Publications

Sunfish 5

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Issue 5 of Sunfish magazine recently out, A4 format, 40 pages, with work by:

Charles Stein – 4 poems from the forthcoming collection “From Mimir’s Head” by this American poet, Olson scholar and Homer translator 
Phil Davenport – “pollinators of eden”, a 10-page poem combining text and drawings
Carrie Etter – 6 poems, including 4 from her ongoing “Divining for Starters” series
sean burn – “bastilles englan”, a poem for multiple voices from this UK writer who was shortlisted for a Michael Marks award for his visual poetry collection “mo thunder”
Alec Finlay – 2 poems from his ongoing project “the road north”  
Amanda Earl – 5 prose poems extracted from a larger sequence by this Canadian writer (in what I think is her first UK publication)
Sunfish costs £4 (+ £1 p&p in the UK) and can be ordered via Paypal (to nigewood@softhome.net)
As ever, the magazine is also available FREE as a pdf to anyone that wants it – just email me to request it (and no, I won’t think you’re cheap for asking for the free pdf rather than buying the print version, so don’t be shy!)

via Nigel Wood

Maintenant #71: Lies Van Gasse

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The exceptional nature of the work of Lies Van Gasse, established, formidable and achieved well before her 30th birthday, is clear to all who follow central European poetry and the figures who are now showing themselves as the future of the medium. Emerging from the vivid and remarkable tradition of Flemish poetry, Lies maintains a focus and an exactitude about her work and its direction that well belies her relative youth. Adept and acclaimed at both more traditional lingual poetry and highly original ‘graphic’ poetry, her oeuvre is innovative and confident, straddling the finer points of language and art. Our first Belgian poet to be featured in the Maintenant series, Lies Van Gasse is undoubtedly a figure whose prominence will only increase in the coming decades.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-71-lies-van-gasse/

Accompanying the interview are 7 of Lies’ graphic poems, translated into English by Trees Van Gasse.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/seven-poems-oracle-lies-van-gasse/

2 new books from ©_© Press

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©_© Press is pleased to announce the publication of _Got On_ by Tom Raworth
and _Confection_ by Ryan Dobran.

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All best,
Ian

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Got On, by Tom Raworth (2011)

£10 (inc. P&P)

20pp. Letterpress.
Colour endpapers by the author.
Cover art by Travis Frazelle.
Edition of 200 copies.

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Confection, by Ryan Dobran (2011)

£5 (inc. P&P)

16pp. Cover art by Raul Perdomo.
Edition of 200 copies.

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FRANCIS CROT | HAX

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from Punch Press:

http://damnthecaesars.org/punchpress.html#FrancisCrot

FRANCIS CROT | HAX
London, 2011 — Hackney invades the city. In no ways handmade. Trade edition. 160 pages. Cover photo: “Dalston Occupation” (intersection of Dalston Lane and Roseberry Place, Hackney) by Sean Bonney. The structures photographed have since been leveled for the construction of Crossrail Station in advance of the 2012 Olympics.

HAX adjunct HAX

mongrel freehand GOTO w/ beaver-tailed G

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US $10 UK $15

Maintenant #70: Ilya Kaminsky

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Simply one of the few boundless poets on the world scene, and already a centrifugal presence in American poetry, Ilya Kaminsky carries with him the power of the great Russian tradition and the obvious potential to be recognised, in an age where poetry is a reticent presence in the public’s eye, as one of the finest writers of the oncoming century. An activist as well as a poet, his remarkable energy and intellect permeate his earnest, fulsome poetry and his unforgettable, idiosyncratic readings. In an interview which seems typically representative of his generous spirit, Ilya has offered one of the most ebullient accounts featured in the Maintenant series, and we are especially excited to have him read at the next Maintenant event in London, this coming october. To mark our 70th edition, Ilya Kaminsky
with thanks to Nikola Madzirov за многу нешта

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-70-ilya-kaminsky/

To accompany the interview are two of Ilya’s poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/two-poems-ilya-kaminsk/

Maintenant #69: Márton Koppány

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Márton Koppány’s opus of visual poetry stands as a remarkable entry into the ledger of post WWII European poetic innovation and expression. Behind him sits a life’s work, denoted by intellectual rigour and brilliance, as he has quietly, but indelibly, edged his medium forward. Producing work of immense quality, consistently, in the field of visual poetry for over thirty years, he has inspired new generations of poets while working from the inside out of his environs in Budapest and with a capacity for profound inflection and wholly accurate understatement (to a level of humorous / satirical reverence so poorly missing from much experimental poetry) he has tackled the nature of his own family history and it’s entwining with the darker days of modern Hungary. His work is thus indicative of the possibilities, and even the necessities, of visual poetry, his fundamental mode one of honesty in expression, led by a suspicion and engagement with the limits of language. Koppány has always maintained an incisiveness that has attracted the plaudits from poets in his field, and his sophicated, intellectual and urbane corpus has rendered him simply one of Europe’s finest poets and an immense contributor to often the most stimulating field of contemporary poetry.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-69-marton-koppany/

Incorporated into the interview are 13 poems by Marton, selected to display the width and evolution of his work over the last 30 years.