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More Abundant Waters
Sagging Meniscus is New York’s beloved independent press. More Abundant Waters gathers together for the first time some of its leading poets, critics and novelists from across the seas. Featuring: David Collard, Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, Julian Stannard, Philip Terry.
David Collard writes for print and online publications
including the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, 3:AM
Magazine, gorse, Exacting Clam, White Review and others. He
is the author of A Crumpled Swan: Fifty essays about Abigail
Parry’s ‘In the dream of the cold restaurant’ (Sagging Meniscus,
2025), Multiple Joyce: 100 Short Essays About James Joyce’s
Cultural Legacy (Sagging Meniscus, 2022) and About a Girl: a
Reader’s Guide to Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
(CB Editions, 2016).
Melissa McCarthy is the author of Photo, Phyto, Proto,
Nitro (Sagging Meniscus, 2023) and Sharks, Death, Surfers: An
Illustrated Companion (Sternberg, 2019). She lives in Edinburgh.
Rufo Quintavalle is an actor and a poet. He was born in
London in 1978, studied at Oxford and the University of
Iowa and lives in Paris. He is the author of numerous books
of poetry, including Shelf (Sagging Meniscus, 2021) described
by Daniel Levin Becker as “a consummate work of potential
literature”. www.rufoq.com
Julian Stannard is the author of The University of Bliss
(Sagging Meniscus, 2025), New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2025),
nine collections of poetry, and several monographs. He is
a Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University
of Winchester (UK). He has received the International
Troubadour Prize for Poetry and in 2024 he was awarded the
Lerici Anglo-Liguria Prize for his contribution to Italian letters.
Philip Terry is a poet, translator, and a writer of fiction. He
edited The Penguin Book of Oulipo (Penguin Modern Classics,
2020). His poetry includes Dante’s Purgatorio (Carcanet, 2024).
With the author, he translated Ian Monk’s 14x14 (Sagging
Meniscus, 2024).
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