Mirrors for Princes

Author: Sam Riviere Publisher: After Hours Editions (2024) Forward-Prize winning poet Sam Riviere is published faithfully by Faber in the UK, in handsome editions that engage variously with artifice, AI, privacy, and process as both a creative engine and subject unto itself. His novel, Dead Souls (Catapult, 2022), was published to massive critical acclaim, and captured a wide US audience for the first time. Now, After Hours Editions is proud to introduce an American audience to Riviere’s poetry, in a varied collection representing roughly a decade of work. MIRRORS FOR PRINCES gathers poems that have, until now, only appeared in magazines, as limited-edition chapbooks, or as commissions for artists—not quite “B-sides and rarities,” but “other writings,” which represent a more outward-looking, varied, collaborative approach to poetry, and a mode that owes little to the processes and conceptual forms that characterize Riviere’s previous collections. These poems playfully and provocatively