Royal / Saddle-stapled / 36pp
Cover artwork by Tony Wild
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‘And as all this is happening, bait-time is more optimistic in poetry and ‘the ambient’ than anything else I read this year. It is aware that ‘vocal geometry is not / social geometry’, that alignments of sound, sense and occasion do not translate into prefiguration nor do they have to. Instead it gathers friends ‘called / to articulate nothing’ and delivers a reverie of pissing about, ludic and critical, a woodpecker or drill-bit. I’ve returned to bait-time, over and over, in the joy of its unfoldings and its attention—somewhere between documentary and free play. It is fieldnotes for catching voices and objects in interaction and never letting them sit idle, irreverently made against the powers that would compel quietude and contemplation.’ (Mau Baiocco)