250 Grams of PoetryDuring the experimental sixties, Spike Hawkins's literary voice was first heard in "The Lost Fire Brigade." It was a voice so startlingly original it could not be overlooked nor forgotten. A literary oracle who when asked for practical advice could only respond with strips of luminous poetry. In the third entry in Harwood Academic Publishers' Poets' Voices series, "250 Grams of Poetry," a spellbinding anthology of Hawkins' poetry, features the internationally known poet, screenwriter and playwright himself reading his own stellar work on the enclosed compact disc. "Target" My shoe has caught a Pig. My shoe has caught a Pig. I am a Pig Trap. - Spike Hawkins Spike Hawkins was at the origin of the Liverpool Poets movement (he inspired Roger McGough and Adrian Henri) then went to the United States where he became involved with the Beats. He is currently collaborating with Jennifer Fabian on a screenplay about the life of Djuna Barnes, and is assembling a new col |
Contents
Foreword by Jennifer Lila Dean | 1 |
SPRUNG | 9 |
PUBRUB | 15 |
RICK | 21 |
44 | 25 |
THE CASUAL FRAGMENTS OF TERROR | 31 |
66 | 37 |
THRIFT | 41 |
Common terms and phrases
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