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 Issue 14: March/April 2009

Great Works is a site for innovative writing: modernist, postmodernist, archaic. It proclaims the need to let a thousand flowers bloom, and rejects any single definition of what writing is. It welcomes alternative poetries and other writing. It proudly offers no retrieval of coherence at a higher interpretative level.

Work is invited or submitted: poetry, prose, or any other operations of language considered that encounter or question contemporary experience and language.

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About Great Works
The Featured Texts of This Issue, with details of authors
Archive of All Writing previously featured, with details of authors
Quick Index to All Authors and their writing on the site
Links to other sites of interest, with details
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mp3s of poets available on Great Works
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www.modernpoetry.org.uk
New Readers Start Here – an introduction to where some of the poetry on this site is coming from
Websites Useful for Understanding Avant-Garde British Poetry – with detailed comments and quotations^updated
Useful Lists for British Avant-Garde Poetry – websites, blogs and books
Important Anthologies, Literary Histories & Critical Texts
Poetry And Me: A Writing Biography – the personal and social factors affecting my activities as writer and publisher – my personal experience of this poetic culture
Links to British Avant-Garde Poetry Sites
Quick Links to British Avant-Garde Poetry Sites

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Three serial publications at present:

The last day of every month, or thereabouts: the next instalment of Richard Makin's new serial text St Leonards – accessible here – with the complete text starting just here. Excellent review of his current work on Intercapillary Space.

The other serial publication, at irregular intervals, is of Pistol Tree Poems, an interchange between Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, from various locations, with the current sections here.

In the Dirt of the Post-Lyric: A Collaborative Cycle, by Robert Blake, Connie Beauchamp, Gerri Dixon, Simon Gregory, Mark Hall, Erwin Hass, Tina Hyett, Emma Liukunas, Mikaela Moriarty, Peter Philpott, Bradley Tabor & Spencer Termott is being posted on Great Works, with two sections in each Issue (but not retained in the Archive). This issue, Sections C & D: Tina Hyett, poems from In the Dirt & Spencer Termott, THE MATCHING TYE SET, with work by eight other persons to come subseqently.

www.modernpoetry.org.uk contains background information on contemporary British avant-garde poetry. I shall be updating this site shortly. New Readers Start Here is a good starting point. This give a little background and a lot of links to help anyone interested in making sense of the avant-garde British writing which features heavily on this site. See the side panel for links to this site and what it contains, including a page listing Readings etc in London.

The next issue, which I hope to have out in the summer, will contain Mark Cunningham, Paul A Green, Alex Houen, Alex Walker, James Mc Laughlin, Simon Charlton, Alasdair Paterson, James Price, Les Wicks, Nick Wayte and more (including I hope some female writers!). Check on You Must Write As If Your Life Depended On It for when this issue is uploaded.

Sundays at the Oto is a series of readings and performances I am organising, third Sunday in the month, 3–5, at Café Oto in Dalston. The next (and last) event is on June 21: Jeff Hilson + Ian McLachlan + Johan de Wit. More information on MySpace. There is a Sundays at the Oto Facebook Group. Check these places, if not already on email list, for news of What Will Come Next!

The Links were checked and updated in February, and there will be a quick addition of some extra sites, before another full revision in the summer. Enjoy them!

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Issue 14.3 — June 10, 2009 — Peter Philpott

Richard Makin, St Leonards^{serial publication}
Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, Pistol Tree Poems^{serial publication}

Jeffrey Side, seven poems ^new
David Chaloner, three poems ^new
Richard Makin, eight poems from Rift Designs ^new
Hannah Silva, seven poems ^new
Scott Helmes, two poems ^new
Christopher Barnes, six poems ^new
Lucy Harvest Clarke, three sonnets ^new
Richard Barrett, two poems ^new
James Price, three poems ^new
Aidan Semmens, three poems ^new
John Gilmore, two excerpts from Head of a Man and Three Etudes ^new
Kenny Knight, six poems from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead ^new
Ben Stainton, four poems ^new
Ron Singer, The Shiny Pants Brigade ^new
Charles Freeland, six poems ^new
Caleb Puckett, three poems ^new
Mary Michaels, three prose poems ^new
Boris Jardine, five poems ^new
Michael Egan, three poems ^new
Tomas Weber, two poems ^new
Alan Baker, from The Book of Random Access ^new
Rufo Quintavalle, two poems ^new
AnnMarie Eldon, five poems ^new
Mendoza, poems ^new
Joseto Solis, from The Ingredients of Oneself ^new
Adrian Clarke, from Eurochants
Nathan Thompson, three poems
Tim Fletcher, four poems
David Rushmer, two poems
Michael Jacobson, from Action Figures
William Garvin, two poems
Glenn R Frantz, four poems
Stephen Emmerson, four poems
Gareth Durasow, two poems
Peter Dent & Rupert M Loydell, Overgrown Umbrellas
Colin Harris, six poems
Paul Holman, THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Five: TARA MORGANA
Anna Smith-Spark, two poems
Sam Oborne, from a novel
Alasdair Paterson, from Noctivagator
Ian Pople, six poems
Stephen Van-Hagen, four poems
Stephen C Middleton, six poems
Catherine Hales, two poems
Norbert Hummelt, trans Catherine Hales, three poems

RG Gregory, Proverbs of Hell^{pdf new}
Tina Hyett, poems from In the Dirt^pdf
Spencer Termott, THE MATCHING TYE SET^{pdf new}
Sarah Jacobs, Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here ^{from the archive}