Jeremy Noel-Tod:
"A new work of found poetry that I’ve been admiring is John Bevis’ A Surrey Naturalist, just published by the ever-interesting Uniformbooks. An author’s note explains how it works through the chapters of a single non-fiction book, Eric Parker’s A Surrey Naturalist (1952), extracting and compressing words and phrases into short poems. The following lines were made using the 'cutout' technique, where words are framed on the page by a piece of cardboard with a matchbox-sized hole in the middle. Bevis quotes the American poet Jonathan Williams, who used cutouts to find 'the fire-points, the garnet crystals free of their matrix.'"
