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Drew Milne
Biography
Drew Milne was educated in Edinburgh and Cambridge. He has previously taught at the universities of Edinburgh and Sussex and since 1997 he has been the Judith E Wilson Lecture in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambrige. In 1995 he was poet in residence at the Tate Gallery, London. He is married to Dell Olsen.
Recordings
Highbury, North London, 2005
This recording was made on 20 August 2005, at Drew's flat in Highbury, north London. The brief recorded texts are from Go Figure (Cambridge: Salt, 2003), with titles supplied from the initial lines of pages from this book sequence.
- 'After Jenin what song of'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'And abandons fruity coughs'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'And there is no more speculative proposition'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Another speculative good Friday'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'But the direct address to the serial'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'But who would not hover in the grace'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'For every blemish of determinate song'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Gone cold upon the incoming swarm'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Hey fiddle the count'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'How crawling glazes blister into night'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Nb. a late fresh remark tumbling'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Onward to the contrary it is'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Quite literally little by little'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Seen from under a hooded ravage cape'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Shine stark rotund'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Sing death to parallelism'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'So brush up in sweping'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'So much for the plain sung champaigne moment'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Stein meets the Beach Boys'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Still comes quick billing'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Stringer curbs'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Sweeter as rivetting iron'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'Territory fired'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'The call is dirty news'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'The lozenge, the triangle, the egg'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'The specs go finger tapping, heaps of fees'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'The trough implies some'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'There is that finite lie so sandwished'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'This imperium's eagle spreads ancient wings'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'When you fold in domestic burial'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found. - 'White walls bleeding, inked for bitter fort'
Sorry, this recording cannot be found.
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Bibliography
His principle books of poetry are:
- Sheet Mettle (London: Alfred David Editions, 1994)
- Bench Marks (London: Alfred David Editions, 1998)
- The Damage: new and selected poems (Cambridge: Salt, 2001)
- Mars Disarmed (Barrington, M.A.: The Figures, 2002)
- Go Figure (Cambridge: Salt, 2003)
With Simon Jarvis he edited the journal Parataxis: modernism and modern writing. He continues to edit the occasional imprint Parataxis Editions. With Terry Eagleton he edited the anthology Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996). He also edited the journal Modern Critical Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). He has published a number of essays on critical theory, poetry, drama and performance criticism, and has a number of forthcoming critical books.
His work has been featured in a number of anthologies, including:
- Conductors of Chaos, ed. Iain Sinclair (London: Picador, 1996)
- foil: defining poetry 1985-2000, edited by Nicholas Johnson (Buckfastleigh: Etruscan Books, 2000)
- Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry, ed. Keith Tuma (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Justified Sinners: an Archaeology of Scottish Counter-Culture (1960-2000), edited by Ross Birrell & Alec Finlay (Pocketbooks / Morning Star Publications / Polygon, and others, 2002)
- Vanishing Points, eds. Rod Mengham and John Kinsella (Cambridge: Salt, 2004)
Links
- homepage: (currently under reconstruction).
- Salt's author page, which includes links from which to buy some of his books.
- Penn Sound, which includes recordings of Drew Milne reading from his work and being interviewed by Charles Bernstein.
Reviews
'Drew Milne's striking and vigorous sequences of poems collected here show that non-bogus modernism, i.e. the outward push of aesthetics and politics together, did not die the death as some have thought. Beckoning disjunctions and witty deformations shine their torch on tawdry contemporary reality, but lyrical moments and Scottish echoes fill the interstices with pleasing difference.' Edwin Morgan on Sheet Mettle
'No one could accuse Drew Milne of not having a way with words. He wrings them together to produce a skewed luxuriance.' Phil Baker in The Guardian
'A complex, resourceful, clear-eyed drive and continual eruptions of material difference result in a genuinely original and unplaceable set of articulations which can combine efforts of serious ethical inquiry with a freewheeling aleatoric delinquency.' Robin Purves in Object Permanence
'Lyrical social critique becomes a plausible art in Drew Milne's Go Figure, which gives us radical-informed iconoclastic arrays that are not so bitter as they are bittersweet.... Milne's rhetoric displays a subtle, internalized argument that draws one to its cause.' Marjorie Welish