To the Barricades moves back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches,
These long poems continue the poet's ongoing argument with Wordsworth and the English poetic response to the commons and the land. Collis visits English lakes, but also the Tar Sands, and stands in th
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the majority of the English common lands were enclosed, depriving communities of their independence and self-sufficiency. Recurring peasant revolts fail
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, most of the English common lands were enclosed?taken, by force, out of the hands of local collective use and privatized. The resistance to capitalism’s
Somewhere at the core of almost every intellectual discipline is an attempt to explain change ? why and how things change, and how we negotiate these transformations. These are among the most ancient
Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb--now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book i
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socioeconomics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single bo
