Thomas Albert Fox's
"first utterance of the true thing of it that is"
in which the book is challenged as an artefact
that makes history by its own artefaction.
Edited by Terry Edwards

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 Siriluck Kedseemake
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  From an idea by Thomas Albert Fox

the beginning of history
timeless uttered unmarked of it
wandering herein the telling bind unraveled
lies the utterer who cannot write
and anyway doesnt know whats going on
its unreadable of it that only spoken can be

This 392 page poem is uttered in a form that eschews the key parameters of the English language as a literary instrument, this is to say (literally) as a written language. The poem reverts English to a purely oral form through the eye of its ultimate paradox: writing.  As in Fox's expression of the co-existential paradox in his poem "Deor", this poem cannot both 'be' oral and literary (written).  Yet, in the attempt to be oral and inevitably 'being' both, Fox 'is' reverting English to a facsimile or record of its original utterance.  This not to de-artefact the book as such, but, by re-formatting its traditional parameters, it is to eschew the normative implications that necessarily follow from the perceptual framework erected by the physical and literary conventions that come with the established English book form as an object to hand. The cover illustration shows the living nature of each written character making up the word "Latin".  These characters have a life of their own both preceding and succeeding, as it were, their various possible formation into written words and, in the case of these particular characters, representing the dismembering of the Latin dominion of 5th and 6th century Britain and eventual re-membering in the English glottis.  Reference to the notes on Alfred Smith further explicate the utterance concept.

NEW
August 2007

Thomas Albert Fox's
"Deor: dear heart dear one" with "Core rite"
Two poems on the state and condition of being.
Edited by Terry Edwards

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  From an idea by Thomas Albert Fox

"Deor: dear heart dear one"
with "Core rite"

"Deor", is a fifteen stanza poem recounting co-incidence of being between a deer and seer.  Although presented in a simple and familiar form, it  expresses a complex interplay between the being of the poet (which includes his being a poet) and the being of the deer he named Deor after the old English word for wild creature which has come to mean deer in modern English.  The rough draftings of the poem which led to its finished form are included.

Such rough drafting is shown of the development of "Core rite" which is also a fifteen stanza poem, but of an altogether different form than "Deor".  It reflects a childhood experience in post second world war Britain when rationing of most things was normal and apple cores were at a premium. The garden of Eden and the language of that first apple figure in the poem.  Indeed, at its core it is a consumption dearly won, as if by right.

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  From an idea by Thomas Albert Fox
 December 2006

"Epithalamion:
 Upon the Wedding of George Mihov and Malvina Kotorova
 on this the Sixteenth Day of September 2006CE"

A three stanza marriage song in the metaphysical style of the 17th century English poet John Donne written to celebrate the Wedding of Fox's friends George Mihov and Malvina Kotorova.  The song leads Fox and his editor to re-appraise the moral philosophy which informed Donne's life as we see it through his extant written work, particularly his own Epithalamions.  The younger Donne is seen as driven by a passionate piety struggling against his natural appetite for sex and his need for love.  Fox distinguishes in Donne's poetry a paradoxically severe distinction between love and sex while at the same time both needs give expression to states of innocent being which are religiously joined.  Fox finds that Donne seeks to access a state of metaphysical innocence through sex and that he is able to express this state through his use of a poetic technique which was interestingly dubbed by Dryden as "metaphysical", a term perpetuated by Dr Johnson and promoted by T S Eliot such that it now lies as a central term in English literary criticism (indeed, lies in wait to trip up the unwary).  There are three sonnet verses each embracing the loving relationship between George and Malvina upon which their marriage is made.  Fox intimates too the cross-cultural stretch between England and Bulgaria.  The book contains the full text of Fox's "A Veiled Threat: Dance of the Seven Sonnets", and "Lands of Hope Their Story".

