ContinualeSong
the website of Michael Haslam
Poet
of Foster Clough
Poet, what do you write about? How do you write?
I try to make a continual song out of merely being here. See: On the Name.
Here's a sample of poetry. It's from a work of the early 1990's, the ending of the Introduction to The Green Woodpecker.
I have been known to suffer troughs
of the phenomena of atmosphere, when if
I wanted witnesses, then all I heard
were gasping whispers of the co-conspirators,
but you know me, I could be trapped
in the deepest pit, and still I'd see
the stars in daytime, thinking these
are my terrific angels
aiming down at me.
It's iambic, written in grammatical sentences with orthodox punctuation, and uses the traditional resources of poetry. It may not be clear why I should be (if I am) linked with avantgardists and experimenters. The answer is, historical accident, or, like finding a place to live---having found a loose net of congenial spiritual company, I see no good reason to forgo it.
On the Name. (ContinualeSong)
Recent Books and other publications
Notes to Mid Life
A companion to Mid Life (Shearsman June 2007)
Notes to Music:
1. The Music Laid Her Notes
2. A Sinner Saved: The Notes (to be made)
3. Wood Notes (to be made)
Proses (The False Novel)
Narrative Bibliography
Charlatan Artworks
Unique Objects
Grubby Duplicates
The Box-Room
A sample of Current Scribble (typed) from the notebooks
One or two Photographs of the poet
The Juveniliad, a personal archaeology of the 1970's.
some works from the 1970s
and a shedule of intentions.
Michael Haslam, 14 Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge, HX7 5QZ
01422-884961
This site last updated 3rd November 2011
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