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BILLY CHILDISH’S aesthetic is not one I share but that he’s true to this aesthetic is something I admire. I wasn’t much of a Fall fan but liked that they were doing their own thing. Billy Childish has been doing that with poetry for decades “because/i can’t spell/and/refuse to show off/with cheap tricks” his poem i am the un corrected states.
Doing his own thing: Billy Childish
His book the uncollected from Tangerine Press brings together 40 years of his poems.
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