Parodies
A while ago I wrote some parodies of/homages to (i.e. respectful imitation of points of style) some contemporary poets. Here are three.
Love Song to Bike (after Lee Harwood)
As your frame is green you move me.
Riding northward with you, “thinking of you”,
and your frame, under me O
O Emmanuel. “biblical quotation.”
And they shall call his name Emmanuel,
which being interrupted is, God with us.
Your pale luminescent tubing
“moves me”, as with the strokes of my pedal
I move you.
Writing (after Tom Raworth)
writing is
writing is
a pain
of course
and painful
don’t like
doing it
don’t like
not doing it
don’t like
dislike
the problem
mainly being
con
cen
trat
ion
–
each time
each time
a paragraph
is such a
long space
away
and anyway
i blame
the internet
each time it begins
even the end
of the beginning
is too far
because
hey, did you know
Catherine wheels
are called
are called
Catherine wheels
because the martyrdom
of St Catherine
they tried to break
her back on a breaking
wheel
which were
which were
common
torture devices
in continental Europe
during the middle ages
but it was the wheel broke
not her back
so they cut off
her head
which i thought
illogical
and so writing
from here
to
there
is fucked
exactly.
Something concerning identity (after Denise Riley)
I have always thought, on the question of persons,
that myself yourself with conversation like a filmy skin
sliding between us, thought that thinking
of what I might be may hamper my being.
On the question of selves I have been consistent and furious.
Conversation births a third self bodied forth from words
dependent horribly powerful dependent on the participants
and unique, and not I, and not you, but not not. So what.
M / H / D
- ‘Growing food on the green world: J. H. Prynne’s agro-chemical pastoral in the Vale of Tintern’, article in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (Autumn 2018) March 13, 2019Abstract: (to download one of 50 free e-prints go here). This article reads the poetry of J. H. Prynne of the early- to mid-1970s through an ecocritical lens, arguing that … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Poetics in Commons’ Symposium & Performances, 22-23 May, CPP Sheffield February 27, 201922-23 May 2019, Centre for Poetry & Poetics, University of Sheffield (Venues TBC) Keynote: Anne Boyer ‘Poetics in Commons’ explores the potential of literature and art to create and reinvent … Continue reading →daneltro
- Centre for Poetry & Poetics Spring Schedule, Sheffield 2019 February 3, 2019 daneltro
- PBC Reading, Gulliver’s NQ (Manchester), Sat 9th Feb (4.30pm) w/ Denise Riley, Ágnes Lehóczky & Gareth Twose January 29, 2019 daneltro
- Poetry & Translation discussion & readings, Fri 1st Feb, Sheffield January 28, 2019 daneltro
- Mexican Democracy January 28, 2019In July 2018, I was part of the UK delegation to observe the Mexican electoral process, organised by the Mexican pro-transparency network RUCD (Red Universitaria y Ciudadana por la Democracia) … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Five a Week’ in Blackbox Manifold + review January 24, 2019My long-ish poem, ‘Five a Week’, is out in full in the latest Blackbox Manifold, No. 21 (Winter 2018). As ever, there’s a really good selection of work in the … Continue reading →daneltro
- Reading at Xing the Line 20 Dec (7.30pm) December 10, 2018poetry: xing the line, 20 Dec, 7.30pm. Dan Eltringham : Beth Hopkins & Andrew Spragg : Samantha Walton. I K L E C T I K, ‘Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle … Continue reading →daneltro
- Trespass! Exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts > 22 Dec December 10, 2018Trespass! Exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts until 22 December 2018. This exhibition explores the relationship between visual art and text based work on the broad theme of walking in forbidden … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Shifting vantage, common musings: the politics of Wordsworthian excursus in the poetry of Peter Riley’, Textual Practice (May 2018) July 23, 2018My article on Peter Riley, Wordsworth, walking, pilgrimage and Peter Larkin (the “needful things that life requires”) was published by Textual Practice in May. There are 50 free e-prints available … Continue reading →daneltro
