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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

two things worth saying

that Max Richter says, plus the beginning of a third, in the liner notes for The Blue Notebooks, last first, since it considers the music: “I come from a high-modernist classical music training, … where maximum complexity, extreme dissonance, asymmetry and impenetrability were badges of honour. If you wrote a single

oblique strategy for today, by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt

this poem departs (introduction to poems that don’t exist #3)

This poem departs from the idea which is not my own that all that we think of as objective knowledge is subjective knowledge. I suppose I can call it a poem, I am introducing poems that don’t exist. It doesn’t exist, this poem. When we think of the

as Mitski says, “I wrote what I needed to hear”

introduction to a poem that doesn’t exist

This is a poem called ‘a nice friendly chat,’ or: ‘the familiar bathos at the unfamiliar time, at bath time.’ Or: ‘as I look out upon the devastation we have caused, I can’t help thinking, I should write about this.’ or, have you noticed when ... poets begin to read

introduction to a poem

This is an introduction to a poem called ‘All it Takes’ or ‘Clay Birds.’ Although I hesitate to call it a poem. But that’s my problem. Not yours. And I’ll be talking about that in another introduction. I was listening to the editor of The Economist magazine. When

a musical interlude–takes me back to chapter two you know who