Instant-flex 718
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2014
64 pages
978-1-78037-089-7 (ISBN)
Description
Issuing from the body-mind's grisly interwedge, Heather Phillipson's poems are a protest against well-stitched seams, an off-loading of intellectual baggage, a shout from the deep-ish channels of fear. Phillipson's much anticipated debut collection, Instant-flex 718 is an operati of reactivation. Splicing the leftovers of culture with spurious monologues discharged from an arrhythmic right ventricle or a mouth filled with half-chewed peanuts, the poems unpick and destabilise. The poet is a plasterer, entering the spits and drips with urgency. An internationally exhibiting artist, Phillipson has an impertinence and dynamism incomparably her own. Her poems observe the ordinary world stagger. Shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
Reviews / Votes
'For all the playfulness in Instant-flex 718, it also addresses the weighty issues -mortality, the relationship between mind and body, the extinction of species, religion -and its lively combination of intelligence, verve and humour makes it a debut that is both unusually accomplished and unusually pleasurable to read.' - Carrie Etter, Guardian. 'Instant-flex 718 is an explosive first collection from a poet and artist who thrills and disconcerts in equal measures. Heather Phillipson's poems fuse subterranean erotic landscapes with the complex pleasures of thought. They conduct a weird, addictive verbal electricity that can both jolt and elate. Handle with care: this book is not for those who like their poetry safely earthed.' - Mark Ford.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tarset
United Kingdom
File size
0,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-089-7 (9781780370897)
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Heather Phillipson has published four volumes of poetry, including two full-length collections with Bloodaxe: Instant-flex 718 (2013), which was shortlisted for the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and Whip-hot & Grippy (2019). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2008, a Faber New Poets Award in 2009, was named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, and received Poetry magazine's Friends of Literature Prize in 2016. She is also an award-winning artist, working across video, sculpture, environments, drawing, music and web projects. Solo projects include the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2020, recent exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery London, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frieze Projects New York and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and major commissions for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Art on the Underground's flagship site at Gloucester Road station, London. She received the Film London Jarman Award 2016 and the European Short Film Award selection from the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2018.
Content
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- At First, the Only Concern Is Milk, More or Less
- Hello from This Position
- A Dramatic Look inside the Heart Makes for Interesting Viewing
- Heliocentric Cosmology
- Rumination on 25mm of Cotton
- Where and when will the barriers be in operation?
- An Alternative to Television
- Within the Cooling-off Period
- Relational Epistemology
- Ablutions
- What We Learn from Fantasy
- Devoted, Hopelessly
- Le Parc
- Dear Johnny Bunny
- German Phenomenology Makes Me Want to Strip and Run through North London
- Darling, You Missed a Revelation
- 1960s Monochrome Hollywood Paraphernalia ($47, collection only)
- National Geographic's Indian Subcontinent Photo Gallery Where All of Life Is in Appearances, and Just outside of Them
- SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED AT THE FIRST CONVENIENT OCCASION
- Red Slugs in Every Irrelevant Direction
- The Horsey Mail
- An Encounter in the New Language
- Although You Do Not Know Me, My Name Is Patricia
- You're an Architect and I Want to Make Dinner for You
- The One Coat that Could Have Made Winter Worth Living through
- Nudity of Cattle
- The Distance between England and America
- Fingers Are Not Ignorable
- Unapproachable Regions
- Actually, I'm Simply Trying to Find My Dressing Gown Sash
- Jesus Christ
- The Baby [hereafter referred to as 'The Baby'] hereby contracts with The Mother [hereafter referred to as 'The Mother'] -
- Some Kind of Memento Mori
- Digression on the Col d'Aubisque
- Birds in Inflexible Bird Bodies
- You might say we've got it all. Get a load of the lighting
- Oh. Is he dead?
- Judder Our Bones like a Dadaist Manifesto
- James Grieve, One
- When the City Centre's at a Standstill, It's Really Quite a Thrill to Lie in the Road and Read Herman Melville
- Bogentechnik
- Some Whales and Antonioni Died. This is What Happens. Some Men Wear Turtleneck Sweaters.
- The Horse Jacuzzi
- If We Are in Favour of Motherhood, Let Us Not Be against the Great White Man-eating Shark
- How Things Haven't Changed
- Goodbye. You can take this as my notice.
- About the Author
- Copyright
