Counterpoetics, New in Ceasefire - Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments
Counterpoetics | of the imperishable spirit
January's offering from Ceasefire's poet-in-residence Dominic Fox.
By Dominic Fox
Gothic as gnostic: the down-
slanting taint of light
speckling the inert stone
a vast concretion
torn within itself
is it the great heart
of the people
that so entertains
saturnalia and alleluia
alloys exquisite judgement, unkempt
this-worldly mercy, all in its own time
Dominic Fox is a writer, poet and musician working in London. He has published a work of philosophy, 'Cold World: The aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria' (Zero Books, 2009) and a collection of poetry, 'Half Cocks' (Intercapillary Editions, 2011). He performs and records shoegazing folk-rock as "w/trem", and blackened experimental metal as "Spiral Jacobs" (an album 'Haintology' is available).
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