'Configuration of the Last Shore') is a poetry collection by the French writer Michel Houellebecq, published by Flammarion on 17 April 2013.
The book is divided into five sections: l'étendue grise, week-end prolongé en zone 6, mémoires d'une bite, les parages du vide and plateau.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] Houellebecq had started out as a poet, but Configuration du dernier rivage was his first poetry collection since Renaissance [fr] from 1999.
In France, the book was treated as Houellebecq's return to public life, as he was living in Ireland and had avoided media appearances since receiving the Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory.
Unusually for a poetry collection, Configuration du dernier rivage received coverage on the front pages of French daily and weekly newspapers.