{"id":58,"date":"2013-10-01T17:33:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:06:11","slug":"long-poem-magazine-issue-10-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2013\/10\/01\/long-poem-magazine-issue-10-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Poem Magazine: Issue 10 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a privilege to read this week at the Barbican Library<\/a> last Wednesday, October 23rd, as part of the launch of Long Poem Magazine Issue 10, and I offer me sincerest gratitude to the editors, Linda Black and Lucy Hamilton for agreeing to publish my new long poem ‘Kernel Stone’ in this issue.<\/p>\n

Rossetti\u2019s Goblin Market, <\/i>situated firmly in the long poem canon, is the stating place for my poem \u2018Kernel Stone.\u2019 Rossetti\u2019s text, celebrated for its frantic Bacchanalianism, seems to suggest language\u2019s eroticism, its physicality; for example, \u201cstreaked her neck which quaked like curd\u201d \u00a0is not only suggestive in its reference to a \u2018streaked\u2019 and sexualized body, but also presents an acrobatic tension between sibilants (\u2018s\u2019) and voiceless velars (\u2018k\u2019). This is a poem to be mouthed.
\nGoblin Market\u2019s<\/i> phonemic patterning is the element I have chosen to isolate and develop via a \u2018writing-through\u2019 process. Put simply, Rossetti\u2019s text was ripped, placed in a bag, shaken, and \u2018copied consciously\u2019 as Tzara might once have done– except that I had every intention of disrupting the wholeness of the word. From this process, I created a formalist sketch of the work, its bare sounds as material to be elaborated, neologism to be found.
\nThis process is also a form of redaction in its removal of grammatical endings, prepositions, and articles from the original; the superfluous. As such, the sections of \u2018Kernel Stone\u2019 which directly quote Rossetti are visually redacted thus:<\/p>\n

\"like\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is remarkable that the process of ripping by chance not only preserved, but emphasised these anaphoric repetitions, and so I have preserved them in my poem.
\nIn choosing this particular iconic text as \u2018found material\u2019, I hope to ask the questions: what is a contemporary long poem and what possibilities await its future?<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from the opening of the poem:<\/p>\n

\"Kernel<\/a><\/p>\n

Long Poem magazine can be ordered of subscribed to from their website<\/a>. It is published twice a year, in May and October.<\/p>\n

Written by Lisa Mansell (first published October 2013)
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