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Captain Chaos
- Mark Cassidy
- A Brummie by birth (part of the Irish diaspora), I did much of my growing up on the Isle of Wight. Returning to Birmingham to study, I discovered many diversions, notably punk music and politics. I've written poetry intermittently for almost as long as I can remember; much of it best forgotten. But with persistence comes progress: a continuing journey reflected here. A few of these poems have surfaced elsewhere online; others have appeared in various European magazines, among them Dreich, Northwards Now, Poetry Salzburg Review, Pushing Out The Boat, South, Skylight 47 and ROPES. You’ll also find me in the anthologies This Island City: Portsmouth in Poetry, Poems for Grenfell Tower, Poems for the NHS, The Shouting Tories, Dungheap Cockerel, FLORA/FAUNA Volume One and Poetry Is Not Dead.
A nightmare for my limited technical skills to format here, hence the image file. This is a riff on a recent workshop exercise: the blitz poem
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Its 'rules', especially with regard to title, are obviously contrived, but - under the pressure of writing spontaneously - do provoke a stream of unpredictable sub-conscious synaptic jumps. Frivolous but fun.
The form lends itself to vernacular cliche. What I've tried to do here is apply some deliberation to the juxtapositions, which soon became rather tiresome; so i stopped when I reached the bottom of my page.
The 'A' side - 'B' side arrangement was a device to to compare the different outcomes of reversing the opening couplets. Almost inevitably - like an obscure punk single - I prefer the 'B' side myself.