“In the crossing of duplicity and revolution there are vestiges of linguistic forms which comes into our mouths, but when we try to speak them, only splinters are left on the tongue.These sequences try to speak urgently of the law only to find that to do so is to speak twice over oneself as multiple scripts recombine. Languages have transformed life at the widest scale: Ashford looks to follow those places where the trans-mutable lies within the power play of the merely translatable – in order to rewrite what happened next or expose what the hybrid word for word systems of containment couldn’t quite void.” –Edmund Hardy, Intercapaillary Spaces
Sedition Machines is available to buy directly from Veer Books by clicking here.
If you would like to read Pulgasari, a poem from Sedition Machines, you can download it here.
The poems inside the book Sedition Machines have previously been featured in slightly different forms in journals and poetry magazines.
- “Pervigilium Veneris” (poem). VLAK magazine. International Issue, 2013
- “Pulgasari: 7 Korean Hyangga” (e-book). Intercapillary Spaces, 2012
- “Fortuna” (poem). This Corner magazine. Ed. Mengham & Kinsella, 2011
- “Consolation”, “Metaphysical” (two poems). HiZero5. Ed. Luna, 2011