Scott Thurston
WHITE WORK
And there would be no criteria as to how you should grasp it. Forgetting all that surrounds us shouldn’t be advised: it was no joke, suddenly. Your expectations upset by the trailer in the corner surrounded by nettles, yet the survival continued in small pockets where the transitions were internalised, just everyday rhythms of tension and release. And there were no criteria, at least not for you, left in the lurch by the page count again, sacred homilies torn-out all over the deck; where, once again, we mounted the attempt at imitation. |
WHITE WORK (HS2)
A hint shelves over it – it was dust the previous body work. You took it haunched to a swipe out of a tree with a choke hold. The ghost train shackled into life by the bivouac followed by a masked team who block the footbridge, block the path, block the airwaves. There wasn’t any clearance for this entering into the fray, frozen on the spot fine. And that temperature shifted by the elder, snapped into brief turns, looked into the dark transition. With all the gifts of flashing the phenomenal world, all you could do was. |
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Biography:
Scott Thurston is a poet, mover and educator. He has published fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including three full-length collections with Shearsman: Hold (2006), Momentum (2008) and Internal Rhyme (2010). More recent work includes Poems for the Dance (Aquifer, 2017), Draft Vicinity (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2018) and We Must Betray Our Potential (The Red Ceilings, 2018). Phrases towards a Kinepoetics is due from Contraband this year. Scott is founding co-editor of open access Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and co-organized the long-running poetry reading series The Other Room in Manchester. Since 2004, he has been developing a poetics integrating dance and poetry which has seen him studying with dancers in Berlin and New York and collaborating with three dancers in the UK. Scott is Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Salford where he has taught since 2004. |