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Peter Manson

Biography

Peter Manson was born in 1969 in Glasgow, where he still lives. He has worked as a proofreader, editor and Civil Servant, and was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. With Robin Purves, he co-edits the Object Permanence pamphlet series. For more information, see his website, Freebase Accordion.

Recordings

  • Reading at UnAmerican Activities 6
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  • Reading at Subvoicive, Three Cups, Holborn, part 1
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    Recorded by Clive Bush.  This performance took place on 26th March 1996.  It was Peter Manson's first public reading in London.

  • Reading at Subvoicive, Three Cups, Holborn, part 2
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    This reading with Barry MacSweeney was curated by Lawrence Upton as part of the Subvoicive poetry series.

Cambridge, 2005

  • Reading at Queens College, Cambridge, 9 May 2005
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  • at Queens, on Microtome, 9 May 2005
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  • from a conversation at Queens' College, Cambridge, 9 May 2005
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  • introduction to Keston Sutherland, Cambridge
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London, 2005

Recorded at Michael Kindellan's flat in London, 11 May 2005.

  • 'Anguish' (from Mallarmé)
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  • 'The Punished Clown' (from Mallarmé)
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  • A Funeral in Sense
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  • Between Cup and Lip
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  • Bolus of Rhubarb and Mercury
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  • For January
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  • Four Darks in Red
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  • Love Poem
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  • Neither Waving nor Drowning
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  • The virgin, perennial, beautiful day" (from Mallarmé)
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  • Victoriously the lovely suicide fled" (from Mallarmé)
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  • When the shadow of the fatal law menaced" (from Mallarmé)
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  • 'Roches Moutonnés'
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  • 'Switch for Breathing'
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Bibliography

  • For the Good of Liars (poems, Barque Press 2006)
  • Adjunct: an Undigest (prose, Edinburgh Review 2005)
  • "Before and After Mallarmé" (translations, Survivors' Press 2005)
  • "Two renga" (Collaborations with the poet Elizabeth James, in the Reality Street Editions 4-pack "Renga+", 2002), "Rosebud" (Folded card, Form Books 2002)
  • "Birth Windows" (poems, Barque Press 1999)
  • "me generation" (unclassified verbal and visual work, Writers Forum 1997)
  • "iter atur e" (visuals, Writers Forum 1995)
  • An audio CD of Peter Manson reading from "Adjunct: an Undigest" was released by Stem Recordings in 2004.

Sample Text

Lithops divergens

 

no returned breath

by day the half-heart

lord of its own

supply         changes self

for self

smaller than poem

& giving nothing away

Reviews

"For those who believe erroneously that the avant-garde have no sense of humour, Peter Manson's Adjunct, An Undigest - certainly the most entertaining collection of the year - is highly recommended. A seven-year creation, it manically folds together rueful diary entries, irreverent comments on artists, writers and musicians, gleeful misprints, and all sorts of found and heard material. Undigested in appearance, but regurgitated in combinations either crafted or mathematically determined, the consistent hilarity of its relentless, deadpan juxtapositions has inescapably serious implications too." (Robert Potts, The Guardian)

"Manson's technique is to embroider pieces of real modern English onto a base text which broadly follows the shape, sounds and syntax of the original French verse. The poems that result retain the vagaries of their models while creating a persuasive illusion of living speech, almost as if the language were being distorted for the purposes of original expression, not translation." (Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Times Literary Supplement, on "Before and After Mallarmé")

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