{"product_id":"blade-pitch-control-unit-9781844712519","title":"Blade Pitch Control Unit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlade Pitch Control Unit\u003c\/em\u003e is a gathering of Sean Bonney’s work in poetry over the last five years. It collects together all the work from his previous pamphlets that he still feels is valid, plus a number of previously unpublished pieces. The presentation of this work in a single volume makes clear the scope of his project as a psychogeographic\/historical exploration of the possibilities of political verse that would seek to obliterate the pitfalls of simple protest or the expression of easily assimilable opinions. The work moves from psychogeographical registerings of Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs at the time of the Millennium Dome, through excavations of the ghosts of millennial heresies still present in contemporary London, and into a charting of the effects of official mendacity on the psyche of any individual citizen who knows that all private experience is collective. The events of recent history play a major role, sometimes obliquely, sometimes less so, but Bonney refuses to allow his voice to be merely an outraged commentary on contemporary woes. Instead, he presents a poetry that makes clear that the protestor is also culpable, but equally a poetry that understands that only through a registering of this position can a way out be found. For Bonney, a poem is typically a highly rhythmic (or arrhythmic) object that seeks through maximum density to communicate a dialectical relationship with the cosmos, and to explore the faultlines of official history and urbanism through which possibilities of liberation can be traced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems are scores for impassioned recitation, burning with a rare urgency and intelligence . . . They have a raw quality: manic states inscribed in phrases short enough to catch them. Because the poems are written for Bonney's speaking voice, they have an elegant rhythmic flow: this elegance provides a foil for the desperation and violence of the content.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ben Watson * Poetry Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE DOMESTIC POEM (2000)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecross harbour …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewalk on. strike softly away from children …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt doesn’t matter if music’s attached …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFast. Victoria to Warren St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMayday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere’s got to be something …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust going down there to post a letter …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCertain young aristocrats …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecalling all dogs …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE ROSE (2000)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epop stars on Holloway Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Bob, Cobbing Through the Soundhole, Where Cobbing IS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNOTES ON HERESY (2000-2001)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTom O’Bedlam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefects in the Structure of the State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLyric Poetry: Surveillance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfessional Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoisons, their Antidotes (2001-2003)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Management Consultant Has Gone for Lunch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Verlaine read poems on Old Compton St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpulsions (on Marchmont St with coffee)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoisons, their Antitdotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFILTH SCREED (2003-2004)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eall poetry that does not …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003estood …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eant sore …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esketch …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003equestionable savagery …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethin suns bleat …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehis opened mouth …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea lattice of swallow-screech …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethis is a shop spurt yellow gas …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efly track …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eat 9.38 you hear voices …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ealembic strip neutral …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eenabled history on the ant crawl …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe details at times are as vague as burn screams …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esilver burst …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe words “we are loyal employees” …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI don’t …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e86 him …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘these’ pictures have come in lately …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eclick …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eglue, magnetized …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehold on. does the traffic not worry …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBranson’s mouth imposed …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand he, who want to be adverts …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethis is a love poem in 42cm …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebone sweat …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elids flicker …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe map of London …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esurvive commerce on …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enothing of importance …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBURNT NICKLE (2004-2005)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emorally …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewe understand …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edemand protection for sex dolls …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esocial climbing among metals …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethat the police station as system …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econsumerism speaks only …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eon cell wall …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVerdict :\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOona King\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDOCUMENT (2005)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFilter OD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocument\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocument: No Admittance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocument: Suicide Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771556036951,"sku":"9781844712519","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844712519.jpg?v=1758728255","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blade-pitch-control-unit-9781844712519","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}