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ht there is after a mortise level on laminate of life it is meaningless to tend to every kernel of truth attempts to amp this will only end in ache the key is to find your centre if there were a panopticon edge to one s script there wouldn t be need for prophets to be famed for clerihews is so meta synesthesia bedrocks all impulse what is the colour of your grief pain isn t proprietary join the party compared to sethi s previous poetry the poems in his latest collection are more concise and epigrammatic they are more intellectual in some way and the language is at the edge of experimentalism sethi lives in mumbai he is the author of seven books of poetry and has been widely published in reviews and magazines such as london magazine the fortnightly review stand magazine dreich and many others sethi has been involved with the poetic process for fifty years and has been publishing seriously for the last 40 years he is a voracious reader and posts his poems daily on his instagram and twitter accounts though he joined social media less than a year ago sethi is therefore constantly immersed in poetry which is part of his essence and fuses with his everyday life in this collection the themes of love solitude loss grief and old age are barely sketched in an existential journey in which only poetry seems to hold things together certainties and relationships have disintegrated and everything is questioned in witty lines that cannot be made into illusions the protagonist is alert and has a seemingly detached attitude that nevertheless conveys a wish to contribute in line with a compulsory instinct to share and connect to a wider world which is what happens on social media the reader needs to find the key to understanding this fascinating labyrinthine reasoning and to finally get immersed in the riveting rhythm of sethi s lines leave taking you and i are no scholars of horology but time wraps in bespoke detritus blocks our way deterring us from zooming into a xyst we don t need the descant of a dragoman we know it s clock out on a timepiece that refuses to ticktock when fresh we lacked the grace to smell the flowers rearranging an old bouquet is no way to rev it up reading sethi is a challenging experience that entertains us but at the same time tests our beliefs and our capacities the questions are open and the answers are not definite they are an attempt to fill the emptiness to make sense of the absurdities of life to stay alive the emphasis is on the process not on the goal it is a search for the right word or the absolute word as the italian poet giuseppe ungaretti called it the poetical word that might reveal a truth and give sense to our experience reveal emotions and states of mind and create realities it is a journeying of the self and a meditation on life and being on how to be and on what is important in life there is no transcendental or spiritual allusion in this vision everything seems to happen here and now in this flawed world that is dense with misunderstandings conflicts delusions and injustices sethi s poems are an invitation to explore this perilous path leading towards an improbable conclusion that shifts every time we try to grasp it this is a fascinating and stimulating collection of sharp poems that encompasses today s anxieties and yearnings carla scarano d antonio 16 th october 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 indian poetry and tagged existentialism giuseppi ungaretti jean paul sartre sanjeev sethi bookmark the permalink four winters by jem southam stanley barker posted on october 15 2022 by tearsinthefence four winters is a book of mornings and mourning of dawns and dusks a collection of reflective colour photographs on the river exe initiated by photographer jem southam s need for a time and place to grieve for his brother and the recognition that in finding this space he had also found the subject for his next body of work southam s images have always been quiet and intense requiring viewers to spend time looking just as he does with his camera in four rivers often misty riverscapes we see light arriving or departing swans and other birds awakening or settling down the water bright or muddy rippled still or in flood sometimes dark and trees enclose us at other times silver pink or orange light illuminates a scene only just coming into being hills streams and vistas which are hardly there yet soft tones of indescribable blues and greys contrast with the occasional autumnal yellow or brown pale greens birds in formation fly by or cluster in protective groups swans haul their weight into the sky avian ghosts against mist or icy dew this is primal stuff wild and uncontrollable even a sometimes tamed and often inhabited and developed river still shapes itself changes the land it inhabits ebbing and flowing through the seasons i feel lucky to be shown the evidence of all this unknown world what four winters evidences is an ability to look and wonder to provoke us to seeing and engaging to look up from the page and begin to notice what is happening around us however slowly or calmly and celebrate that which is often hidden or ignored but remains around or beside us rupert loydell 15 th october 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 photography and tagged four winters jim southam photography bookmark the permalink tears in the fence 76 is out posted on october 14 2022 by tearsinthefence tears in the fence 76 208 pp is now available at http tearsinthefence com pay it forward and features poetry prose poetry multilingual poetry fiction and flash fiction by david annwn charles wilkinson lydia harris jane robinson daragh breen l kiew valerie bridge sarah watkinson poonam jain helen scadding alan baker paul marshall peter dent andrew henon mohammad razai jennie byrne luke emmett mark goodwin eleanor rees sophie segura robin walter jill eulalie dawson rachael clyne wendy clayton mike mcnamara diana powell simon jenner rodney wood janet hancock hannah linden elizabeth mcclaire roberts michael henry alan dent alexandra corrin tachibana birgitta bellême melanie ann vance mary michaels huw gwynn jones mike duggan and john kinsella from metaphysics the critical section consists of joanna nissel s editorial mark prendergast in conversation with abigail chabitnoy sam warren miell on the british right s world of poetry robert hampson on nothing is being suppressed by andrew duncan barbara bridger on maria stadnicka aidan semmens on jeremy hilton barbara bridger on sarona abuake kathleen mcphilemy on giles goodland sarah watkinson on steve ely alan baker on lila matsumoto kathy miles on john freeman marcus 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complete works of wh auden poems volume