Day 3 / Day 5
Fuck / Beethoven & Press Play >
So, sometime last year, BBC Radio 3 hollered at your boy to write an essay about Beethoven. Fortunately, I had written a poem about him in The Actual, but it was called Fuck / Symphonies. I backtracked my thoughts, un-writing the poem, undoing its mechanism, its inspirations, its nuances, tracing it right back to my earliest memories of music… and this is that essay. It was recorded early during lockdown here in London.
I hope you enjoy it. You can read the whole poem right here where it was first published, and go ahead, why not purchase the whole book here from Penned in the margins. #fuckAmazon