{"id":3563,"date":"2015-05-12T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:38:43","slug":"swansea-automatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/3563\/swansea-automatic\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SWANSEA AUTOMATIC’ by Rhys Trimble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Swansea Automatic is Rhys Trimble’s most ambitious work to date, and it\u00a0confirms his status as the most inventive young poet in Wales”. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(John Goodby)<\/h4>\n

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In 1973, Bernadette Mayer and others, including Nick Piombino and Toni Simon,\u00a0worked their way through a series\u00a0of radical poetic exercises to produce one of the seminal documents of the new L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement. Forty years on, Rhys Trimble has\u00a0taken the experiments and applied them to the writing of a long, ‘dirty narrative’ poem about Swansea which even Mayer and Co. would have applauded for\u00a0the risks it takes and the thrills it generates.<\/h4>\n

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“How to start something? with my own handwriting\u2014a wooden pen\u2014gone for the cheaper book\u2014not the moleskine\u2014the two pound one [not weight] with5 sections\u2014orange, pink, yellow, green, blue\u2014with a struck bell, with a departure.<\/p>\n

This is a practical creative writing manual\u2014I will take all the advice I\u2019m given\u2014I advise myself to choose a springbound book\u2014to be free, to use my own handwriting, to use a wooden pen.”<\/p>\n

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Published May\u00a02015.<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-0-9928438-4-7<\/p>\n

Rhys Trimble says: I wrote this book because my girlfriend was going to Spain with her mother. I read that Bukowski had written post office<\/em> in two weeks so I challenged myself to write a novel in two weeks. it took about 3 months in the end, or the initial part did: to write it by hand into the \u2018novel sized\u2019 ring bound book that I bought from the works for 1.99 with five coloured sections \u2013 the typing took about a year. To add a conceptual element to the writing and make the book a kind of \u2018creative writing manual\u2019 I searched for some exercises or recommendations that are given to those that want to \u2018be creative\u2019 and I hit on the list given at the start of l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e magazine No3<\/sup> 1973 by Bernadette Mayer. When I found my prose getting dull or repetitive I wrote out one of the experiments (in order) from the list. This is the result.<\/p>\n

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