Peter Manson Fungus Chicken
This essay surveys a range of different kinds of writing by Peter Manson over a span of twenty years, from the image-poem ‘Fungus Chicken’, published by Writers Forum in 1997, to work from the recent booklet, Factitious Airs (2016). Themes discussed include: the significance of the proper name; the...
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This essay surveys a range of different kinds of writing by Peter Manson over a span of twenty years, from the image-poem ‘Fungus Chicken’, published by Writers Forum in 1997, to work from the recent booklet, Factitious Airs (2016). Themes discussed include: the significance of the proper name; the attempted negation of nouns; and the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances to facilitate the recovery of scenes from early childhood related to the death of a parent. |
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