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Biographical note: Rupert
Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with
Creative Writing at University College Falmouth,
and the editor of Stride and With magazines.
He is the author of many books of poetry, including
A Conference of Voices and the forthcoming
Boombox!, as well as several collaborative
works; he also paints small abstract paintings.
He lives in a creekside village in Cornwall
with his family and far too many books and
CDs.
BIC Basic
EAN13: 9781844714711
ISBN: 9781844714711
Author: Rupert
Loydell
Title: Troubles
Swapped for Something Fresh
Series: Anthologies
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CSBH
Publisher: Salt
Publishing
Pub date: 29-Jun-09
Extent: 176pp
Height: 246
mm
Width: 189
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Thickness: 10
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Weight: 264
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Supplier: Gardners
Books
Supplier: Ingram
Book Group
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description/annotation: This
is a eclectic and exciting gathering of poetry
and prose-poems that try to understand what
poetry is and who or what it might be for.
It is also about what writers might want or
demand from poetry, in either a general or
personal way.
Main description: Troubles
Swapped for Something Fresh is a eclectic
and exciting gathering of poem and prose-poem
manifestos and unmanifestos that try to understand
what poetry is and who or what it might be
for. It is also about what the authors might
want or demand from poetry, in either a general
or personal way. Manifestos are often declamatory
and incendiary, but I have tried to defuse
polemic and overtly dictatorial rhetoric
by juxtaposition, and by selecting work from
a wide range of critical and poetic positions,
not least that of satire and wit.
I’ve previously – as any of my
students will tell you – dismissed manifestos,
but have more recently found them useful to
react against, to incite comment and both critical
and poetical reponse with. Rather than read
them as a definitive and final statement, I
have come to see them as an important part
of poetics: a useful way to think about reasons
for writing, about processes and techniques
one might use to make poetry, and about existing
or potential relationships with real or imaginary
audiences.
The book is designed to encourage and incite
readers to engage with what all too often is
regarded as a trivial and occasional art form.
I believe, as do many of the other contributors,
that poetry is far more than self-expression
and heartfelt truth, it is where language is
actually rooted and initiallly located; it
is where thought itself comes into being. Language
is wonderful and intoxicating stuff, an engaging
and pliable medium with endless potential for
reinvention and recreation. If the reader can
find enthusiasm, passion, laughter and deep
thought in this book – and then argue
and engage with it – I shall be a happy
editor. These manifestos and unmanifestos do
not add up to a whole, but in their communcal
incoherence and difference they challenge and
delight.
Table of contents:
Foreword
Alan Halsey
Nine Ways Of Looking At A Manifesto
Andrea Moorhead
Poetic Dissonance: A Manifesto
Andrew Taylor
A Poetics Of Absence
Andy Brown
Poetry
Nick Piombino
Second Silent Manifesto
Angela Topping
How To Capture A Poem
Bob Hicok
My Whole Life That I Know Of, I’ve Been
Living: A Triptych
Bob Hicok
Troubadour
Brian Fewster
The Rules
Nick Piombino
Third Silent Manifesto
Cliff Yates
Flying: A Poetics
Dave Reeves
The Raw Edge Blues
Dave Bircumshaw
Ghost Machine Self-Assembly Kit
Dave Bircumshaw
His Story — One Version
David Hart
Instructions For A Good Time
Nick Piombino
Fourth Silent Manifesto
Gavin Selerie
34 (From Roxy)
Geoff Stevens
Manifesto To Myself
Guy Russell
Manifesto Of The Self-Publicists
Ira Lightman
Manifesto (1995)
Janis Butler Holm
Bother
Keith Hackwod
If You Must Have Nouns
Keith Jafrate
Manifesto
Nick Piombino
Automatic Manifesto #5
Kyrill Potapov
Deconstructionism Is Not Enough; Or A Quest
To Discover
Why I Stutter When A Stranger Asks Me My Name
Lael Ewy
Towards A Manifesto For A New Poetry
Luke Kennard
A Manifesto Towards Repeating The Mistakes
Of The Past
Nick Piombino
Government Warning (Automatic Manifesto #6)
Luke Kennard
The War Poem Letters
