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Mike Johnson’s career in poetry writing
My poetic praxis principally stems from PhD studies on twentieth-century kinaesthetic and otherwise experimental poetry (e.g. visual poetry, sound poetry, Merz, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) – what could be called avant-garde Modernism or Postmodernism. Making it new, both in terms of structure and … Continue reading
Katrina Naomi is awarded writing residency
Katrina Naomi has been awarded a prestigious Gladstone’s Library Residency in 2013. She has just returned from reading at the Poetry on the Lake Festival in Italy, where she won second prize in the Poetry on the Lake short poem … Continue reading
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A new verse novel from Pauline Hughes
Smokestack Books, the publishers of Pauline’s new verse novel, describe it as follows: ’ The fabled city of Timbuktu, once the dazzling capital of the Songhay empire, is now just another impoverished desert town on the tourist trail. From Here to Timbuktu follows … Continue reading
A themed sequence of poems from Michael W. Thomas
‘Other Than They Were’: Figures on a Municipal Ground. (Batmans Hill, 1961-72: Poems) When people, landscape and memory meet, the consequences are often unpredictable. Memory, however, is the lynch-pin: that faculty which occupies the border between lived experience and fiction, … Continue reading
Bill Greenwell’s new collection of poetry
Bill Greenwell’s new collection, Ringers, is published this month by Cinnamon Press, which also published Impossible Objects in 2006. It contains sixty poems which veer from the satirical to the serious, well quite serious, and from poems about childhood and … Continue reading
A new poetry collection from Pauline Hughes
Pauline’s poetry collection Bint is to be launched on November 13 in Gallery North at Northumbria University at 6 pm. It is published by Red Squirrel Press. Pauline writes: ‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has … Continue reading
Jackie Wills featured in world poets series
A215 associate lecturer Jackie Wills is featured in a world poets series put together by the celebrated poet and editor, Sudeep Sen. Jackie, based in Brighton, is working on her fifth collection of poetry. The World Poetry Portfolio, published on … Continue reading
My Other Blog: Chris Powici
I seem to have gone blog-crazy and started another one. Maybe mildly blog-bitten would be a better description. Anyway, if you’re interested, my other blog can be found at poetonabike.blogspot.com. Strangely enough it’s about poetry and cycling, though I find … Continue reading