Chris Paul
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“concrete, stapled, to be performed wonders” ----------------------> Bob Cobbing
“pepper and verve” Maggie O Sullivan
“prolific “esemplasm”” Jow Lindsay
“visualyric uncovering unconscious folk memory” Jeff Hilson
“cartoon textulality” Sean Bonney
“an entity, a disconcertingly brilliant mixture of the Geraldine Monk
the ferocious, the glib, and the cerebum”
“unfashionable tenacity towards divergent forms” Rob Holloway
“mental splinters and hexes” Tim Atkins
“collaborative failure lovingly squared” Tom Raworth
“poems that posit purity of form as an exploration of Tertia Longmire
content most ingeniously”
“melancholic anti-nostalgia” Robert Shepherd
“leafy poignancy” Marrianne Morris
“ever moving cleverness” Ian Davidson
“add Jow Lindsay to that to” Zoe Skoulding
“neuron unsettling live writing/intervention” Mike Weller
“one of the most humourous poets going, and Lawrence Upton
that is not being reductive however”
“who would have thought that highly structured LUC
detritus would ever be so unerringly touching?”
“dervish twists with language that prove, finally, that Patricia Farrel
the subjective is not necessarily fictional”
“much cleverer than most people who get money to Redell Olsen
publish stuff in Welsh”
“the inventor of the term “linguistically innovative”” Tom Raworth
“one of London’s most under-rated poets” Adrian Clark
“his accelerations were way before his time, and Out To Lunch
probably still are. One of the most important writers
in the English language of the 20th Century. Period.”
“more post-modern than revolutionary, but very good Chris Goode
none the less, and an important figure to boot”
“the scope of his intellectual ambition is matched by Andreas Aandwanter
his both his ability and sympathy”
“the lyrical and the ideological in a post punk gothic Harry Gilonis
fusion”
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