Dear readers,
I started this substack way back before Issue One, and I am still uploading Issue One today. Since then we’ve published two more Issues, two Pocket Aftershocks, and we have even more books releasing soon.
I’m going to focus on posting the poems here from now one as just the poems, without the extensive editorial notes to accompany them, to ease some of my workload and in a way focus more on the poems themselves.
With that, here’s Hugo Williams’ brilliant poem The Art Scene.
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HUGO WILLIAMS
The Art Scene
To everyone’s delight
the bus shelters from Auschwitz
have arrived safely in Piccadilly,
seemingly undamaged
after their long journey across Europe.
An exciting ‘found piece’
by talented Brit Darren Almond,
the shelters join Luc Tuymans’
thought-provoking water colours
focusing on this year’s most
talked-about subject –
child abuse and the Holocaust.
In a similar vein,
German artist Gregor Schneider
contributes a stunning series
of strip-lit prison cells, which,
according to the curators,
‘are guaranteed to bring on all kinds of paranoias’,
so don’t say you haven’t been warned!
His friend Mad Mike Kelly from California
will be fashioning soldiers out of
his own excrement, a novel idea
picked up from American TV’s
cult cartoon show ‘South Park’.
As if to underline the committedness
of such challenging new material,
enfants terribles Jake and Dinos Chapman
present their striking ensemble
‘Fucking Hell’, made up of 10,000 contorted figurines
grouped in the shape of a swastika,
while Italian humourist Maurizio Cattelan
unveils his ground-breaking
‘Pope John Paul II being hit by a meteorite’ –
a work which no-one hoping to take in
the London art scene this summer
will want to miss out on.
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