Among the best work written anywhere. --John Millett

… surprising images and intensive feelings. --Miroslav Holub

… both immediate and reflective ... It is confronting work—in subject matter and technique ... I’ve read nothing like it before. It takes risks. And this is exciting and necessary. -- John Kinsella

Armand's ideal poet controls not primarily with language's rhythmic music, but with how words collide and warp upon themselves ... --Ethan Paquin, The Boston Review

Armand keeps it to the skin, "obstinately full of holes," which answers back to the question of whether things suddenly become simple. They don't. --Daniel M. Nestor, La Petite Zine

Louis Armand’s poetry is fiercely, delectably experimental--a typical Armand poem contains its own analysis or alternative version--but his work is never less than delighting in its wrestle with language, and formal in its drive and strategy. He is very much at the heart of a new internationalist poetic … for poetry that synthesises experimental and formal verse. --David Morley

… a poetry filled with guest appearances by the languages we normally delegate authority to; which knows more than all of them put together. --Rod Mengham

Louis Armand is a landscape poet with a difference. His landscapes are replete with "anti-constructs" ... He marks "the remoteness between signifier & land-/scape," rather than its conventional conflation. Armand ... knows the "fundamental questions" are those of locality; he poses them with intellectual acuity, integrity, and in singular language(s) that assert pluralism and always refuse the "seductions of amnesia." --Susan M. Schultz

… precise language succinctly expressing sophisticated ideas … one can tell he enjoys the act of creating, not just the finished product of the poem. --Edward Taylor, The Plaza

Publications

The Garden

(Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2001)

Seances

(Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998)

Anatomy Lessons

(New York: x-poezie, 1999)

October: 8 Poems

(New York: x-poezie, 2000)

Critical Essays

Land Partition

(Melbourne: Textbase, 2001)

Synopticon

(with John Kinsella; Mudlark, 2000)

Inexorable Weather

(Lanc., UK: Arc Publications, 2001)

Erosions

(Sydney: Vagadond Press, 1999)

Base Materialism

(New York: x-poezie, 2001)

'Stemmata: Mode d'Emploi'

from Boxes, ed. D.J. Huppatz (Melbourne: Textbase, 2000)

Textbase Publications

Twisted Spoon Publishing

Salt Publishing

Journals

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Louis Armand Home Page

The Prague Revue