HeyJaredBernard Cadogan’s poetry & polis
How to write and read poetry, do politics, geopolitics and think political philosophy – from the author of the New Zealand epic poem ‘Crete 1941’
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Ada Lovelace (opens the original)
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During my first year at school, a girl’s dadat the bank donated computerpaper in a concertina padof green and white lines. My AI-lootedpoetics began 60 years agoby writing, drawing on that paper. Today two Chewbaccas at the crowd’s flow, uttered shrill cyber sounds as their caper to disperse people from their path;and on the train this evening, a bunchof sociable AI sociopaths plotted Music’s heist for their free lunch. Yes, I am in the world I signed up for. Before I could draw, Ada Lovelace wr
Tempest (opens the original)
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After epic, there is only satire. After theological epic,The Hind and Panther making inquiryof Iconoclasm and its relics;unless the devolution of Satan into the Rabelasian physetermade contigency, Leviathan,and Eve the siren at PuysegurPoint, matches Nemo at Nugget Point’sbet against the Gold Standard for liquidvortex. Thus singularity arrointsthee Sycorax, with Spades delinquent.Where I came from, bears don’t turn to bullocks,yet Number untunes Castor from Pollux. Woodford Halse - 29 September
St Alban’s Icon at Oxford (opens the original)
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St. Alban is Oxford’s first Mariusthe Epicurean, except he diduntoward things to river barriersto martyrdom. The silted Thames once slidpast St Albans in Spenser’s Ruinesof Time, as if that, in Gildas’version, drew back at London, hewnat source, and were grafted regardless on erased Verulanum as the Ver, in Bede’s account; so the execution party could advance. Then a spring appearedwhere his head fell. His icon’s ablution in gold seems waterless where the saint budsred and green. Ask him, the ne
The Exaltation of the Cross (opens the original)
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Justifying the ways of God, I findMilton’s Christ and God, not foolish enough.It is Satan who is the fool, windinghimself into snakeskin that is sloughed;copper serpent trophied on the standard.Yet Mohammad saw a red-haired freckledJesus, too weak to last long, when handedover to be scourged, for the spectacleof bearing the Cross and crucifixion. Deity, not time’s cage-fighter Shiva,nor the calm meditative sage questioned in the desert by the deceiver. Satan became Milton’s used condom snake. Ch
Milton’s Party (opens the original)
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John Milton was of Shiva’s party,though he knew it not. Heraclitus aimedat the truth, speaking partially;Hades and Dionysus are the samehe said. Not the Nietzschean dividebetween Apollo and Dionysus, nor the Heracles-Christ deicideof Holderlin. Christ and Antithesis. But here’s Shiva wearing boxers, lookinglike he has swallowed Planet Neptune. Whole worlds are raised in the martial art crookof his knee. Milton’s mahakavya tuneddance to centrifuge; his Chennai dealergrandson, king and thief, the
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