A GREAT BLOODY WAVE: Out Now

13/12/2011

Out Now

Get them while they're hot! What? Random Spectacular, the first issue of an irregular journal published by St Jude's (of print and fabric fame). Here's an image of the finished product...

The idea for the texts I wrote came from the text in Adam Bridgland's images - firstly, as displaced titles. Secondly, the term 'posy' suggested a mode of writing. Posy now means a small bunch of flowers, but, it used to mean an inscription inside of a ring. The texts were cyclic, without end, without beginning - Ouroboros, the snake devouring itself - each round effecting the reading of the next, intonation shifting. sense developing. There were issues with typesetting the ring texts, they became stanzas. Here are the two 'posy' poems in their original form (the one used and the one not used):

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markus lloyd

Published poet, artist and whatever, Markus lives in Portsmouth with wife Amy, both work in the visual arts. He typed his first poem aged 3, it went (something like):

xxxxx x x xxx x x x
xxx x x xx x x
x xxx x x xx
xxxxxx x x
xx xx x
xxx xxxx x
x xxxxx

It described the sunlight in a tree outside a window.

Since, Markus's poetry has appeared in many UK magazines (incl. Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Magma, Poetry London) and Seren Selections (an anthology of the freshest voices, with an emphasis on those from Wales). Markus is Welsh.

Why A GREAT BLOODY WAVE?

I adored Mrs Smith, my best mate's mother. I was eight, I guess, and she'd taken us to Dunraven Bay for a swim. She'd a picnic ready for after. The Smiths still lived in the 1950s, for the most part. My parents were hipsters, of the 70s, suburban hippies.

I'd not have offended Mrs Smith for the world. I came running out of the sea, up the beach for a towel, exasperated. What's wrong? asks Mrs Smith. I told her, directly, straightforwardly - I thought. Mrs Smith gasped and slapped my legs. She stood, called for her son, and we left. She had a word with Mam.

I hadn't any grasp of what had occurred. I was dismayed, I couldn't understand. All I knew is, I'd done something heinous. Mam asked me, what did you say to Mrs Smith? I told her about the wave that had knocked me under and tumbled me, that winded me. What exactly did you say? I said I was having fun until that great wave hit me. Mam smiled. No, what you said to Mrs Smith was 'I was okay until a great bloody wave buried me!'

What I said was 'a great fucking wave'. It took time before I was welcome back at Rob's house. I'd learnt something of the weight of language, of its effect and importance.

I didn't want to use 'fucking' in the title to this site, I chose not to.

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