 Read what people have said about 'THE BAD SEED' by Dee Rimbaud'Rimbaud writes poems that try to make sense of this world in which we live. He celebrates forces and feelings that we only let ourselves imagine. Dee Rimbaud is an important poet because his poetry understands and meets the need of the current, questioning, searching generation.'Fionna Doney Simmonds (Parameter Magazine, Autumn 2005) Read the entire review here. 'The heightened language you use makes me think of the apocalptic landscapes of Emil Nolde and the grotesque yet appealing characters of Otto Dix. Somehow (to me, anyway) your intense use of language makes the images stand out in glaring, luminous colours... I also like the way you combine Symbolist, almost fairy-tale imagery with the harshest of realism... I think your poetry dovetails in neatly with your painting and graphics - the same fantasy distilation of reality. Your art work reminds me of Marc Chagall (one of my heroes: my younger son is named after him) but whereas I feel the old magician's stuff was always benign (his crucifixions are emotionally charged but painless) your visuals have a menacing edge that reminds me of the German Expressionists or even (with the picture on p.50 of The Bad Seed) Mathius Grunewald.' Pete Faulkner 'The genuine anarchist transcends all isms to speak from his or her instinct for what is true, beautiful and just. Dee has always done that - he isn't afraid to burn, and his razor-sharp eye is as penetrating in his artwork as it is in his words. He's a medecine man who, like his namesake, knows the meaning of poison - and his intention is to heal. Dance with him' Jay Ramsay 'I read your collection in one go and felt that I had been submerged in blood and brought out dripping. They are thick with images that lie deep in subjectivity, resonating loudly with my own experiences and feelings. I can see that they might not be to the taste of your average middle class housewife, but what the hell! they worked for me.' Alan Charles Gay 'Dee Rimbaud didn't emerge out of Oxbridge to study under the wing of a Nobel Laureate and then appear 'from nowhere' close to the top of the tree. The career's a matter of record. He does his own hype, there's no 76 farting saxaphones behind him sounding from Queen Square to Newcastle. I doubt if the poetry luvvies are helping him much. But for anyone who can see what's infront of him or her unaided by the arbiters Dee Rimbaud's got a lot to offer.' K.M. Dersley (Tears In The Fence, Issue 22, 1999) 'In Dee Rimbaud's Bad Seed we are offered cliched violence - words are often used for their supposed shock value rather than their appropriateness in any particular poem. Unremiting stridency leads to ennui and disinterest in the reader' Chapman (April 1999) 'When it comes to the smacked-out paper poem, it's usually best to Just Say No' Envoi (Issue 121, 1998) Buy the book and let me know what you think. The most glowing praise and the most imaginitive rebukes will be added here. Click here to buy |