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cover photos © Sarah Carne |
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cover design: Stephen Raw |
Perfect
Catch is a bundle of poems, plays, and collaborations between Ian
McMillan and musicians, theatre groups, radio producers and ordinary and
extraordinary people. For him poetry is a community art, not
acraft pursued in a lonely room. Like any popular laureate, he
knows that every occasion requires a different kind of language, every
medium makes idfferent demands. Work for radio and television,
even when it is strictly scripted and severely directed, involves
collaboration. The words onf the page are not always the words
ahta the mouths of actors say; they have a part to play in retexturing
the language, just as formal collaborators contribute and elicit
poems. A script can be a poem; it can contain poems. It can
be the occasion for poems.
Perfect Catch
Ian McMillan
Carcanet Press
ISBN 1 - 85754 - 496 - X
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