Reviews for In England now that spring

The average rating for In England now that spring based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-21 00:00:00 Eric Viney I A STATE OF MIND: an english journal may 1978 steve mccaffery * BY THE GHYLL AT AMBLESIDE Ghyll: n. Respiratory organ(s) of narrow mountain torrent; hence fish-torrent below person's jaws & ears; vertical radiating plates on underside of ravine; deep usu. wooded mushroom &c. thought so many branches roots to this place a traveller "returned for the first time seeing all of this" the news of hills near chaffinch inch from the foot that carried him on Broughton Moor to the forest clearing thought distilling thot until the image rests in syntax fixed pen of a place a finished poem a flown bird * WORDSWORTH: A Performance Transform Enter the cottage in mid-May. Go out through the back door into the garden. For each daffodil you find, pluck it & replace it with its dictionary definition. Daffodil: "The same as Affodill; the genus Ashphodelus The genus Narcissus, of which it is the common English name in the Catalogue of Gerarde's Garden 1599, where twelve Daffodils or Narcissuses are distinguished, the White Daffodil being the common White Narcissus, or Poet's Lily." * AN AMBLESIDE EVENT Take a poem beginning with the line: "in a dream beginning with the thought of skirts". Double it, divide its double by five releasing all the letters from their word structures. Print this in red on cream paper and release the whole thing into a lake. * SOUND GRAPH: Ambleside 7.15 p.m. Mostly bird song. Occasional passing car. One passing airplane. In frequent human voice. Hot fat in a pan. * POSITION OF SHEEP I sheep sheep sheep sheep sheep lamb sheep sheep sheep * POSITION OF SHEEP II sheep lamb sheep sheep sheep sheep sheep lamb sheep * FROM: Personal Talk not personal not neighbours not withering out not chalk not not in discourse not emotion not square not without presence not silence (to aim all forms to floors . . . .) not cottage-chance not undersong * LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING Link twigs to air Link air to notes Link notes to soul Link soul to grove Link grove to mood Link mood to periwinkle Link periwinkle to Nature Link Nature to belief Link belief to primrose Link primrose to tufts Link tufts to motion Link motion to pleasure ... * NUTTING: A Performance Event extracted from Wordsworth's "The Recluse" 1. Find a dear nook unvisited. 2. Locate clusters. 3. Define clusters as a virgin scene. 4. Drag both the branch and the bough to earth. 5. Remain tempted. 6. Ravage mercilessly. 7. Deform. 8. Sully. 9. Patiently give up. * II IN ENGLAND AND NOW THAT SPRING collaborations in england & scotland may 1978 steve mccaffery & bpNichol * maintains as a voice of possibility unchanging streams wearing deeper into the surface of this place until it is a cave the ground encloses closure mid an opening until the thot frames the process so completely the two become inseparable a circle & circle intersecting another shape emerging thru the trees as a handful of flowers discarded or the distant songs of invisible birds surrounded by these walls of music & of noise shift even as you pass thru them defining new corridors in a game called living a name of things * * III THE WORLD BEYOND: poems given & found in England may 1978 bpNichol * FOUND: VISION And this is the rush of water the booming of the mill a dreamy deafness from the world beyond. * IN LAKELAND I 1 eight Lakeland forests at the centre of High Furness bobbins charoal potash dyes brushes clogs baskets of all kinds a carefully planned scheme walking and fishing a wild life 2 latch spruce and other conifers two hundred years ago - oak, ash, birch, hazel, yew and alder cut close to the ground harvested every twelve to fifteen years families to live in the woods with them a beehive of thin timber about four feet long 3 an inseparable companion grammar 4 sheep farms common pastures iron forges bloomeries woodland industries copper mines slate quarries corn mills fishing rights clearly revealed 5 the mouth of the Deep level as near as we may safely come to the actual 6 no noteworthy events no particularly significant records no family or personality the upheaval the simplicity 7 pure white strong yellow blue woad famous green in the dark and only too familiar house place the days of the spinning 8 the ancient skills of the river one hundred years 3,000,000 cubic yards 9 radically changed the landscape creating that harmony wherever we turn the name thing still survives committed to memory and handed on by word of mouth the extent of the power of the Thing in this simple open air 10 circles circles cirles Spring and Autumn Equinoxes Midsummer and Midwinter Solstices assembled and arranged in the order in which we see them who put them there 11 shape faith the violence of the mob the rude multitude angry hostility neglect and decay over the gardens where people came from 12 the tree stem wrought sliced into squares baked, dry as a brown crust, bored with a round hole in the middle glued thus drying a little smaller at each end quicker than the eye can follow II 1 more glass than wall today was created surmised