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29 - English Language and Literature
Edge Hill University
Warrant Error
Warrant Error forms part of a ‘turn’ to the post-Berrigan innovative sonnet in the early 2000s, the flexible permutational frame of 2,3,4,5 line stanzas (giving 24 per sequence) offers a various readerly experience that reacts to the language of the ‘war on terror’ through appropriative strategies, textual impaction, fictive dérive, parody, logopoetic play (puns, anagrams). Out of this engagement (and disengagement: some of the poems thematically turn away from the supposed subject matter) emerges a number of poems embracing a more traditional lyric voice, one which raises ethical questions about what the work calls the ‘human contract’, with its investment in ‘human unfinish’ over totalitarian modes of thought.