Poetry, Short Stories & Plays
Quite unlike anyone, Bright is hard to fit into the contemporary poetry scene. Late Modernist? Anti-populist, certainly. Skilful, undoubtedly. But is he ‘a secular deacademisized Hill, shorn of the reactionary Albionics’, or even ‘a non Marxian Prynne relinquishing the relinquishment of ‘meaning’’?
Leaping the apophatic chasm, persisting through the gamut of this immense first collection, each new poem ‘like a Swiss watch wound in a Waunarlwydd wounded by Dalí,’ do we sense, if only borne by form, pentimenti of the ‘poet’ as painter, composer, actor, musician, graphic artist, songwriter, maker of mazes? Demanding. Nakedly untimely. Not for everyone.’ Llabrys Cordoglio
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An important poetry collection by Greg Bright. He is well-known as a maze designer but his also a musician who had a reputation as a composer from his days in the Scratch Orchestra (1969 - 1972). Who can forget 'The Balkan Sobranie Smoking Mixture' or 'School Raids'? Previous books in the prose/ poetry vein are 'Visual Music' and 'Ten TV Plays' both published by Latimer editions and now collectors items. This current often esoteric collection is full of wit and humour, and a deeply critical eye on poetry idiomatics. Essential for anyone interested in the frontier of poetics and music.
