Dear All,
I am proud to announce the launch of Rupert Loydell's 'Leading Edge Control Technology'. It is a 24 page pamphlet costing £5 including P&P and it is available here: http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/leadingedgecontr.html
This is what the critics have to say:
In these poems Rupert Loydell finds music in the most mundane parts of everyday language available to us. Instruction manuals, technical handbooks and newspeak collide to produce strange, complex texts whose exact meaning is hard to pin down, but whose coercive and questioning power is unmistakeable.
Rupert Loydell is a sit-down poet who is also a painter. He is a Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University and the editor of Stride and With magazines. His previous books include The Tower of Babel, an artist’s book-in-a-box; Wildlife,a book of poems; and A Music Box of Snakes, a collaboration with Peter Gillies. He edited Smartarse, an anthology of post-confessional narrative poems, for Knives, Forks & Spoons Press.
Previous Reviews:
‘Loydell has sustained a pace and energy through a sequence of poems which are exciting and challenging. …pages of tightly drawn poetry… challenging the technology with which we live, the noise of society. And other creative noise, music and the integration of noises into a musical form. The language is far from transparent, every word needs to be weighed… Overall I enjoy the challenge of these poems, because it is essentially the challenge of modern life. ’
New Hope International Review
‘He is a master of knowing when to stop... The strength of Loydell's work is that it seems exactly right; take away a single word... and all might crumble. ...a potent and accomplished output.’
Memes
‘Brilliantly surreal, acutely observed and funny.’
Ambit
Have a great weekend,
Alec.
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