Mechanical weekend
suburbia's drone
monotonous voice
numbing the mind with the common groan of mediocrity
The life pushing mowers controls that which grows underfoot
Where the sprouting roots of rebellion are decapitated
for the pleasure of the eye
where each sub-plot is a microcosm
reflecting the struggle against nature
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,