some Links
to other sites of interestapprox 155 online magazines and e-publishers 
147 writers' homepages and blogs
23 audio and video sites
61 print publishers and magazines
20 readings &c
resources: 61 foci of information
6 bookshops and booksellers
20 personal sites
This page is being built up as a selected list of links to other websites containing innovative & interesting writing, or links to this. Last completely updated, February 27, 2009. I think this will be a biennial event now onwards. I try and ensure notes on sites record their most recent state — but can't guarantee it! Do communicate any sites you feel Great Works ought to be interested in. Other members of the BritPo and UK Poetry listservs will recognise my use of many of the URLs posted there.
I do realise this is a huge page — if you want to go to a specific site, it may be quicker to use the Quick Links page, which just lists the names as links. That page also lists sites slightly more analytically — the first category here is deliberately miscellaneous.
"Pick 3 stories from Google News. Using only words that occur in the first 3 paragraphs of each story, make a poem with 3 stanzas, 3 lines each, no more than 60 characters per line. The 3-word title should use a word from each story. Mechanical aids encouraged." Even has a handy list of text processors.
Hammond Guthrie's site is a huge & agreeably baggy monster, and with a wealth of material: a John Wieners memorial, writing on Adelaide Crapsey, Philomene Long, the Queen of Bohemia, and some fascinating links, often with a beat slant. It is hosted by emptymirror.com, an online beat bookstore also worth visiting. Go on — flush out the the sludge of theory with some total human commitment!
"an online magazine of the literary arts" is an attractive ezine, combinging some good contemporary writing with "classic" texts (eg Milton).
This really is an attractive ezine, with a wide range of poets, who, as the phrase goes, were mainly unknown to me (it's my fault, they're all damned good & worth reading). This is good quality writing. As an editorial Simon DeDeo's essay "towards an anarchist poetics" is spot on, and reproduced also is his piece "life in the slush pile" from his rhubarb is susan blog – sound advice for anyone submitting poems.
This is an online magazine linked with American publisher Action Books. I really enjoyed the most recent issue, especially Mike Schorsch, "from An Introduction to Venantius Fortunatus for Schoolchildren" and a fascinating essay by Robert Archambeau, "The Avant-Garde in Babel: Two or Three Notes on Four or Five Words" (picking up on an earlier essay, "One Earth, Four or Five Words: The Notion of 'Avant-Garde' Problematized" by Per Bäckström)".
publish in paper, but also online, with some excellent e-books, including South Wales Echo by Gerard Casey, Catherine Daly, Secret Kitty, Christine Kennedy & David Kennedy, Ovid's Keyholes, Peter Riley, Greek Passages (1st Part) and Kelvin Corcoran, I Know the Songs of all the Birds. The site is expanding, with Die Young, "a literary magazine for cartographers of the abyss, toad smokers, connoisseurs of coma, the metabolically challenged", a blog, and video also.
has a lot of interesting writing, presented very directly. You may be interested in work by Alan Halsey, Pete Smith, Ralph Hawkins, Sheila Murphy, Ken Edwards, Andrew Nightingale, Drew Milne, Lisa Robertson, Allen Fisher, Peter Manson, Alan Halsey, Trevor Joyce, Tony Lopez, Peter Middleton, Geraldine Monk, Laurence Upton & George Quasha.
"is devoted entirely to poetry and poetics. It publishes non-mainstream poetry, and features essays and interviews related to it. By non-mainstream, I mean poetry that is aware of the plasticity of language and which places connotation and ambiguity over denotation and precision of meaning. This sort of poetry invites interpretation and allows for plurality of meaning as opposed to hermeneutic closure." I can't agree with all of editor Jeffrey Side's credo — I'd aim for some impossible combination of precision and ambiguity — but it's a brave nailing of colours of the mast for an heroic e-zine which contains a very wide range of poets (eg Rupert Loydell, Geoff Stevens, Ashok Niyogi, Peter Riley, John M. Bennett (including also an excellent essay, Reading John M. Bennett: How to Read and Think About the Poetry of John M. Bennett by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Allen Fisher, Catherine Daly, Diana Magallon, Christopher Mulrooney, Chris McCabe, Jeff Harrison, John Seed, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Ron Silliman. Adam Fieled, Peter Finch, Mairéad Byrne, jUStin!katKO), an equally wide range of articles and interviews, and a huge list of links. Also up is a fascinating series of interviews with songwriters on songwriting and poetry. It is a wonderful site, full of promise — only flaws that it's white on black, and material is very unordered. Otherwise, near perfection in its inclusiveness. Jeffrey Side also has a blog, with interesting comments on the poetry cultural scene in Britain.
is a very rich source of material, including superb animations and other visual material, chapbooks and other epublications (including The White Wish by Andrea Brady, and Nicholas Moore's famous and astonishing versions of Baudelaire's Spleen). Brian Stefans' weblog, Free Space Comix: The Blog is a fascinating starting point.
"A group poetry blog founded by Andrew Lundwall and Clayton A. Couch". A lot of material from a lot of people, eg Sheila Murphy, Guido Monte, Adam Fieled.
have a really fun blog — looks like another American city with an interesting poetry scene.
edited by Tim Gaze from South Australia, hosted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, publishes (often huge) pdfs of asemic and graphic writing, with work by, among others, their good selves, Michael Jacobson, Andrew Topel, suzan sarý.
"is committed to publishing quality chapbooks by liberated poets from Anywhere. We do not discriminate against non-human or post-human artists." Human artists include Giles Goodland, Theodore Enslin, Rae Armantrout, Catherine Daly, more of John Crouse and Jim Leftwich's Acts, Jacques Roubaud & Harriet Zinnes; for non-human check out Gnoetry. All as non-copyright pdfs.
"The intent of the Journal is to provide a venue for creative literary content that explores the potential of network-based creativity." There is a wide range of different ways of using the Web for multimedia and hypertext works, some banal, much haunting. In the current issue I enjoyed most Marianne Shaneen, "An Ornithology of War" and Jon Fried, "Definitions". The archive includes work from Lawrence Upton and Peter Howard. Not at present active site.
"A magazine of poetry and everything else" is a delightful site, including much fun, and poetry from, eg, Michael McClure, Jeffrey Side, Ray DiPalma.
Willam James Austin's e-zine has a lot of good material on it, including work from Anny Ballardini, John M Bennett, Crag Hill, Sheila E Murphy, Andrew Topel, Donna Kuhn.
"is an online forum with a slant towards innovative poetry that has prose, narrative, or sequences in its sights." It looks like a new poetry ezine with a lot of potential, and a wide range of material, including work from David Annwn, Vahni Capildeo, Christine Kennedy, David Kennedy, Rupert Loydell, Tom Leonard, Peter Manson, Sophie Mayer, Peter Minter, Leo Mellor, Redell Olsen.
"Post-Avant Fiction & Poetries", gives online material (including Charles Freeland in latest issue) and large pdf files in a clear format. Contents include as e-books Mark Young, Betabet, Sheila E Murphy, pressure on the spine / her spine your spine my spine, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen [#1-#46] and mIEKAL aND Truth Squeal Vacuum, poems by Duane Locke and Gregory St Vincent Thomasino, plus previous issues, print-on-demand books and merchandising, and a blog too. A good place (seems to be Buffalo) — well done, Geoffrey Gatza.
publish poetry in translation, mainly from European languages. The site shows a strong commitment to this, with a lot of material available online, including translations by James Kirkup, and some fine bilingual chapbooks (eg Tibullus, Fasti — Books I & II, translated by Tony Kline).
publish two journals: gestalten (experimental poetry), and neotrope (progressive fiction) — specimens of which are on the site, plus a range of pdf chapbooks, including John Crouse, Belows, Sheila E. Murphy, Arbitrariums, William Keckler, Recombinant Image Day, and a gallery of visual work. A rich site.
is the website of a movement, defining itself as a form of postmodern allegory (with leanings to fantasy and surrealism, especially Central European versions, in there). Mainly prose texts, quite haunting and unsettling, with theoretical base too!
"is a journal of literature in translation, published in print tri-annually and continuously on the internet." With original texts, plus some interviews and reviews. High quality!
is published from Hong Kong (Tammy Ho is co-editor), and contains a lot of poetry. It is an elegant ezine with interesting and enjoyable material. I find contemporary writing from Asia fascinating: if modernism is all about urban life, then in Asia, where urban life is at its most intense and innovative, what writing reports is compelling.
elegantly designed magazine edited by David Bircumshaw, current issue featuring poetry by Sheila Murphy, Tim Allen, Peter Riley, Pierre Joris, WB Keckler, Jeff Harrison, Special feature on German language poetry (with essay by Andrew Duncan), translation from the Dutch by Andrew Duncan & Karlien van den Breulen, and some of a very complex text from David Bircumshaw. Also on the site are two collections of poems by David Bircumshaw: Parousia and Painting Without Numbers. The whole ensemble comprises Spectare's Web — a remarkable monument!
is an e-zine devoted to translation — issues and examples. There is a lot of really excellent material on it, eg, Versions of August Stramm by Alistair Noon. by Thomas Meyer from Dao De Jing by Laozi, by Karl Krause and Anny Ballardini from Pasolini, by Louis E. Bourgeois from Fragments by Stéphane Mallarmé, by Pierre Joris from Cycle III of Lichtzwang by Paul Celan, Mark DuCharme & Kent Johnson, "'Addressed to No One': Reading Jack Spicer's After Lorca". A very rewarding site (even if index in near unreadable red on black).
is a really exceptionally well designed and very active ezine – I am left speechless with delight at the sheer pleasure of reading it. The writing is of a very high quality. Current issue includes Eileen Tabios, W.B. Keckler & Snezana Zabic. They also produce online/printable chapbooks.
"The CommonLine Project (CLP) was founded in early 2007 by poet and essayist Ananda Selah Osel. Before October of 2008 The CommonLine Project was based out of Seattle, Washington, USA. It has since re-located and is now published from the United Kingdom. Richard Wink is the current Editor-In-Chief and publisher of The CommonLine Project. The CommonLine Project is a quarterly online magazine dedicated to publishing poetry. The magazine's original mission was to promote blue collar verse; that is, poetry written by or about and for the common reader, hence the title of the magazine. Since the inception of The CommonLine Project it has received a large amount of critical success and in-turn has expanded it's content to include diverse types of writing although it still places heavy emphasis on the experience of the working-class person." How this will go remains to be seen. Potential is there: but will it work from Uk rather than USA?
Maurice Oliver's blogzine has a nice range of largely American poets.
is a largely flash-based site with a lot of material from the engagingly diverse American print magazine: the texts by Aase Berg ("Där låg marsvinen" — "There lay guinea pigs" prove chilling words) are well worth searching out, and other gems will be encountered.