Mark Goodwin
La Belle Dame Sans Matrix
Mario Petrucci
The Idea
Mario Petrucci
Just As I Start
Michael Kerr
Poetry Finds Static
Michael Molyneux
Our Inner Peace Is Earth’s Frontier
Paul Sutton
Strategies
Peter Taylor
Manifesto
Peter Finch
Technique Comes Hard
Philip Terry
Advice To A Young Writer
Nick Piombino
Automatic Manifesto #7
Robert Sheppard
A Voice Without
Robert Sheppard
Not Another Poem
Rose Flint
The City Of Cherished Words
Rupert Loydell
The 12 Laws Of Celestial & Poetical Mechanics
Rupert Loydell
A Poem’s Not For People
Nick Piombino
The Lapsed Reader (Automatic Manifesto #8)
Sandra Tappenden
Dunce Embroidery
Sarah Law
Manifesto
Scott Thurston
Accreted Statement (Notes)
Sheila E. Murphy
Manifestoon
Stephen C. Middleton
(Instructions)
Steve Waling
Quote Mine (Selections)
Nick Piombino
Automatic Manifesto #9
Jackson Mac Low
Unmanifest
A.C. Evans
The Unique Zero Manifesto
Andy Brown
To All You Squabbling Poets
Paul Sutton
To All The Useless Idiots In The Future
Nathan Thompson
The Certainties of Manifest Poems
Acknowledgements
Contributors’ Notes
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Excerpt from book:
Automatic Manifesto #9
No time
no place
to stop
•
This is exactly what I remember remembering
to be like, a short descriptive cue, then holding
with great force to the details of one time.
It is like holding on to a great tree in a
tremendously powerful wind, holding on with
all one’s strength, why should it ever
have to end?
Eventually the great wind of time will have
its way and it will detach you from still another
set of spellbinding specifics. How poignant
these will seem from the distance of not much
more than a small portion of time.
Again and again this cycle pushes and pulls
me, trips me and seduces me, spinning me finally
into a welter of untranslatable hieroglyphics.
For a time these became fascinating almost
to the point of painfulness. I can’t
move beyond them now. These strange, dark and
enigmatic exteriors paralyzed my will. I touched
them, I dissected them, I classified or should
I say declassified them into a kind of prismatic
system of similarities. Although sometimes
in this treacherous terrain of dazzling correspondences,
I strangely lost not so much my path but my
will. The stimulation of foreigness at last
gives way to a kind of myopic lassitude, in
which the slightest combination of verbal nuances
will suffice to produce a paradox so profound
as to embrace contradiction. This mood, as
sullen as the stormiest of winter rains, eventually,
though, seems to hint of a lead to still another
hidden container of embryonic residues. When
finally, exhausted, I understood that the ellipse
will only lead me once again to the boundary
of despair, I trembled on the brink of an almost
erotic affair with hesitation, doubt and procrastination!
Nick Piombino
Unpublished
endorsement: A religion
might need its credo, but if in poetry what
one believes matters less than what one is
willing to ask, then for any manifesto there
will be an equal and opposite unmanifesto.
Such contention, such discontent and malcontent,
animates Troubles Swapped for Something
Fresh, in which we are charged to “obey
prophetic regions of the skin” but
also reminded that “the arteries are
wild tonight”
H. L.
Hix
Unpublished
endorsement: Those who
feel nostalgia for the avant-garde's heroic
days, from Marinetti's caffeinated fetishization
of the machine to Debord's revolutionary
strollers or even the Language School's more
recent politico-linguistic militantism should
open this book and listen to the voices of
Alan Halsey, Nick Piombino, Sheila E. Murphy,
Peter Finch and other writers whose poetico-political
preoccupations cannot be ignored. Rupert
Loydell's timely anthology offers a broad
selection of texts that shows that the art
of the manifesto is not dead; it just smells
different.
Michel
Delville
Unpublished
endorsement: As a theatrical
medium, the manifesto often tends toward
an operatic syncretization of the arts, politics,
science, and metaphysics. In its interweaving
of voices, it is the perfect forum — as Troubles
Swapped for Something Fresh reveals — for
a breaking of boundaries, for an inerrelationship
of experiences. Rupert Loydell's fresh anthology
of this ancient form is the perfect expression
for all believers, idealists, and the forever
young.
Douglas
Messerli
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