J. H. Prynne

[Benny Bunter]

The anxiety parents have over their daughters/sons entering into the world of sexual experience is a theme, I reckon.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Of course I am probably barking up the wrong tree and am quite drunk by this point, but chew on that for a while why don't you

 

[woops]

Of course I am probably barking up the wrong tree and am quite drunk by this point, but chew on that for a while why don't you

you're going to have to explicate this point for the non-parents among us

 

[Benny Bunter]

Errr... Was making more sense to me last night tbh during the drinking session. The parental anxiety thing is definitely a thing in Blake's SOE, little girl lost, Lyca laying down with the wild beasts and all that, so i was thinking of that probably. As for how it relates to the Prynne, I'm not really sure what i was thinking about now, will have to look at it again, but there are definitely at least some traces of Blake in that voll verdienst one, that much I at least demonstrated...I think lol

 

[luka]

it was the marriage of heaven and hell lying in my hall it turns out

North Atlantic Current - Wikipedia

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[luka]

RADIANT IN MOMENT

Just beyond first gaze could now be seen
almost, among the leaves barely moving
in the light breeze, the playful scatter
of reflections in answer, each to other.
Here pause with scant reason, stay quiet,
such a cloud or so in the sky; in patience,
expectancy, what arrives is itself, eyes
familiar with occasion, small sounds as
fingers of visitation from the air currents
open the view to thought's slim inwardness;
coming forward to meet the certain moment
close to competition. Then will be known
what has been known oft before, repeating
its sufficient truth, to be seen fully, and
understood: fortune in fire beyond desire.

 

[Benny Bunter]

That's the most normal poem I've seen by him yet. Is it a new one?

 

[woops]

I can't say off hand which book that's from, but several of his new volumes use a trick whereby the first poem is reasonably"normal", after which he reverts to what the actual f--- is this.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Here's a question: Prynne's obviously got loads of followers and is very influential - are there any other contemporary poets from the cult that are worth checking out? Or just pale imitations? Has he nurtured any protégés that are worth reading?

I'm guessing the answer I'll receive is "no" but you never know.

 

[version]

Here's a question: Prynne's obviously got loads of followers and is very influential - are there any other contemporary poets from the cult that are worth checking out? Or just pale imitations? Has he nurtured any protégés that are worth reading?

There's a guy called Luke Davis who's pretty good.

 

[luka]

present company excluded? i like Jim and Science Sam.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Aha, as soon as I posted I knew you would say that! I meant present company excluded. I would happily buy you lots stuff if it was available

 

[luka]

without endorsing anything you can check out
peter larkin, keston sutherland, peter riley, douglas oliver, andrew duncan, veronica forrest-thompson

 

[luka]

tom raworth, bill griffiths,

 

[Benny Bunter]

Aha, as soon as I posted I knew you would say that! I meant present company excluded. I would happily buy you lots stuff if it was available

Print something up and get an Etsy or whatever gets used these day ffs

 

[luka]

lee harwood, andrew crozier,

 

[Benny Bunter]

You should maybe start a thread with examples of poems by all these names you're giving me, if only just to tear them to shreds. Could be a laff

 

[luka]

i dunno if they're neccessarily that interesting. im not sure.

 

[luka]

find something if you like and post it here

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'll have a scout around tomorrow, got a couple of days off work.

Intrigued by "Science Sam" and "Jim", is that their noms de plume?