Dear Rupert,
I wish I had had the foresight to dismiss your project "Moles, Galls, &
Starlings" before contributing to a gathering yet to arrive in the oft-
promised format anywhere in the world.
Solicitously yours,
Barry Alpert
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:52:01 +0000, Sam Ladkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Rupert,
>
>I appreciate your foresight in dismissing "Complicities". It
>demonstrates a keen awareness of the avant-garde, since the first
>copies of "Complicities" are yet to arrive in the UK.
>
>People are very welcome, even encouraged, to purchase a copy, if they
>would like. There is no need to subscribe, in any sense of the word.
>
>Yours,
>Sam
>
>
>On Nov 16, 2007 8:39 PM, RUPERT MALLIN <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I so agree with Stephen Phillip Pain here. Is this List just an ad-rag?
>> Worse, is it the means through which high academic poets justify their
>> bubbles?
>>
>> There are brilliant poets working in universities across the world who
ever
>> look outwards and try and engage society and those beyond the decreasing
>> circles of poetry in academic garden ponds. 'Complicities,' by its very
>> nature, is the complicity.
>>
>> 'Inside The Tent' (Prague Literary Review and many others) is
subscription
>> poetics where 'theory' drives 'practice.' Theory becomes elevated beyond
>> poetry as written,spoken, performed and otherwise realised today .
>>
>> Even in simple Marxist terms, present practice is the means to make
theory
>> (history): the elevation of the present, not the yoke of the past upon
the
>> present. Indeed, I'm deeply into 'history' but as a touch-stone to refer
to,
>> not as 'complicity' in the making.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Agree with Stephen that this List lacks discussion - at the very time we
>> need discussion!
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Areas for discussion are: 'High academic poetry v the rest' -
'Performance v
>> Page' - 'Collaboration' - 'non-poetry as Poetry' - 'DIY' - 'class
divisions
>> in publishing poetry' - 'internet poetry' and all.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> It is also blinkin ironic to me that this List no longer has that
wonderful
>> strand of/about Concrete Poetry and has thereby become a 'Post-It-Note'
>> List.
>>
>> If this List wants to engage others to join it has to be about the
practice
>> of poetry Today and not academic theory posing as The Present
>>
>> However tough, I'm really glad I'm 'outside the tent'.
>>
>> Best, Rupert
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Prague Literary Review
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:45 PM
>> Subject: COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007
>>
>> Just released ...
>>
>>
>>
>> COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007
>> eds. Robin Purves & Sam Ladkin
>>
>>
>> ISBN 978-80-7308-194-2 (paperback). 261pp.
>> Publication date: November 2007
>>
>> Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)
>>
>>
>> http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/complicities.html
>>
>>
>> This collection of essays does not seek to fashion a bespoke 21st-century
>> Albion from the remnants of Britain's various poetic traditions. The
poetry
>> considered here, and its criticism too, is by and large critical of
the "new
>> imperial suitings" beneath which the old and new networks of power run.
The
>> work gathered in these pages knows language and culture to be profoundly
>> complicit across the board in the extension of acts of domination, from
the
>> preparation for and execution of war, to the composition of the suicide
>> note, from the overt corrupting of the democratic franchise, to cold
>> calling's interpellation of the human subject as consumer-in-waiting.
>>
>> Contributors to this volume include: Thomas Day, Keston Sutherland,
Alizon
>> Brunning, Robin Purves, J.H. Prynne, Bruce Stewart, D.S. Marriott,
Stephen
>> Thomson, Craig Dworkin, Sophie Read, Sara Crangle, Malcolm Phillips, Tom
>> Jones, Josh Robinson, Sam Ladkin, Jennifer Cooke, Ian Patterson.
>>
>> Robin Purves is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of
>> Central Lancashire.
>>
>> Sam Ladkin is a researcher at the University of Cambridge.
>>
>>
>>
>> For information on all Litteraria Pragensia titles, please visit our
>> website: www.litterariapragensia.com
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