DISSIDENT EDITIONS
MANIFESTO:

We are searching for poetry
which does not flatter
(i.e. patronise) the reader.

If the words are better than the idea,
the poem is substanceless and false.
If the idea is banal (as most are),
it is not worth expressing.

Shakespeare's not-so-profound observations & Yeats' less-than-insights are artfully couched in wonderful language:
the brass and cymbals so gratify the readers that they don't even want
to think .

Indeed, it might be said that the "greater" the Art, the more it stifles thought.
Thus Art willingly is commandeered - is indeed intended - to glorify the unjustifiable:
Man's mad cultures of incessant,
unacknowledgeable cruelty & desecration,
spurred on by his mindless rationalities.

The myths of art and culture are at least as devastating as the myths of knowledge and revealed truth..

The global (soon to be monoglot) hegemony of hypocritical greed, total world-exploitation, education- and media-led homogeneity of thought, life and universal anti-awareness enlist art (the "greater", the more useful) as an opiate for those who might otherwise question.

But Rilke said in a sonnet to Orpheus that Art is only true when it changes your life . The battered, limbless Ancient Torso of Apollo (a kind of metamorphosed Angel) radiates the message:

Du mußt dein Leben ändern.

We hope that the poems on these pages will make you flinch. Journalism and the novel have eaten poetry from the inside, as well as diminished it from without. Because 'truth' can only be poetic, poetry must rise to the philosophical and metaphysical challenge for which it is uniquely apt.

This website is deeply dedicated to waking up the chloroformed subjects of culture and civilisation who are put into the sleep of arrogance by education, and fed on the sweet toxic dreams of culture.

For over two hundred years, Greed in its ineffable image of Money has been greater than God: a paramount, vicious, hypocritical and insatiable Juggernaut.
In the thrall of Greed's "humane" hypocrisy, schools and hospitals especially are blindingly evil. These also we must


RESIST