{"id":348,"date":"2021-12-08T22:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:57:15","slug":"between-cup-and-lip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/poetry\/between-cup-and-lip\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Cup and Lip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">PETER MANSON<br><br>2008. 978-1-4243-3110-9 \/ 1-4243-3110-2<br>$15.00 <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/between-cup-and-lip\/9781424331109\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Between-Miami-University-Press-Poetry\/dp\/1424331102\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaybookservice.com\/products\/between-cup-and-lip-miami-university-press-poetry-series-1\">Pathway<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Between Cup and Lip<\/em>&nbsp;is Peter Manson\u2019s first American book publication. Containing 18 years of previously uncollected work,&nbsp;<em>Between Cup and Lip<\/em>&nbsp;forms the missing link between two collections published in Britain,&nbsp;<em>For the Good of Liars<\/em>&nbsp;(Barque, 2006) and&nbsp;<em>Adjunct: An Undigest<\/em>&nbsp;(Edinburgh Review, 2005), demonstrating the continuum between the prosodically-dense, endlessly considered poetry of the former and the procedural work of the latter.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Reviews &amp; Such<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jeremy Noel-Tod mentioned&nbsp;<em>Between Cup and Lip<\/em>&nbsp;in his year-end review of poetry in the UK\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>&nbsp;(11\/29\/08), saying the book \u201cshowcases Manson\u2019s comic experimentalism through prose poetry, visual gags, translations and lyricism. \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Between Cup and Lip<\/em>&nbsp;has been reviewed on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Box Manifold<\/a>&nbsp;web site; read the review&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk\/issue1\/piette.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hear Peter Manson read \u201cErratic Heater\u201d from&nbsp;<em>Between Cup and Lip<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orgs.muohio.edu\/meshworks\/archive\/SoundEye-2008\/Manson-Peter\/Manson-Peter_1_Erratic-Heater_SoundEye-12_Cork-Ireland_7-4-08.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ah more eh\u2026oh oh\u2019. In the light of Faraday\u2019s candle Coleridge channels Loewenhoek and Whalen (I was thinking) as Peter Manson shakes the frayed carpet of culture and, as a fearless Duprat caddis fly larva, makes jewels from the motes. Even the bits of themselves the poems create make interesting shadows. \u2018Groups of words which didn\u2019t describe the image but which were it\u2019. Yes. Wit, intelligence, a dispassionate view of self: plus images that are not words. Nothing to want for in this excellent book that moved my chitin heart.<br>\u2014<strong>Tom Raworth<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peter Manson is the language veterinarian, elbow-deep in the mysterious interior of our discourse, groping intimately to clutch the dark beauty of its palpitating offals, approaching the apparatus of its speech-making from entirely the wrong direction. If every word was once an animal, then every animal was harmed in the making of this book.<br>\u2014<strong>Chris Goode<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\"><br>About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Manson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1969. His books and pamphlets include&nbsp;<em>me generation<\/em>&nbsp;(Writers Forum, 1997),&nbsp;<em>Adjunct: an Undigest<\/em>&nbsp;(Edinburgh Review, 2005),&nbsp;<em>Before and After Mallarm\u00e9<\/em>&nbsp;(Survivors\u2019 Press, 2005) and&nbsp;<em>For the Good of Liars<\/em>&nbsp;(Barque Press, 2006). An audio CD of extracts from&nbsp;<em>Adjunct: an Undigest<\/em>&nbsp;was released by Stem Recordings in 2004. He co-edits the Object Permanence pamphlet series with Robin Purves, and was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. His website, \u201cFreebase Accordion,\u201d is at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petermanson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.petermanson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/between_cup__lip-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" style=\"width:450px;height:720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/between_cup__lip-1.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/between_cup__lip-1-188x300.jpeg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER MANSON 2008. 978-1-4243-3110-9 \/ 1-4243-3110-2$15.00 Bookshop | Amazon | Pathway Between Cup and Lip&nbsp;is Peter Manson\u2019s first American book publication. Containing 18 years of previously uncollected work,&nbsp;Between Cup and Lip&nbsp;forms the missing link between two collections published in Britain,&nbsp;For the Good of Liars&nbsp;(Barque, 2006) and&nbsp;Adjunct: An Undigest&nbsp;(Edinburgh Review, 2005), demonstrating the continuum between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":995,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}