Dan Schneider's website hosts much material from him — some of which is worth a lot of attention — and evidence of his wide-ranging enthusiasms (and the opposite!), ranging from an encomium on The Zombies, to small online selections of "Neglected Poets", including some very worthwhile names who you may be unfamiliar with, eg Conrad Aiken, Samuel Greenberg, H.D., Stephen Jonas, Mina Loy, Tom McGrath, Lorine Niedecker, Kenneth Patchen, Laura Riding.
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen's Lulu Storefront enables you to buy (pod) or download a range of experimental poetry, visual poetry, Fluxus works, focusing especially collaborative works. Jim Leftwich, John Crouse, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Michelle Greenblatt, Peter Ganick, John M. Bennett, Andrew Topel and Jeffrey Side are the authors.
CreatureMaG: something created is a quirkily produced ezine, heavily visual and music/art-oriented, with indeed, amusing and creative material flowing off the screen. A past issue includes a little poetry anthology edited by Tom Chivers, with poems by Gavin Selerie and Richard Makin.
"endeavors to dynamically engage the precarious interface between lyrical expeditions and conceptual economies, between experiential risk and critical clarity, between an ethics of event and an aesthetics of representation. We encourage cross-genre pollination, intermedia hybridity, and interdisciplinary dialogue. This interpenetrative space serves as a repository for theoretical and imaginative explorations, as a forum for contemporary cultural concerns, and as a springboard for developing innovative pedagogical tools." Oh my dear! Are you up to this? Lots of interesting writing (both primary and as essays) and (this is catching!) other textual practices, often with brief commentary, by the likes of Leslie Scalapino, Eileen Tabios, Derek Beaulieu, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nick Piombino. Jolly interesting really.
So many, so beautifully produced, so full of so many different names, these American websites. Ah, the land of plenty! XConnect is a good site, with some interesting material — Giles Goodland (not American!), Lyn Hejinian, Denise Duhamel, in the current issue.
contains a wide range of reviews of films, texts, TV drama, plus audio/multimedia work by Paul A Green, Lawrence Russell and others. A whole complex cultural nexus is laid out. The account of the Poetry Buzz for Allen Fisher is wonderful, as is Brother Paul's review essay on Iain Sinclair's anthology London: City of Disappearances. And I've just found Paul A Green's excellent review of M John Harrisson's Light, that gorgeous and haunting reworking of SF.
"and other imaginal spaces" is a very full and active site, very visually aware, and with some multimedia work also. Current writing of interest includes a long sequence (with photos) by Robert Gibbons. But that's only scratching the surface of what's there.
is a complex series of hypertext poems by Anne Berkeley, Peter Howard and André Mangeot, written in response to an exhibition on city life at Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge (and to Cambridge itself). It is a powerful and engaging construction. More of these writers' work can be found on the website of the group they belong to, The Joy of Six.
"is a curatorial platform that provides the tools of a socialised internet for the development and presentation of contemporary art and literature." It's a large complex site presenting a range of material, seemingly more image-based than language-based, as flexible constellations and as work in progress. There's a tendency towards academic/artspeak jargon, but concept, execution and the work within it could point to a new way of presenting creative work on the Web. Of more immediate interest is Andrea Brady's long poem Tracking Wildfire. Haute Couture Death Text by Jim Leftwich you might also find appealing.
is based on an interesting concept: "to juxtapose, unite and reunite the poetries of France and the United States". It is therefore bilingual and binational. The most recent issue includes poems from and an interview with Alice Notley.
"featuring over seventy contributors of new poetry, prose, photography, video, web art, and sound. Special Features: on Poetics and mis/Translation. A large and fascinating site: but the whole team of you could have thought of a more original name (see below!).
edited by Rebecca Seiferle, contains among other good things Alison Croggon's talk The Imaginative Life and the Social Responsibility of Writers, Rosmarie Waldrop's translations of Elke Erb, and Continuations: A Collaboration between Douglas Barbour and Sheila E Murphy. The current issue is centred on a feature of Cave Canem poets — "a home for the many voices of African American poetry".
is a poetry e-zine publishing a range of good poets. The most recent issue consists of a series of pdfs of beautiful little chapbooks, by such as Rae Armentrout, Catherine Daly, Sheila E Murphy, David Berridge, Adam Fieled, Giles Goodland, Matina L Stamatakis. A Dusie Isles Reader, is an excellent online anthology of current British & some Irish writing, including David Annwn. Tim Atkins, Tina Bass, Caroline Bergvall, David Berridge, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Mairéad Byrne, David Caddy, Vahni Capildeo, Emily Critchley, James Cummins, James Davies, Andrew Duncan. Carrie Etter, Allen Fisher, Melissa Flores, Amelia Gilmore, Giles Goodland, Mark Goodwin, Alan Halsey, Robert Hampson, Edmund Hardy, Peter Hughes, Sarah Jacob, Susan Johanknecht, Luke Kennard, Christine Kennedy, David Kennedy, Ira Lightman, Rupert Loydell, Geraldine Monk, Marianne Morris, Redell Olsen, Peter Philpott, Ernesto Priego, Tom Raworth, Peter Riley, Sophie Robinson, Gavin Selerie, Jeffrey Side, Zoë Skoulding, Martin Stannard, Rob Stanton, Laura Steele, Sandra Tappenden, Scott Thurston, Anna Ticehurst, Simon Turner, Steven Waling, Carol Watts. Basically — the best online anthology of contempory British poetry.
has an appropriately eclectic listing — a feature on the fiction of Ian Duncan Smith fair took my breath away, until I checked the spelling. I will confess I also enjoy the little excerpts from texts used as tasters more than the whole poems — some interesting editorial selection.
"is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity." Late New York School and Language poets (including L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine and LEGEND, with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman).
was a very fine US based ezine, with a very inclusive policy, whose final issue has now been published, including Charles Bernstein, Tim Dlugos, Clayton Eshleman, Fanny Howe, John Latta, Bob Perelman and many, many more. Issue 6 includes 13 British Poets ("In memory of Richard Caddel: 1949-2003"): Caroline Bergvall, Richard Caddel, Martin Corless-Smith, Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Alan Halsey, Elizabeth James, Christopher Logue, Geraldine Monk, Frances Presley, Christopher Reid, Peter Riley, & Harriet Tarlo.
"pronounced el-ee-may, and standing for electronic literary magazine" is a neat little American ezine. The current issue is bursting with ingenious and lively writing.
is an ezine (also available in print form from Lulu), and with such as Jim Leftwich & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Peter Ganick, Jeff Harrison.
Excellent writing of the highest quality, full of bite. Current issue includes a lot of work form Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, including a manifesto (on "on logoclasody, logoclastics, eidetics and pannarrativity"), early texts and a homage to John M Bennett. The magazine is printable as pdfs. Very good archives, well worth rummaging in.
Intriguing, varied and informative American blogzine
"A Journal of Life and Letters edited by Andrei Codrescu" is well worth your time — full of complex pleasures and invention (and information on the Romanian avant-garde).
"A periodically updated collective blog", which satirises the world of avant-garde poetry through imitations of the famous (in some quarters!) "Faits Divers" (miscellaneous happenings) columns of old-fashioned French newspapers. It is amusing, though the British material is quite weak and unconvincing.
is a tremendously largescale enterprise, with a whole worldwide fleet of poets and translators aboard, with already a huge corpus of worthwhile writing. Some highlights for me are Gertrude Stein's two psychological papers, produced when she was working with William James (one jointly with her brother Leo), an essay by David Rosenberg on poetic integrity, contemporary Taiwanese and Eritrean poetry, translations from Latin American modernism by Tony Frazer, delightful little rants by Kent Johnson, some Catullus, some Rob Stanton.
a web affiliate of Faux Press Books, hosts a large number of pdf and html e-books, including writing by Stephen Vincent (Sleeping with Sappho), Sheila E Murphy, Alan Davies and some Frank O'Hara/Tony Towle collaborations.
A fun little ezine, I picked up on it through the Marianne Morris poem – but the other poems (by Scott Meltsner, Susan Maeder, Daniel Hintzsche, Theresa Whitehill and Kish Song Bear) were also good, as is much of the other material.
is "a multi-disciplinary journal in the arts and politics", with an interest in the Pound/Olson trajectory of poetics: a fine and intelligent ezine. Current issue is on Pound and Wall Street — now there's a topic! Good stuff throughout, including Pound's reading of Canto XLV (the Usura Canto), Pound and Pasolini on YouTube, and much else (don't worry: intelligently critical, not naively accepting).
edited by Angela Gardner is a very beautifully produced ezine, with a wide range of interesting writing on it.
To use an advertising phrase, good stuff. Fascinating material on the site, which got involved in controversy when they published online Issue 1, a hyper-mastodon amongst mags (3785 page pdf!), with contributions listed as from "Nada Gordon, Evelyn Reilly, Julianna Mundim, Emmy Catedral, Enid Bagnold, Richard Siken, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Gottlieb, Jodie Childers, Norman J. Olson, Brent Hendricks, Sean Kilpatrick, Tom McCarthy, Stacy Doris, Michael Rerick, Corrinne Clegg Hales, Mark Decarteret, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Darren Wershler-Henry, Letitia Trent, Debra Di Blasi, Laura Elrick, Bruna Mori, Popahna Brandes, Robert Sheppard, Diana Magallan" to "Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles Borkhuis, Herman Beavers, Stephanie Skura, Jessica Bennett, Steve Carey, Madeline Gins, Thom Donovan, Chuck Perrin, Luci Tapahonso, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Ira Cohen, Marko J. Niemi, Ray Davis, Nancy Gandhi, Dee Rimbaud, Mary O'Malley, Evie Ivie, Pamela Mack, Lawrence Lessig, Allyssa Wolf, and Snezana Zabic." A poem each of computer-generated text. Some people got very angry (hell hath no fury like an outraged avant-gardist whose branding is subverted). I'd say Vladimir Zykov, Kaegan Sparks, Gregory Laynor and Stephen McLaughlin are indeed researching poetry. Carry on. guys! You are doing only good things.
does what it claims, in an elegant site, whose current issue contains two poems by Peter Riley missing from Lleyn Writings. Root around the archives, and find eg a very fine review of Trevor Joyce, What’s in Store: Poems 2000-2007 (New Writers' Press & The Gig, 2007).
"[Eileen] Tabios also edits the blog-based book review Galatea Resurrects, a mixture of original reviews and reprints of print reviews that she regards as a form of 'cultural activism' because it calls 'more attention to poetry in all its forms, schools, approaches and other variety'." An excellent project, focused on US writing.
is a long-established Australian/Austrian literary e-zine. Current issue on Viennese life and culture (by non Vienna-born).
