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Scott Thurston

Scott Thurston

See Scott reading at Matchbox 1st birthday party at this YouTube link

Scott Thurston’s most recent book is Hold, published by Shearsman in 2006. Previous works include Poems (Writers Forum, 1991), State(s)walk(s) (Writers Forum, 1994) and Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Ship of Fools/Radiator, 2003). Scott lectures in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Salford. He has published widely on Linguistically Innovative Poetry covering the work of Allen Fisher, Adrian Clarke, John Wilkinson, Maggie O’Sullivan, Ulli Freer, Ira Lightman, Geraldine Monk and Tony Lopez. He edits The Radiator, a little magazine of poetry and poetics and is currently editing The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk. See his pages at www.archiveofthenow.com








from
INTERNAL RHYME

Originally seven poems of four stanzas each, arranged two by two, and readable both horizontally and vertically. In this presentation each stanza is to be read individually and/or as part of a 28 stanza sequence; in new two by two patterns (recommended) or in entirely new combinations.

2x2

internal rhyme
I can feel your
eternal flask
of relief at the end of

a species of adder magic
badge by my side
leave out those signs
withdrawal symptoms

pleasure you can’t measure
at the gateway
possible dynamic
you will terribly
the hybrid stands
the larger logic that makes
critical constructions
well un-read

3 in a row

a species of adder magic
badge by my side
leave out those signs
withdrawal symptoms
 
pleasure you can’t measure
at the gateway
possible dynamic
you will terribly
internal rhyme
I can feel your
eternal flask
of relief at the end of
Cross




in visibility give me totality
the weight of
my feet in a new way
ignites a prospect of
internal rhyme
I can feel your
eternal flask
of relief at the end of





pleasure you can’t measure
at the gateway
possible dynamic
you will terribly
the hybrid stands
the larger logic that makes
critical constructions
well un-read
a species of adder magic
badge by my side
leave out those signs
withdrawal symptoms
 

 

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