Hard Drive Peter Hughes From the personal to the

From the personal to the political to the existential

Hannah Chris Lomans

immersing the reader in the fleshy undercurrent of contemporary life

Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work

public and private

Hard Drive Peter Hughes From the personal to thePaul Stephenson When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self examining, sometimes funny and often surprised by grief in the oddest corners, the poet takes us through rooms, routines, and rituals of bereavement, the memory of love, a shared life and separation. A noted formalist, with a