Interview Shuddhashar: What is it that you strive to explore and convey through your poetry? David Spittle: I think that poetry can facilitate a retreat from, or resistance to, striving. I hope for types of poetry that can exist in an environmental and durational texture of meaning, not lashed to the quantifiable ‘what is meant’ …
What Why in the How The still is the lord of the restless – Lao Tzu To be living anywhere in the world at this point in time provides many accelerating reasons for loud distress. Primarily, climate crisis and the current and ever-imminent extinctions that characterise a planetary spiral into what might be less-than-cheerfully abridged …
“One cannot speak of what was neither a system or a school, nor a movement of art or literature, but rather a pure practice of existence” – Maurice Blanchot To approach Surrealism in poetry is to be simultaneously overwhelmed by all poetry as Surrealism and frustrated by surrealist poetry as only ever encountering the disappointment …
