Tom Allen - Land
Veer2 Publication 042 [ISBN: 978-1-911567-74-5] A5, portrait. 50 pages. December 2024. £6.00 (+ postage and packing)
Tom Allen - Land
'Tom Allen’s LAND is a shared land of doing, in its complexities and losses, beckoning us into deep houses. Allen gives us both the smoke rising and the smoke falling, but we are ever returned to our feet, which is to say our political awakening, our ground for action. This book constructs a subjunctive present, suspending us in a being-together of witness, commitment and action that sustains and continuously renews possibility. Allen’s syntax syncopates its granulated weather, its nouns are verbs are nouns while comrades walk; the writing is fiercely both precision and torque. Lend yourself: this book will push you to encounter, like bread, or like milk, as the politics of this poetics feels – you will feel yourself called: here we walk under the curtained sun, onward lend.'
- Vicky Sparrow
'Tom Allen’s LAND is a shared land of doing, in its complexities and losses, beckoning us into deep houses. Allen gives us both the smoke rising and the smoke falling, but we are ever returned to our feet, which is to say our political awakening, our ground for action. This book constructs a subjunctive present, suspending us in a being-together of witness, commitment and action that sustains and continuously renews possibility. Allen’s syntax syncopates its granulated weather, its nouns are verbs are nouns while comrades walk; the writing is fiercely both precision and torque. Lend yourself: this book will push you to encounter, like bread, or like milk, as the politics of this poetics feels – you will feel yourself called: here we walk under the curtained sun, onward lend.'
- Vicky Sparrow
This is part of a new series of Veer Books to be produced and published jointly in the University of Surrey and the CPRC, Birkbeck College.