is the truthbah you sound like my mate who said english poetry started with chaucer and came to an end with eliot. that's missing out on dorn, olson, creeley, prynne frank o'hara etc plus loads more.
could have been and probably was said about loads of your favourites too."abstruse word games for tiny print runs" is just a snob take i'll ignore that.
Tomlinson is a lot less interesting but was also the only english poet in the sixites prynne had any respect for. they knew each other.Prynne reminds me of Charles Tomlinson.
Tomlinson is a lot less interesting but was also the only english poet in the sixites prynne had any respect for. they knew each other.
if you had a drink with me i could pull out the prynne and get you into him in about 15 minutes, easy
it has a glamour on the page which is undeniable and seductive and youre too sensitive not to respond to
its the vocab too.It's true, I am a sucker for sexy word spacing.
there's an iain sinclair book of interviews i read a few years ago, it's called "the verbals". he talks a lot about the influence of charles olson and the black mountain scene more generally in it. good book, i gave it away i think, or maybe it was a library book. he also talks about the responsibility of the writer/poet in it.i really got a sense of what Olson is about when i was doing my Poplar project (which you scoffed at mercilessly!)
sounds like exactly something he (sinclair) would say.getting at the really big stuff through investigating the local
no i'm not grumpy i just realised this is not a discussion about is whether prynne is any good, but about whether craner likes the idea of prynne, so stepped out and made some lunch.
no i'm not grumpy i just realised this is not a discussion about is whether prynne is any good, but about whether craner likes the idea of prynne, so stepped out and made some lunch.
edmund met the verbals guy on the train. kevin jackson? kevin said, dont see many people reading olson these days, and edmund saidthere's an iain sinclair book of interviews i read a few years ago, it's called "the verbals". he talks a lot about the influence of charles olson and the black mountain scene more generally in it. good book, i gave it away i think, or maybe it was a library book. he also talks about the responsibility of the writer/poet in it.
sounds like exactly something he (sinclair) would say.