John Seed – Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819
Published 2013, Paperback
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‘Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819′ is a poem sequence constructed from historical witness statements of two days in Manchester. This edition has illustrations from contemporary newspapers as well as an afterword by John Seed.
The first part of ‘Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819′, written in 1973 but previously unpublished, applies the citational method of Reznikoff’s Testimony to historical materials on the so-called ‘Peterloo Massacre’. The ‘Afterword’ reflects on this method, noting convergences to some recent discussions in the United States around ‘uncreative writing’ and ‘conceptual writing’.

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