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Life in Transit : The Journey that Counts

Life in Transit : The Journey that Counts

by SamBerkson (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

    $3.37
Synopsis

Life in Transit searches for the public in a world that is increasingly privatised, both in terms of the 'chartered' space of corporate land grabs, but also the detachment of the individual in the late capitalist experience. Sam Berkson's collection focuses on the journey, rather than the destination.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Publisher: INFLUX PRESS
Published: 06 Jun 2012
ISBN 10: 0957169337
ISBN 13: 9780957169333

Media Reviews
'What's left of public space after thirty years of neoliberalism? Sam Berkson's new collection, Life in Transit, finds the degraded relics of public space on public transport. Like the music of Burial or Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah zines, Life in Transit is attuned to the peculiar loneliness of life in neoliberal Britain. In the UK, trains and buses are now 'public' in name only, since most are operated by private companies. By turns lyrical, acerbic and bitingly humourous, Berkson's poems describe a world in which, ordinarily , the only sympathetic solidarity is that of commuters who reluctantly cough together. Yet public transport remains a space where our lives can still be transformed by unexpected encounters with others, and where the shadow of another world - collective, egalitarian, democratic - can sometimes be glimpsed.' - Mark Fisher ' - Sam Berkson's own stories of life spent on London's public transport system, including lust on bendy buses and the cramped tyranny of the tube carriage at rush hour brought political meanings to the tawdry and humdrum experience of the everyday commuter.' - The Independent
Author Bio
Raised in the London commuter belt towards the end of Margaret Thatcher's first term as Prime Minister, Sam Berkson nevertheless took an English degree at Oxford University. He tried to make amends by working for seven years in secondary schools in Brighton, Liverpool and London. His first ever poem was a punk piece of visceral disrespect composed upon hearing of the death of Linda McCartney and his first proper gig ended in a fight. Continuing from there he has been performing in UK and abroad regularly since 2002, often under the moniker of 'Angry Sam'. He has featured at festivals including Latitude, Hay-on-Wye and Bestival, been a visiting poet at KaosPilots international school, Denmark; Grant MacEwan University, Canada; and at the Landmine Victims' Centre, Algeria. He hosts live slam nights for Hammer & Tongue and the Re:Versed show on NTS radio