All Just
Published on 1. October 2012
76 pages
978-1-84777-672-3 (ISBN)
Description
All Just, David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcements intervene in private situations. In the background, an emergency is about to unfold.
Taking bearings from Dover and London, from elegy and protest, from official structures that determine where people can go, and the futures that cross them, All Just explores the social spaces in which we all move. It asks what it means to be at large in the world, and what language we have to document the journey.
Taking bearings from Dover and London, from elegy and protest, from official structures that determine where people can go, and the futures that cross them, All Just explores the social spaces in which we all move. It asks what it means to be at large in the world, and what language we have to document the journey.
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'EUR?One of the few truly necessary works of poetry written on either side of the Atlantic in the past decade.'Los Angeles Review of Books
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-672-3 (9781847776723)
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David Herd is a poet, critic and teacher. He has given readings and lectures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, the USA and the UK, and his poems, essays and reviews have been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers. His collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet, 2012) and Outwith (Bookthug, 2012), and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Parallax and Almost Island. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent and a co-organiser of Refugee Tales.
Content
3 a.m.
Sans papiers
To the historians - a letter
Outwith
On not being a man who is Piero della Francesca
On not being a man who is Piero (out set)
And Piero, a further word
Song of the road
Poem beginning with a phrase from Whitman
Song of the cigarette
For a friend, after a translation
3 notes towards a love song
Fact
Song of the mobile
3 poems becoming elegy
You among
Ecology
Ecology (out set)
Bric-a-brac
Where things stand
One by one
Song of the sea
Song of the passing truck
Simon's bag
Objective song
Some woman pressed
Some woman pressed (out set)
To a friend, after a word by Charles Olson
The hearing
Song of the ultimatum
Somehow it seems
Song of the stewards
Show and tell
Song of the breath
We do this, we do that
Some details maybe
A footnote to the American constitution
Deportment
Song of the cart
They offered me a television. I offered them a phone.
Some might call it shopping
Four poems by way of document
Letter to the Corinthians
Fugue
Document
Acknowledgements
Sans papiers
To the historians - a letter
Outwith
On not being a man who is Piero della Francesca
On not being a man who is Piero (out set)
And Piero, a further word
Song of the road
Poem beginning with a phrase from Whitman
Song of the cigarette
For a friend, after a translation
3 notes towards a love song
Fact
Song of the mobile
3 poems becoming elegy
You among
Ecology
Ecology (out set)
Bric-a-brac
Where things stand
One by one
Song of the sea
Song of the passing truck
Simon's bag
Objective song
Some woman pressed
Some woman pressed (out set)
To a friend, after a word by Charles Olson
The hearing
Song of the ultimatum
Somehow it seems
Song of the stewards
Show and tell
Song of the breath
We do this, we do that
Some details maybe
A footnote to the American constitution
Deportment
Song of the cart
They offered me a television. I offered them a phone.
Some might call it shopping
Four poems by way of document
Letter to the Corinthians
Fugue
Document
Acknowledgements
