On Nov 16, 2007 8:39 PM, RUPERT MALLIN <
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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:
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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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