Selected from the margins of previous works and reading notes written between 2013–25, each poem in Always More has been re-worked into a form that privileges density and intensity and brevity to activate specific parts of the page, spread or sequence. They are gathered and layered in loose-leaf sheets of unnumbered pages to invite re-combinatory gestures of opening. 

Dotted throughout are eight short responses, or Pathways texts, written by guests to propose ways into and out of the collection. Those contributors are: Lucy Alford, Elaine Auyoung, Kate Briggs, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Sarah James, Andrew Hui, and Nicholas Thoburn.

“Always More is a gift … a relentlessly innovative publication.”

— David Grubbs, Distinguished Professor of Music, City University of New York

“You will be dwelling with this collection and in this collection for years to come.”

— Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities, Cornell University

“Language is rarely both sharp and permissive. Nick Thurston’s work manages both.”

— Slavs and Tatars, artist collective

“Post-austerity, post-Brexit, post-truth, Always More takes flight as a kind of cosmic reply.”

— Paul Stephens, author of Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art and Literature (MIT Press)