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    The album comes with a beautifully packaged book of poetry. The words on the page are satisfying enough, unlike most rock lyrics, but benefit from accompaniment. ... Like any collection of poetry, you can dip in and out, but listening to the story unfold is the way to do it. This is definitely not, as they might say in Star Trek, rock & roll as we know it. It will adjust your set. TOBY CRESWELL

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I believe one of the functions of poetry/music  is the suspension of time. Robert Graves goes into this in some depth in his book "the white goddess". He expounds a theory of proleptic & analeptic thought, when one arrives at the answer to some riddle or problem without understanding or being conscious of quite how you got there. It is a feature of some poets work, but has been know to occur in those eureka moments of scientists and mathematicians too.  Over the years I've jotted down a number of apparently nonsense rhymes only to see their close parallels appear in reality at a later date. 
"what I write it will come true, you best be careful I don't write of you".

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Unto the capital
where some forces fall
To seek a woodcut
I’ve seen before

Old man with lamp
chases beauty down
His soul is torn
on the stony ground
She understands land
just by standing still

Sky split asunder
swallow storm
How they fly
in compassion song
Seeking truth
by lamp is fine until
The oil runs out

She understands that path
that the woodcut shows
Is not just knowledge
or its antidote
The girl is fair
the man is old and blind

Unto the capital
he’s bound to go
And buy a woodcut
of the episode

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes, Produced by Geoffrey Datson, Recorded and mixed at Greenroom Studio Cooroy.

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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