"Poetry & Fiction, Interviews, Essays & Reviews, Bios, Links; Douglas Messerli, Editor" has a very wide range of material. Most recent issue contains some interesting poems by two British poets unfamiliar to me, Peter Cater and David McLean. As I keep writing – check out the back issues. This online review is linked with Green Integer. who have a superb publishing list (oh, Gertrude Stein, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, Barbara Guest — that sort of quality). Dougla Messerli now has a blog, with interesting and eclectic reviews.
"seeks to publish works of excellence and assumes that excellence is always the offspring of experimentation." Most recent issue contains a fascinating essay, On Naming, by Lucy Ives, on the work of Hannah Weiner and Lola Voss. The site uses a fascinating text software, iPaper, that operates like a friendlier version of Acrobat. Look also at the back issue containing a big West House Anthology, with authors from Thomas Lovell Beddoes to Peter Riley, via Ric Caddel, Kelvin Corcoran, Johan de Wit and West House Books publisher Alan Halsey himself. And all the other back issues, while you're at it.
has a range of writing (I liked best Eryn Green) &c, and a little downloadable pdf sampler of work by Ric Caddel, as teaser for the forthcoming edition of his poems by Pressed Wafer of Boston, Mass.
is a high quality American ezine, with writing from figures including Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Tom Raworth, Jane Augustine, Harriet Zines.
publishes responses from poets to a standard range of questions. There is vast number of responses, including Anny Ballardini, Mairéad Byrne, Gregory St Vincent Thomasino, Rae Armantrout, Susan M Schultz, David Bircumshaw, Linh Dinh.
"exploring non-traditional directions in poetry and scholarship by women", is full of excellent material, including in the current issue whole masses of poems, papers & unclassifiable material on performance, ecology and poetics, poets on mentorship, and Barbara Guest, with writing from among others Frances Presley, Ann Waldman, Tina Darragh and Marcella Durand, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Carol Watts. In the stupendous archives, poems and papers from the Cambridge Experimental Women's Poetry Festival (October 2006), Pantoume by Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Marianne Morris (image & text), a feature on Archive of the Now, including a valuable interview with Andrea Brady (and video of Andrea reading Wildfire), "quickflip: a HOW2 e-chap" (lots of good writing!) compiled and edited by Frances Kruk, who has also curated "Welcoming Space: Susana Gardner and Dusie Books". The archives are equally rich. This site hosts a tremendously exciting range of writing and talking/thinking about writing. It is exemplary.
is an elegant littl Australian e-zine, with a large number of issues, featuring work from writers such as Michael Rothenberg, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, John Kinsella, Peter Minter, and Tammy Ho Lai-ming. It is a sideshow for Papertiger Media, publishers of poetry and art on CD-ROM & paper — and also a nice little art e-zine, anything i like.
contains poems, and very interestingly, records of workshop discussions on these by members of the Poetry Workshop: Cahal Dallat, Jane Draycott, Hugh Epstein, Christopher Hedley-Dent, Elizabeth James, Duncan McGibbon, Leona Esther Medlin, Kim Morrissey, Richard Price, and Sudeep Sen. A very well designed site, which gives a great deal of context for these poets' work.
is bilingual in English and Hungarian, with some superb examples of "Fluxus, visual poetry, found poetry, and minimalism". David Antin, George Brecht, Armand Schwerner, Jane Augustine, Michael Heller and Jesse Glass are all represented.
"Intercapillary Space is a continually unrolling magazine. You will find book reviews, poems, essays and capsules. The magazine is curated and largely edited by Edmund Hardy", with as contributors virtually everyone with something interesting to say about contemporary British poetry, on a varied range of topics. From strength to strength! – now with some excellent ebooks also, including Dilemmatic boundaries: constructing a poetics of thinking, an essay by Emily Critchley, Joshua Stanley, Litany, Berlioz, a poem by Peter Hughes. and John Harington's 1591 translation of Orlando Furioso. There are important gatherings of responses by a variety or people, mainly poets, to the work of Doug Oliver, Peter Riley, Alice Notley, and currently Seán Rafferty also. Vital!
is a rather over-designed e-zine (sorry! but the texts are all so constrained in little boxes; keep it simple and readable, please!), with a very wide range of writers. A recent issue was dedicated to Bill Griffiths
"It's where the parameters of the Beat Generation are redefined and expanded to embrace a creative movement that goes beyond personality wedged in temporal categories and public relations concepts" they said, and they did. An interesting and very varied and risk-taking NY magazine — current issue focused on fantasy, including editor Mary Sands' very informed experiences of World of Warcraft (with screenshots).
is a superb and huge online magazine from Australia. The current issue includes Alan Davies, "To Call Them by Their Dead Name" (on Emanuel Carnevali), Rebecca A Smith, "Barry MacSweeney and the Bunting Influence: 'A key figure in his literary universe'?", poems by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Amy King, interviews with Peter Riley (very rewarding!), Roy Fisher and Emile Benveniste, and a whole lot else. Amongst the huge archive, recommended are Laurie Duggan, On Gael Turnbull’s Collected Poems: with a digression on his aleatory, kinetic and other off-the-page practices, plus Post-Marginal Positions: Women and the UK Experimental/Avant-Garde Poetry Community: A Cross-Atlantic Forum, moderated by Catherine Wagner, and including contributions from Andrea Brady, Geraldine Monk and Jow Lindsay. And there is the poetry, of course (try Laurie Duggan, Two poems from ‘The skies over Thanet’). If you are interested in looking at some of the antecedents of the British writing on Great Works, I would also refer you to Issue 20, on Cambridge, with vast amounts of material on Veronica Forrest-Thompson and Hugh Sykes Davies, Andrew Duncan on A Various Art and "the Cambridge Leisure Centre" (and on Trevor Joyce), Rod Mengham on Bourgeois News: Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, material from Quid and Parataxis magazines, a large amount of material on and from Perfect Bound magazine (including a long interview with Peter Robinson), and poems from Bob Cobbing and Robert Sheppard, Robert Hampson, Tony Lopez, David Marriott, Drew Milne, and Peter Robinson; there is an informative if slightly pointed review by Robert Sheppard of Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court by Peter Barry, detailing the nakba of avant-garde British poetry; or more positively John Welch's memoir Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s. On the other hand, you can discover the joys of flarf in the Jacket Flarf feature.
"and its numerous publications represent the singular editorial vision of their publisher Jonathan Williams." His amused and civilised vision lives on in this site — pursue the "musings" to get the full range.
contains work by mIEKAL aND, and collaborations with Elizabeth James, Sheila Murphy and Maria Damon — hypertext, pataphysics, patalinguistics: haunting, challenging and beautiful. Try Literature Nation with Hyperpoesy — they "comment on each other, imagining the possibility of a language-world that cleaves closely to geological and botanical landscapes we inhabit with as much passion as we do the languescape of poesy."
run by David Miller, publishes small publications from a very wide range of writers, with all I think on the site. Writers include Jeff Hilson, Paul Buck, David Menzies, David Miller, Robert Lax, Alyson Torns, Giles Goodland, Keith Jebb and Johan de Wit.
is a writer-run centre in Vancouver, with a very exciting policy and series of activities. On their site at present are pdfs of their very thick magazine W, with work from, just to start listing some, Kevin Nolan, Steve McCaffery, Lisa Robertson, Fred Wah, Leslie Scalapino, Lisa Jarnot. Very interesting is W12: THE ALL MUSIC ISSUE, on music and poetry, essentially in performance (including sound files). Other series of publications will be added. There are extensive audio files also of talks and readings, eg Bruce Andrews, Michael Palmer, Ron Silliman, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley, Susan Howe, and so many more. Excellent stuff!
is an overflowing cornucopia of delights: "This site includes a federation of genre, subject, and author home page, as well as smaller surveys and individual poems. It should give a rough sketch of some of the possibilities of late 20th-early 21st Century poetry from a number of different points of view and means of presentation. This is an anthology rather than a zine, and an anthology dedicated to alternative means of presentation as well as pluralistic forms and subjects. It includes over 60 complete books, new and reprinted." The range of material and links is vast, with emphasis on many aspects of visual poetry, from an Aztec codex (with commentary) to pages & sites dealing with the Fluxus and Lettrisme movements, Hungarian visual poetry, Paraguayan women poets, and more from a range of individuals, eg Rochelle Owens, Michael Heller, Jerome Rothenberg, Carl Rakosi, bpNichol, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Michael McClure, Lorine Niedecker, and cultures. It is a near inexhaustible source.
I'm sure I remember this as a print magazine, so long ago. Not a place for the cutting-edge post-avant: but good work from William Watkin, a little poem from David Bircumshaw, and poems from Ted Burford, who I'm sure was connected with this in a print version so long ago. All right, I'm listing this out of vague nostalgia for another survivor. There is, though, a nice test to see if your poetic genes are good enough for the magazine (mine were!).
Co-edited by Andrew Nightingale has the current issue available in print, but previous issues on the Web, with work from Giles Goodland, David Berridge, Mark Goodwin, Peter Hughes and Peter Philpott available.
is the e-zine of Leafe Press, who publish booklets by Kelvin Corcoran, Alan Baker, Tilla Brading, Lee Harwood, Peter Dent, Martin Stannard, with poems online. Litter has masses of good stuff, work from, among others, John Welch (his essay SOMETHING ABOUT IT is true), Janet Sutherland, Carrie Etter, Laurie Duggan, Mark Goodwin, Tilla Brading, Lee Harwood's essay My Heart Belongs to Dada, Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy's Intelligence Report — Evidence of the Enemy, Gavin Selerie, Poems from Le Fanu's Ghost, Fances Presley, Poems from the sequence Myne, big Peter Dent and Martin Stannard features, Kelvin Corcoran, Rupert Loydell and Alan Halsey. There are also good interesting blogs from the two Leafe Press editors, Alan Baker and John Bloomberg-Rissman.
includes mainly visual (including Vispo and multimedia) work from mIEKAL aND, Michael Basinski, John M. Bennet, Laura Goldstein, jUStin!katKO, Jim Leftwich, Sheila Murphy and Andrew Topel.
Tracee Coleman's engaging site gives a range of poets, including Peter Howard, Lisa Zaran and others.
or "logolalia logolalia logolalia whee logolalia", is Dan Waber's site, bursting with innovative, mind-grabbing and often plain funny operations upon language and writing, much from him, and some when others are involved in projects. Hours of fun that will just massage the language centres!.
started off by publishing renga, but publishes a wide range of traditional and innovative participatory poems ("symbiotic poems" is the phrase they use). It is a part of the large AHA! POETRY site, devoted largely to collaborative poetry
" is a web-based poetry quarterly which seeks to publish quality poetry and related articles." There is good, lively material — an effective little e-zine. Giles Goodland's Notes towards a History of The Cento is an interesting piece by an expert practitioner.
