Oh Ohhh He's a working class man

working class writers have long been ignored in celebrations and examinations of poetry over time. Significantly absent in all literary canons, working class writers have been producing poetry that is considered beyond the pale. Working class writers face obstacles such as education, long working hours, lack of support to produce or publish their work. "Their work adresses themes which include work, unemployment, poverty, violence, community and family. These themes have been seen as jarring a middle-class sensibility, which is prone to rejecting such realistic accounts of working life as inappropriate concerns of poetry.(Attfield,2007)

As there is limited spaces where working class literature can be published, met with acceptance and appreciation, we have decided to create such a space. This blog is a collection of various working class literature and art forms, in order to give a voice to "the cultural traditions of working life and to explore how these traditions shape the forms and characteristics of literary expressions. (Lauter, 2005)



Attfield, S. ,2009, ‘The Poetics of Class’ from Working class Voices: The Working Class Experience in Contemporary Australian Poetry, VDM: Saarbruken, 40-62


Lauter, P, 2005, ‘UnderConstruction: Working Class Writing’ in Sherry Linkon and John Russo (eds) New Working Class Studies, Ithica: Cornell University Press, 63-77


Monday, 12 September 2011

He's running like a cyclone.

Benjamin Smith: 
an experimental working class poet, who's honest writing causes much controversy because of its explicit content. Many people question whether this is poetry or pornography, what do you guys think?


Ben Smith 
Shaving My balls part 1

There has got to be something
Therapudic
About clipping away at your pubes

Hacking through the vines.

Un earthing the pale
And wrinkly little man
who talks a whole heap of
Piss

Like Indiana jones.

I tell my family
im going to have a shower
but i take a pair of scissors
and
a cut throat.

Half drunk
I saw away at my balls
And my guts just underneath
My "checkmate" tattoo.

Later that night
When we are watching telly
I get the most insane itching
On my crotch

Which ends with me in the bathroom
Spreading my dick
WIth hand creme
And hair conditioner.

A bottle of cider in one hand
And creamy chunks of
Hair product
Stripped through the red
And blotchy
Blisters of my groin

Like a feather plucked
Hen
- Pink and white

My penis is a pale pole
poking out from the mess
like a cube of tofu.

Therapudic they say.
Beautie is pain.


References: 
Pearson, Chris, 2009,Ben smith: Shaving my balls,The Outlaw Poetry Network, viewed 10th of september 2011, <http://outlawpoetry.com/2009/10/27/ben-smith-shaving-my-balls/>


Smith, Benjamin, 2011, Horror sleaze trash, viewed on the 7th of september 2011, <http://horrorsleazetrash.blogspot.com/?zx=4134b350886b61d8>










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