No particular place to go

<p>“Sceptical as I am about anti-poetry of which there is a lot around and which can assume many different forms the fully formed poems are not the only writing I can value in a book like this. There is too much wit absurdity and sheer verbal craft to be ignored.”  —Peter Riley</p><p>“We’ve all seen how after a night of drones an experimental poet comes out to read wielding the vernacular and the room lights up. There’s laughter joy play confusion a rmation all the things that make poetry what it is. This is why poets in the generation including Duggan Pam Brown and Ken Bolton are so accessible to readers and listeners because of their interest in the page-as-field (perhaps an ‘Olsonesque’ sense) and the everyday vernacular. The only reason Conventional Verse Culture still claims to own the (ever-elusive) ‘average reader’ is because of the structures and frameworks in place that tell people they do. This is not because people on the street speak like CVC.” —A J Carruthers</p><p> </p>