Publication Date: June 15, 2026
Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-47-5
With Souvenir Chakras, the seventh and final title in Estill Pollock’s book cycle, Cartographic Projections of a Sphere, we find poems of shape-shifting complexity and with a metaphysical pedigree of subject and voice.
Here, a narrative of Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe offers a thoughtful and provocative examination of literary personae—here too the timeline tanka cameos of “One Hundred Views of the Mountain,” its closing sequence presented as the fictional diary of a court lady in ancient China, defining the inherent jeopardy of transient cultural identity.
With the inclusion of his treatment of the timeless “The Battle of Maldon” and the memoir-styled “Analogue,” this volume is a worthy companion to the previous collections in the series—Entropy, Time Signatures, Ark, Heathen Anthems, Alias and Parse Poetica, all available from Broadstone Books.
About the Author
Estill Pollock was born in Kentucky, but has lived in England for many years. The pamphlet Metaphysical Graffiti was published in England by Highcliff Press in the 1990s, and this was followed by the trade edition Constructing the Human from Poetry Salzburg in 2001. Between 2005-2011 the book cycle Relic Environments Trilogy was published by Cinnamon Press (Wales). A collaboration with Broadstone Books in Kentucky provided the impetus for his recent poetry series, Cartographic Projections of a Sphere.
Publication Date: June 15, 2026
Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-47-5
With Souvenir Chakras, the seventh and final title in Estill Pollock’s book cycle, Cartographic Projections of a Sphere, we find poems of shape-shifting complexity and with a metaphysical pedigree of subject and voice.
Here, a narrative of Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe offers a thoughtful and provocative examination of literary personae—here too the timeline tanka cameos of “One Hundred Views of the Mountain,” its closing sequence presented as the fictional diary of a court lady in ancient China, defining the inherent jeopardy of transient cultural identity.
With the inclusion of his treatment of the timeless “The Battle of Maldon” and the memoir-styled “Analogue,” this volume is a worthy companion to the previous collections in the series—Entropy, Time Signatures, Ark, Heathen Anthems, Alias and Parse Poetica, all available from Broadstone Books.
About the Author
Estill Pollock was born in Kentucky, but has lived in England for many years. The pamphlet Metaphysical Graffiti was published in England by Highcliff Press in the 1990s, and this was followed by the trade edition Constructing the Human from Poetry Salzburg in 2001. Between 2005-2011 the book cycle Relic Environments Trilogy was published by Cinnamon Press (Wales). A collaboration with Broadstone Books in Kentucky provided the impetus for his recent poetry series, Cartographic Projections of a Sphere.
