{"id":55124,"date":"2023-01-28T15:38:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=55124"},"modified":"2023-01-28T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T21:32:20","slug":"the-complete-poems-1965-2020-michael-butterworths-radical-legacy-in-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/01\/the-complete-poems-1965-2020-michael-butterworths-radical-legacy-in-verse.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+1\"><em>The Complete Poems: 1965-2020<\/em><\/font> <br><strong>Michael Butterworth&#8217;s Radical Legacy in Verse<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>&#8220;He finds scope for the transcendent and for the nonsense and absurdity that puncture the illusions of the self.&#8221;<\/em> <font size=\"2&quot;\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/shop\/spacecowboybooks\">Space Cowboy Books<\/a><\/font><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"These strange things called trees - Michael Butterworth\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R1C1i0YZN6M?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><font size=\"+1\">For more than half a century the dissident British author, editor, underground publisher<\/font>,<font size=\"+1\"> and bookseller <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Butterworth_(author)\">Michael Butterworth<\/a> has been &#8220;an unobtrusive voice in poetry. His roots are in both the small press poetry journals of the 1960s and &#8217;70s and in New Wave science fiction.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/shop\/spacecowboybooks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55184\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/butterworth-complete-poems-hardcover-240-copy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Butterworth-COMPLETE-POEMS-hardcover-240-copy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Butterworth COMPLETE POEMS hardcover (240) copy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Butterworth-COMPLETE-POEMS-hardcover-240-copy-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Butterworth-COMPLETE-POEMS-hardcover-240-copy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Butterworth-COMPLETE-POEMS-hardcover-240-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55184\" width=\"172\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Butterworth-COMPLETE-POEMS-hardcover-240-copy.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Butterworth-COMPLETE-POEMS-hardcover-240-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/shop\/spacecowboybooks\">Space Cowboy Books<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>More from the publisher:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><font size=\"+1\">&#8220;Butterworth&#8217;s work is distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit, and intimacy of his voice as for a determination to paint metaphorical pictures of the perils we face due to our poor regard for the fragile biosphere we live in.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>C<em>omplete Poems<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>will be released Feb. 3, 2023. Pre-order <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/lists\/space-cowboy-books-publications\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><font size=\"+1\"> <\/font>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than half a century the dissident British author, editor, and underground publisher Michael Butterworth has been &#8220;a quiet unobtrusive voice in poetry, with roots both in the small press poetry journals of the 1960s and &#8217;70s and New Wave science fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-media","12":"category-news","13":"category-political-culture","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Michael-Butterworth-220.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-el6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55325,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55124\/revisions\/55325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}