Documenting: CYCLES

LAUNCH of BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books

Wednesday 17th February 2010, 7.30pm
Birkbeck College, University of Londonin Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)

featuring a reading of the complete Cycles
by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O'Sullivan
All welcome - Free Entry
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On this evening I endeavoured to react and respond to these readings. This series of Cycles is upon me listening and hearing and interpreting and reacting. This series of Cycles is a document of a reading and only a reading. I have had no further involvement with it. It has had no further interference. It is:

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CYCLES
CYCLES
CYCLES
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CYCLE 1.

Using new collective – worry one arm currently.

Brown’d cords

On Dover- i
ictus- knock
within
saught smight note fore be
OR-
Razors
Buckets- question sea
Limb’d- to talk ion language to limb
To pressing harder
Nature is involved BACK BLACK

Iow of To repeat a ONE
ONE.
VERT chalked to a loss

Circle pointerdly A child portrait

A son

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CYCLE 2

WANT- Exploding to solitary Holy to rolling loops

an aerial pathed out horsed out runner
blooded – score linked more ing-
outMILED INTRICATE
TOES SPLINT SEE OUT-
Jay
Restlers-
Girl
she moved.
Directed out – like a – like a oil from fresh
We are on holiday
We are full of blood
C / C / C / C D replicated in a row
marched tails
musily grave – rejects Again a kid plays
sanded at, unwedded
or so it’s memorised
WHAT

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CYCLE 3

Walking slightly – Brixton how – epileptic – like a

left foot riding up to jacked
up
to
man
leant think NOT I am this
see to remain stand cell a cellular
a girl a bloke a cunt
Bluwed a long neck to rattle
to question – to carry Johny
TO RED a classic an unshurt an
rohy floating – SAYING – he saw quickly
twisting lung -The new soul.

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CYCLE 4

accented female
Jonathon Martin
Open to a blue french to dared – Knight concreted
an Oh’ wall an. Oh pile – a dagger a
stoned head
clasping – Gag bo – lay to queen grufflled out
a looking a come outt a wall
centre-
A / t / t / t son – men
Black lavender smell scrubly- braimed and arrog_nead
branched off
leopard dutid – seized spit scylle
biz EMBRAN jurra sane – DEAD gra grra – scour
emphasis on qui quick may
stuft rof voluting logentred through police go KARANEUMS
grated grat. sighes – slow the strained out quantly loudened THAT
THAT
P/P wro wro curo
scrab – teethes
in shine in shutter
but ch.
present
TO PRESENT
P several nave viewing view the at

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CYCLE 5
Dalston glowing dalston @ the bottom
too an arc to get three
headed to blore – 4 got shecl – lips
five screws – come to thieft tanog thieft too
6. dis- butter – my – then – may
7. needle under cum
8. disney
9. photo doc
10. siren see
11. quarrel one

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CYCLE 6

In reading detached from water
EARS- left fossil – main traine – Shore shorne utter.
pocket
termina eager elvish ba
been to can cancelled –
com lain on mud
turned to grounded good and brigdeld
work /wintre femur aligned kneened [cough]

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CYCLE 7

Mr James

Curious trouble strag empty
noises
CAMB SOUND o R/ IS BIN CLOD / REAG/
rounded Bands a canon bu ex man her
STOT WE
and we wandered like a sheathed culling poin
SIBOXTIASULC
in young women this closet like a stand like a
but this ex she she such a prevailed
ivory to turn to yellow
ONBSTILIDAINDSCH A RATCItt MO PACIRCARN CA
KINISTWO
groins dim murmur small chew bitten wind popped earth pipe
its this note this and a
ONL QUITLS GLISTUO REI ROORE VA
rounded tableaux to inching glassed tablet pink
LIMN MOUI OPSHOP
music earth field cowship play heal up a regularly bind to
collect a mind aimless beats sue see and yes
the cactus
PUN WOOTREE BONES BOWLS PUPSIT
sundelen to bite
MALISTCAS MOVEM
dance to gather sun to high he loose he weak

As people wind barnes to which a dorming po uniseen
As

night part to contact fence looked
they there do to f to.

