Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers Audiobook by John Stammers

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Title: Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers
Categories: Death, Fiction, Poetry
Author: John Stammers
Narrator: John Stammers
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Release date: 02-24-2026
Language: English

Summary:
‘Beneath the sharp social satire lurks a psychological insight, a sensitivity to a profound cultural inheritance’ – The Times
‘He seeks to contain multitudes’, commented one reviewer of John Stammers’ poetry, and in this long-awaited fourth collection Stammers’ restlessly eclectic range is very much in evidence. Here are poems of technical surprise alongside those of candid tenderness; poems that set love and love-making within a wider emotional and intellectual context. Here are epistemological meditations that nonetheless preserve the ‘essential gaudiness’ of poetry; and elegies for artist friends that consider the ephemeral nature of fame and charisma.
Central to the book is the grand guignol humour of ‘Death Songs’ – a sequence born of his own near-fatal collapse and written in its aftermath. Stammers is a frank and clear-eyed witness on the nature of death and its concomitants, drawing variously on Berryman’s famous work and on a wildly surreal hallucinatory experience that can accompany extreme bodily crises. More than ever before, he brings a philosophical dimension that raises the stakes from the purely literary into the genuinely metaphysical.

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