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Bibliography

Poetry collections

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The Theological Museum (foreword by Alice Oswald) Flambard Press, 2005

The Icon Maker, Arc Publications, 2008

Ex Nihilo, Black Herald Press, 2010

Flesh, Black Herald Press, 2013

The End of the Trial of Man, Arc Publications, 2015

Visions de l’Outre-monde, bilingual book (translated into French by Blandine Longre) Hochroth-Paris, 2019

The Lost Songs of Gravity, Black Herald Press, 2020

Une anatomie de l'icône / An Anatomy of the Icon (translated into French by Blandine Longre, with an introduction by the author), bilingual book, Black Herald Press, 2022

Beast, The Lost Chronicles, Broken Sleep Books, 2024, forthcoming

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Books of poetical essays

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The Return to Silence, and other poetical essays, Black Herald Press, 2016

The Carbonized Earth, a study on Arthur Rimbaud, followed by Perfect Little Monster, a play in three acts,  Black Herald Press, 2024

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Poems published in Anthologies

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"Westminster Bridge 2002" – in Earth has not any thing to shew more fair, Ed. By Peter and Alice Oswald, Shakespeare’s Globe & the Wordsworth Trust, 2002

"Frozen" – in The Forward Book of Poetry 2006, Faber and Faber

"The Paralytic Child", in The King’s Lynn Silver Folio, Ed. By Michael Hulse, 25 years of King’s Lynn Poetry Festival, 2009

"Afterworldsmen", in The Wolf: A Decade (Poems 2002-2012), July 2012

"En Route to Bethlehem", in The Shop, an anthology, edited by Hilary Wakeman and Hilary Elfick, The Liffey Press, 2021

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Essays published in magazines & anthologies (selection)

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The Acceptance of Loss, in the writings of Jack Kerouac, Caesura magazine, June 2021

"Love and the crisis of religion", in A Terrible Beauty, Francis Bacon: Disorder and Reality, by Rosamond Richardson (Black Herald Press, Paris, 2019)

"The Metaphysical Web", in Clayton Eshleman: The Whole Art, Edited by Stuart Kendall, Black Widow Press, 2014

Introduction to Gregory Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death / le Joyeux Anniversaire de la mort, bilingual collection (Black Herald Press, 2014)

"The Anti-Author and the Death of Personality" – in Epignosis Quarterly, issue 1, 2014

"The Boundaries of Being", about W. S. Graham’s poetry – Afterword published in The Dark Dialogues, bilingual selected poems of W. S. Graham (Black Herald Press, 2013)

"Beyond the Poem", about Arthur Rimbaud – essay published in Essays & Fictions, Volume XII, Winter 2013/2014

"Rimbaud and the New Inquisition" – essay published in The Black Herald, issue 2, September 2011

"The Imaginary and the Pure", on Gregory Corso’s Gasoline –  in 3:AM Magazine, 2010.

"The Reweaving of Time, Bei Dao’s poetry" –  in The Wolf, issue 23, June 2010.

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Interviews

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An interview with Paul Stubbs by Tom Bland

 on Spontaneous Poetics (September 2020)

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An interview by Paul Sutton in Stride Magazine, Feb. 2015

http://www.stridebooks.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202015/feb2015/Stubbs.int.htm

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Paul Stubbs interviewed in the Review Review, Feb. 2014

“Sitting Upon the Ledge of a Still-travelling Comet”: A Look Inside The Black Herald with Paul Stubbs

http://www.thereviewreview.net/interviews/sitting-upon-ledge-still-travelling-comet-look-in

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Interview by Greer Mansfield, in Bookslut, October 2012

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_10_019467.php

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Poems published in magazines (selection)

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"Silence" – in The Shop, issue No 2, Spring 2000

"After the Flood" – in Poetry Review, Volume 94 no 4 Winter 2004/2005

"Soul" – in The Independent on Sunday, October 2005

"Ancestral Man" – in The Shop, Issue No 24, Summer 2007

"The End of the Trial of Man" and "Head VI, 1949" – in The Wolf, issue 17, Spring 2008

"The Paralytic Child" – in The Shop, issue 28, Autumn/Winter 2008

"Lying Figure, 1969" and "Afterworldsmen" – in The Wolf, issue 21, September 2009

"The Birth of God" and "Religious man prepares for paradise"– in The Zaporogue magazine, June 2010

"Parousia" and "The Birth of the Third Reich" –  in The Wolf, issue 23, June 2010

"The Paralytic Child" – in Stride Magazine, september 2010

"The Changeling": in original version and in French translation – The Black Herald, issue 1, January 2011

"The Awakening" – in The Shop, issue 35, Spring 2011

"The Last Signs of Science" – in The Wolf, issue 24, March 2011

"Elysium": in original version and  French translation – The Black Herald, issue 2, September 2011

"God-body problem (resolved?)" : in original version and  French translation – The Black Herald, issue 3, September 2012

"The Ascetic Attempts to Speak" – The Bitter Oleander (Spring 2013)

"An Adam (and an Eve)", "The Final Three Phases of Perdition," "The Death of Utopia" – Spolia, issue 3 (July 2013)

"Imagining a Body", "Afterworldsmen", "Death of Utopia": in original version and  French translation – Les Carnets d’Eucharis, issue 2 (2014)

"En Route to Bethlehem" – in The Shop, issue 46/47, Winter 2014.

"The End of the Trial of Man" – in The Black Herald 5, Spring 2015

‘The Paralytic Child’, "The Paralytic Child and the Flood", "Evolution" – in NUNC magazine n° 40, October 2016 (French translation)

"The Spirit of Gravity", "Return to the Cosmological Cross" – in The High Window, issue 4, 2016

"The Birth of God", "The Awakening (Evolution of the Pious)" – in Les Carnets d’Eucharis 5, 2017 (original version and French translation)

"The End of the Trial of Man" - in Poésie/première 71, 2018 (original version and French translation)

"Lost Tale from the Apocrypha", "Since the Death of Yeats", "The Birth of the Third Reich", Temporel.fr, 2020 (in original version and French translation)

"The Beast and the Cosmological Argument", Poetry Salzburg, Spring 2024

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