{"id":28,"date":"2017-06-10T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/poetry-london-87\/"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T13:39:46","slug":"poetry-london-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/poetry-london-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry London #87"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Work under my name has slipped inconspicuously into the latest issue of Poetry London<\/a><\/i>. I say\u00a0\u2018under my name\u2019 firstly because both poems are collages, assembled from the thieved morsels of other writers\u2019 work, and secondly because I think of them as being written by The Salvor, one of the characters in the book I\u2019m working on.<\/p>\n

The Salvor is only<\/i> interested in reforgery; he doesn\u2019t even really believe it\u2019s possible to write or speak with one\u2019s own voice, except inasmuch as one\u2019s own voice is a secret recipe whose ingredients are the fragments of other people\u2019s voices. You might say that is indeed the case, and that his position isn\u2019t remotely controversial.<\/p>\n

Anyway, The Salvor\u2019s section of the book consists entirely of poems collaged from old British comics. The ones appearing in Poetry London this summer are made from Misty<\/i>, a spooky girls comic, and The Perishers<\/i>, a strip which ran in The Mirror<\/i> for 50-odd years.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve published two poems in this series previously (just in case you want to collect them): \u2018Mars 1988\u2032, a collage from The Eagle,<\/i> in issue 152 of The Rialto<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(now out of print but borrowable from The Poetry Library), and\u00a0\u20182000AD\u2019, a collage from,er,\u00a02000AD<\/i>, which was published in the anthology New Adventures in Form<\/a><\/i> (Penned in the Margins, 2012).<\/p>\n

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Additional note: this is the first time I\u2019ve ever sent anything in to Poetry London<\/i>! I have been published in two previous issues though, as a competition winner. If I keep it up, one day I might make cover star – hopefully before I lose half my face in a furnace accident or forget how to raise one eyebrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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