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Synopsis
In 1996, Iain Sinclair, briefly surveying ‘what has mattered over the last thirty years'’, mentions John Temple as one of two ‘fine poets who haven’t published for some time’. This collection envisages poem, sequence, book as (each and together) ‘a form cut into time’.
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About the Author
John Temple was born in 1942 in Stockton-on-Tees and grew up in the East Midlands and the Northeast. After reading English at Caius College, Cambridge (1961-64) he spent two years of postgraduate study and teaching in the USA. Since 1970 he has lived in Flanders, Belgium, teaching at the University of Ghent (1970-90) and Erasmushogeschool, Brussels (1990-98).
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Relief
There is comfort
in the reversing
(help me of a
coal late
in the night as the fire
dies. What becomes
of the brokenhearted (of the
piece, of fire that
follows, the guttering
down. It can
happen the 18th
C. arbitrary man
ipulator of humanity can
reverse the in
evitable process
(open the
envelope who was
the nightmare of such
men Soame
Jenyns i remember as if
that mattered. As
flies to
wanton boys are we
to the
Gods they kill
us for their
sport. The reversing
again as the
principle
is grasped
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- PublisherSalt Publishing
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1876857560
- ISBN 13 9781876857561
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages196
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