bronchia think
form a bombsight
think periosteum singing
particle falconry workpiece
two lowcut hills seeking
what stone is
for body
is herd
alliterations
Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where
it's broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive
loneliness, where the poet's emotional response is to endure. A crushed
line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that
nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against
language's viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those
too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative.
'A fierce, ladderlike cri de coeur - at times a cri de cur - Night &
Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on
which they're wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood
ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the "mondayescent" gives way to
ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat's
ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.' - Andrew
Zawacki
Praise for Blert:
'Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm
rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous
work of linguistic materialism.' - Dennis Lee
