On Nov 16, 2007 8:39 PM, RUPERT MALLIN <
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> ***
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> Agree with Stephen that this List lacks discussion - at the very time we
> need discussion!
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> ***
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> 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.
>
> ***
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> Subject: COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007
>
> Just released ...
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> COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007
> eds. Robin Purves & Sam Ladkin
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> ISBN 978-80-7308-194-2 (paperback). 261pp.
> Publication date: November 2007
>
> Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)
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>
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/complicities.html>
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> 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.
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> Robin Purves is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of
> Central Lancashire.
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> Sam Ladkin is a researcher at the University of Cambridge.
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> For information on all Litteraria Pragensia titles, please visit our
> website:
www.litterariapragensia.com>
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