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Details
Servant Drone, Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva, inkjet print on paper, perfect-bound, softcover, 15 x 21 cm, 66 pp., 2nd edition: Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK, June 2018, ISBN 978-1-909-44380-8, open edition, £9 + shipping, cover art: Privados Um by Bárbara Mesquita
Description
Collaborative book of poems by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins. A call and response dialogue produced from fragments of found text.
Blurbs
“Reading Servant Drone is like rifling through Tristan Tzara’s confidential waste, receiving a spam email from Kurt Schwitters or eavesdropping on an inaudible conversation at the fringes of a deconstructivist house party. Fragmentary and beautifully bewildering, this is a work of dense collage, where found and made text stack up to build an edifice that threatens to topple time and again but is saved by a change in wind direction. Servant Drone is in perpetual motion, a shaken snow globe of references and registers, refusing the easy eternal verities, finding instead a more complex truth in the temporary furniture of the sublunar sphere. Deeply nuanced and obliquely radical, this is a book to keep in your pocket as a charm against the liquid spectres of a late capitalist Monday morning.”
Tom Jenks
“What is the worst poetry myth? That it is a singular form, not naturally lending itself to collaboration? Or that what is actually contemporary, relevant, dynamic, is innately experimental or strange? Servant Drone is one of the finest examples of a poetic work which destroys both superstitions in one fell sweep. It is energetic, decisive, colloquial and necessary. It is a work of synthesis between two exceptional vanguard poets that balances satire, critique and humour with an intense methodological engagement."
SJ Fowler
Publication history
#10 (Hawkins), #10 (Neiva), #11 (Hawkins) and #11 (Neiva), Queen Mob's Teahouse, London, UK and Seattle, WA, USA, Sept. 2015
Articles, interviews, and reviews
Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Galatea Resurrects #26 (A Poetry Engagement), St. Helena, CA, USA, June 2016
Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Yellow Field, Issue 11, Buffalo, NY, USA, Apr. 2016
The Daily Glance: Servant Drone, Bill Allegrezza, p-ramblings, Chicago, IL, USA, Mar. 2016
In the Booklight - Bruno Neiva, Paul Hawkins & Servant Drone, Sarah James, Worcestershire, UK, Feb. 2016
Servant Drone, Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins, Steve Spence, Stride, Exeter, Devon, UK, Jan. 2016
3AM Top Reads of 2015, SJ Fowler, 3:AM Magazine, Paris, France and London, UK, Dec. 2015