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Details Servant Drone, Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva, inkjet print on paper, perfect-bound, softcover, 14.2 x 20.3 cm, 66 pp.,1st edition: Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK, Nov. 2015, ISBN 978-1-909-44380-8, cover art: Privados Um by Bárbara Mesquita, out of stock Description Collaborative book of poems by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins. A call and response dialogue built out of made and found text. Several processes have been employed in the making. Praise “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 Related work Servant Drone under Performances and Readings from Servant Drone under Work Published in Magazines and Anthologies 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 |
