Jeff Noon Investigation

After hearing Jeff Noon’s poem called, “Metaphorazine,” I knew for sure he would be an interesting person, so I decided that if I had to be marked on researching a poet, any poet, it would have to be Jeff Noon. So I looked up his bibliography. What i really found interesting was his idea of a classic childhood as he described “retreat[ing] inside himself, build[ing] his own inner world and throw[ing] away the key.” To me it kinda sounds like: a) he is describing all children as antisocial beings, b) he believes all children visit never-never land until post puberty or in extreme cases, a little longer or c) he believes children love to live in their imaginations. I’ll assume it’s a mixture of the three. After reading the personal biography of Jeff, and not the Press release version, it gave me a relaxed and almost humorous underlying tone which I felt Jeff Noon was trying to portray to his readers, especially the part where he describes growing up in a town called Droylsden as “not the sort of place to grow up artistic, unless a) you don’t mind getting beaten up and b) you’ve got serious plans of escape.” Jeff mentions his artistic talent specifically in painting, being exposed to Picasso at a early stage in his life yet he turned out to be a writer. I wonder why he didn’t pursue a career in visual arts if he was interested and skilled at it and instead chose to pursue writing. Being introduced to the poem “Metaphorazine” really opened my eyes to figurative writing/language; its depth and limits which I want to put to the test in the future and maybe if I take a trip to never-never land achieving this goal will be all the more easier