MW Bewick reads 'Some Comments on Fred Frith'
Channel: Dunlin Press
Date: 2020-05-25

Here you can see and hear MW Bewick read his poem, 'Some Comments on Fred Frith', from his new collection, Pomes Flixus published by Dunlin Press. 

Pomes Flixus follows Bewick's debut collection Scarecrow (2017) and is available to buy now. For further information, see mwbewick.com and dunlinpress.com 

The poems in Pomes Flixus are a collision of constantly shifting perspectives and descriptive transitions that transport the mind to unexpected places, undercut preconceptions and arrive, often poignantly, in non-culminations. Found phrases, pop and classical references, the avant-garde, below-the-line commentary, the vocabulary of finance and marketing, all co-exist alongside depictions of the natural world and the suburban everyday. The impressionistic vignettes, whether seeing a leaf on a path, waiting at a station, remembering absent friends, or watching the rain, never seek to define. Instead, they celebrate ambiguity and the subjectivity of thought that underpins our temporal experience of the world. Beneath the heteroglossia and aleatory effects, is a series of sometimes startling evocations of life in the modern world, sharp with considerations of culture, class and the use of language itself.