Bücher von John Seed

Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core

'Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819¿ is a poem sequence constructed from historical witness statements of those two days in Manchester. This edition has illustrations from contemporary newspapers as well as an afterword by John Seed. 'There is surely no more radical decentring of the subject/author in modernist writing,' John Seed remarks of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, in the 'Afterword' to this book. The first part of 'Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819¿, written in 1973 but previously unpublished, applies Reznikoff's method to historical materials on the so-called 'Peterloo Massacre'. The second part reflects on this method, noting convergences to some recent discussions in the United States around 'uncreative writing' and 'conceptual writing'.

Smoke Rising is a documentary poem. Very much in the tradition of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, it utilises oral sources to capture the speech - and perhaps the experience - of those who suffered the London Blitz.

This slim collection gathers together John Seed's poems written since the publication of his New and Collected.

The second volume of John Seed's exploration of Mayhew recasts the voices from the original text in a Reznikoffian manner and frees them from the confines of the narrative to let us hear the voices in a new context.

"Pictures from Mayhew" takes the voices reported by Henry Mayhew in the mid-19th century and splices them together into poems, allowing the voices space and a chance to communicate again to another age. Every word in the book is drawn from Mayhew's transcriptions.