Mick Heron refers to "...anything for a sausage roll poets." A nod to (or at) the futile? Of course, he is right. But, I can make my own sausage rolls and do not need to compete with BAe or BP for a seriously-beyond-sausage-roll piece of the public purse to grift my my writing. So it … Continue reading It is about working in poetry
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Discipline
I am going to be leading a workshop on "Investigating teaching in your discipline" next Wednesday. The outline is attached to this page (below). Discipline is an interesting word, which we often use without reflecting on the complex valency of meanings that it bears. I have been reading Foucault's Discipline and Punish in preparation for … Continue reading Discipline
The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?
Contemporary poetry often runs the risk of being too academic and not enough of the world. The poet needs to be a wilfully unmediating place for poetry to be drawn from a globally local collective conscious. Either the force exerted by poems must be immediate, direct and great or, like the butterfly wings of chaos, … Continue reading The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?
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