Summary

Blade Pitch Control Unit is a gathering of Sean Bonney's work in poetry over the last five years. It collects together all the work from his previous pamphlets that he still feels is valid, plus a number of previously unpublished pieces. The presentation of this work in a single volume makes clear the scope of his project as a psychogeographic/historical exploration of the possibilities of political verse that would seek to obliterate the pitfalls of simple protest or the expression of easily assimilable opinions. The work moves from psychogeographical registerings of Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs at the time of the Millennium Dome, through excavations of the ghosts of millennial heresies still present in contemporary London, and into a charting of the effects of official mendacity on the psyche of any individual citizen who knows that all private experience is collective. The events of recent history play a major role, sometimes obliquely, sometimes less so, but Bonney refuses to allow his voice to be merely an outraged commentary on contemporary woes. Instead, he presents a poetry that makes clear that the protestor is also culpable, but equally a poetry that understands that only through a registering of this position can a way out be found. For Bonney, a poem is typically a highly rhythmic (or arrhythmic) object that seeks through maximum density to communicate a dialectical relationship with the cosmos, and to explore the faultlines of official history and urbanism through which possibilities of liberation can be traced.

From Borrowed Voices 2002
After Holderlin
From Parallax 1970
The Moment of Waking
The City, the Tree
The Visit
Kabul
Rescue
Whitey
The Plane
The Non-commercial Traveller
Mary Jane
Machine
Paint
From Red Movie and other poems 1972
Balance
Bestiary
Ward Five
On the Track of the Attainable
Red Movie
From The Blast Area 1974
The Guadalcanal Motel
Poem Ending with a Line by Rimbaud
Compromise
From The Alphabet Murders 1976
The Alphabet Murders 49
From Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets 1977
Starlight
The Bus
The Chicago Manual of Style
Art
Artefact
The Moated Grange
Ballistics
I Know a Man Who Lives in the Dark
The Doll
The Spy
Position: Poet
The Painting of the Whole Sky
The Blues1968
By the Pool
At the Laundromat
From Dazed in the Ladies Lounge 1979
Ode to Col Joye
The Un-American Women
The Revolutionaries
Leavis at The London Hotel
Sartre at Surfers' Paradise
Foucault at The Forest Lodge Hotel
Enzensberger at 'Exiles' Bookshop
The Wind
The Germ
The Great Artist Reconsiders the Homeric Simile
From Selected Poems 1982
A Jackeroo in Kensington
From Under Berlin 1988
Backyard
Country Veranda
North Light
Widower
Debbie & Co
Voodoo
Fine Arts
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
High School Confidential
Stratocruiser
Laminex
Lufthansa
On Looking into the American Anthology
Shadow Detail
Parallel Lines 131
Having Completed My Fortieth Year
Boarding School
Papyrus
After the Dance
Haberdashery
Poolside
At The Newcastle Hotel
Affairs of the Heart
Lullaby
Dirty Weekend
La Pulqueria
From The Floor of Heaven 1992
Breathless
From At The Florida 1993
Journey
At The Florida
God on a Bicycle
Dark Harvest
Ariadne on Lesbos
Days in the Capital
A Marriage
Falling
Anyone Home?The Romans
Storm over Sydney
Opus Dei
North Woods
Con's Caf
TAt Naxos
Two Views of Lake Placid
Snap
Old Europe
Box Contaminant
A Plume of Ash
Chicken Shack
Cable Chimp
Bells Under Water
Aurora
From Different Hands 1998
Neuromancing Miss Stein
The Howling Twins
From Gasoline Kisses 1997
The Duck Abandons Hollywood
From Blackout 2000
Blackout
From Ultra 2001
Lavender Ink
Black Leather
Gallery
Halogen
Locket
Miss Proust
My Story
Off Radar
On the Road
Package Tour
Per Ardua ad Astra
South Farm
Under the Trees
From Borrowed Voices 2002
After Laforgue
Brussels
Address to the Reader
After Rilke
Invitation to America
On La Cienega
Festival
Night
Harry's Bar
What the Cyclops Said
Where the Boys Are
Notes from the Late Tang
From Studio Moon 2003
Moonshine Sonata
The Twilight Guest
Paid Meridian
The Green Buick
Trastevere
Radium
In Praise of Sandstone
Chinese Poem, after Mark Ford
Christopher Brennan
Epitaphs
See Rover Reach
Grover Leach
Elegy i.m. M.J.The Beach
Five Modern Myths
Three Poems about Kenneth Koch
Black Sugar
The New Season's Patterns
Like Advertising
Rimbaud in Sydney
The Waiting Room
Amulet
The Seasons-Spring
The Seasons-Summer
The Seasons-Autumn
The Seasons-Winter
Uncollected Poems 1985-2000
Small Animal Poem
The White Hole Paradox
Two Haikus
Two Short Poems, after Li Po
Two Poems for Mr Stevens
What Mortal End
Her Shy Banjo
Fin de Si
Fcle
New Poems: The Malley Variations
An American in Paris
Benzedrine
The Master of the Black Stones
Flying High
Pussy Willow
Smaller Women
Transatlantic
Under Tuscan Skies
Year Dot
The Urn of Loneliness
New Poems: Europe
At the Tomb of Napoleon
Bats
Care and Feeding of a Small Poem
Manikin de Vin
On a Noted Vista
A Poet in the Reading Room
Stage Door
Thistles
Whisper
New Poems: Speech to Text
Anguish
Bottom of the Harbour
Deluge
Departure
Horticulture
Lives
Marinara
Metro
Movements
Parade
Pronto
Royalties
Scenes
Shames
Sorehead
Story
Subcontinent Nocturne
Villas
New Poems: At the Movies
Shadow of a Doubt
North by Northwest
Dark Passage
Girl in Water
Black and White
From Selected Poems 1982
The Popular Mysteries
Acknowledgments
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