's current issue is Poetry etc: Poems and Poets — an anthology edited by Andrew Burke and Candice Ward of writing from mmbers of this well-established poetry listserv, with an interesting historical introduction by Alison. The range of contributors is very wide: Sheila E Murphy, John Kinsella (the list's founder), David Bircumshaw, Randolph Healy, lots and lots, and the whole shebang is downloadable as a pdf. An interesting back issue contains a Feature on Irish Poetry, with, among others, Mairéad Byrne, Brian Coffey, Trevor Joyce, Medbh McGuckian, Maggie O'Sullivan, Maurice Scully, and Catherine Walsh. Masthead's editor, Alison Croggon, has also a varied & interesting personal website with links to her own very varied writing.
is a very large downloadable ebook, with a wealth of material in this area (which tends towards the artists' book model), some of which inded is multimedia and can only be accessed onscreen. The anthology is edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. It features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. The non-generic site also led me to The Homeless Gods, a site largely authored by James Stuart, which is an interactive poem-world, based on mythology (initially Sumerian). I hope you enjoy both of these excellent creations!
"Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance." It contains performances from a large number of writers, including Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, Martin Corless-Smith, Sean Bonney, Mairéad Byrne, Tom Raworth, Lisa Jarnot and Randolph Healy as Quicktime movies amd mp3s, and material from the 2008 SoundEye Festival. Meshworks is on the Oxford Magazine site. That's Oxford, Ohio, home, even more confusingly to Miami University.
has a wide range of contributors and material, including an interest in the historical avant-garde, both European and American — you can check out an Interview with Philip Lamantia, Eight Poems by Pierre Reverdy (translated by Tom Hibbard), and pages of links for Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso and Ted Joans. plus poems, and archives.
is one of e-zines produced by Didi Menendez, whose press formerly operated under the label MIPOesias, but is now retitled Goss 183. MIPOesias is a simulacrum of a glossy mag, photospreads & layout to match. Ocho is more soberly text-based. Both are available in paper. Both online I find a little irritating — Goss 193 uses the Issuu site to give a faux page-turning experience: fake! But on the other hand it is excellent to see such care in the presentation of poetry, especially with MIPOesias doing this in a (magazine trade) mainstream way. The also very glossy Oranges &Sardines is solely print. Sound (and text) is provided by miPOradio, with blog posting various poets, and regular podcasts, including David Caddy's So Here We Are: Poetic letters from England and Grace Cavalieri's INNUENDOES and ON LOCATION, which has material from a range of writers. Also miporadio dot net, purely sound. The final component is Pressure Press; Pressurized Precognition Press, "a transformed cyberspace place", which is a social network, with multimedia, blogs & all the social networking stuff too. It's a hell of a lot! Superbly done (despite my purist quibble), though the poetry is not as risky and innovative as this astonishingly bold and successful business model! I'd recommend the archive section of miporadio dot net, and David Caddy's podcast blog.
an online journal of poetry and poetics has a wide range of poets represented, including Camille Martin, Sean Burn, Adam Fieled and Amy King, with e-books also, including William Allegrezza, Covering Over, Charles Freeland's Furiant, Not Polka and Anny Ballardini, Opening and Closing Numbers.
"Never in and never out of print..." — I like that! — contains amongst much else of interest poems by Sheila E Murphy and Catherine Daly. Often excellent writing.
MAG is a huge, eclectic and well-established site, that has published a large number of interesting writers. I mustn't let its editorial tone get too up my nose. There is much good writing here.
This issue of an absolutely vital magazine: "Our contributors explore the links between a global glut of financial liquidity and the capitalist self-cannibalisation that sustains it. Tracing the impact of financialised and looted social existence from the micropolitics of student debt and lifelong labour, via the reign of fictitious capital, to the geopolitics of US militarism and reactionary anti-imperialism, this issue asks us to reimagine crisis as a political question with an open outcome: Are we about to pick up the tab for the financial elite's decades long free lunch? And if total monetary collapse is a way off, is this because the social crisis and repression we already face are deepening? Whose crisis is it anyway, and if it comes, who is going to come out on top?" contains poems by Andrea Brady, Keston Sutherland, John Wilkinson, William Fuller, Howard Slater, in addition to the best analysis of that state we're in, and some hints at getting out of it. Read the poems in their context – they work superbly! Access the Mute: Culture and Politics after the Net site for the whole of what Mute and OpenMute do. It is the only worthwhile political publication in the UK.
"A narrativity is all encompassing, but open" — a fascinating e-zine concerned with theory-based narrative — sounds bad, tastes very good. Contributors include Kathy Acker, Trevor Joyce, Lawrence Upton.
Michael Jacobson's weblog "explores asemic writing in relation to post-literate culture." Fascinating!
"We'll leave a poem out for you." A curiously attractive site. "What do you get when two housewives produce an online poetry journal?" It's varied, often sexy: a pleasure to read. A nice surprise!
contains a range of fascinating journalism, from the political to the fortean, as well as an interesting range of poetry, eg John Welch, Stephen Mead, Peter Riley, Christopher Mulrooney, Maurice Scully, Catherine Daly, Charles Bernstein, Kevin Kiggins, Alexis Lykiard. You can download from the site 100 poets against the war, Poems for Lord Hutton, and other free and controversial collections of topical poems.
"a spring-fresh interview zine dedicated to showcasing poets who deserve to be better heard and read" run by Kevin Doran and Matina L. Stamatakis, starting with Sean Fitzpatrick.
publishes poetry and prose. The most recent issue includes Five Not Unrelated Stories by Charles Freeland.
edited by Tim Atkins, is a very fine-tuned e-zine, whose most recent issue includes, among others, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Tom Jenks, Peter Manson, Steve Willey and Tim Atkins — also a ferocious set of links, and good reviews.
A really very fine ezine, with a lot of visual material, including in most recent issue, Denise Duhamel, Geof Huth, Tom Beckett interviewimg John Bloomberg-Rissman, Sheila E. Murphy, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen & John M. Bennett, & Cath Vidler.
have an interesting website, with prose and poetry. It records both a constant, and a quite specific American literary tradition — and a necessity for the health of writing.
"A blogzine of investigative, exploratory, avant-garde, innovative poetry and poetics edited by Robert Sheppard" is a superb blog now focused on answering the question "What have been the most significant developments in the alternative British and Irish Poetries (however you define those) over the last 7 years?" The posts are informed and provocative. The most recent, by Todd Swift, I would recommend as a cold look at the current little world of British poetry. Its archives contain essay-length reviews, prose and poems, with work from or concerning Robert Sheppard, Iain Sinclair, John Muckle, Lee Harwood, Sheila E Murphy, Clark Allison and Bill Griffiths.
"PARADISE invites you to explore — read its stories, search its streets. PARADISE invites you to write — to fill its buildings, write its dreams." It is a fascinating & tempting collective project — take a look.
This is a nice little ezine, currently including Marcus Slease, Arlene Ang, S. Browning & B. Shimoda, among others, out of Norwich.
is an elegant little e-zine, rarely with any names I recognise – so many poets in the USA! – but an enjoyable and lively quality to much the writing.
"Maximum Postavant" is also a blogzine — e-zine using blogging technology — organised by Adam Fieled. A lot of very interesting material and much good archive material, eg interviews with and poems by Chris McCabe, Andrew Duncan and George Bowering. Adam Fieled also runs a more personal blog, Stoning the Devil. I like this from his most recent post (Jerome McGann and the Ideological Challenge ): "I turn 33 this Saturday; I still (officially) have seven years of young poet-ness to look forward to; what are my ideological assumptions? I am a member of several loose groups of poets. I can say this: we want to keep the "base" of what the Lang-Po crew erected, but we want sensation, sex, humanity, emotion, and narrative again. Implicit in this plural formulation is a critique of Lang-Po that I will not deny. Our basis is a putting back in of what Lang-Po took out. Yet our ideological assumptions have not been formalized; that particular challenge is still ahead of us." Damned right, young man!
Peter Ganick's LiveJournal has writing by himself and a host of others, eg Jim Leftwich, Sheila E Murphy, Thomas Lowe Taylor, John M Bennett, Alan Sondheim, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, John Crouse. Good stuff!
A Greek online magazine. I cannot usefully comment on the Greek material, but I know what will (or bloody well ought to!) interest Great Works readers are: "The origins and trajectories of English avant garde poetry in the last 40 years", a dialogue between Peter Riley (also poems of his) and Spilios Argyropoulos; poems by RG Gregory; Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "Working Notes"; and an mp3 of Gertrude Stein reading "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson".
" And yet of course you are partisan. As a reader, as an editor (who is a certain kind of reader, maybe not Ideal-ised, but certainly an attentive one), you do want certain things from the poems (and the critical reception of those poems) you come across. I am, for example, somewhat uncomfortable with cults and the status of effective unreadability they confer on their objects. I mistrust homogeneity. I've an appetite for the collisions, rather than collusions, of international writing: internationalism is one of Poetry Review's longest traditions. In a Britain where even the arts establishment can look shifty when it comes to poetry, where access to contemporary poets in libraries and on syllabuses is increasingly rationed, Poetry Review — whose readers and subscribers include not only individuals with absolute poetic commitment but those for whom it's their only contact with what's going on — has a robustly colourful role to play in presenting the best of poetry today, in cajoling poets into particular forms of writing, and in nursing contemporary poetry-critical discourse. There may be easier jobs. Few offer such peculiarly sweet rewards." Robustly colourful: my arse. The back issues of the run edited by David Herd & Robert Potts are still accessible for a wide range of interesting poems and reviews, eg poems by Keston Sutherland, and Andrea Brady on Denise Levertov. Other good stuff includes Andrew Duncan on the Keith Tuma 20th Century British and Irish Poetry anthology, and reviews of texts such as John James, Collected Poems, J H Prynne, Unanswering Rational Shore and Wendy Mulford, And Suddenly, Supposing, and poems by writers including Tony Lopez, Lee Harwood and Michael Haslam.
Anny Ballardini's e-zine has a huge range of poets represented, with little bios, pix & links as well as poems: Rae Armantrout, Douglas Clark, Lawrence Upton, Peter Philpott and Ruth Fainlight are some of the writers. Her blog NarcissusWorks provides an interesting commentary on the site.
