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Maintenant #6 – Tom Jenks
Writing had been about sectioning off a small area of the world and cultivating it. Now I didn’t (and don’t) want to section anything off. I became interested in producing poetry that was engaged with and about the whole world and all its manifestations — mass media, signage, dialogue, diverse voices and, very importantly for me, humour. As I moved further and further away from the mainstream I encountered writers new to me that I simply hadn’t known existed. Key to this was my friend and later publisher and co-organiser James Davies. Writers often talk about a switch-on moment and for me that was a reading James gave in early 2007 in Manchester which showed me that poetry didn’t have to be “poetry”. It could exist without quotation marks…
In the sixth of his Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the English poet Tom Jenks.
From star
_____ was a bomber pilot
there is no evidence he didn’t like it
after that the Euro zone’s leading fetish photographer
played The Blue Danube
rented rooms above the Kunsthalle… got drunk at sports personality of the year
took a piss in Bobby Charlton’s golden goblet
later shared hot rods box with Nabokov
chicken pieces in patent leather slipper
chicken pieces : =
best approach is incremental
like a butterfly collection
deposit yrs. here :
By Tom Jenks.