the probably origin of the place-name itself 2 Ravenglass Glannaventa Winchester Venta Belgarum Norwich Venta Icenorum spirit of land at the mouths of the rivers the town by the bank destroyed by the construction of the railway buried under a plantation of woodland 3 It wore horns or wool, and travelled on the hoof bells song story enshrouded in the mystery which surrounds who have passed silently left so little ruin or decay simplicity 4 an enchanted fortress in the air hear the old proud Romans moving (the hot room (the warm room) (the cold room) nothern Britain to the valley of the Nile 5 place-named language landscape astonishing good overcoming evil remarkable the house of the dead two armies facing each other a fascinating story 6 the simple needs of the practical farmer wealth was modest indeed real meaning in this part of the country whisperings, the faint rumour of a former life, echoing and shadowy 7 twilight descends on the history of Cumbria darkness legend, fold lore, mystery and magic mighty heathen gods and their awe inspiring feats miracle-working saints embroidered by time and repetition the short-lived kingdom of Rheged the larger kingdom of Strathclyde its population of human sould a flock of more than 30,000 sheep 8 the Keswick pencil factories fourteen in 1847 the most prominent of them Greta Pencil Works and Black Lead Mills. 8,000 and 10,000 Cumberland pencils a day ceased in 1906 forty years after the miners themselves abandoned Seathwaite to the sheep and tourists III 1 the River Eamont the River Eden Dacre Beck and the River Lowther throughout the known history of mankind like a magnet so much of man's early history is to be found in so small a space feasting, animal bones, remains of querns & pottery permanent temples a class of priests to supervise them this accumulation of evidence whose precise nature and significance we can only begin to imagine 2 first or second century B.C. a slow movement into the Eden Valley long deserted almost absorbed into the grass and heather. 3 another race of men throught the thick oakwoods clothed the valleys the lower sloped of the fell against the base of the fine crags the waters of old Mosedale Lake must have washed only two cairns to remind us of man's presence beneath the grass and heather south, east, and west no evidence to support it 4 confluence of the river north, east, south and west converge natural highways throughout historical time under internal strains and externals pressures the brunt of the destruction a strange silence enjoyed a last moment of glory the decaying stones the overgrown foundations pattern of ancient fields a human community endured for a hundred generations 5 the familiar Bode definition a fairly wide Debateable Land never successfully rounded off, it simply faded away a very faire and Ancient fabrike 6 remote from the turmoil of the world impressed with the peace and quiet they found there 7 the majestic and wildness of the native forest vast territories in Cumberland and Westmoreland excavations at Pompeii and Herculanuem an ancient Italian city or an 18th century English town unplanned simplicity the characteristic charm of the English 8 spoil heaps water races crushing and smelting mills pastoral charms wooden glades familiar and traditional crafts in Cumbria 9 54 feet a century of controversy warnings prosecution 1,700 million gallons 96 miles acqueduct twenty inches in every mile the balancing reservoirs the settling pools IV (for Thomas A. Clark) 1 the impression of a structure casually thrown together dependent on imaginative improvisation the knowledge which only experience can bring 2 an interesting continuity in the general plan a continuity which may be traced back frowned upon by Wordsworth as vulgar and intrusive 3 the impact of significant detail quite different in conception from the poet who learned to look on nature and whose thoughts were concerned Not with the mean and vulgar works of men 4 the unique atmosphere of a working the unceasing rhythmic cadence the measured, purposeful activities of the pages Literature often combined a variety of functions at one and the same time a situation scarcely to be understood it is only through the efforts of a small number of individuals that we may recapture something of the poetry 5 a brief account setting out spiritual advice and guidance in a practical but very general way in a manner similar to festivals of fine music 6 gossip and unaccustomed company remembered forgotten 7 new discoveries will be made could, in short, transform the life of man on earth the long story of human achievement 8 the central theme the efforts of ordinary men & women to create a living culture Kurt Schwitters Barbara Hepsworth Hans Arp the blacksmith the wheelwright the stone waller it is one their shoulders that we stand 9 a century and a half of Wordsworth viewpoints are swarming like anthills quiet enable the concept to become a living reality

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-20 00:00:00 Monica Mcintosh I managed to find a copy of this book at Cheap Thrills, I was super impressed. Early Cohen, Atwood, and Layton. If you can find a copy, I would say its a gem among paper trash.