"To begin with, I struggled with this project; it's been a while since I last wrote, and I found this winter unpleasant enough without needing to be inspired by it, as well. In the end, the unpleasantness itself became my inspiration, the thing I wished to get away from, and the "elsewhere" that I settled on was drawn from an old stanza that had lain for some years without a poem to call home. It became the basis for all three pieces, which have a hint of my past styles about them, but are refreshingly new to me."                                 ~ Gram Davies

Centric - Gram Davies & E. A. Hanninen - 2007                     How could one choose, when trapped between                                                 superficial pleasures,                                                                 unwanted intimacy                                                                                 or another's dreams?

	E A Hanninen: What was it like writing in this non-linear manner? Did you use familiar skills or processes? Gram Davies: I seldom sit down and write from beginning to end in one smooth run. Instead I frequently use one line for inspiration, work form lists, re-start from scratch, re-order lines, or develop imagery from short-hand descriptions, so this project suited me well. EAH: What attracts you to writing poetry? GD: Walking through nature with headphones on! Sound and beauty. Images are dew-drops on the strands of meaning, but sound is the structure that holds the spiders' web taught and makes it thrum when a single thread is plucked. A poem's sounds are the points where strands intersect. Gram Davies was born and lives in England, where he survives on a low income in the relatively affluent vale of Taunton Deane, Somerset. He is twenty-nine years old, and grew up in a rural location near Sedgemoor, on the edge of the levels. Poetry and music have been integral to his life since childhood. He has few aspirations toward fame or fortune, preferring the close-knit community of the internet and a few carefully chosen friends. His career-path has continually suffered in favor of his "spiritual path", a term he abhors except with reference to direct experience of nature and the people he loves. He feels that poetry means nothing until shared. Gram has shared his poems in Tilt, poems and reviews in The Centrifugal Eye, and one of his poems was nominated (2006) for a Pushcart Prize.

Contemporary Poetry With An Eye Towards Resistance


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