{"product_id":"for-years-now-by-w-g-sebald-images-by-tess-jaray","title":"'For Years Now' by W. G. Sebald, images by Tess Jaray","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"627\"\u003eA spare collaboration between W. G. Sebald and artist Tess Jaray: short poems, aphoristic fragments, postcard-like miniatures and visual meditations set beside Jaray’s geometric images.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"627\"\u003eThis is Sebald in a compressed register — not the long drifting architecture of \u003cem data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"350\"\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"375\"\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e, but something closer to a notebook of afterimages: travel, memory, death, domestic objects, scraps of address, sudden jokes, small ghosts. The poems often feel almost too slight until they catch; a line sits there plainly, then turns into an absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"1199\"\u003eJaray’s images give the book its other half: grids, structures, architectural surfaces, optical fields, patterns that feel both elegant and quietly destabilising. Together the poems and images make a book about perception, displacement, correspondence, and the melancholy comedy of things noticed too late. Very much for Sebald completists, readers interested in writer\/artist books, concrete-adjacent poetry, visual poetics, European modernism’s afterlife, and anyone who likes books that feel like they were found in a drawer rather than published in the ordinary way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1201\" data-end=\"1457\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery rare. First published in 2001 by Short Books Ltd, London. Text © W. G. Sebald 2001; images © Tess Jaray 2001. Paperback. Good second-hand condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45705549709395,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-16T194357.228.png?v=1781603065","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/for-years-now-by-w-g-sebald-images-by-tess-jaray","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}