Ex Nihilo

‘Ex Nihilo is an ambitious, unusual and thought-provoking work by a poet who is not afraid of pressing

poetry to its limit, and beyond. If in T.S. Eliot fragments are shored against ruin, and hence look backward

for sustenance, in Paul Stubbs’s poetry, fragments are the building blocks of thinking, writing and living right

now. (…). The chiselled fragments of Stubbs’s poetry connect to something outside the poet (history, text

etc.) and then walk off into a life of their own.’ —Tabish Khair