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In the second instalment of his new column on contemporary poetry (abstractly titled 'Poetry Column'), Sam Riviere considers the writings of Chelsey Minnis, Frederick Seidel & Jon Leon from the starting point of Leon's own seemingly-innocuous declaration — taking in privilege, obscurity vs. self-exposure and the poet's own contempt for poetry en route — ‘Art is redemptive’
In the first instalment of his new column on contemporary poetry (Poetry Column), Sam Riviere examines - via Sontag, Calvino and the convoluted nature of the 'I' - the work of Norwegian poet, artist and possible anti-Knausgård, Audun Mortensen. (Photograph by Václav Jedlička)
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