All Just

By: David Herd

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Paperback | 29 September 2012

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75 Pages

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20.96 x 13.34 x 0.64

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The poems in this collection are created from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement and the translation between public and private spaces-conversations that start and are broken off; public announcements intervening in private situations; an emergency that is about to unfold in the background. Taking bearings from Dover and London and wrestling with themes of elegy and protest, official structures that determine where people can go, and the futures that cross them, the poems explore the social spaces in which people move. The book asks what it means to be at large in the world and what language is available to document the journey.

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'David Herd is a poet worth paying close attention to.'Tower Poetry '[...] In the tangle of poetics and politics, Herd notes that language 'can't very well articulate that which it doesn't already discern.' Legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act in the United States or Law 78 (severely limiting the freedom of assembly and expression) in Quebec are obvious attempts to expand the state of exception. This is the political arena of struggle now, between states increasingly seeking the invisibility, dis-placement, and inarticulacy of dissent, and between new social movements working networks of expressivity, using the 'placeless' internet to actually 'locate" each other, articulate discontent, and specifying the time and place to gather. Herd offers us a cognitive map of the spaces currently being erased.' - Stephen Collis, Jacket2

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