![]() ![]() If all poetry hovers somewhere on a spectrum between the specificity and subjectivity of the poet and an external world which can be observed, catalogued, responded to, then these poems self-consciously experiment with that permeable boundary. The poems themselves highlight the idea that everything in this fast world of multiple discourses and global identifications can be co-opted into material for poetic language. Īs Derrida put it (although literary theory is a very light touch here), meaning is ‘under erasure’, just the merest trace still visible under the obscurity of the inscribed word. It is also about the nuance under the word, the often punning or uncomfortable space levered open by irony or the graphic. Redactor is about the things that are said on the surface, with directness and verve and engagement. ![]() The collection after all is titled redactor these textual clusters are not merely – or not simply – passive victims of a censor’s knife, but in fact are also potentially actors using the technique of redaction as others might use the dash or the white space on a page. While we might think of ‘redaction’ as being primarily concerned with forms of censorship, these poems push and niggle a reader to think laterally about the multiple ways in which the idea of the ‘the blank’ or being blanked out might operate: in terms of self-censorship, as a way of making a particular more generalisable, even as a method for drawing attention to that which might appear to be self-deprecating, cloaked in discretion. Click the elements you want to delete, then click "Remove." Save your document with its newly applied redactions.Review of Eddie Paterson, redactor TEXT Vol 21 No 1Įddie Paterson’s debut collection of poetry, redactor, plays with ideas of what can be said, what isn’t said and what it might be possible to interpret across a variety of modes. This option allows you to remove other content that could expose sensitive information in the document, such as metadata. Don't forget to save your PDF.Īt the end of this process, Power PDF provides you with an additional "Remove Document Elements" dialogue box.
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