Publisher's Synopsis
"Speakbright Leap Passwood" is a major selection of Ulli Freer's poetry covering more than a decade. The poems have been extracted from eleven major sequences beginning with "Rushlight" and ending with a sample of recent work from "Mobile" and "Redirect." For Freer the titles of these sequences serve as icons to denote a space that is energised, where storm and transcendence translate into poems. The language reflecting an emotional and political resistance to organised systems of knowledge. The writing is that of an outsider, recording a journey of the mismatches between memory and perception. Words break down in this space to reform outside the centres of control and corporate world surveillance. The poems weave improvisation from fragments of order and personal dilemmas that rush through environments of urban decay and Freer's exaggerated landscapes. The writing combines tension of lines with built in rhythms to stress a pulsating speed and meanings borne out of velocity. To gain maximum impact Freer advocates that the poems be read aloud, in order to flatten any barriers or obstructions preventing change.
