The second part of this erasure writing project is now complete and you can view/download further on.
The erasures do not re-create or follow any narrative: the book has its own and there was no attempt to engage specifically with that – rather each page is found as an individual expression. The cameo of Michael continues here and there, but this again is only ever a found whim.
Feel free to download as follows:
Part I can be similarly accessed:
Enjoy!
And that’s probably finished as a collection – perhaps should be at the 30 poets I now have. I am mindful it isn’t significantly diverse, but it is a reflection of the writers I do know and whose work I have read [though that is variable] and was influenced by. There are a few writers new-ish to me but whose ‘statements’ were interesting/engaging and from which it was great fun to find responses and re-versions, as were all.
Against, obviously
International Times continuing to support my poetic campaign against capitalism here.
‘In March 2020 Spec Books proudly collaborated with The Edwin Morgan Trust & Glasgow University, to create ‘The Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection’ guest edited by Colin Herd.’
I am pleased and proud to be a small part of this celebration of the life and work of the influential poet Edwin Morgan. Loving his poetry, especially the experimental, his biggest impact on my life was in teaching and sharing his work with students.
You can hear me reading my contribution To End here.
The anthology can be purchased here.
A change of title, no longer Definitions of…but Poetics. It could alter again.
I am enjoying this, as I do when immersed in a project, especially one about finding.
There is an adage advising to never write poetry about writing poetry, and it is one of the soundest. I’m trusting that finding such in others’ rather than my own is quite different, especially in the subversion, at times, of what has been said: I am not trying to re-present the[ir] poetics.
But it is also a refresher and/or entirely new learning course.
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