Book by Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva. [Links. Blurbs. Images]
Details > Servant Drone, Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva, inkjet print on paper, perfect-bound, softcover, 14.2 x 20.3 cm, 66 pp., 1st edition: Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK, Nov. 2015, ISBN 978-1-909-44380-8, cover art: Privados Um by Bárbara Mesquita. URL: https://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/product-page/servant-drone-by-bruno-neiva-andpaul-hawkins
Description > Collaborative book of poems by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins. A call and response dialogue produced from fragments of found text.
Blurbs >
“Reading Servant Drone is like rifling through Tristan Tzara’s confidential waste, receiving a spam email from Kurt Schwitters or eavesdropping on an inaudible conversation at the fringes of a deconstructivist house party. Fragmentary and beautifully bewildering, this is a work of dense collage, where found and made text stack up to build an edifice that threatens to topple time and again but is saved by a change in wind direction. Servant Drone is in perpetual motion, a shaken snow globe of references and registers, refusing the easy eternal verities, finding instead a more complex truth in the temporary furniture of the sublunar sphere. Deeply nuanced and obliquely radical, this is a book to keep in your pocket as a charm against the liquid spectres of a late capitalist Monday morning.” (Tom Jenks)
“What is the worst poetry myth? That it is a singular form, not naturally lending itself to collaboration? Or that what is actually contemporary, relevant, dynamic, is innately experimental or strange? Servant Drone is one of the finest examples of a poetic work which destroys both superstitions in one fell sweep. It is energetic, decisive, colloquial and necessary. It is a work of synthesis between two exceptional vanguard poets that balances satire, critique and humour with an intense methodological engagement.” (SJ Fowler)
Publication history >
#10 (Hawkins), #10 (Neiva), #11 (Hawkins) and #11 (Neiva), Queen Mob’s Teahouse, London, UK and Seattle, WA, USA, Sept. 2015. http://queenmobs.com/2015/09/poems-paul-hawkins-and-bruno-neiva/
Articles, interviews, and reviews >
- Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Galatea Resurrects #26 (A Poetry Engagement), St. Helena, CA, USA, June 2016. http://galatearesurrection26.blogspot.com/2016/06/micro-reviews-from-yellow-field.html
- Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Yellow Field, Issue 11, Buffalo, NY, USA, Apr. 2016
- The Daily Glance: Servant Drone, Bill Allegrezza, p-ramblings, Chicago, IL, USA, Mar. 2016. http://allegrezza.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-daily-glance-servant-drone.html
- In the Booklight – Bruno Neiva, Paul Hawkins & Servant Drone, Sarah James, Worcestershire, UK, Feb. 2016. http://www.sarah-james.co.uk/?p=6788
- Servant Drone, Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins, Steve Spence, Stride, Exeter, Devon, UK, Jan. 2016. http://www.stridebooks.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202016/Jan2016/ServantDrone.Spence.htm
- 3AM Top Reads of 2015, SJ Fowler, 3:AM Magazine, Paris, France and London, UK, Dec. 2015. https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/top-reads-of-2015-steven-j-fowler/
[We are grateful to Bruno Neiva for the authorization that allowed this entry to be made available in the PO.EX Digital Archive]