The Ars - John Goodby

“I am very taken with The Ars. A series of poems mainly about issues of poetics, not following an argument or converging. The context for each emerges from within the poem – they are life situations. The tenor is intimate, and the language relies on small metrical values and fine gestures. It is the closest thing to an interior monologue.”
Andrew Duncan

“They are fun and gloomy … so why not join in the games, the weird relations, of these arbitrarily-infused lyrics? - you’ll find it fun, you may even glimpse, at the edges, the bare ars!”
Harriet Tarlo