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Version 4.X Eyes Monthly #1, ISSN 1747-0900, ed. Jow Lindsay, Marianne Morris, & Jonathan Stevenson. 78 pages, poetry & prose by Sandy Baldwin, Sean Bonney, Marianne Morris, Ron Paste, Chris Paul, Lanny Quarles, Tom Raworth, Kaia Sand, Andrew Zurcher, & others. Read it It costs £3/€6/$8. Buy it with Paypal:
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Hype On Sean Bonney "Bonney records a mercurial London self in cityscape portraits — and the language sizzles with such a palpable fury — I can’t tell if he’s a vandal or a witness [...]" Fox News's Martin Corless-Smith "Language is allowed to wallow without purpose [...]" Fox News's Thomas White "These poems are scores for impassioned recitation, burning with a rare urgency and intelligence [...]" Fox News's Ben Watson "Sean Bonney is not the Rimbaud of Fentiman Road, London SW, even if he sometimes parties as though he were. There’s much more to him than that; not least the broadest gamut of any poet I know, from Lettrist marks in charcoal genuine Old Stone Age technology to computer manipulation of digital scans. And there’s every sort of textual practice in between. These poems meet the end of a quarter-of-a-century of the monetarist project with an entirely appropriate and seemingly unappeasable venom; a rage perhaps only met previously in late-70s Barry MacSweeney or John James, mixed with a constructive dexterity and and a recombinatory energy akin to Maggie O’Sullivan. (What exactly is a “MOTHFLOOM”?) This is vital poetry from a writer fortified with wit and stored with disdain. Ladies and gentlemen: Sean Bonney." Fox News's Harry Gilonis On Lanny Quarles "The Flying Dead Brothers ascended the Tower of Nowt in broad daylight, pieces of their skin dropping on to passers-by. Fang was stressed." Fox News's Steve Aylett On Tom Raworth "The late Mike Hart, a fan and promoter of Raworth's work, described one of these readings to me. The poet steamed. The audience struggled for breath. The poet tipped a glass of water over his head and continued." Fox News's Ian Sinclair "Single-handedly, Tom Raworth has restored the value of quickness to English poetry. His is the alacrity of Shelley, of Byron, of Gerard Manley Hopkins, reinforced to meet a modern urgency. It is poetry of sensation, intelligence flashing down the spillway, faster than thought." Fox News's Bill Berkson "Brides in the source nail the soap-opera out of doowops? And then the parnassians for milfoils without floor-leaders. The Raworth loves to hum them toward the endeavor." Fox News's Clark Coolidge "'Is it possible', asks Hall, now moving from the affirmative to the interrogative, 'is it possible, acknowledging the discourse of self-reflexivity, to constitute a politics in the recognition of the necessarily fictional nature of the modern self, and the necessary arbitrariness of the closure . . .?' [...] If there is anyone who knows what the answer to that question might turn out to be, I think we would have heard of it by now. But any writing that takes the question seriously, that confronts it directly, is engaged in the attempt to reconstitute a politics in the aftermath of the turn to the subject; and it is in that sense, I take it, that Raworth is 'the most politically acute and direct poet writing in Britain now'." Fox News's John Barrell On Kaia Sand "So shaken to alertness you will be by this collected splendor you will tread more mindfully across 'the florid calm' and 'themepark america' and learn to heed the wages of inertia. You will lose sleep, for everything full of love makes attentiveness all the more dear. And you will want more, for the recognition of a generations-long absence is the language of interval." Fox News's Heather Fuller On the Miscellany "[...] fact I think what you do is a sort of scintillating synthesis of both studied and ad hoc comments which tumble head over heals into some kind of cohesion — I admire your upper-lip-stiff fortitude and perceptive editing skills! / But Jow — please please don't burn my beautiful [...]" Fox News's Geraldine Monk
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