PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Author: David Grundy

Publisher: Pamenar Press (2022)

PRESENT CONTINUOUS is a collection of hybrid essays written during the recent COVID pandemic, shifting between criticism and poetic prose, visual and textual reflections on the present moment, and a future still reckoning with its past.

From the announcement of lockdown to Black Lives Matter protests, a second wave of restrictions, and the ongoing issue of police violence, Grundy’s writing captures the unsettled rhythms of a time in flux.

As Richard Owens notes, the work contains “a quality, a shade of incredible intelligence and intuitive imagining that cannot be reproduced.”