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Apples with Human Skin
you fell asleep with an ember in your mouth
dreamt you were playing a stone trumpet
a strange lament to accompany a cold ritual
smashed souls with bullet holes threaded
with wire
strung up between this day and the next
From the compact energies of minimalism through to dramatic larger sequences, Apples with Human Skin re-imagines the possibilities of poetry. This new work by award-winning poet Nathan Shepherdson travels through visionary histories and wildly original spaces of philosophical enchantment and emotional resonance. Engaging with other artists from Austrian poet Georg Trakl to visual artists Lawrie Daws and Lucas Cranach the Elder, there is a vital sense of poetry in dialogue with the world.
'A poet who has a powerful feel for the structure of a line and the way that a poem can be shaped ...'
NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE JUDGES' REPORT
dreamt you were playing a stone trumpet
a strange lament to accompany a cold ritual
smashed souls with bullet holes threaded
with wire
strung up between this day and the next
From the compact energies of minimalism through to dramatic larger sequences, Apples with Human Skin re-imagines the possibilities of poetry. This new work by award-winning poet Nathan Shepherdson travels through visionary histories and wildly original spaces of philosophical enchantment and emotional resonance. Engaging with other artists from Austrian poet Georg Trakl to visual artists Lawrie Daws and Lucas Cranach the Elder, there is a vital sense of poetry in dialogue with the world.
'A poet who has a powerful feel for the structure of a line and the way that a poem can be shaped ...'
NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE JUDGES' REPORT
- GenresPoetry
153 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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February 4, 2022
Loved this. Reminded me a lot of Kharms.
October 5, 2010
you slice the nipple off each question mark
eat them raw
your lips stained purple with thinking
***
he had invented a blunt machine
for replacing missing umlauts in a poet's brain
***
he was going to put something else here
but he put this here instead
colour in these two statements to make an equals sign
eat them raw
your lips stained purple with thinking
***
he had invented a blunt machine
for replacing missing umlauts in a poet's brain
***
he was going to put something else here
but he put this here instead
colour in these two statements to make an equals sign
April 6, 2012
Shepherdson clearly has a love of paradox & the impossible (loves I share). Reminiscent of MTC Cronin at times. I especially like the Trakl sequence.
December 5, 2016
Was a bit too nonsensical for me.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews