When I wrote my found poems (cut-ups) based on the notional English literary canon in 2016, the process was not to necessarily link with their original texts but find new meranings/ideas/expressions, and this was similar to my most recent erasures based on The Aran Islands.

I mention because with my Red Ceilings Press publication of the aran aphorisms this month, I make the observation that those poems ‘were creative tangents from their textual prompts, but some reflected intrusions by external events’ and the same often occured with the novel canon ‘finds’ as in these Gulliver’s Travels poems which were obviously infiltrated by current political events – shenanigans – of the day: