Lakes of Titan

A experimental short prose sequence by David Gaffney

Cover art work Gary Fisher

Lakes of Titan is a collection of 32 experimental prose pieces linked by a single journey David took on one day in November 2024 when he travelled from Manchester to Nottingham for an Arts Council meeting.
It will be published at the end of 2025 by Above/Ground press, who are based in Ottawa Canada.

 "These absurd bricks of deadpan and dryness are still warm to the touch and riff, irresistibly, on the extraordinary in the everyday." 
Vik Shirley, Poet


"Lakes of Titan moves with ease and conviction from the terrifyingly banal, with time never seeming to move forward, to the absurdly dystopian and laugh-out-loud satirical, through to the poignantly philosophical and lyrical. At every turn, David Gaffney’s prose poems touch us to the core.'
Ian Seed, poet


"This is Gaffney’s first foray into the prose poem and its contingent, gently exploded form really suits him. Lakes of Titan perfectly evokes what we might term the everyday hallucinatory, fuelled by the powerful narcotics of disorientation, hypervigilance and fatigue. Where Coleridge saw Kublai Khan, Gaffney sees Gary Glass. Kublai Khan didn’t wear a Trilby, though. More of felt hat man, by all accounts."
Tom Jenks, poet




Watch this space for launch events and readings to celebrate the publication.

Out in November 2025

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