How it all started… how did it all start… why write anything…why bother… once a man has had his skull cracked and brutally soddened with a heavy kick he is not there… his mind… his body… has gone… the universe revolves ceaselessly… the drug is on the table where the man left it… the ant crawls… the advert flickers…
“… i can speak but i can speak to no body… there is no mind to speak to… there is no machine to sate the vacuum of desire left in my skull for a mechanical aid… any mechanical aid no matter how simple in structure or in ease of appliance would suffice… there is no advert to fill the vacuum… there is no recollection but what i can recall is confused and garbled like the effects of a hallucinogen “Sergeant Pepper’s Postatomic Skull” pulls the reader into a tortuous ride, where the poet asks “what use are words but the niceties of a race best left out of this place… there is no advert to fill the vacuum… there is no recollection…” existential questions that already hint at the Twitter age. Many of the early poems address war and the post-atomic age. As Butterworth comments in the introduction, there is a clear autobiographical arc to the work, which is the overriding theme throughout the book, punctuated by speculative elements:īutterworth often spins the ordinary, as in “hoover & writer,” twisting reality a little to the left, generating an awkward blob of silence while his reader ponders: This whopper retrospective contains 187 pages of poetry. michael-butterworths-complete-poems-1965-2020-out-now/ Reviews are listed by year of publicationĬomplete Poems: 1965–2020 by Michael Butterworth Star*Line welcomesīooks for possible review see the Star*Line pageįor our editorial address. Status or year of publication, are welcome.
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