Simon Cutts
Hardcover | 15 x 1 x 14.7 cm | 40 pp
Coracle | 2026 | 978096630686
Pyclets are round savoury griddle cakes, made with flour, yeast and buttermilk, not dissimilar from crumpets and the kind of oatcake made in other parts of midlands Britain.
They were sold from mobile carts in the gloriously gloomy entrance to the Derby Guildhall Covered Market of the author's childhood, their yeasty smell filling the empty, open corridors.
In Pyclets Simon Cutts offers a succession of returned-to quotations harboured over many years. Words from Mallarmé, Cage, Freud, Schoenberg and Stevie Smith among others, are interspersed with the authors own - all masquerading under the tiny fermented cakes of Cutts' home town. The cover emboss and multiple endpapers endorse the random connections between them.
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Simon Cutts, pyclets (Coracle, 2026)
I read this compressed book with absorption, content. Cutts's method: inclusions from a batch of previous books, mixing in extraction from other writers. Compressed bulk. Sifting through, the rationale for inclusion or placement in the sequence's development is sometimes clear, sometimes oblique. Their brevity has a shortening effect, and the consequent generous white space acts as a leaven. There are garnishes, small colour photographs of pyclets at the foot of each page (seen larger under the laminating of the cover).
If you're looking for an active starter in Cutts's work, pyclets should do you fine. There's nothing lame, it's all vital, all enriching, blooming wonderful: filled with enriching ingredients, cold proof of Cutts's excellence. Here's your heritage; here's an heirloom. Eat it all up, crust and crumb.
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