{"id":2170,"date":"2008-03-12T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2170"},"modified":"2017-03-14T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:12:06","slug":"flood-paul-abbott","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/product\/flood-paul-abbott\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOOD &#8211; Paul Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Abbott&#8217;s poem <em>FLOOD<\/em> is a &#8216;Waste Land&#8217; for the twenty-first century, a timely and daring debut in the disaster genre, by a twenty-one-year-old in his final year at Oxford. Those who have read the first issue of Clutag&#8217;s magazine ARCHIPELAGO will have enjoyed a snapshot of the poem in its pages. Now it is offered complete in ten sections, illustrated with eight superbly grainy drawings by Gail McNeillie. The vision here &#8211; &#8216;an Epic Newsflash&#8217; &#8211; is one of post-apocalyptic catastrophe &#8216;couched,&#8217; we&#8217;re told in a prefatory note &#8216;somewhat in the film-cutting style of Soviet montage theory (which I read about on Wikipedia)&#8217;.<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-214\" title=\"Flood-illustration\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration-148x148.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration-31x31.jpg 31w, https:\/\/www.clutagpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Flood-illustration-38x38.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Streetwise, slangy, irreverent, intensely self-aware (and well-read), the poet-speaker steals a boat (in very un-Wordsworthian circumstances), jumpstarts its outboard, and survives long enough to tell his tale &#8216;Of London, of Global Warming, of HEAT magazine&#8230; of squalid Thames&#8230; and of its fall&#8217;. The shades of William Blake and John Milton &#8211; ghost writers &#8211; act as Virgilian guides, ushering him towards &#8216;the first day of the rest of my death&#8217;, at Battersea Power Station (the service entrance to hell).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Limited edition of 100 copies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Clutag Press, 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Abbott&#8217;s poem <em>FLOOD<\/em> is a &#8216;Waste Land&#8217; for the twenty-first century, a timely and daring debut in the disaster genre, by a twenty-one-year-old in his final year at Oxford. Those who have read the first issue of Clutag&#8217;s magazine ARCHIPELAGO will have enjoyed a snapshot of the poem in its pages. Now it is offered complete in ten sections, illustrated with eight superbly grainy drawings by Gail McNeillie. 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