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Path Through Wood
About this book
Sam Buchan-Watts' debut collection considers the capacity contemporary lyric poetry has to reflect social change. The many ethical dilemmas these poems enact listen in to the noise which society makes to distract itself – from carceral space to questions of asylum, masculinity and the boundaries of aesthetic play.Described by the Guardian as a 'sceptical, serious, versatile writer', Buchan-Watts variously inhabits poetic form, exposing the interplay of sound, sense and desire. Returning repeatedly to the figure of a vulnerable boy approaching the thicket of adolescence, these are poems that are listening in when they're not supposed to, distracted when they should be listening in, and finding secret listeners behind the arras. In this disquieting terrain we must hold ourselves to account for what we hear and what we make of what we hear.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Lines following
- ballad
- ‘The Days Go Just Like That’
- Coastal Scene
- Pillar of Smoke
- Tableaux
- Listening In (Fresh Claim for Asylum)
- Happy Accidence
- Sounds Inside
- Gigha
- Listening In
- Borderline Decisions
- Listening In
- ‘We don’t just hear you, we listen’
- Cloud Study
- You just know
- A Mess
- Colouring In
- Sky Pavilion
- Dew Point
- Pavilion Complex
- Pigeon Grey
- The art of trying
- Forum Bar
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- [the nameless other boys]
- Cloud Study
- The Days Just Go Like That
- Plinth
- The Word Pavilion
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About Prototype
- Copyright