Stephen Benson

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Norwich

Photograph of a landscape taken late in the afternoon of the last day of the year. Sun setting low in the west; light blue sky crossed by a contrail.
A picture of the spines of several books by the music critic, Charles Rosen.
The first page of A.R. Ammons’ Tape for the Turn of the Year 6 Dec: today I decided to write a long thin poem employing certain classical considerations: this part is called the pro- logue: it has to do with the business of getting started: first the Muse must be acknowledged, saluted, and implored: I cannot write without her help but when her help comes it's water from spring heights, warmth and melting, stream inexhaustible: I salute her, lady of a hundred names— Inspiration Unconscious Apollo (on her man side) Parnassus (as her haunt) Pierian spring (as the nature of her
A picture of the guitarist Nina Garcia taken at the end of a performance in Norwich. The electric guitar is lying flat on a stool with effects pedals in front and amplifier behind. The guitarist is smiling.
Play for Today: Cornelius Cardew (exhibition catalogue, 2008)
Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (Hat Hut, 1999)
Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell, Azure (ECM)
West Sussex Institute of HE library stamp for Andriessen and Schoenberger’s The Apollonian Clockwork.