In an attempt to redress and rethink boundaries between the historical UK avant-gardes and work produced by Black, Asian and ethnic minority poets, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry is seeking essays on race specifically in UK and Irish poetry. The aim of this special issue, edited by Sandeep Parmar, is to reconsider how poets of colour working across ‘avant-garde’, ‘performance’ and ‘mainstream’ traditions broaden the definition of innovation and the ‘possibilities of language’ in contemporary poetry and practice. More details, including the submission deadline, here.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
The latest issue of the Journal of British and Irish Poetry is now out, featuring articles on Tambimuttu (Matt Chambers), J.H. Prynne and The English Intelligencer (Ryan Dobran), Ian Hamilton Finlay and Thomas A. Clark (Ross Hair) and Denise Riley (Samuel Solomon). The issue also features conference reports on the Allen Fisher symposium @ Northumbria (SL Mendoza), Literary Collaboration @ Edge Hill (Tom Jenks) and Nomadic Poetics @ Bangor (Steven Hitchens). The reviews section covers The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (Joanne Ashcroft), An Andrew Crozier Reader (Alex Latter) and The Ground Aslant (James Wilkes). More here.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry launch events
There will be a series of launch events in
2009 for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
(http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry).
The first of which will be a celebration of the journal occurring at Edge
Hill’s own celebration of its decade of poetics:
Edge Hill University
Education Building
8 October, 6.30 pm
(http://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/09/going-public-autumn-2009.html)
The other two launch events will be standalone. There will be speeches and
discussion of the journal. As well as an opportunity for readers and
contributors to the journal to meet with editorial board members.
Birkbeck
University of London
Main Building (Room B29)
Malet Street WC1E 7HX
21 October, 7.30 pm
(http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps)
University of Salford
9 December, 3 pm (tbc)
Featuring Christine Kennedy,
Allen Fisher and Ian Davidson
(http://www.salford.ac.uk/travel)
Via Anthony Levings, Managing Editor
Gylphi Limited, http://www.gylphi.co.uk
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
The first issue is out now, 112 pages in length and the contents are as follows:
EDITORIAL: Scott Thurston and Robert Sheppard
Dragging at the haemorrhage of uns : Maggie
O’Sullivan’s excavations of Irish history
Mandy Bloomfield
Democratic consensus in J. H. Prynne’s Refuse Collection
Ian Davidson
Veronica Forrest-Thomson s Cordelia , tradition and
the Triumph of Artifice
Gareth Farmer
Expectant contexts : Corporeal and desiring spaces in
Denise Riley’s poetry
Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy
BOOK REVIEWS
Tony Lopez, Meaning Performance
Reviewed by Robert Sheppard
John Wilkinson, The Lyric Touch
Reviewed by Scott Thurston
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