Whip-Hot & Grippy Phillipson HeatherPaperback
Whip-Hot & Grippy Phillipson HeatherPaperback Whip-hot & Grippy is a collection of possibilities in a state of emergency. Disrupted tangents are punctuated by recurring muzak, advertising-speak, sex…
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Whip-Hot & Grippy Phillipson HeatherPaperback
Whip-hot & Grippy is a collection of possibilities in a state of emergency. Disrupted tangents are punctuated by recurring muzak, advertising-speak, sex scenes, terrorism, broadcast media, consumption-anxiety, protest, human-animal relations and cosmic departures. In the first part, a series of long-form and sequenced poems augment various states of being divided/plural in attempts to activate unauthorised directions.
The book culminates in 'more flinching', a multi-part poem first published and freely distributed in an exhibition. Throughout, informed discontent and humour act as drivers of dissent, mining conceptual complexity and testing poetry's combustible potential. Merging the news of a military dog, shot in service, with the death of a pet dog, it collapses images with bodies and politics with intimacies, enacting failed attempts to navigate practical and emotional