I wrote a long-ish review of David Farrier’s excellent Anthropocene Poetics for Criticism, back in the Big Before (i.e. January 2020, which kind of illustrates my point about the fast-and-slow times of academic publishing!). I know this because I wrote it sitting in a cafe, which would shortly become an unthinkably glamorous & exciting way… Continue reading Review of David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics in Criticism (Summer 2021)
Category: Poems & Publications
’29 Oct 18′ in Poetics for the More-Than-Human World anthology
I have a doomy disaster poem – Bolsonaro, Lorca, extinction, palm oil, tar sands, too much erosion, St Augustine (huh?) – in the Poetics for the More-Than-Human World anthology, up at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, edited by Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Sarah Nolan, and dedicated to Michael McClure (1932 – 2020) and Jack… Continue reading ’29 Oct 18′ in Poetics for the More-Than-Human World anthology
Scattered Ways: Alonso Quesada translations chapbook (Free Poetry, Boise State, Idaho)
A pamphlet of my translations of the Canarian modernist poet Alonso Quesada’s long poem Scattered Ways [Los Caminos Dispersos, written in the early 1920s but not published until 1944], came out last August on Free Poetry, a chapbook series attached to the creative writing programme at Boise State, Idaho. My thanks to editor Martin Corless-Smith… Continue reading Scattered Ways: Alonso Quesada translations chapbook (Free Poetry, Boise State, Idaho)
R/S Res. & Searching for Jossie
Below are links to both pieces of work from my ASLE 2017 project in collaboration with the artist David Barker Walker, along with a gallery of all the slates David produced for the exhibition part of the work, which was shown at In the Open (Sheffield Institute of Arts), curated by Judith Tucker. Do get… Continue reading R/S Res. & Searching for Jossie
Report on ‘Poetics in Commons’ by Helen Angell in Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry!
Somehow I never posted this when it came out: many thanks to Helen Angell for writing up ‘Poetics in Commons: Symposium & Performances’, which I co-organised with Sarah Bernstein at Sheffield in May 2019 (Link to the programme here: PoeticsinCommonsFINAL). Read Helen’s generous report here: Angell H. (2019) “’the fruits of the earth belong to… Continue reading Report on ‘Poetics in Commons’ by Helen Angell in Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry!
Alonso Quesada translations from Scattered Ways in Poetry Wales & Wretched Strangers
Some extracts from my ongoing translation project, the Canarian poet Alonso Quesada’s modernist long poem Scattered Ways [Los Caminos Dispersos, written in the early 1920s but not published until 1944], have been published in the latest Poetry Wales, along with a translator’s note that serves as an intro to Quesada & his work. Read them here: Quesada… Continue reading Alonso Quesada translations from Scattered Ways in Poetry Wales & Wretched Strangers
For David Walker Barker
Last month, friend, artist & collaborator David Walker Barker passed away. We had met through ASLE in 2016, and worked intensively on a place-based collaboration for the next 18 months, exhibited at Judy Tucker’s In the Open in Sheffield 2017. David was endlessly generous to me & no doubt to many others, always happy to… Continue reading For David Walker Barker
Book chapter, ‘Commoning nostalgia: making “Romantic sensibility sustainable” in contemporary poetry’, in Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability
On, in order of appearance: Peter Larkin & R. F. Langley; Anne-Lise Francois; J. H. Prynne, Peter Riley & The English Intelligencer; Sean Bonney & Stephen Collis; and Lisa Robertson. Let me know if you’d like a PDF. Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability, ed. by Andressa Schröder, Nico Völker, and Robert… Continue reading Book chapter, ‘Commoning nostalgia: making “Romantic sensibility sustainable” in contemporary poetry’, in Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability
‘Growing food on the green world: J. H. Prynne’s agro-chemical pastoral in the Vale of Tintern’, article in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (Autumn 2018)
Abstract: (to download one of 50 free e-prints go here). This article reads the poetry of J. H. Prynne of the early- to mid-1970s through an ecocritical lens, arguing that this work responds to the language of a nascent environmentalism framed by the concerns of political ecology. It does so by drawing on Prynne’s archival… Continue reading ‘Growing food on the green world: J. H. Prynne’s agro-chemical pastoral in the Vale of Tintern’, article in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (Autumn 2018)
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