81 Austerities Riviere Sam
81 Austerities Riviere Sam All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Initially conceived as a response to the 'austerity…
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81 Austerities Riviere Sam
All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Initially conceived as a response to the 'austerity measures' implemented by the coalition government in 2011, the poems quickly began taking on a life in kind: 'cutting' themselves on levels of sentiment, structure and even subject matter. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering substantial debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve the impossible in being all things at once.
Experience is speedy, the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry Not content to merely build a series of freethinking poems, these remarkable pieces seem eagerly and mischievously to analyze their moment of creation, then weigh their worth, then consign their excess to the recycling bin thereafter.