New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds PRE-ORDER
Published 31st March 2025. Available for pre-order.
New Famous Phrases responds to past mythologies, folklore, and the work of other writers, and creates new works from them, in addition to offering new mythologies of its own; ecological and aquatic myths run throughout the collection. The collection also reflects on the poetic art itself, the crafting of new famous phrases, and the theme of writerly ambition indicated in its title; for example, the collection's final poem, ‘Scraps to Daub a Siren's Lips', uses the myth of the sirens to craft a declaration of poetic intent and apotheosis. The collection's title is drawn from the first poem, a heartfelt tribute to the poet W. S. Graham, which also forms a meditation on poetic influence. As well as Graham, the collection responds to canonical poets, such as John Keats, Ted Hughes, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., and Alfred Tennyson, and contemporary poets, such as Jay Bernard, Jo Clement, and Terrance Hayes, the latter in the form of experimental prose poem book reviews that blur the line between creative and critical practices by utilising pastiche, critical analysis, and poetic responses to create a new means of dialogue with other poets.
New Famous Phrases responds to past mythologies, folklore, and the work of other writers, and creates new works from them, in addition to offering new mythologies of its own; ecological and aquatic myths run throughout the collection. The collection also reflects on the poetic art itself, the crafting of new famous phrases, and the theme of writerly ambition indicated in its title; for example, the collection's final poem, ‘Scraps to Daub a Siren's Lips', uses the myth of the sirens to craft a declaration of poetic intent and apotheosis. The collection's title is drawn from the first poem, a heartfelt tribute to the poet W. S. Graham, which also forms a meditation on poetic influence. As well as Graham, the collection responds to canonical poets, such as John Keats, Ted Hughes, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., and Alfred Tennyson, and contemporary poets, such as Jay Bernard, Jo Clement, and Terrance Hayes, the latter in the form of experimental prose poem book reviews that blur the line between creative and critical practices by utilising pastiche, critical analysis, and poetic responses to create a new means of dialogue with other poets.

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