10th Muse 9
Editorial
The New View over Eggardon Hill
I don’t think the reference to sanitary
towels was necessary.
Martin Holroyd, Poetry Monthly
Connectable Nodes
Processes of displacement are associated with the expropriation of land. Displacement is epidemic. As maps change, the new cartography results in ontological wars. Alienation, fictions associated with globalisation, re-visioned histories pre-embedded within off-the-shelf identities, all of them poisonous. Pulp revolution. This is what we did not actively resist. As advertised, our flesh has been possessed by projections of a future product range.
The New Ontology
Present time is framed by a false past. Marketing encloses and then destroys identity. Diversity obliterates difference. Behind shimmering wire, an enchantment. Rows of huts, as described, and then nothing. Being lode-blown and leaderless, we dismayed our enemies with mythic constructs (earthworks, etc.). In the world of contemporary art, creativity is a genre, a style, it is empty. Working with forms, we were filled by it.
We said that Dr Charles Mintern "deconstructed a long barrow" and we meant it. We imagined 'place on stilts' as a phallus inserted into ideology. Repurposing faked atrocities, we discovered the prehistoric foundations of Disneyland Poland. Overturning taboos, we opened those mass graves and found them to be empty. Lies were put in place to prevent us, but one by one we dug them from that winter landscape as we dig them from our own flesh.
What is Nonism?
Then we saw how poetry sways upon ancient stilts,
magnificent and precarious, like a flower on a stalk or a landscape...
Dr. Charles Mintern, The Whole Story of Art (Rune Wurzel, 1996).
In the weird afterglow of our assault on the culture of places, we developed nonism. Nonism contains no word and no-one leads it. Nonism is now the necessary precondition for the realisation that places, as given, are false. We take what is ours. This is the true history of that Body Perilous, its constitution, as we chose to define it, within which all hopes and liberties are bound. Nonism is a bulwark for living in and we sally forth from it.
