Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Amos Weisz, Worksongs
To announce the forthcoming event publicising Amos Weisz’s posthumous
selected poems, Worksongs. There’s an event at i'klectik near Waterloo on November 4 as
a launch. Great Works has just been refreshed, with the translations and
original work by him published on it foregrounded. More of his poems will
follow on a weekly basis until the launch event, and the book will be available
from Great Works shortly. You are unlikely to know Amos Weisz’s work – he had a
small self-published booklet, and these texts on Great Works. I’ll put up an
Amos Weisz Facebook page shortly, do an event page for the reading etc, with
more of his writing on Great Works.
It is a serious poetry, written through his life, and with
engagement with a range of contemporaries and other influences. It also is
situated in Amos's own psychological space, one of woundedness and extremes, in
which a birthright is fought with and fought over. It is never easy or
something as stupid as seductive, but can switch from the finest gallows humour
to disgust and abjection in an instant. The verbal creativity and level of
semantic activity is constantly astonishing.
# posted by Peter Philpott @ 09:43 
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