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ive note which means ignoring the awful six pages of prose chekhov baby which closes the book and focussing on the 36 sonnets which form a separate section of the book they re mostly numbered and use the first line in brackets as a title use no punctuation and little capitalization and generally adhere to 4 4 4 2 line stanzas the archaic vocabulary and syntax is mostly reined in here though i still find some lines awkward such as this first verse from iv these selves divided from my selflessness defect with consummate animation go forth supreme superb superlative less me than my masterly aberration not to mention the ending couplet i math i count upon their countenance they my argument and m acquiesence it s interesting to have math turned into a verb and the pun using count but it s 2022 and i am not sure what poetry like this is doing in a contemporary book it is more arresting when interrupted vi for instance closes with sit down be humbled sit down bitch be humble which at least makes you notice a change in dynamic tone and utterance by the time we get to the thirtieth sonnet xxx keep up davis is ready to abandon the 14 lines and subvert the form xxx is a brief statement of poetics a reflective aside the iambic and the anapest the dac tyl and the trochee the right words in the right order by instinct if you re lucky though personally i don t think luck comes into creative writing that s the whole poem by the way and this is the whole of the next xxxi i fucking glazed it olena kaly tiak davis from anchorage made this i guess it s a kind of graffiti tag for the page an effusive shout but apart from raising a snigger why is it here better are the skinny one word a line erased sonnet and sonnet for mark joe ted which follow ted presumably being berrigan the closing poem in this section sequence is airless sonnet which mentions prodigious lack of purpose find myself making certain marks in it having previously declared a moment of of a small self portrait the back cover blurb suggests that davis writes from a heightened state of ambivalence which might explain my ambivalent response but also claims she is a conductor of sound and meaning precise to the syllable which i find harder to take for me this work is mostly ramshackle shapeless and unformed too self content and seemingly self centred even the self aware deprecation of a title such as my own self still unconcerned doesn t contradict the fact that these poems do seem to generally concern themselves with the self constructed or confessional please make fun of me for how i suffer reads that poem s last line i don t want to make fun of any poet or their work but this isn t a great book i d really like to see less shattered sonnets less importunity and more creativity and looking outward to contemporary poetry and critical works anywhere but the introverted self rupert loydell 14 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 5 comments posted in american poetry books and tagged brian eno olena kalytiak davis rainer maria rilke ted berrigan william shakespeare bookmark the permalink anxious corporals by alan morrison smokestack books posted on july 13 2022 by tearsinthefence one thing many of us love about small press poetry is that unlike most textual production it s not written under the weather eye of capitalist power or for material gain the same generally goes for non or pre professional academic writing so there s at least one area of commonality for the dissertation poem an infrequent fusion whose western origins nonetheless stretch back at least to aratus and nicander as a dissertation this book excerpts in detail from a small number of classic studies david lockwood s the blackcoated worker 1958 on the culture and politics of clerks geoffrey mortimer s the blight of respectability 1897 on respectability and villadom mackenzie and silver s angels in marble 1968 on working class conservatives ken worpole s dockers and detectives 1983 on popular reading and especially richard hoggart s the uses of literacy 1957 on the effects of manufactured mass culture what links them all is a loose thesis about the role of the humanities and social sciences among the british working class and lower middle class focusing particularly on the success of pelican books cheap authoritative non fiction sold in woolworths in enabling them us to infiltrate the cultural preserves of the rich the acquisition of such knowledge is premised to be a factor in a more progressive politics not least through better resistance to the unintelligent margarine of tabloids butter substitutes and other mass media considered as poetry the book starts with a great howl ish impetus bewailing the death throes of a culture replaced by vast flatscreens as altarpieces of faith o this period of ectopic proletariat common people misplaced in multiples of patchwork overlaps from cash strapped and poverty trapped working poor to tip of the slagheap grasping aspiration subsequently it modulates to a mélange of quotation opinion skilful précis and generalising description all spiced with the constantly arresting phrasing stepladders of pipedreams c that s one of the book s principal pleasures the layout mimics the didactic epics of its genre s origins twenty five stanza less roman numeralled books line ends are at page width limits and there s little attention to prosody as a genre mix a number of distinctive characteristics are evident the lack of titling paragraphs and even full stops make its chains of argument significantly harder to follow an unusual approach for a politically engaged work the semi colons and ellipses give a provisional feel to its statements the absence of referencing means the extensive quoting is troublesome to verify repetitions in phrasing and aperçu hemingway s iceberg sensibility hoggart as hogarth suggest line level inattentiveness at final edit adding to the impression of urgency or hurry the thin bibliography reflects its constricted scope readers looking for pointers towards contextual perspectives bourdieu williams hall home or towards more in depth analyses accounting for regionalism gender imperialism technology or workers reading against the grain extracting pleasure from popular entertainments while remaining sceptical about their ideology must find them elsewhere the book ends by noting the reappearance of the pelican brand and by hoping for a new aspiring readership for all its difficulties the importance and interest of its topic alone should recommend it even if ultimately it only sends you back to re reading its sources on the other hand it might inspire you towards the ou the wea futurelearn a new pelican or other good small press stuff from the brilliantly radical smokestack