Editor: Will Rowe. The site has been revived and remade, with current isue centered on Introduction: Poetry & Public Language, edited by Tony Lopez, as record of a seminar held at the Centre for Contemporary Poetics, Birkbeck. Much in the archives, eg poems by Frances Presley and a review by Allen Fisher of Redell Olsen's Secure Portable Space, and an essay by Alan Halsey, "An Open Letter to Will Rowe" on the current situation of poetry in England.
This is a really fresh and lively ezine in blog format, with a high quality of contributions and a sense of a collective life in it.
is a UK-based webzine, containing the magazine-like "The Eternal Anthology" (including Tim Allen, Harry Guest, Norman Jope,Rupert M. Loydell & Jeffrey Side, plus in The Repository, a series of illustrated poems that are well worth investigating, with work from Mr Loydell (including collaborations with Sheila Murphy), Andrew Nightingale, MTC Cronin, Yann Lovelock (there's a name I hadn't heard for many a long year) and others.
Editors: Piers Hugill, Aodhán McCardle, & Stephen Mooney. This contains secondary material. Now relaunched, fresh essays have been posted, including pieces on Sean Bonney's poetry. Previous issues include responses to the Forum on Women Writers, by eg Frances Presley, John Hall and the editors, plus other stuff such as Jon Clay on Geraldine Monk, Lawrence Upton on Alaric Sumner's Waves on Porthmeor Beach & Niall McDevitt on Maggie O'Sullivan. It is supported by Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, School of English & Humanities, Birkbeck College.
is Alan Morrison's ezine: "In terms of poetry, we have a preference for work that deviates from the mainstream. We particularly like political, social and polemical poetry. We wish to promote non-conformist work, in other words, that which does not submit to the ease of contemporary trend." Among the poets are Richard Barrett, Martin Jack, David Kessel, Alan himself, Alistair Noon. Plus prose and much else.
"AFTER-WORDS : Response : imitation : riff : homage : voices in dialogue : lines spidering between authors : letterspace : connectors : weavings : sound-offs : TEXTUAL PING-PONG": all of these on a very active collective blog, including names I recognise, like Alistair Noon, Rufo Quintavalle, Dusie, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez (suggesting anglophone expats in Europe?), and many more I don't.
struck me as the most interesting site I've encountered dealing with hypertext writing, containing some fascinating work and a wealth of links out to this quite specific world of writing. The most recent issue is dedicated to the memory of Alaric Sumner. But unfortunately nothing seems to have happened to the site since I first encountered it.
"short poetry short fiction short...uh..art". This is a very enjoyable site – heroic though it is to attempt to present the epic, short texts work best online. The issue of short poems illustrates this well. There are chapbooks online as well, and the whole thing can be printed off too from pdf files.Try too the editor (Dale Wisely)'s note, applying "statistically improbable phrases" to major Holy Books.
was looking for finely crafted free-verse poetry, finding it, and publishing it on a very elegant site.
This has some very neat micro-fiction pieces, prose that works well online. Very, very neat, is that you can shift the layout style of the pages to a number of choices.
catalogue (with specimens of writing) for a serious and major press whose titles include work by David Chaloner, Simon Smith, JH Prynne, Andrew Duncan, Ron Silliman, Rod Mengham, Anna Mendelssohn, Alison Croggon, Sophie Levy & Leo Mellor, John James, John Temple & John Kinsella (one of the two editors/publishers) — virtually everyone! — plus also a useful set of international poetry and poetics links. There is a very useful News section, with bulletin boards.
SciFi haiku, and indeed other similar forms (eg tanka, haibun and joined scifaiku). Fan genre poetry. Curiously readable.
Ian Seed's e-zine is a very classy and consistent production, with work from a wide range of poets and some informative and engaged reviews. Most recent issue includes Hannah Silva, Marcus Slease, Adam Burbage, Rupert M Loydell, Matt Bryden, Amy Slater, Rufo Quintavalle and Mark Goodwin. Professionally regular in meeting its deadline (unlike me!), there is a huge and valuable archive of current British poetry
is nice little magazine with some good work on it, that brings me great pleasure. Pamper yourself with it.
including Shearsman Magazine site contains much good writing, eg Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, Aidan Semmens, Nathan Thompson, Chris McCabe and Chus Pato, translated by Erin Moure, in the most recent issue online, with also many reviews by Tony Frazer (and his highly reliable and wide-ranging Recommendations for reading), and some previous issues available as .pdf files. Also on the site are a series of e-chapbooks, including Anne-Marie Albiach, Flammigère and The line . . . the loss. Ken Edwards, Chaconne, Stephen Vincent, Triggers, An Introduction to the Work of Michael Ayres, John Muckle, Firewriting, a reprint of Richard Burns, Avebury, Rupert M. Loydell, MULTIPLE EXPOSURE (Ballads of the Alone 2) and John Hall, Through the Gap, plus details of Shearsman books (including some texts), eg Peter Riley, The Dance at Mociu and Trevor Joyce with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold: A Body of Work 1966-2000. A useful and glorious site. And my publisher! And the publisher now in English of Vallejo and Pessoa.
is the English language aspect of Brazilian magazine Sibila — Revista de poesia e cultura, directed by Régis Bonvicino and Charles Bernstein. There is a heavy, but very useful and well-considered, emphasis on Language (and post-Language) poetics: "Conceptual Poetics" by Kenneth Goldsmith is interesting, as are contributions from Bernstein, Douglas Messerli and Marjorie Perloff, as well as the original writing. And, of course, focus on Brazilian and Portuguese literature, and in politics and culture. This should be a widely read site.
is an attractively wide-ranging little e-zine: eg, the current issue includes poems by Carrie Etter, Peter Hughes, Geraldine Monk, Carol Watts and John Welch, and an interview with Ken Edwards. An earlier interview with Andrew Duncan ("I find some Cambridge poetry utterly obscure. There is this social background of a very strict power hierarchy based on intelligence rankings set by competitive tests. The poem works as one of these tests. It does not matter if no-one understands your poem because that means you've won!") is too good not to quote from.
is quite a fun mainly US-based poetry & criticism e-zine. Very interesting is issue involving ASL (American Sign Language) poetry.
is Trevor Joyce's space for invention: "if the eye be sound the fish is sweet". Not at all glassy, but full of life and invention in the site, with poetry from Mairéad Byrne, Brian Coffey, Patrick Galvin, Trevor Joyce and Michael Smith, material from the Cork Soundeye Festival of the Art of the Word, and the extraordinary collaborative poetic venture Offsets.
A nice, big, very New Yorky big ezine. Current issue includes Bernadette Mayer, William Allegrezza, Barry Schwabsky (lovely series of pastiches beginning with "After Amy King", but also Catherine Wagner, Simon Smith, K. Silem Mohammad), Amy King herself, Charles Bernstein.
is (intermittently) out of Seattle, and with some brilliant and exciting writing available as a pdf.
"Featuring poets, flash fiction writers, authors, musicians, and artists – we aim to bring you the finest in Brutalist writing from across the globe." None of the names are familiar to me, but this blogzine is pretty funky. The Brutalists seem mired in unoriginal knee-jerk jerk-off post-punk self-publicity; but straightfromthefridge is worth your detailed perusal.
new magazine from two ex-Roehampton students with a wide range of writers. Current issue includes sean burn, Anna McKerrow, Chris Major, Claire Marshall, Jodie Oakes and Tony Rickaby — most of whom I hadn't heard of, but are pretty good.
is linked with Stride Books publishing, and makes a tremendously effective and varied site, including work by Richard Burns, Tom Chivers and Rupert Loydell, and a very involving review of Martin Corless-Smith's Swallows. Full of good things.
is an Australian ezine, with a lot of empasis on haiku.
"is a space sponsored by the department of art and the center for the creative arts at austin peay state university to showcase and examine internet and new media art." Current exhibition In Search of a New(er) Digital Literature, curated by Alan Bigelow, with work from Jim Andrews ("The Idea of Order at Key West Reordered") among others on the site, plus work from earlier exhibitions and sound art.
is a constantly enlarging mountain of reviews, often greatly illuminating. (Actually, it's stopped still at the moment.)
-->is a blogzine from Jim Leftwich, of submitted images — textimagepoems. Good stuff! You can also access a range of other blogs produced by Jim L, of which the most active are: textimagetext giving work from Acts, his ongoing collaboration with John Crouse, and The Art of Books & Small Print Publications posting covers of and images from such (with a mail art interest).
"publishes a journal of experimental poetry from the Pacific, including Hawai'i, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Australia, California, and western Canada. The press also produces books and chapbooks of poetry and experimental prose." The website includes also downloads of texts, including work by Susan M Schultz (editor), and has some interesting critical writing online, eg on the politics of a local poetry in USA from Rob Wilson.
"a monthly journal of poetry & poetics, art & criticism", is quite a groovy little number. Current issue on the language of flowers is haunting and intriguing, worth investigating (but has been around a long time!).
edited by Kevin Doran, is a beautifully produced and very engaging blogzine devoted to short form poems (of very various types).
commissions and supports net art — meaning that its site host or links to wondrous projects, like ABSML text-generating mark-up language, or Tumbarumba, a conceptual artwork in the form of a Firefox extension. Well worth exploring. Site was developed by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), pioneers of radio art, who also run New American Radio.
A vast wealth of non-writing-based texts: visual, concrete, sound etc, from Apollinaire's Calligrammes, Hugo Ball (& other Dada) sound poems, Giacomo Balla (and other futurist) performances, and onwards, including New York Dial-a-Poem recordings (Ed Sanders, Patti Smith, Robert Lowell!, Kenward Elmslie etc). And all the found material. And the downloadable e-books (including Peter Manson, Adjunct: An Undigest, Hannah Weiner Little Books/Indians and two works by Ron Silliman). And the Philip Guston drawings. And the Gertrude Stein plays. And the Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter plays. And the ethnopoetics section curated by Jerome Rothenberg. And Maya Deren, The Complete Films (1943-1958). And 40 Years of Polish Experimental Radio. Lots of Fluxus material. This is the actual mainstream of culture: universes of language, vision and sound lie within. And the original, 1917-1918 Dada magazine. And some Bern Porter too.
This is a very exciting and eclectic site, both eclectic and purposeful. Can I quote their piece on poetry submissions: "We assume a base level of writing skill. We do not assume you know how to spell, but we assume you know how to work a spellchecker. If you do not, be braced for a nasty note and a really firm pinch. We assume a basic familiarity with the rules of English grammar, but are very open to grammatical experimentation. We are not, however, interested in poets who are simply ignorant of how to use an exclamation point. On the other hand, the idea that all ellipses must have exactly three periods is a fascist rumor put out by Strom Thurmond's evil stepmother. Given that base level of writing skill, we are interested in the socially relevant and the radically experimental. We are only interested in those poetic works that comment on society in some way. However, we believe that art which greatly pushes the boundaries of form or content inherently comments on society (since we believe, however naively, that art and society are linked). We have read an enormous amount of poetry in a wide variety of genres. What do you have, either in form or content, that we've never seen? Send that." I'd buy all of that, too. The successor to Unlikely Stories.
