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All JustDavid Herd![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 847776 72 3 Categories: 21st Century Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: October 2012 76 pages (print version) Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: Paperback, eBook (Kindle) Spend GBP 15 or more and receive a free Carcanet tote bag.
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Standing like an act
Like a person present Sometimes sure sometimes Likewise limited Standing still and waiting While the commons shifts. from ‘Four poems by way of document’
All Just, David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcements intervene in private situations. In the background, an emergency is about to unfold.
Taking bearings from Dover and London, from elegy and protest, from official structures that determine where people can go, and the futures that cross them, All Just explores the social spaces in which we all move. It asks what it means to be at large in the world, and what language we have to document the journey.
3 a.m.
Sans papiers To the historians – a letter Outwith On not being a man who is Piero della Francesca On not being a man who is Piero (out set) And Piero, a further word Song of the road Poem beginning with a phrase from Whitman Song of the cigarette For a friend, after a translation 3 notes towards a love song Fact Song of the mobile 3 poems becoming elegy You among Ecology Ecology (out set) Bric-a-brac Where things stand One by one Song of the sea Song of the passing truck Simon’s bag Objective song Some woman pressed Some woman pressed (out set) To a friend, after a word by Charles Olson The hearing Song of the ultimatum Somehow it seems Song of the stewards Show and tell Song of the breath We do this, we do that Some details maybe A footnote to the American constitution Deportment Song of the cart They offered me a television. I offered them a phone. Some might call it shopping Four poems by way of document Letter to the Corinthians Fugue Document Acknowledgements
'One of the few truly necessary works of poetry written on either side of the Atlantic in the past decade.'
Los Angeles Review of Books 'In an era in which the relationship between poetry and politics is rarely subtle, the quiet but insistent linguistic and thematic complexities of All Just carry a rare quality and one that mark it out as that rare thing in the poetry marketplace: an important collection.' Nikolai Duffy, The Literateur 'The difficulty of knowing "where one stands" both in space and affect, whether it requires particularising or details, whether one can choose where one stands, is perhaps the condition of being modern and is explored in All Just in a way that is resonant and haunting.' Ann Vickery, Mascara Praise for David Herd '...a tour de force display of wit and technique, terrific poem after terrific poem.' Poetry Review 'a dizzy and disorienting chain of teasing, clever, breezy challenging, ingratiating, and infuriating poems...there are many poems here that will put a spring in your step, and make your mind dance.' Tower Poetry 'jumbled and energetic, discursive or elliptical, chatty or terse, provocative but playful, haphazard but probing.' The Times 'A scintillating first collection of poems.' Scotland on Sunday |
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