THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS extract

Fiction

Oct 31

THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS is an anti-novel, a modern epic poem and method-poem in action. Using umpteen numerical and circadian constraints, melville spent one year harvesting and re-planting imperatives, assertions, instructions and ‘facts’ – so you don’t have to! The language of corporate, cultural and state instruction is our new lingua franca, but what, and how, are these instructions instructing us? Read this book to find out. A must-read for anyone who exists today, or tomorrow.

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nicky melville

Described as an ‘avant-radge’ by Calum Rodger, nicky melville avant-garde a clue, but grafts away at, in, on, and against the margins of politesse and political discourse. He is a makar of found, visual, process and experimental lyric poetry, publications, installations, book covers and agit-p[r]op performance. A Selected poems, Decade of Cu ts, was published by Blue Diode in 2021 and his 400-page anti-poem-novel hybrid, THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS, is out now from Dostoyevsky Wannabe.

THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS extract

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