Duets Infer Duty by J.H. Prynne. ‘12 pages. Lithograph printed on acid-free paper. Wire stitched into sparkly purple wrappers. Hammered cream endpapers. Edition of 250. 10 poems.’ [Publisher’s promotional email, dated 27/12/2020] ‘Axe on his shoulder, Choppin’ up de wood.’ Traditional song, from Perrow, E. C. …

A short case study in phonotactics, musical harmony and figurative speech — “Malibu” is a bubblegum pop disco funk song performed by German singer-songwriter Kim Petras, and co-written and produced by Aaron Joseph, Allan Grigg (KoOoLkOjAk), Jon Castelli, Kim Petras, Lukasz Gottwald (Dr Luke), Sophia Black and Vaughn Oliver. …

See By So (2020), by J.H. Prynne. 12 pages. Text lithograph printed on acid-free paper. Covers risographed in red, inside and out. Edition of 250. Stitched with brass wires. A poem in 8 stanzas. (Publisher’s promotional email dated 27/12/2020. The book itself is dated December 2020.) In terms of formal…

‘DUNE QUAIL EGGS, by J.H. Prynne. A poem in five one-page sections, printed single-sided in a small top-bound 12pp booklet. 60x95mm. Hand sewn with blue linen thread into fine paper wrappers, screen printed with myriad fourteen-point white starbursts, enclosing a randomised pattern of blue dots, unique to each copy. Text…

It makes sense, literally. I was fortunate recently to come across the work of Dirk Geeraerts, Professor of Linguistics at KU Leuven in Belgium, and have been especially interested in his work concerned with onomasiology and semasiology.[1] …

To the goddess Dawn, radiating widely, proffer your well-twisted game with reverence. (after R​ig Veda​, III, 61.5) Much have I travelled in the realms of gold. (On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats) ​​​Theme: Gold ​Inital two contexts: Fish and Gods Players: 3 ​I can’t remember the exact occasion of playing this game, but it did involve waiting for…

English is a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though. Anonymous meme 施氏食獅史 (Shī shì shí shī shǐ) or ‘Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den’ Y.R. Chao, circa 1935 ‘… discovering new reflex slants and ducts and cross-links that open inherent potentials previously unworked.’ Poetic Thought…

They played the song many times, and with every repetition the song was involuntarily enriched with embellishments and variations. The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse Looking for a way to compare two beads in a glass bead game, I compared their different shapes and materials, making one of them a…

… in thy voice I catch/ The language of my former heart, and read/ My former pleasures in the shooting lights/ Of thy wild eyes. - Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth After so much heavy stuff, and with as yet unpublished material in the realms of aphasias and fairy tales still…