Glasfryn Project

On the morning of the eighteenth of June 1815, the Duke of Wellington deployed his troops along a ridge near the village of Mont-Saint-Jean, in what is now north-central Belgium. What followed reverberates through history, myth, art and fiction as The Battle of Waterloo.

The poems of Mont-Saint-John attempt to reimagine for our present age of political and viral
pandemonium the confusion of processes, responses and representations set in motion by this cataclysmic event. Scenes, objects, exploits and ideas flourish for a moment into language and dissolve, as if a lens was drifting over a field of action as much internal in its realities as ‘out there’, the whole woven through by the warping effects of weather, time, fantasy, physiology and high explosive.

“In this weird phantasia ‘through smoke the worst coming / glimpsed only as metonymic simmer’, we catch Lyndon Davies doing for the Battle of Waterloo something like Ben Wheatley does for the English Revolution in A Field in England: broken and fleeting utterances in and out of battle grind themselves down to the vowels of bare life, hallucinations from war past reemerging in surprise modern idiomatic puzzles.” (Anthony Mellors)

Published September 2022. Uk £10.00

Aquifer Books

ISBN: 978-1-8383587-7-8

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