Author

Stubbs, Paul

Paul Stubbs is a British poet, editor, and mentor who lives between Chartres & England. He is the author of several poetry collections and books of poetical and philosophical essays. His work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies. With Blandine Longre, Stubbs has translated texts by Victor Segalen, Arthur Rimbaud, Jos Roy, and Pierre Cendors. He also co-founded the Anglo-French publishing house Black Herald Press in 2010. His latest book, released in November 2026, is Preparations for the Afterlife: Selected Poems 1992-2025 (Broken Sleep Books). Forthcoming, The Disappearance of the Poet: A Study on the Writings of Alice Oswald.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

The Beast contemporary

Paul Stubbs

Three poems: The Beast and Plato’s Theory of Forms, After Reading George Orwell’s 1984, and The Beast Refutes the Power of Language. The Beast emerges as the grotesque subject of a totalizing rationality whose ultimate ambition is to abolish every limit between thought and power, language and domination, the historical record and the sovereign fantasy of its author. Through a savage détournement of Plato, Orwell, and Derrida, these poems expose the authoritarian impulse at the heart of systems that claim mastery over reality itself, revealing how the desire to monopolize truth culminates in a regime of absolute self-reference where even the machinery of domination devours its master.

  • poetry
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