Address and Lyric Commerce
Address and Lyric Commerce
This chapter examines how Don Paterson's addresses scrutinize poetry's structuring in the British poetry industry. Speaking to a range of money-minded historical and modern yous, Paterson tests out the relationships between art and commerce; literary invention, dissemination, and reception. This is work that returns to, circles round, and brings into contact the compromised politics of negotiating one's writerly status in public—in Ancient Greek and Roman court culture, in the violent addresses of the medieval Arabic patron system, and in the contemporary poetry industry. Poetry and money emerge as conversational partners. Writing addresses ‘to those undecided shades in Waterstones, / trapped between the promise and the cost’, Paterson asks gentle readers and still gentler purchasers to ‘shake yourself awake, and please stay patient’. Ensuring readers cannot forget their own hand in ascribing value to the poem, you are reminded how taste is negotiated with ‘live’ readerships, critics, publishers, prize-givers, and academics
Keywords: Don Paterson, address, money, contemporary, poetry Industry, commerce
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