"is a collective dedicated to archiving and preserving innovative works by writers and artists of the 21st century. We have a strong preference for experimental, avant-garde, and post modern poetry, art, and audio." This blogzine edited by Matina L. Stamatakis includes texts and visuals from Adam Fieled, Chris Gutkind, Jeff Harrisson, Spencer Selby and others.
"Vispo Langu(im)age: experimental visual poetry, literary programming, and essays on new media by the poet Jim Andrews. Dedicated to life, poetry, and the ABCs of a new art." Amazingly entertaining and fun — a lot of e-literature is very po-faced. This site is delightfully and totally creative.
is an interview based blogzine, starting with Geraldine Monk.
"is a collaboration between Melanie Bush, Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, The University of Northampton and Emma Powell, Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, De Montfort University in association with Louise Bird, Lecturer in Graphic Design, The University of Northampton. As well as teaching bookmaking and making our own experimental books we collaboratively curate a yearly international and experimental artists' book exhibition. This is open to all. Our exhibitions are 'not for profit' — we do them because we love books." Delightful! The site is full of jpegs of the books, plus details of the exhibitions.
A complex mix, including pdfs from such as Geof Huth, Brian Kim Stefans, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Brandon Arthur, Catherine Daly, Bruce Andrews; animation & video material from such as mIEKAL aND, Jim Andrews, Justin Katko, Alan Sondheim, Lawrence Upton; audio material from such as Lawrence Upton, Katie Yates.
run by Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk. It includes details of publications (from such as Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Sean Bonney, Kelvin Corcoran, Johan de Wit, Mercurialis the Younger, Peter Riley, Gavin Selerie, Glenn Storhaug, and their own work). Plus excerpts from Geraldine and Alan's work (including sound files and images). Plus an extensive second hand catalogue specialising in modernist poetry from small presses. This is a good place to visit.
"There was no one idea for this journal, it emerged in the doing, in the conversations we had along the way. Partly, we wanted to make something that could document the merging and shifting modalities of poetic practice. Who is making poetry and how? In this way we saw the internet as a way of allowing for a range of media possibilites in one place, in addition to being cheap and accessible. So, a journal that doesn’t look much like a journal. Or sound like one. Call it: a series of collections. Built slowly, tinkered with. . ." Beautiful Australian ezine with intriguing work upon it, textual and multimedia. "The first issue explores some of the non-traditional media, processes, and interventions that have been used to make poetry - code, sound, installation - along with those themes that have been explored throughout poetry’s many literary traditions. It is a special feature on (and takes its name from) the work of Sydney poet and vocal artist, Amanda Stewart, presenting a selection of her work from the last twenty years."
run by Randolph Healy includes work on its website (some on RealAudio) by (among others) Randolph, Allen Fisher,Mairéad Byrne, Trevor Joyce & David Miller. There is a great range of activity going on — buzzy & professional, & superb & fascinating writing. Material also from projects based on the PoetryEtc listserv.
"is open to all types of poetry, prose and visual art, but prefers innovative and post avant work with an astute awareness of the materials, rhythms, trajectories and emerging forms of the contemporary." The best work is the visual poems, by the likes of christopher beaulieu, Crag Hill, John M Bennett, Thomas Lowe Taylor.
"Ethnography, Poetry, & the Documentary Experience. . . a biannual electronic exhibition space for socially descriptive art and text", edited by David Michalski, is an ezine spin-off from Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, "a biannual interdisciplinary journal of poetry, poetics, experimental ethnography, and cultural and performance studies", edited by Mark Nowak. Streetnotes has a wide range of interesting material linking poetry reportage and images.
publish electronic chapbooks (.pdf format). These include material from Catherine Daly, Sheila E Murray, Andrew Topel and Jim Leftwich & Andrew Topel.
edited by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is an "ezine focused to experimental poetry, collage, cut-up, computer-generated texts etc." There is a whole world of genuinely experimental writing to explore here, with a wide range of enjoyably challenging writings, eg Michelle Greenblatt, Seven Ghazals (One for Each Day of the Week) as an Ode to Our Love (starting with "The Sewage System Ghazal"), John Crouse & Jim Leftwich, ACT, or a text by Reed Altemus, beginning "Spine vacuum dream in a spittled quarter, but to sleep among the ladders is to have a tale in your trousers."
contains details of D M Black's poetry, reviews of his work, links to other poetry sites, and details of his publications.
(formerly Mannequin Guillotine: kevin doran doesn't exist anymore) is Kevin's quite engaging blog!
Sean Bonney's blog presents him as "Poet, collagist, polemicist, libertarian marxist, antagonist". Go there now for the Cramps videos: "Does Your Pussy Do the Dog?"
is Richard Barrett's blog, which gives a good picture of the now very lively Manchester poetry scene, the Mr Barrett's encounters with sundry other aspects of contemporary culture, and his own writing. Quit This Pampered Town is his previous blog (embarrassingly successful!).
houses works by Eli Siegel, poet, philosopher and educator. Go straight to Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana for an astonishing poem, highly valued by William Carlos Williams.
includes poems, an essay and a play in English, and poetry, fiction and drama in Arabic
has a blog recently started, with an interesting and largely positive review of Great Works (bless him!)
is an ongoing interview between Jeff Harrison and Allen Bramhall. It's good — I warm to and am stimulated by a lot of what Harrison says.
Not your average grime! Enjoy and take note!
Elegant, composed and radiant, like the man's poetry (well done Peter Manson – an exceptionally attractive design). Only a few poems as yet, but biography, bibliographies, notes on poems, essays. More about and from one of Britain's finest poets.
is Michael Blackburn's own site, has all sorts of stuff on it or linked: video, photos, texts, mixed media projects, and all else, including the Sunk Island Review, a blogzine for "New Writing In Various Forms", and for Sunk island Publishing. Try also The Days, How They Pass, daily poems over a year, posted up as podcasts of 20 (with images). Great creative energy here.
"expression not convention" — poems, music and art on Dylan Harris's homepage
's site holds poems and artworks by him, also BLACKBOX: a record of the crash, and pages for his Koja Press, publishing his own Underworld project, Richard Kostelanetz, Bill Keith, and a range of American-Russian writers. Pages from Underworld can be seen further on William James Austin: Underworld.
the website of the great poet, playwright and political activist, including poems, essays and audio and a video file.
has a homepage detailing his projects, with links to work online.
is Roger Day's website, with poems, images, movies, and a link to his blog and other projects.
Lots and lots of very good stuff — soundfiles coming at you all the time, a range of textual and visual poems, some sound poems to download, stuff on Lost & Found Times and Luna Bisonte Prods. Also try his blog for texts and news.
has a wickedly designed site, with full information and some pages/images of, plus links to, her subtle and (in this country) pioneering multi-media work.
is Elieen Tabios's main blog, centered on literature, especially poetry, and wine. Her poem blog is The Chatelain's Beach House. Explore, too, the form she has invented in Hay(na)ku Poetry.
Web stories, printwork and paint from this multimedia artist.
is Steven Waling's blog. I enjoy its at times distanced view of alternative poetry culture.
of the University of Durham gives a little information, some pix, and a little bit of text.
has a very fine and elegant personal site, with a mass of material on it.
David Caddy's blog contains long prose pieces, with poems, about his personal, literary and regional roots: "So Here We Are: Poetic Letters from England", and some very well-informed critical writing also. These are also available as audio downloads on Miporadio.
is Jim Goar's blog.
is Jeff Hilson's blog, with writings.
is Mike Weller's MySpace site, with images and a video. Visit it and encourage him!
contains some interesting, richly textured poems.
is the official website, with poems, details etc, of this now under-read New York poet.
"My name is Bob Cobbing, I died aged 82 and was the major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry in Britain." Visit Bob in on MySpace! A good little biography, an mp3, and two links. But he's there!
Catherine Daly's fine blog.
is Ian Davidson's blog, where you are also invited to collaborate. There are also two short videos on YouTube by Ian Davidson: Harsh 15 and Harsh 30.
"the website of Michael Haslam Poet of Foster Clough" has on it a large amount of material of an Haslamic, and therefore quite fascinating and delightful, nature, including poems from this strong and original writer.
Rob Stanton's dailyish poetic poem sequence blog — this is our life. Successor to Issue. Now complete at dclxvi posts.
has a neat little homepage with poems etc.
"Visual poetry, the textual imagination and personal experience" just about sums up Geof Huth's fine blog.
— her blog with her poems and links. Simple!
Oh boy! This is delirium. This is a paradise. The most enjoyable poet's site of them all. Poems, artworks, songs, pornography & sheer pleasure.
Carrie Etter's blog has some interesting comments about her relationship to the poetry culture she encounters in her present environment.
Jow Lindsay's blog contains a wide range of material, as they say. Good taste in music highly evident.
"is my Blog-Of-Sorts that's also Something-Of-An-Online-Magazine. It's a mix of poetry & reviews and sometimes just gentle rhubarb, with a heart of rolled gold & the word 'acerbic' doesn't come into it." It's good.
is Tina Bass's MySpace presence.
Clifford Duffy's blog delivers just what it claims.
Daniel f Bradley's ferocious blog — Canadian dada poetry coming out fighting.
Peter Finch was leading figure of the fabled but real (like King Arthur) British Poetry Revival of the 60s and early 70s. He remains active yet in Cardiff, as a poet and cultural force. His website is excellent: poems and other writngs by Peter F, including much material on Cardiff and Wales. Some excellent writing on British and Welsh poetry, and good advice to aspiring writers.
"is an artist, poet & publisher. Born in Scotland in 1966, he now lives in the North-East of England, in Byker." This site documents and presents some of his work (and that of others), as poems, installations, concepts and other varied and haunting projects.
's Website has on it, as you might expect, a wide range of material: images, lists of publications, links, and a list of Spanner publications.
Charles Freeland's website has on it a lot of his writing, poems and prose.
has a truly neat little site with links to his poems online and some music.
is resource base for Peter Manson users and the wider poetry community (featuring Maggie Graham, Robin Purves, Scott Thurston & Lawrence Upton, also a page with Bob Cobbing photos and links) — a model example of a poet's website (and also home to Object Permanence press).
is the staggering site produced by David Daniels, with his huge visual poems, The Gates of Paradise, Years and Humans, plus links and material on his visual poems. And in addition a superb gathering of links to visual poetry elsewhere on the net.
is a damn good personal literary blog, with a wondrous Beckettian interest (and much else) — highly enjoyable — few poems, but highly poetic. Produced by one Pothwith — David Wheatley. More power to him!
is sean burn's website, with examples of his work across art, film, play, prose and poetry — all powerful and effective.
