Poetry. Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry. Each poem unfolds with precision, tracking the stages of sleep and pairing them with the life cycle of Lepidopterae. Insomnia is mirrored in the birth of the egg, narcolepsy in larval hatching. And when the caterpillar starts its final moult, dreams begin, weaving around us as tightly as a cocoon until we are somnambulant, a chrysalis ready to emerge as a moth. WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS contains ten luminous illustrations by artist and bookmaker Matt Ceolin, who has managed to capture the spirit of the poems with his beautiful and disturbing treated photographs of butterflies, moths and dessication. a.rawlings has worked with a variety of literary organizations, including The Mercury Press, The Scream Literary Festival, Sumach

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