Oliver Tearle’s first poetry book, The Tesserae (2020), was a long poem responding to the events of 2020. The poem was reviewed in London Grip here.

His first poetry collection, Infinity Pool (2022), includes 35 poems about some very strange and unexpected subjects: moons and planets, cashpoints, the eighteenth-century poet Edward Young working nights in a supermarket, the London property bubble, Theseus and Ariadne in a nightclub, the Hale-Bopp comet, the history of metaphysics, and the martini. These modern metaphysical poems often engage with the virtuality of our world mediated by computers and phone screens, but the symbols – subways, pyramids, sphinxes, towers, and pools – are drawn from the world of dreams. Some of the poems had previously appeared on this blog.

In 2023, both books were reissued in hardback by Newtnext Press.