Landfill by John Wedgwood Clarke Sergey Stratanovsky often stripped down to single-word

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If I wanted to talk about Proust's poetry beyond the basic level of talking about his language - if I wanted to talk about the poetry of his thought - then the best way to do it might be to write a poem

Didsbury’s staggering powers of invention

acceptance of inadequacy and making do…all of human life in a hundred highly individual

translated by Jason Stumpf

Landfill by John Wedgwood Clarke Sergey Stratanovsky often stripped down to single-wordIf the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish, John Wedgwood Clarkes Landfill seeks to reverse that route, taking us behind the chain link fence of the dump to witness the sublime mess weve made of things. He marvels at the confessions of a people, at archaeology in the making, with poems about old cookers, fridges, fluorescent tubes and heaps of plastic bottles. Out of their usual locations, these objects become strangely