Pastoral Scanlines: Selected Works ‘20 - ‘25
From back cover: A selection of prose, poetry and plays from Newcastle-based author Craig Warren Smith. These pages offer a unique reading of internal and external landscapes, where panoramas of city and field interface with new relationships between human subjectivity and the technologies that unconceal our world. This is language as sense data, psychogeography and sweet nothing. The works in this volume were written between 2020 and 2025, including excerpts from novels and previously unpublished texts.
Contents
1 - Preface
13 - Untitled
17 - Autoincorrect
27 - Saltando
35 - Garden Monologue #2
57 - Ambient 1-4
79 - Peoplehood
101 - Gnomon
105 - Fellow Disjecta, Oh Sunny Danger Time
159 - She Believes Antique Logs Take Flight
161 - Leaving / Leading
173 - Garden Monologue #1
185 - The Wind Bucket
187 - A Billiard Table with Five Balls and Twelve Cues
197 - Carnival
201 - Postseasonal
211 - Aborealish
213 - Prompt
227 - Selector
237 - Obfuscation
255 - Pugil
275 - Nature as Landscape (from 'Antinomicity')
283 - Based On Your Viewing History
287 - His Is A Quiet Carriage
293 - Bundlebloom
303 - Protection: PS Part 1
317 - Sandsync: PS Part II
329 - The Body Of This Story
333 - Hesse
347 - To Weave, To Fabricate
349 - Sovereignty is an Artificial Soul
375 - A Parallax of Tensor Sharding
395 - Beyond Correct and Incorrect Nature
409 - Scenes (from 'A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place On The Beach Tonight')
439 - Just Talking About Pies
441 - Not Dry
465 - Ember Rim