’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)

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!

‘Five a Week’ in Blackbox Manifold + review

My long-ish poem, ‘Five a Week’, is out in full in the latest Blackbox Manifold, No. 21 (Winter 2018). As ever, there’s a really good selection of work in the issue; especially to my taste is Katy Lewis Hood’s ‘smoke screen   fragments’, which makes lyrical use of coordinates and trig-point measurements, as ways of naming… Continue reading ‘Five a Week’ in Blackbox Manifold + review

Reading at Xing the Line 20 Dec (7.30pm)

poetry: xing the line, 20 Dec, 7.30pm. Dan Eltringham : Beth Hopkins & Andrew Spragg : Samantha Walton. I K L E C T I K, ‘Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG London. Beth Hopkins & Andrew Spragg will be reading from their new Litmus book dogtown: http://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk/Shop/978-0-9927072-8-6 Samantha Walton will be reading from… Continue reading Reading at Xing the Line 20 Dec (7.30pm)