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Monday 23 April 2012

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A poetry book with a Brontë-related poem:
The Pursuit of Happiness
Laurie Duggan
Published 15 April 2012
Shearsman Books
ISBN: 9781848612228

The Pursuit of Happiness collects shorter poems written during and after the composition of Crab & Winkle, and concludes with 'The Nathan Papers', an earlier and longer work written in Australia. The poems address the state of the art and the state of the nation, investigating the spaces left for pleasure in this new dark age. As anthropological investigations, they shift from Robert Creeley, burgers and South African wine on Charing Cross Road to images of Santa Claus in Anglo-Greek Paphos and Japanese tourist signs in the Brontë country.
The mentioned pome is Oxenhope Revisited and can be read on the author's blog:
1
a dormouse in the church car park
a ‘wind farm’ above Haworth

2
clouds hang on the moors
rain falls on the conservatory

3
on garbage day
the laptop drops out (Read more)

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