027   Cris Paul – ‘stenia cultas handbook’

Listen to an excerpt from stenia cultas handbook
(from his launch reading at Birkbeck in April 2010)

Veer Publication 027 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-12-4]

“Drawing on a long, and long-suppressed, tradition of visual and sound poetry (think Cobbing, think O'Sullivan, think Bonney), Paul's poems map out territories for survival by imagining new linguistic shapes. As one might expect, there's a strong element ofmagic to his writing – language is used both as spell and charm – but there's nothing New Age about it. It knows its targets and it's out to get them. No one is innocent: ‘A punch in the throat to both hapless and vanguard.’ This volume is a provocation and anecessity.” (Jeff Hilson)

A5 landscape size. 76 pages. April 2010. £6.00

 
  Watch Cris Paul reading from stenia cultas handbook at the Small Publishers Fair 2010:

Veer Books @ the Small Publishers Fair 2010 readings - 6. Cris Paul from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

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