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Jon Clay

Jon Clay

Biography

Jon Clay is originally from Rugby in Warwickshire but now lives in Clapham and works at Richmond-upon-Thames College. He attended Ruskin College, Oxford, the University of Sussex and Birkbeck College, London. In 2007 he completed a PhD on the significance of sensation for reading contemporary innovative poetry, a revised version of which was published in 2010 by Continuum as Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze: Transformative Intensities. Published poetry includes Here 1-24, published by Veer Books.

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Sample Text

53.

 

Turbulent dark tides
returning flashing reflections

A malevolent fiction of consistency,
sclerotic vicious infection He is
dragged towards obedience She is
pushed, legs wracked
         Cast
         Encased
Dependence fusing with the requirements of an economic elite
whose idea of flexibility is a shuttling carbon unit at minimal cost

She’ll be grasping light, she’ll be eating it
He’ll swill great gulps of cold air, of warm air
They are undefined by metastatic mutations
proliferations of prostheses
preferring not to, playing at betraying
spreading and threading through
an immense shifting labyrinth of concrete
brick steel and glass desire
finite and endless

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