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14.2 x 21 cm, 32 pages, green card cover, green endpapers, sewn with green embroidery thread. 

Price €5.

ISBN 978 1 903090 58 9

(c) Sarah Hayden 2013.

Sarah Hayden is presently editing her book on Mina Loy and avant-garde artisthood while working on translations of French Dada poetry. She is also involved with SoundEye and the Avant in Cork .

Exteroceptive brings together the poems Optic, Auditory, Proprio, Olfactory, Haptic and Hypogeusic.

Cover illustration: R. Healy.

See below for an extract.

from Exteroceptive
 

HAPTIC

 

green things crushed underfoot

bark wetly split

a small nicked vein

.

this atmosphere

pumped thick and tight

            the endpoints of its elastic compass   sought out and inhabited without hesitation

                        filled with this rich vegetal reek

renders the sum of all

a fatted liver

.

scoliotic youths lounge

among the wider branches   jaded panthers

 

feeling themselves

there

more aptly aligned

 they sigh hotly, abrading petulant mouths

.

under a cap of tintinnabulating pondweed

            stomachfooting

            tightsuckingly hanging

            and unconcernedly inverted

watersnails hum the conspiracies of a society              unsurveilled

 

innerear migrants

they spin

            lang’rously

from stalk to stem

propelled by (im)pulses undivined

and agglutinative

.

wrapping the air

            round and through

miniaturized insects emit radio static

fragments

of their snowdriven transmissions drag and stick moreishly

 

when massed in sufficient numbers

            corralled

in wing-ed drifts

against walls …

phonemes coagulate

whole sentences compose themselves in a slow ear

 

they crackle a documentary

            20 years après la lettre

invidious horror                        the giddy toasting of a pre-Foucauldian panopticon and

            sometimes the shipping news.

Are those the faro islands? Are these?

.

all the while

barnacled marbles circumscribe a velodrome

graceless

halting

green