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Mar312009

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

The journal will centre on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations: for example avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing.
Editorial Board
  • Professor Peter Barry (University of Wales at Aberystwyth)
  • Dr Caroline Bergvall (University of Southampton)
  • Professor Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Dr Andrea Brady (Queen Mary College, University of London)
  • Dr Ian Davidson (University of Wales at Bangor)
  • Professor Alex Davis (University College Cork)
  • Professor Allen Fisher (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  • John Hall (formerly of Dartington College of the Arts)
  • Professor Robert Hampson (Royal Bedford and Holloway College, University of London)
  • Professor Romana Huk (University of Notre Dame)
  • Elizabeth James (Victoria and Albert Museum)
  • Professor Tony Lopez (University of Plymouth)
  • Dr Anthony Mellors (Birmingham City University)
  • Professor Peter Middleton (University of Southampton)
  • Dr Ian Patterson (Queens' College, University of Cambridge)
  • Professor Emerita Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University)
  • Professor William Rowe (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  • Professor Keith Tuma (Miami University, Ohio)
  • Professor Tim Woods (University of Wales at Aberystwyth)
Book Review Editor
  • Piers Hugill (University of Southampton)
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Tuesday
Mar312009

Home Phone

It is regularly voted one of the best books of all time, a timeless piece of satire which has never gone out of print in the 64 years since it was first published. But when George Orwell sent Animal Farm to TS Eliot for consideration, the poet - then a director of Faber and Faber - rejected it as "unconvincing".
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Tuesday
Mar312009

Noise Putty

Monday
Mar302009

Heaney

Jeffrey Side:

Jacket Magazine is looking for responses to an article I've written on Seamus Heaney, and which touches on his association with The Group, Hobsbaum, early career etc., which can be found here. Jacket especially needs articles, or shorter pieces, giving information or insights that might answer the question: "How did Heaney accomplish in so relatively short a period the almost universal admiration he now enjoys given his fairly modest talent? (The phrasing is mine, not Jacket's) Jacket simply wants informative articles on Heaney's career in poetry, which may shed light on the mechanisms of his ascendency. Send anything you may have here.

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Monday
Mar302009

Captain Sparrow

John Sparrow has relaunched Itch Away. Expect to see writings soon about things others should be writings mores abouts.

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Monday
Mar302009

Hammer & Tongue

Thursday 2nd April, 7.30pm

  • Keston Sutherland
  • Simon Munnery
Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, North Laine, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1UN Admission: £5 / £4 (conc.)

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Monday
Mar302009

La Langoustine Est Morte

Saturday 4th April, 7.30 - 9.30pm

  • Roddy Lumsden
  • Stevie Ronnie
  • Steve Willey
The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX Admission: £5 / £4 (conc.)

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Monday
Mar302009

Openned 25/03/09

Some feedback from Michelle Naka Pierce and Jim Goar about last week's Openned reading. It was great, thanks to everyone for attending, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

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Sunday
Mar292009

Self-Publishing and the Dusie Kollektiv

Annie Finch:

Over the last few months, a curious parade of poetic artifacts has been arriving regularly in my mailbox: fifty chapbooks written by poets who are members of the Dusie Kollektiv, each produced by another poet in the Kollektiv. This remarkable force of poetic self-determination was started by the poet and editor of Dusie Press, Susana Gardner, and is now in its third year.
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Saturday
Mar282009

if p then q issue 3

charnock_smaller A special poster set commissioned by the Bury Text Festival. Featuring work by:

  • Anne Charnock (pictured above)
  • Craig Dworkin
  • Geof Huth
  • Peter Inman
  • Tom Jenks
£5 plus postage from the if p then q website or Bury Art Gallery.

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