one 1927 39 and poems volume two 1940 1973 princeton university press posted on october 5 2022 by tearsinthefence everybody knows a poem or two by w h auden there s night mail and its train rhythms written for an associated british picture corporation film about the gpo back in 1936 what s often known as funeral blues movingly declaimed by john hannah in four weddings and a funeral perhaps musée de beaux arts about suffering they were never wrong or the untitled poem which begins lay your sleeping head my love everybody knows what auden looked like in old age too a man with a wonderful craggy landscape of a face often with a cigarette in his hand usually dressed in a crumpled suit everybody knows he was gay and that he was a 1930s poet who was part of an outspoken and militant group of writers responding to what auden in his poem 1st september 1939 called a low dishonest decade where waves of anger and fear circulate over the bright and darkened lands of the earth and a lot of people know he moved to the usa in 1940 and later joined the episcopal church there everyone knows something about or by auden and everyone had a different route into his work for me apart from the odd poem in school textbooks it was buying a hardback copy of his final book thank you fog in a remainder bookshop on oxford street where it kept company with copies of slow dancer magazine and poetry books by brian patten and francis berry all of which i also purchased thank you fog whose laconic final poems i am still very fond of especially the title poem was later joined on my shelves by a well thumbed copy of faber s 1979 selected poems well thumbed by others not by me as i was busy chasing what at the time seemed like more exciting and innovative work by the likes of robert creeley kenneth patchen e e cummings peter redgrove and adrian mitchell but before too long a good friend of mine would prompt a return to auden s writing the english auden which was subtitled poems essays dramatic writings 1927 1939 felt like a subversive text when my friend enthused about it prompting me to buy my own copy the orators included and still does prose poems graphics list poems and journal entries elsewhere in the english auden were songs speeches radio talks and essays problems of education how to be masters of the machine psychology and art today and a thorough and extensive multi sectioned one on writing the book opened with some kind of drama script a charade called paid on both sides one of the things this opened up to me apart from some different ways to think about poetic forms and what could or might be regarded as poetry was a wider context for writing itself that poetry could be political sociological provocative declamatory subversive and playful or as xxv in the sonnet sequence in time of war puts it nothing is given we must find our law ending 14 lines later with the brief summary we learn to pity and rebel many of the poems gathered up in the english auden are given a wider context there as part of an exploration of england and the english in the decade leading up to world war 2 lay your sleeping head my love reads differently when it shares a cover with the contents of the orators as does the elegiac stop all the clocks they are moments of love and mourning whilst the poet is part of a nation wandering lost upon the mountains of our choice a people who dream of a part in the glorious balls of the future but are articled to error and live in freedom by necessity in time of war xxvii although in some ways auden was conservative small c writing a poetic letter to lord byron engaging with greek myths and other historical stories and sometimes seemingly rooted in a traditional view of england and the english he was also a radical with the ups and downs of the 1930s leading him to question and critique many cultural assumptions and social hierarchies often through the lens of communism ww2 would also encourage poetry which engaged with years of violence sacrifice patriotism political posturing and post war triumphalism auden of course was safe in the united states criticized by many not only for fleeing as war broke out but also his seeming abandonment of the political left and his adoption of or conversion to christianity princeton university press complete works of w h auden editions are beautiful critical editions of his writing with the two volume collected poems having been preceded by two books of dramatic writings and six of prose the first volume of poetry contains 808 pages 540 of poems including juvenilia school poems and abandoned poems the rest textual notes whilst the second clocks in at just over 1100 pages over 700 pages of poems followed by five appendices and textual notes i can t pretend to have read all the 1200 pages of poetry let alone the additional material but i have dipped in and out revisiting work i know or half know and reading poems i have never seen or even heard of before it s accomplished and impressive work and the notes are informative and interesting in the way academic footnotes often are pointing out variations and versions possible meanings or allusions and offering context and understanding to facilitate informed reading auden is not an occasional poet nor does he prove the in my opinion wrongheaded and incorrect theory that even good poets only produce a few memorable poems this is an amazing body of work composed by a writer who wrote his way through life always thinking and paying attention some of it feels dated in the way it romanticizes life or alludes to the kind of ideas and literary canon we have now mostly disregarded but it is also a poetry written in response to the changing world of the 20th century documenting and questioning always willing to challenge and engage with the contemporary i keep returning to volume i where the voice is less settled the poetry more surprising and unexpected although there is also plenty of intriguing and thoughtful work in volume ii sometimes however this is nestled between more playful and slight verses such as the 60 poems of academic graffiti here s 53 in its entirety thomas the rhymer was probably a social climber he should have known fairy queens were beyond his means witty yes but not the stuff authorial reputations are made of that will remain because of those selected poems many of us know the more declamatory and experimental work from the 1930s and the sheer mass of intelligent thoughtful and analytical writing produced by auden writers write and auden did what wonderful stuff it is rupert loydell 5 th october 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 adrian mitchell kenneth patchen peter redgrove robert creeley w h auden bookmark the permalink latest issue tears 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