This site, a page on Matthew Francis's homepage has some poems by WS Graham on it.
is Laurie Duggan's blog, from exile in furthest Kent.
Another staggering site: R G Gregory's life and work as a huge project of action and words.
has a very elegant site, with a few texts on it, some sound files and some links.
's MySpace presence, with some excellent music on it.
Mairéad Byrne's glorious poetic blog
A useful gathering of poems and essays by the last of the objectivist poets, as part of Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry.
"contemporary poetries, visual, verbal & visual/verbal, with especial focus on small press books, magazines, and on websites of avant poetries" is a damned good poetry blog.
Mike Weller's self-publishing activities
contains information on Richard Price, full lists of publications and other activities (including Vennel Press and Painted, Spoken magazine, and some poems and soundfiles. Richard also has his own MySpace presence.
Dr Charles Frederickson presents an original sketch and poetic impression of 206 countries.
John Sparrow's multimedia work upon texts, imaginative and often gloriously diverting, plus a good blog.
Encounter a practitioner of asemic writing.
homepage is stylish and clear, with her writing and links. Elizabeth also has a blog, Oceanographer of O.
is her homepage, with information and links. I'd recommend "The Matrix: A Poetry Resource Center" as an introduction to modernist poetry in the American tradition (Ms Jarnot actually says "the Western Tradition", but that may depend where you put the West).
homepage contains poems by him. That alone is a reason for visiting it.
is an elegant website, with mainly information about the writer, but including links to online publication.
Tom Kelly's blog has his (and others') poems, plus articles, reviews and notices about poetry and drama in the North-East
is Amy King's elegant & funky website, which has a whole host of material by or about this New York-based poet, including all the links to her work available online, text or audio. And a huge blogroll!
's homepage includes a large selection of essays and reviews, and a few poems.
has a companionable blog, much concerned with the interests of an English writer, translator and teacher in Italy, which I find quite fascinating, plus also what ought to interest you more, some excellent poems from this escaped member of the Cambridge School.
's wonderful website, apart from material concerning the Scottish poet, includes also an excellent page with the text of The Six O'Clock News, the poet reading it (RealPlayer or .wav formats), and relevant texts by Leonard.
Michael Blackburn on MySpace.
Poet, Mythologist, Teacher, Scholar. Memoirs of, transcriptions of and about, essays (including two pieces by JH Prynne), and photos. He was a hero.
The website of the Scottish poet Gerry Loose, with poems online or linked.
Tony Lopez's site covers all the bases: work published and online, criticism, interviews etc listed or linked to.
This blog holds details of all Lee's published poetry: Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle has some unpublished poems and more normal bloggy stuff.
is the MySpace page of Rhys Trimble, with superb sound files of him performing (with music), plus texts on the blog. Excellent stuff! Part of a performance poetry scene at Bangor, POETica.
"by Esther Leslie and Ben Watson [aka Out To Lunch] plunges the experiencer into theory and art conspired into existence by the praxis of Walter Benjamin, T.W. Adorno, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Frank Zappa, J.H. Prynne, and every avant-garde movement from Baudelaire (but even before too — viz. Th. Nash, Sterne, Goethe. . .) through Dada, Vorticism etc onto Punk and the DIY Esemplasm)." Their cultural activities are richer than that! — also, Disney, Mad Pride, situationism, improvised music, manifestoes. Oh, and poems.
is Marcus Slease's well-informed and well-grounded blog. It's good, well worth picking up on for its rich material.
has information (detailed lists of publications), links to some essays and reviews by Drew Milne, and a couple of poems, plus details of Parataxis publications (wonderfully heavyweight modernist poetry and poetics magazine), plus work by John Wilkinson and in homage to Mina Loy.
is Wanda Phipps' website, with poems (including sound files, and links to publication online), music, news etc. Highly enjoyable. Check out also the Wanda Phipps Band MySpace presence for more superb musical presentations of her poems.
Mirabeau"Mirabeau are Ian Kearey, Richard Price and Caroline Trettine, featuring Nancy Campbell." Formerly The Apollinaires. Very beautiful presentations of music and language.
Guido Monte's personal site has a lot of work by him, plus information and links. The "news" section links to blogs with material by or on him.
is the web site dedicated to Scotland's greatest poet. There is a lot of useful information, a place where student essays can be published, and a fair number of poems.
has information and poems
has full information, with some excerpts, from all his books and other writings.
has several websites centred on his poems:
dream-holes in the net
Ut (with translations from Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Char, Breton and Apollinaire)
hypertutum
the uses of music
broadcast
ghost wall —ugh! horrible site! (designwise)
'Alliwell That Ends Well: Notes on Film — awe-inspiring coverage
is one of the most interesting and rewarding poetry blogs I've encountered, leading into very interesting and useful areas and diversions. Huge (if unordered) list of links.
Maggie O'Sullivan's site contains bibliography and thorough links to all on-line material, with a little text and voice to view and download
"A place for tracings, translations, meanderings, explorations of a mainly writerly nature. Travelogue, too." is Pierre Joris's blog, with interesting and wide-ranging material. He has also a homepage, with material and links concerned with his own writing.
provides links to his poetry, translations and reviews on the internet.
has on it biographical and bibliographic information, lots of images by Nuttall, and clips of him reading his poetry, and of him playing jazz. There is a link to complete scans of his famous My Own Mag, hosted by the William Burroughs website, Reality Studio.
is Martin Stannard's current blog, just as Martin Stannard's Home from Home is his homepage, and Martin Stannard's Exultations & Difficulties, his wondrous blogzine remains, quiescent but worthwhile still.
is Chris Gutkind's MySpace presence.
A text, with photos, by Ian Davidson.
"This site features samples of original work by Holly Pester. Some texts are fragments of academic work while some are process pieces resting at this site for exploratory means. Holly Pester has been working with live poetry and critical writing for three years." And to very good effect indeed.
's blog is intensely readable, and includes links to some excellent long poems and sequences by him, and a large series of reviews, A Brief History of Western Culture.
has some poems and some links.
is Andrew Duncan's site — his criticism, his poetry, and more. Go directly to it now! If you want a large-scale view of recent & current (post-War) English poetry, and thus of Duncan's strategic position, try "Despairing dialogue: Spectral Investments: Mainstream and original poetry: proposed terms for a future dialogue". There are also back issues of Angel Exhaust, 13-16.
Interesting things happening here. Our 4 best friends: Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Marguerite Duras, Gertrude Stein.
Michael Lee Johnson's site, with interviews, information and links.
hosts some stimulating and haunting animated texts, emblems and bottle imps.
"a selection of fiction , poetry and drama by Paul A. Green", contains poem texts, hypertext works, soundworks, scripts, all that Brother Paul can offer us.
"Carl Rakosi on poetry, psychology and world affairs in the Twentieth Century" is a huge (244 pp) pdf of an interview produced by ROHO — The Regional Oral History Office (a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library).
's homepage has on it pictures and news, bibliography, and scans of Infolio magazine, and, sadly, an ever-increasing number of in memoriam pages (eg Edward Dorn, Fielding Dawson, John Wieners, Philip Whalen, Kenneth Koch, Bob Cobbing, Piero Heliczer, Stan Brakhage, Ric Caddel).
is pretty massive and pretty serious, with everything from text excerpts to multimedia capturings of Burroughs.
"Flash reviews of individual poems from Simon DeDeo, a man in Chicago, on a blog with a name from a poem by Gertrude Stein." Yep. Some interesting observations are indeed made.
is Richard Kostelanetz' personal site, with full details of his publications, productions and projects, plus unpublished material
's website has full details of publications, with some poems (some on audio), biographical and bibliographic information, work in progress, and material on Perfect Bound magazine.
The last of the great American ex-pats? Poems, paintings and photos.
has on it some interesting and effective writing.
is Lydia Towsey's WordPress blog, with her writing and other interesting stuff.
is Jason Nelson's site, with some amazing, gorgeous and inventive "net art/cyberpoetry", also some filtering of film sound tracks through speech recognition software.
contains poems, photographs, short stories and a lot of journalistic work.
John Cayley's site contains his complex work in interactive multimedia poetry (using QuickTime) — "codework": writing in networked and programmable media. There is a genuinely new linguistic and conceptual space being explored.
has a blog with mainly critical material and reviews.
contains poems and other writings, photos and information.
A focus for a lot of interesting debate and commentary by the American poet (the word "leading" nearly leapt in before his name, but it's better and much more alive than that).
's elegant site details her work, with some text present. Hannah has also a splendid MySpace presence.
contains information and links on this New York writer.
"Dissolving constellations of voices, noises, images, ideas" is Tom Beckett's personal blog. See also e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s (interviews with with poets, eg Crag Hill, Nick Piombino, Sheila E. Murphy, Eileen R. Tabios, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen) & chiaroscuri metropoli, with his poetry.
Sophie Robinson's blog. See Sophie perform on a video clip!
I am delighted that David Bircumshaw is back in action on the Web, with fresh material on his site.
has a website with on it or linked to it some gorgeous e-poems, that link complex and powerfully meaningful language with exhilarating and moving visual effects. This is delightful and profound art.
is an astonishing game or mechanism from Peter McCarey. It is delighful (yes, I said that just above — both these sites are!).
He should have a MySpace presence really. This is where English Modernism entered the world from. Poems, chronology & links.
is his personal site, complementary to his publishing as Sixties Press
Tom Chivers' blog
presents John Gibbens' remarkable body of work: poems (including many visual poems and a poetic almanac), music (as The Children, with Armorel Weston, and as The Mind Shop, with Armorel Weston and David Miller) and writing on music (especially Dylan). This man is talented and inventive!
is the homepage of Devin Davis (aka townee)
"This is a solo performance project that interweaves music and poetry in a kind of poetry slalom. Music frames poems; poems shape music." More material by and info on Paul Taylor on his MySpace presence.
is Chris McCabe's blog.
Lawrence has now restored his online presence, with a site full of his material, links to it, and information.
Jfor James's blog is based on aphorisms and quotations about writing poetry; and therefore is writing poetry. Very appealing.
has a very calm, personal and thoughtful blog.
's blog is excellent: the combination of his own very fine writing and some very informed and perceptive commentary on the nature of poetry and the poetic line makes it very appealing. I like his run through of Charles Bernstein "Girly Man", discussing in shocked horror "the elements of normative poetics".
's blog is full of John Welch. Excellent!
