The first edition of The Painting Stick by Paul Rossiter, gathering poems written in 1991–2002, was published by Peter Robinson’s Pine Wave Press in Japan in 2005. A few of the poems have been revised for this expanded edition, which also includes eleven previously uncollected poems written during the same period. The book begins with a series of prose pieces, which are followed by poems with various European (especially French, Italian and Greek) settings, tributes to the artists Joseph Beuys and Alfred Wallis, and a chronicle distilled from some of the Brief Lives of the seventeenth-century author John Aubrey – together making for a collection grounded in place, language and history.

July 2020. Paperback. 102 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches (216 x 140mm). ISBN  978-4-907359-30-0.

[Vue de l’amphithéatre d’Arles by J. B. Guilbert (Musée départemental de l’Arles antique).]