Mountain school such as Robert Creeley.
This posthumous selection of poems gives evidence of Lobb's keen literary intelligence and humour at the leading edge of developments in 20th Century poetics, which has not yet had an audience in the author's home country.
Edited by Hannah Hamling and Adrienne Carlisle, designed and produced in collaboration with Compound Press.
