Thursday
Feb242011
Department #3
Thursday 24 February, 2011 tagged Publications in Catherine Hales, David Grundy, Marcus Slease, Marie-Angelique Bueler, Matt Dalby, Posie Rider, Ryan Ormonde, Tom Watts, Wayne Clements 
£3, Department, Feb 2011
The poetry of Department is poetry that is not content to inhabit “the poetic” (aesthetically elevated spiritualised leisure activity): that with the force of its own intensities & in-densities moves ‘out’ on to the street, moves among political spaces (complicating – & analysing complicities – all distinctions between public & private worlds), & lives in the overlap between sound & discourse, music & information. Department poetry is non-departmental poetry. It does not refuse formal exactness (though it troubles a certain ideology of forms as Universals), but it does refuse constraint; it troubles order to deny all attempts at a control order for poetry (know your place). These principles underlie the practice of Department issue #3. & will underlie the practice of future issues.
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