Simon Smiths series of poetry journals is a plate of spinning, stunning experience. With his renowned poetic skill, Smith quietly and carefully shifts from the panoramic into the still frame of the inner life with its familiar daily worries. . . . Day In, Day Out is washed in the meals of new potatoes, sautd cabbage leaves, the wine of Chteau Moulin de Honternieux Mdoc (2012), Dogfish Head IPA, pizza, salad with sparkling wine. Its a delicious journey. Elaine RandellTheres a history of English language poets transplanted to places ostensibly sharing the same tongue (Ronald Johnson, Jonathan Williams, Kenneth Rexroth in the UK Charles Tomlinson, Thom Gunn in the USA). For these writers, the ordinary becomes the exotic. Their responses might be like those of a Martial transported from Spain to the Roman capital, with an outsiders ability to detect the fine (or gross) echoes of Empire amid the detritus. Simon Smith joins these ranks He is a Paul Blackburn for the information age. Laurie DugganSimon Smiths work continues to be an essential reminder of the possibilities of poetry in the present moment. Day In, Day Out serves up quickly paced journal poems bursting with the details of the everyday life of travel, transience, and selfimposed displacement. Ghosted by his recently deceased father and Paul Blackburns own journal poetry, Smith generously tells everything I know about time, impermanence, and the ordinary scintilla of the moment grasped as at once fleeting and...

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