Dreamescapes

(Alien Buddha Press, July 2025)

‘Dreamescapes’ navigates the volatile interplay between the poetry of imagination and the numbing churn of capitalist routine. Waves of dream images break into various characters’ minds before they break down like the surf, from Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Drowning Girl’ to a Walter Mitty-esque jaded travel agent, washing away gray reality but leaving murky sediment.

Dreams may drown or deliver. Here they do both, always vivid, sometimes violent, never still.

This poetry chapbook is the English-language debut of Jorge López Llorente, a bilingual writer from Madrid who studied English Literature at the University of Oxford. It includes blackout poetry, prose poems and a sequence of increasingly irregular sonnets, with an experimental combination of modern and traditional forms, in both narrative and lyrical verse, adding to Llorente’s poetry and fiction published in UK, US, Canadian, European and Latin American magazines and shortlisted for UK and Spanish prizes.

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Book review in The Madrid Review
Llorente shows off his skills in a non-pretentious, entertaining way [...] via a kind of centrifugal dream logic. [...] One to watch.

Book review and interview in Eche Poetry
We’re given a set of familiar images, but each poem takes us somewhere a little less expected. [...] Jorge's ability to play form and familiarity off one another reaches a curiously effective twist at the climax, leaving you with a lot to think about.
Book review on Emma Lee's blog
'Dreamescapes' has a seductive quality, drawing a reader into a liminal landscape between dreams and reality [...]. Jorge López Llorente has created an imaginative, thought-provoking exploration in contemporary verse forms.
Radio interview about Dreamescapes on RNE

Debut poetry collection in Spanish:

Los ojos desdibujados

(Cuadranta, Olé Libros, 2021)

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Book review and author interview in Altavoz Cultural:
Jorge López Llorente speaks to us and entertains us as he speaks [...] with a spectacular insight.López Llorente has a gem through the looking-glass, just in the gap between literary non-fiction and the purest (and most purifying) fiction. His resources are near-boundless and his discourse's conviction is imposing. We cannot recommend 'Los ojos desdibujados' highly enough, with the discovery of this exciting author.Review in Poémame:'Los ojos desdibujados' is a very well-written poetry collection, with a great mastery of language and great depth. A book that opens up and closes in on itself, like eyes that open, look, and end up shut to see beyond.