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Just Another Damned Couple is the collected Brutalist Poetry series, published by Red-Raw.
It includes:
#1 - If You Drop Dead (AKA Fleabite Scabs)
#2 - We weren't Invited (AKA Raw Sewage)
#3 - Wrote Your Name in the Dirt
A definition of Brutalist Poetry ... take the principles and philosophy of Brutalist architecture and apply them to verse.
Brutalist Poetry conforms to some or all of these points:
* Words chiselled into concrete.
* Divisive.
* Egalitarian.
* Discordant.
* Radical imagery.
* Saxon words preferred to Latinate.
* Authentic. The anti-poet lives the lines.
* Anti-heroic. The anti-poet is a pleb, not a prophet.
* Screams from the Gig Economy.
* Rough surface texture.
* Rejection of any classical style.
* Minimalist. Pared down to the bone.
* Dry humour. Deadpan delivery.
* Underlying sense of weight and mass.
* Built on tension.
* Purity of line and space.
* Socialist in leaning.
* Contradictions exist.
* Printed on paper, only.
About the author
Fletch Fletcher
Red-Raw.com
