All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions:
it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic,
plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated,
irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering substantial
debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve the impossible in being
all things at once. Initially conceived as a response to the
'austerity measures' implemented by the coalition government in
2011, the poems quickly began taking on a life in kind: 'cutting'
themselves on levels of sentiment, structure and even subject
matter. Not content to merely build a series of freethinking poems,
these remarkable pieces seem eagerly and mischievously to analyze
their moment of creation, then weigh their worth, then consign
their excess to the recycling bin thereafter. Experience is speedy,
the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry will
inevitably be running to catch up - often arriving at a scene the
moment after the moment has gone. The effect is as funny and it is
startling, beguiling as it is surprising, and makes Austerities a
vivid reminder that deprivation, as Leonard Cohen put it, can be
the mother of poetry.
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