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NEUTRALITY
Keston Sutherland
"As personal trauma erupts through a stubbled field of cars, ice, shit and wings, Neutrality enacts the desire for a total life, and the perception that the consistency of damage to the self has replaced the consistent self. Language gets accelerated, its tendons snap, and the vulnerable body is preserved by those machines which will eventually wreck it. These poems hurtle us toward a living, not as the opposite of the not trying not to die, but an affirmation which pays for all our violences. If you break it, you own it: so speech can only be repossessed through an assault on the whole and the decorous. Menacingly, this book suggests, you must pay for that breakage in kind, now that kindness can sustain no community, and regeneration just wipes down of the 'credit shot'. Genera mixta and toothy satire, flexible lineation and sometimes quite unbelievable invention make this book another crucial weighing station for Sutherland's work." --AB
1-903488-42-7. 28 pp. OUT OF PRINT
supported by
The Rictus Flag
Antifreeze
[Bar Zero]
Mincemeat Seesaw
Girls at Trusion
Hate's Clitoris and Other Poems
At the Motel Partial Opportunity
So Sung Visitor Soh
Have Wishly
other books published elsewhere
Some poems available online
'Poem (For the survey launder nothing phlegmatic)' in Masthead
'Agenda Static' in Kenning 1.2
Poems in PARATAXIS: Modernism and Modern Writing, double issue, no. 8 / 9 (1996)
'Among the Golden Sheaves' and 'With Love: To A' in CCCP9 Archive
'Institute in Jocose Rubdown' and 'What's to Shriek Back Mister' in CCCP8 Archive
two poems, from Hate's Clitoris and Scratchcard Sally-Ann in Jacket 3 (1998)
Reviews of Keston's work
Edmund Hardy, "Dear Angel of Impeccable Dispirit': review of The Rictus Flag on Intercapillary Space
Robert Potts, 'Disobeying Orders: The Rictus Flag and Antifreeze' in Poetry Review 93.1
Jérôme Game, 'Energize! --The K Function, or an Anti-Freezing Speed' in Jacket 20, December 2002
Dylan Harris, on the Poetry Review reading at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 30 October 2003.
Andrew Duncan, Review of [Bar Zero] in Terrible Work
Articles
'The Trade in Bathos' [a history of bathos, 1711 to the present] in Jacket 15 (2000)
'A Short Critique of Pacifism' in Circulars, 23 February 2003
'Vagueness, Poetry' [a discussion of vagueness in poetic language] Quid 7c, 2001; reprinted in Works on Paper ed. Helen Slater 2002, and in the Prague Literary Review, 2003.
'Four Theses on Speed', Quid 12
'For Carol Mirakove' Quid 11, 2002.
with Chris Goode, 'Six Bits of an Exchange', Quid 10iii
'Against Imperialism: A Prolegomena', Quid 9: Against Imperialism
'Nervous Breakdowns in Chris Emery's The Cutting Room' Quid 5, 2000.
'On the Accomplishment of Knowing One's Place' in The Poetry of Peter Riley, ed. Nate Dorward, The GIg 4/5 (Nov. 1999/Mar. 2000).
'Prosody and Reconciliation' The Gig, 2004.
'What's The Ugliest Part of Your Market-Researched Anaclitic Affect Repertoire?' [On Frank Zappa, the potential for a detournement of Freudian theory, and irrecuperable art], Militant Esthetix
(ed.), The Poetry of John Wilkinson [a collection of essays; forthcoming, Salt (Cambridge) 2004]
Or send a cheque (include £3.00 postage
in UK, and $7.50 to US or Canada) to:
Barque Press
70A Cranwich Road
London N16 5JD UK