The Science Fiction Poetry of Jean-Paul L. Garnier. Collected poems from chapbooks and journals with an introduction by Bryan Thao Worra.

Future Anthropology

Literature & Fiction

Garnier, Jean-Paul L.

Poetry

Space Cowboy Books

The End Times are upon us, again. Frank Johnson is a falsifier of reports for the Bureau. Management is concerned that Frank is coming too close to the truth for his own good. The battle between experience and vicariousness has begun and leaving the planet may be the only option for Company Men and the upper echelons of society. But are the End Times real if they have already happened?

Garbage In, Gospel Out

Across Michael Butterworth's work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - hitchhiking girlfriends, elm trees, the moon, astronauts, the space race, collage artists, misophonia, marriage, divorce, beached whales, clifftops, the sea, the seasons, mental block, ale houses, the chemical laboratory, ambition, madness, pain, death and impermanence, silver birch trees, suicide, Zazen, riots, train seating indicators, camping, the Welfare State, crows and seagulls, the racist English and Canada geese... are some of his subjects. The subjects of destruction - war, the consumer society, 'progress', humanity's inhumanity, the doings of men (and the necessity of a new woman), galactic war, drug wars, hunting - are never far away, hopefully countered by the tone of optimism found in his later poems inspired by Buddhist philosophy. The effect is at once familiar and yet profound, in language that has the confessional qualities and simplicity of early influences such as Sylvia Plath and the Beats, and the later influence of Zen poets such as Ryōkan. Occasionally the writing is startlingly radical - a reminder of the poet's beginnings in the New Wave. A collection such as this one from Space Cowboy Books is overdue, and Complete Poems: 1965-2020 brings to more deserving attention a less heard voice in modern poetry.

Complete Poems 1965-2020

BUTTERWORTH, Michael

Across Michael Butterworth's work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - hitchhiking girlfriends, elm trees, the moon, astronauts, the space race, collage artists, misophonia, marriage, divorce, beached whales, clifftops, the sea, the seasons, mental block, ale houses, the chemical laboratory, ambition, madness, pain, death and impermanence, silver birch trees, suicide, Zazen, riots, train seating indicators, camping, the Welfare State, crows and seagulls, the racist English and Canada geese... are some of his subjects. The subjects of destruction - war, the consumer society, 'progress', humanity's inhumanity, the doings of men (and the necessity of a new woman), galactic war, drug wars, hunting - are never far away, hopefully countered by the tone of optimism found in his later poems inspired by Buddhist philosophy. The effect is at once familiar and yet profound, in language that has the confessional qualities and simplicity of early influences such as Sylvia Plath and the Beats, and the later influence of Zen poets such as Ry&#333;kan. Occasionally the writing is startlingly radical - a reminder of the poet's beginnings in the New Wave. A collection such as this one from Space Cowboy Books is overdue, and Complete Poems: 1965-2020 brings to more deserving attention a less heard voice in modern poetry.

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