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CYCLE 8

Elizabeth

Fragi the vista no sociat exploit the

Sand based trombonate the lavels
the sig sa so sing to diamond
low
low Cyc a ma ma bottle ai out

loooking well to r now str

to sound bo st hoc BRIGHTON call. Red
comple
upon shi
on to egile go – gold

a line – a line Bricked curved
a line a collide extra
sec. sentre

TK / tur yellow to beaked YOU
Cora from out ancient to move near golds get
DOT
Fall
Eli Zarea
“after the end”

Veluminous washy ways scates full light
Sudden pent hasp popped
Summer plants con
Break choak a still rolls not start new
newer
She lu ocea OUT

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CYCLE 9

MAPS
Vol narl colour calling fra
tricky
inde wat hitty arch ar arch
beau
prof sell patt on aerate
So mor dressed greenly slides still
Stairy lines fisher
BOOM
direct ship life to direct dead “I”
get loose
Oh turmin room hey drum here smell
compacted
Her print
the state, nuts as
Is it – is it the?
Dis – localized bcoint – humone
apart
away
boy
blow watches fous vailed
bu bust got feet

bull full heard heard hot ows bars Aye
Air – bound story vasted
arm laws
other rain don’t, carry cliff – it is was is a reb
sobes chase sweetened axi meander

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CYCLE 10

Darth dreames
lied Dryed
wet bast bast
reckoning get closed bowls
stair stair beadience
walk to
the thick
the marks
clavig
fleshy pumping cider eye – turn
CHRIST
stars oenned between river
mist and lasted and animals
in distance paddle bowl waves
who pulls slow turn – Re – know twist
like frame
like no
nothin’
NO

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CYCLE 11

N who talked Buy me
I have
little and
little and
little
burn and red
Trec- eagle hearted stated I tell
soak tole customed arc wooden sea
eel – he’ll one – nots from we – co –
BODY setting and

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CYCLE 12

lea
Aloy smart to weal
As what
As thick
GOD a
I plum
thief park wolves and caught slag
rock theft watch walts – butter wizand
butter today windin
cleft go
turn a – spite – a – child – glue – grati
chase 2 – 3 m
what wall war – bone
PART – sout . . shif who wall
decreate clock sh
sha se s- co sand
pli plee I stand doubt buzz ya
TAB smog chess wake blow
indie are grave crab meane somber
flower seed poppy goal love nods
pose shallowed L / L / L / L / L placed
a horse goal – rag thistle mock the live matt the rifle
leaning style – lion – plumb
that
DIS.

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CYCLE 13

A
You expe sta just go gold,
Bom gold
Be corr – rem
Stunning S / ST cat
Purale take eye sing to cross tete
St cos lipped angel colour
“SWS” – define this GOD
Police journey kill white sky – us
Us is
jest don’t that’s tably rusted
Rust can a – can – a
Bleached wide PICK
AND
SEN
Stand piots and anger public butter fly
Similars wets can cut and waves

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CYCLE 14

Brag
tree verse beare
at back
laurrie seen
body
mud winced flu
collar wall u
sen fatty what
no fin no not
dead do baby
ap – pare
som – skid
blits corner – tes Rd n, cat, n blister to
stamps to “K”
I snap file me kid
daughter please
Fos wide cento look

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CYCLE 15

Kilburn 23:30
Cliff granted tall / T / T / T acidic
C blue
eye I see chim rock
bush
fold shouted S – sun – tank know now TIT
suckle fitter Today and matter

ME splutter pass stonge sto geo –
see – listening porous – P – P – white bars
like a
like a winged cold pineappled when ----
in of a grande to signal greatest sitting peas
moved moved a cello ehined comps top end
being jolt being joint saw – sudden glace
un – un
beauty
shook sea see
not calling
I
I
I shook snorted sneezed seeing
snow
kicked it the swallowed god – no miles – no – a mast
beneath pray sicted
chest bit
then they gull fielded scared eyes ran whenst the
monk colder DO
savage saw none in me –

look as
as me
and small ice
and ship
holes – nothing

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CYCLE 16

DIGING GROUND
OUND
SPARED GRAVE NOT GOON
CHINA’D WHITE
TEETH ROLLED DISS-ALICIOUS
roaring mounted – in/out macros sconed
judy – Buttoned quick
tough diced gripped BIG
to live
to stick
to sun son
roundless summer tots
as on long blue
long – draw a royal as was
as was took
as blue
ages sit back pump p
bundone paused pat
cane, little black b / b / soft

dumpt able cove – new as
ringing
hose as though vulva
no-oned as ruby mediature head twist
rip and fried and chained
to FOLK lerbed, booked, “if that escapes”

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