New British School, reminds me of a classic New Con, nucom, ka ka ka, Keston
Sutherland and the usual suspects. Packing out the Garden are they KJ?
The problem, if that's the right word, that most have in poetry, is they
don't know much about it at the most interesting level.
Ogham, for example, in which the basics are reversing in and out of the
Language - egaugnaL at individual letter-level: offers a way into
alternative binary US adn Them schools, whose poetry has to be talked up
like Johnson and Burt do their pet poet pals.
The death of poetry, at the hands of practitioner academics, trying to tell
'em, is like trying to talk of ogham to a ten year old. Might as well be on
a different planet.
How, please, is Keston Sutherland doing a gig or two in America, travelling
all those air-miles, hopping back and forth across the atlantic,
'sophisticated, provocative, various, ambitious, and (more)
politically aggressive than most work out of the U.S. "post-avant," - ?
The very last thing I would think on watching Suthers, as an inarticulate
citizen waiting for the revolution, would be here is a guy who's gonna shake
it up at the House of Commons.
Imagine him at the dispatch box, delivering the figures, policy, theatre of
reality, in that stucatto ka ka ka, aint i a mad head y'all routine?
Balloon and lead
the twitchy poetic learned first
within...where, exactly, would we say, if we wanted to train how in poetry?
Rons Blog?
Or in the Book of Ballymore?
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