Introduction
Starting out as a review of the BFI’s PINTER AT THE BBC collection of unreleased television masterpieces, this monograph soon bloomed into a reflection on Harold Pinter’s work as a whole and his contribution to world drama and our understanding of it.
Accompanied by a suite of poems that commemorate his passing, alongside tributes to such luminous Pinter peers as Heathcote Williams, Edward Bond, Bernard Kops, Trevor Griffiths and Henry Woolf, NO LAST WORD is an attempt to spread and honour the word of a previous generation to those that follow.
It is a book which mixes the critical with the creative through a lifetime’s devotion, study and practice, directed at those whose interest lays in a true writer’s theatre.
David Erdos
David Erdos is an Actor, Writer, Director, Teacher and a widely published Poet, Playwright and Critic. A regular International Times contributor, Literary Editor for MU magazine and Series Editor for Bite-Sized Books’ The Return to Reason Series, David’s YouTube Channel chronicles The Covidian Age and his album Between Bright Worlds is Spotifindable. He is celebrated for his expertise in the Poem-Review.
Quotes about David Erdos
David Erdos is a vital part of our 21st century counter-cultural connectome, skittering across the literary landscape like a bead of mercury and leaving freshly-soldered synaptic linkages in his wake. If it’s a matter of importance, synthesis, or beauty, then Erdos is there to document, dissect and celebrate: an enthralling chatterbox of the human condition.
Alan Moore
‘David Erdos is the good detective, out there, on the move, on the case. He is a positive energy, a sympathetic reporter and recorder. Follow him. He is out there now, high among the ranks of the great, but unappreciated.
Iain Sinclair
As psycho-geographer of the zeitgeist David Erdos has a rich hinterland to draw upon, being himself poet, actor, director, composer, illustrator, musician and critic. The reader soon learns that the writer is well informed on very many levels and that he’s in safe hands for what proves to be a rewarding, penetrating and often breath-taking ride.
Heathcote Williams
Counterculture becomes even more important in these times of no cultural margins and constant erasure, making its dwindling list of commentators all the more crucial. There is no questioning the importance of David Erdos’ contribution as he includes me in his canon. Quite possibly the greatest living cultural commentator since Cyril Connolly!
Chris Petit
David Erdos brings light to the back alleys and side streets of culture and reveals so much gold that you have to question what it is that more mainstream critics do with their days. I don’t know what planet he comes from, I don’t know what powers him and I don’t know if he can be stopped, but I for one am glad he is out there.
John Higgs
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