Birmingham Jazz Incarnation E-Book

Simon Turner

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: The Emma Press Picks
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

A man walks into a Birmingham bookshop, buys a volume of poetry, and steps out into the road, where a jazz musician seems momentarily to bring the whole city together. In the second poem in Playing the Changes, the same thing happens, only half the words are redacted. Then the experience is retold as a Petrarchan sonnet; a children's skipping rhyme; an Acknowledgements page; a pastiche of Tristram Shandy... Drawing on the traditions of jazz improvisation and Oulipo, a literary movement where writing arises from extreme formal restriction, Playing the Changes sees Simon Turner decomposing and recomposing one of his own poems in a variety of forms and styles. The result is a hymn to the pleasures of music, reading, writing, and city life, humming with a joyous experimental energy. In Turner's linguistic hall of mirrors, the English language is always at serious, delirious play.

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Birmingham Jazz Incarnation

or, Playing the Changes

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‘Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.’Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics of Music (1942)

‘Poetry is a monument to silence, a figment of the visible, the soul song of the never-never.’ Catriona Brigham-Zhang, Jr: Song City: Essays on Making and Music (1994)

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First published in Great Britain in 2017 by the Emma Press Ltd

Text © Simon Turner 2017Illustrations © Mark Andrew Webber 2017

All rights reserved.

The right of Simon Turner and Mark Andrew Webber to be identified as the author and illustrator respectively of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-910139-86-8

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Charlesworth Press, Wakefield.

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CONTENTS

Birmingham Jazz Incarnation

Redacted

No Vow’l No. 2, à la G.P.

A is A

tl;dr

Not Enough Hours in the Day