# The Late Guest

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- Book: [The Late Guest](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-payne/the-late-guest) ([The Late Guest.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-payne/the-late-guest.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Payne](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-payne)
- Publisher: Parthian Books
- ISBN: 978-19-1383-079-3
- Pages: 66
- Published: 2026-10-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The prose poems in The Late Guest dwell on remembered episodes, accidental encounters, overheard conversations, daydreams and art works to find surprising meaning - allegories from fragments and insights into the life of the mind. Readers of these poems might be amused or moved, or both at once, but also provoked to think outside the poems' small, clear boxes.