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In Darkest Capital

Collected Poems
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In Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milnes poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, `Blueprints & Ziggurats and `Lichens for Marxists. A Scottish poet working out of the modernist avant-garde, through pop and art rock, Milne moves between Beckett and Brecht, through punk and beyond. Along the way there are homages to Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Frank OHara, Kurt Schwitters, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Cage and Tom Raworth. His poems do not break down into form and content but insist on a continuity between lyrical purpose and critical thinking. An ark of ecological resistances to late capitalism, Milnes Collected Poems captures the `skewed luxuriance (Guardian) of his eco-socialist poetics.
Drew Milne is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His work has featured in 'PN Review' and his Collected Poems is forthcoming from Carcanet Press.
A poet of politics and nature, fascinated by lichen whose diversity and survival are emblematic of a satisfactory and sustaining order. This Collected Poems spans the three decades of Milne's growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of his generation. His poetry relates thematically and this Collected adds up to a major demonstration of the place of poetry as witness, critique and prophesy. Poet is a fellow of Corpus Cristi College, Cambridge.
`Drew Milne is a formalist par excellence. He is a syllable counter, a shape shifter, and above all he is a sonic machine. His native inclination as a formalist is at once modernist and Marxist. But one could also say, simply, that Milne is a late Romantic lyric-poet with a political imagination. His latest turn to lichen introduces a sense of scale to the vulnerable and tenuous relationship we have to the natural world and gives a plaintive urgency to his song.' - Peter Gizzi; `Beckoning disjunctions and witty deformations shine their torch on tawdry contemporary realia, but lyrical moments and Scottish echoes fill the interstices with pleasing difference.' - Edwin Morgan on Sheet Mettle; `Lyrical social critique becomes a plausible art . . . Milne's rhetoric displays a subtle, internalized argument that draws one to its cause.' - Marjorie Welish on Go Figure
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