guy russell 13 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 1 comment posted in books english poetry and tagged alan morrison david lockwood geoffrey mortimer ken worpole richard hoggart bookmark the permalink collected poems one 1968 1997 collected poems two 1997 2021 by peter finch seren books posted on july 11 2022 by tearsinthefence the small press world was very different in 1982 when my friend graham palmer and i started stride magazine magazines were analogue usually photocopied or duplicated often stapled by hand and sales were via mail order unless you could persuade alternative bookshops to take copies on sale or return even when booksellers were friendly and did sell copies it was hard to extract money from them and sales never covered the petrol i used up motorcycling round london stores or driving the meandering route i sometimes took to drop copies off in oxford leamington spa coventry birmingham liverpool and manchester there was of course no internet email or social media you could swop flyers leave them in bookshops or the south bank poetry library and send review copies out often in exchange for magazines you were expected to review there were small press fairs often in draughty halls in strange towns or cities with little publicity and even fewer sales though you did get to meet other publishers and poets i particularly remember the first time i met allen fisher and alan halsey in shrewsbury and also meeting and propping up a bar in northampton with mike shields of orbis and martin stannard because the main room with our stalls in was suddenly and unforgivably commandeered for an all day poetry reading there were small press poets who immediately got in touch with every new magazine who editors soon learnt to ignore along with submissions of rhyming doggerel but there was also the delight in hearing from new authors and in becoming part of something that seemed alive and experimental with a history of 1960s and 70s revolutionary zeal readings and magazines but that now walked hand in hand with post punk and improvised music music zines and independent cassette labels radical theatre and new performance and exhibition spaces there were of course key individuals within the small press scene often at odds with the likes of the poetry society and ignored by mainstream poetry publishers and there was one more key than others peter finch who operated out of oriel cardiff he had previous with his own small presses and actually wanted to stock new magazines wanted to submit to yours and mine wanted you to keep going wanted you to be different opinionated and make things possible he would heckle and encourage he put on poetry festivals and events in cardiff which is where i was first introduced to him in person by the writer john gimblett i had a stride stall did a reading and watched bob cobbing and bird yak clear a restaurant with their mix of yowling abstract drumming and gas mask one string guitar i d seen plenty of that kind of stuff at the london musicians collective usually with five or six others watching but nobody except finch would think of sticking them in front of 200 people eating their lunch and then enjoy watching the diners responses and subsequent mass exodus leaving full plates and wine glasses abandoned on the tables since then i ve promoted a couple of finch readings in exeter one as a support act to roger mcgough which he smashed read once or twice more in cardiff for him and co tutored an arvon foundation course with him and although i ve failed to tempt him down to cornwall we ve kept in vague touch via emails and poems i ve also amassed courtesy of jumble sales library turn outs and secondhand bookshops quite a collection of early finch publications which helped explain the amazing and informed talk he gave at arvon on sound and visual poetry and also offered critical context because as these hefty new books make evident finch came out of dada and surrealism out of performance and sound poetry out of collage and cut up erasure and what we now call sampling and remix his work is entertaining experimental thought provoking and accessible a real pick n mix in fact but finch knows what he is doing and over the years i learnt to trust him completely as an editor and poet when he opened for roger mcgough in a sold out exeter theatre he began with an abstract sound poem and i confess i had a moment of panic soon however the audience who were mostly there to see the headliner began nervously laughing before guffawing and offering wild applause finch reeled them in further with a couple of more straightforward poems and kept them in the palm of his hand for the rest of his varied performance it s great that seren have given finch and his editor andrew taylor so much space to fill and have reproduced so much of finch s visual work some even in colour subject matter processes affectations source material and poetic influences enter exit and re enter the work but there are always new materials new processes and ideas in the mix too there is also a sustained attention to and curiosity about language itself how it can be remoulded changed abused erased what happens when syntax or meaning is destroyed when different vocabularies or reference materials collide when texts are alphabetized torn up or turned into lists how poetry can be made new always this work sprawls and expands feeding on itself and everything that is around it it comments and critiques dances and debates screams and shouts sometimes sulks in the corner but then quietly comes out rested and refreshed raring to go it is alert blurred crumpled distressed energetic folded gorgeous hilarious incredible jokey charismatic it is often ridiculous always serious never afraid to embarrass itself or satirize others whilst constantly acknowledging schwitters cobbing ginsberg and whoever finch has been reading that morning it is questionable ridiculous subversive terrific unique poetry which cannot be snared trapped or caged yet taylor and seren books have charmed it on to the pages of this generous rain filled assertive definitive collection i look forward to volume three rupert loydell 11 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 5 comments posted in books english poetry and tagged andrew taylor bob cobbing john gimblett peter finch roger mcgough stride magazine bookmark the permalink older posts latest issue tears in the fence no 84 search for help tears in the fence survive follow this blog sign up by email to follow this blog email address subscribe join 961 other subscribers find us on facebook find us on facebook follow us on twitter tweets by tearsinthefence archives september 2026 august 2026 july 2026 june 2026 may 2026 march 2026 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