Anticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman Children's Poetry haunting cadences and strange

haunting cadences and strange

Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window

As in her previous poems

but to the necessity of lucid wakefulness

Anticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman Children's Poetry haunting cadences and strangeAnticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman is a volatile, confrontational tract that gleefully atomises authorship, culture and interpretation in favour of a self cancelling absolutism. Written in scorched earth prose and aphoristic blasts, the text performs its own contradictions as it asserts that truth is provisional, ownership illusory, and meaning the preserve of the single, sovereign reader or writer, as it suits them. Shooman synthesises