Also available:
Thomas Albert Fox's Cornish Love Stories
Edited by Terry Edwards

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 From an idea by Thomas Albert Fox
November 2005

"Upon Godolphin House & Pengersick Castle"

This 43 stanza poem in the style of Andrew Marvell's 17th century poem "Upon Appleton House" celebrates the story of two Cornish houses that date back to medieval times and even to pre-historical settlement. At the heart of the poem are three love stories set amongst the adventures, the deadly politics, the entrepreneurship, and the agony of the British Civil War and its affect on the families involved in the houses. Essentially, this work of Fox is in homage to the extraordinary poetry of Andrew Marvell. Yet, it takes Marvell's work onward into another New World than that which was known to him and under exploration & exploitation in the 17th century.  Fox creates a strange model whereby he 'illudes' Marvell such that allusion creates an illusion that the space between Fox and the 'then' of Marvell is compressed into one being.  It is to the being-one that Fox works.

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From an idea by Thomas Albert Fox

"The Fairy Queen"

A surprising tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State of the United Kingdom.  The book is 100 pages in total and includes an extensive and detailed critical analysis of Fox's Jubilee Poem by his long time editor Terry Edwards who shows the "Golden Jubilee Poem" is in fact a traditional work referring back through the history of the Islands known as Great Britain, to the Civil War, through Elizabethan days, to the Middle Ages and then to Saxon times and on through Roman to the early Celts and back to the Ancient Britons. Terry Edwards provides a unique insight into the rigours of Fox's new and complex poetry. Though "The Fairy Queen" has all the trappings of simplicity, it is shown to be deeply complex. Not a book for those without a real interest in poetry as a tough, disciplined art.  Nevertheless, simply reading the poem itself out loud will take the readitor straight to the heart of the poem, while the supporting editorial apparatus will help the readitor see through those irritating obscurities in a convenient and illuminating way.

Also Available:
Poems Selected from the Work of Thomas Albert Fox of Corsham

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"A Suspicion of Sun"

A small selection of a dozen poems made in 1996 from the unpublished collected work then comprising approximately 500 poems. The selection is made to illustrate the range of Fox's short poems at that time.  It is of interest in providing an idea of the departure point for some of his later work.

Terry Edwards left school at sixteen to serve an electronics apprenticeship in the Royal Air Force. He served a twelve year engagement, travelling to and working in many parts of Britain, the Near and Middle East.  On completing his engagement in 1972 he took a State Scholarship to read English Literature & Philosophy honours at the University of Bristol, while also working in the building industry.  He joined the Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) at this time and served in Branch, Regional and National lay official positions.  After Bristol University he took an MSc in Management at the University of Bath and in 1982 also took a Master of Education degree specializing in Curriculum studies.  In 1978 he was appointed to lecture in Management at the City of Bath Technical College, where he also served as Branch Chairman and County Negotiator for the lecturers' union NATFHE.  He also served as the local education officer for the British Institute of Management and as a Bath City Councillor and Deputy Leader of his political group. He has undertaken many practical consultancies to industry and formulated, developed and worked widely within several major EU projects, managing two large projects in Civil Engineering and in the Arts centred on Romania and involving seven EU countries.  He has presented a major Highways proposal at the World Bank in Washington and to several foreign governments.  He has had published two full length books one on education and another on management training, together with two major refereed papers.  He served in the City Bath College in several capacities leaving in 1993 as a Deputy Principal to set up his own micro-companies justWords Ltd and AThaiS Ltd with his partner Khun Siriluck Kedseemake.  Terry Edwards has known Fox for many years.

"The Youth Training Scheme:
 a new curriculum?
Episode One."

ISBN 0 905273 96 6

Available secondhand
(ref name author:
Terence Allen Edwards)
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Published by The Falmer Press, Taylor Francis in 1984, 180 pages. The first serious attempt to grapple with the curricular implications of the British Youth Training Scheme and with questions about the organization, administration and manpower policy objectives of the scheme.  The book develops an organizational perspective to the analysis of curriculum and attempts a new definition.  The meaning of the word curriculum is discussed and a new definition develops through which the curricular implications of the Youth Training Scheme are drawn out.  A labour market analysis is used to link youth unemployment, national manpower policy and the provision of education and training for 16-19 year olds in the English education system.  There is emphasis in the book on the application of behaviourial theory to any curriculum (as defined in organizational terms). This is to say, theory to do with the behaviour of organizations and to do with the behaviour of people in organizations.

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