' website gives biography, some poems, and work from collaborative community projects he has been involved with.
which is Rachel Loden's blog, who seems not to have been ruined at all, but greatly benefiting from the right sort of poetry.
is Jukka-Pekka Kervinen's (& friends') blog, with links to other xStream sites.
has a neat little site with some of her poems, link to an online journal and a store.
is a collaborative on-line reference, annotating Zukofsky's work. A model for internet use in literature, and a valuable aid for reading a great (and still challenging) poet.
As I begin compiling this section, my sheer ignorance of the worlds of podcasting and newsfeeds fills me with the sort of trepidation I have when realising I'm teaching a topic I thought was something else. Forgive me, dear podcasters, feedgetters and techno-audiophiles. I'm too dependent on my eyes!
is a rich source of both sound-files and poem videos. But: only the Poetry Jukebox and the iPoems Flash Poems are free – the bulk of the material needs to be paid for. There is a lot of emphasis on the more entertainment-end of performance poetry; but work also by Peter Finch, Iain Sinclair, Tom Leonard, Adrian Mitchell, Kamau Braithwaite, Christopher Logue (and a fine essay by Peter Finch on Sound Poetry).
was a show on New York based WPS1 Art Radio, which broadcast archive and live readings. Lee Harwood, Joe Ceravolo, Charles Bernstein, James Schuyler, Ron Padgett, Ezra Pound are some of the names you will encounter. And much, much more, on the updated Art International Radio site, which has replaced WPS1.
Podcasts available of readings, including Amy King, Kent Johnson and Geoffrey Gatza, plus some Creeley material.
Kareem Estefan's blog of avant-garde poetry readings/ interviews Wednesday nights from 7:30-8:00 on WNYU 89.1FM in the NYC tri-state area & www.wnyu.org, or through iTunes (Radio → eclectic →). Started off with Caroline Bervall and Brian Kim Stefans.
"FREE IMPROVISATION / MUSIQUE CONCRETE / DISASTROUS EPHEMERA" — improvised music samples from their CDs + some more verbal matter — Stuart Calton aka THF Drenching & Marie-Angelique Bueler aka Sonic Pleasure.
is "a periodic audio presentation of the spoken word" by Richard Kostelanetz, Donald Lev & Bob Hershon, using MP3 files.
There are extensive audio files of talks and readings, eg Bruce Andrews, Michael Palmer, Ron Silliman, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley, Susan Howe, and so many more, on the audio pages of the The Kootenay School of Writing site.
"Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance." It contains performances from a number of writers, including Marjorie Welish, Mairéad Byrne, Tom Raworth, Lisa Jarnot and Randolph Healy as Quicktime movies amd mp3s. Continually adding to its material.
with blog posting various poets, and regular podcasts, including David caddy's excellent So Here We Are: Poetic letters from England and Grace Cavalieri's INNUENDOES and ON LOCATION, which has material from a range of writers, is one of the audo components of Didi Menendez' Goss 183 empire.
gives access to miPOradio via iTunes, plus extensive archive, including Amy King, Gabriel Gudding, Linh Dinh and Ron Silliman.
Courtesy of University of Southampton, the British Academy (there's institutional acceptance!) and eprints (open source, open access data & document repositories), comes a nice collection of recordings that in fact don't go back beyond 1960 (Hugh McDiarmid), and includes Allen Fisher, Roy Fisher, Maggie O'Sullivan, Denise Riley — lots! all well indexed & searchable.
produce on CD sound poetry and experimental music, in an electro-acoustic-collage-improvised-voice mix. Bob Cobbing & Lawrence Upton feature in the mix, and there are some mp3s to listen to on the site. Encounter Anal Magic & Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Beyond the black crack.
is a huge, no, very huge archive, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania. Eg Gertrude Stein, Bob Cobbing. Charles Olson, Rae Armantrout, John Wieners, HD, Tom Raworth, Kamau Braithwaite, Susan Howe, and so many more. Try The Four Horsemen's (bp Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton & Rafael Barreto-Rivera) performance of "Mayakovsky". The LINEbreak programmes last for 30 minutes, and were co-hosted by Charles Bernstein. A great on-line resource.
Alex Pryce's far-sighted and heroic project is an excellent site: podcasts of a very wide range of British poets. It has a lot of potential, and is only to be encouraged. Poets range from The Poetry Chicks (Jenni, Pamela and Abby) and Colin Dardis and all at ‘Make Yourself Heard‘ open mike night, to Claire Crowther, Hannah Silva, Chris Gutkind and Richard Price, via Eva Salzman and Alison Brackenbury. Those poets who aren't represented on it – contact Alex Pryce now!
is a site for recordings of poets reading their own work, either from existing recordings, or with specifically commissioned readings. The range is wide, from Lord Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling to Alison Croggon, Roy Fisher, Tom Raworth, RF Langley and Denise Riley. Well done, Andrew Motion!
podcasting audio theatre, poetry, music and sound by Paul A Green and guests.
is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. Interesting programming for Great Works habitues are:
Wednesday, 14.00-15.00 |
Late Lunch with Out To Lunch | |
Friday, 17.30-20.00 |
The Sound Projector Radio Show; Music and chat. Hosted by Ed Pinsent, sometimes with guest presenters. Linked with The Sound Projector Music Magazine. Material can include virtually any form of contemporary music or sound-art, for example improvised music, drones, modern composition, minimalism, sound poetry, electronica, laptop music, noise, or songs. |
is a series of 15 audio CDs commissioned by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, with readings to date from Robert Creeley, Jerome Rothenberg, Lee Harwood and Tom Raworth. There are a few samples on the website, which is part of the Optic Nerve site, who are an independent production company who have produced, eg documentaries on American poets for Channel 4 (William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka), and a range of other poetry-related moving image projects — there are several clips on the site. The CDs can be purchased from Carcanet Press.
"Slought Foundation is a non-profit organization in Philadelphia that broadly encourages new futures for contemporary life through public programs featuring international artists and theorists." If you like this sort of thing where academia meets art meets critical theory meets conferences &: exhibitions as social praxis, the overall site will interest you. Of more specialised interest to anyone who's got this far – some 1960s recordings made by Fred Wah with Heroic Age figures such as Olson, Creeley, Wieners, Oppen even, reading or talking. There is other audio material on the site, but I found it very difficult to locate,
broadcasts live each Wednesday (6-7 PM PST) from KWCW, 90.5 FM, Walla Walla, Washington (though off-air at present), and has some choice material available on its website, including Keston Sutherland reading "Forty Third Nature Via Diebold". The show is an activity linked with Tangent Press, whose writers include Tina Darragh and Kaia Sand.
is just what it says: a neat little site with a run of audio files, such as Cathy Wagner, Linh Dinh and Leslie Scalapino reading poems, oh, and scarier, more hard-core sound things also.
Wednesdays, 1 pm Pacific Standard Time, Pete Smith broadcasting on 92.5 FM Online, The home on the web of the Kamloops Campus/Community Radio station, CFBX 92.5 FM. (The X). Click on "radio mast" logo under "Listen Online" on home page, at I think 9 pm GMT.
Note that not all sites in this category contain texts online. The situation should be clear from the explanatory paragraphs.
"Agenda is one of the best known and most highly respected poetry journals in the world, having been founded in 1959 by Ezra Pound and William Cookson." It is a surviving monument to High Modernism. I pay it respects for that, and in British terms that makes it oppositional, in a now alas quirky and cranky way. There are poems, essays and artwork on its website.
contains the catalogue of Allardyce, Barnett — with information that Anthony Barnett's poetry to 1999 and Veronica Forrest-Thomson's collected poetry without her translations, are accessible online to institutional subscribers to the Chadwyck-Healey database Literature on Line. If you have access — check these out: major, serious poetry.
The great poetry magazine of the 90s has a partial existence on the Internet. Andrew Duncan's Pink.org hosts some back issues, 13-16, plus some odd bits, and the Poetry Magazines archive site issues 15 & 16, plus a splendid piece by Andrew Duncan on the magazine. And it has a revived print existence — seek it out! — issue 19 contains, among others, Kevin Nolan, Elizabeth James, Marianne Morris, Paul Holman, John Muckle, Philip Jenkins, Peter Philpott.
have a long history of fine poetry publication, with Glenn Baxter & Clark Coolidge, W N Herbert, Chris Emery, John Kinsella and Georg Trakl on their current list, and also specimens of the great Ivor Cutler.
namely, Neil Pattison and Sam Ladkin, of Cambridge, are on the cambridgepoetry.org website, and have pages from work published, including Emily Critchley and Dave Rushmer.
"specialises in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the present day. [They] are the largest publisher in English of books on Surrealism and have an extensive list relating to Dada, Expressionism, the Oulipo, the College of 'Pataphysics, among others." A catalogue only online: but superb material. The site also acts as that of The London Institute of 'Pataphysics, if you like old jokes.
Bad Press publish serially and in booklets (lots of Marianne Morris). Bad Press Serials Version 1: "He's Asked For Size Ten Arial On This One & It Goes Over The Edge A Bit But If It's Size Ten Arial He Wants It's Size Ten Arial He's Getting #1", including poems by Peter Manson, John Wilkinson, prose from Drew Milne, pornography, a recipe and an environmental survey, available as pdf, also recordings of Fanny Howe and Ian Patterson reading (at Cambridge of course), and several Sophie Robinsons.
is the site of the excellent Barque Press. Publications are listed, and also the excellent Quid magazine, with some material online, including work by Andrea Brady, DS Marriott, John Tranter, Andrew Duncan, Peter Manson, John Wilkinson, Out To Lunch and JH Prynne, and poems from Cambridge Poetry Summit: The Catalogue. You can also get from them the DVD River Pearls, with material from the first Pearl River Poetry Conference, Guangzhou, June 2005. It has the full contributions of Che Qianzi and J.H. Prynne, plus further excerpts and readings.
is a small poetry press out of Liverpool and Bristol, with work on the site from some of the writers, including Peter Robinson, Ralph Pite and Julie-ann Rowell.
One of Britain's specialist poetry and literature publishers, always with a strong interest in high modernism. Current fresh titles include Edwin Morgan's Gilgamesh, Christine Brooke-Rose, Life, End of and ed Mark Ford & Trevor Winkfield, New York Poets II: from Edwin Denby to Bernadette Mayer. No material online, but you can access the current PR Review online.
University of Chicago-based magazine, with an emphasis on avant-garde poetry. Most recent issue is centred on the work of Stephen Rodefer, a man not unknown on this island. The introduction, Stephen Rodefer’s Position, by Justin Kotin and Micheal Kindellan, is available online. Very relevant to Great Works is the recent issue on British Poetry: co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves – presents 80 pages of poems by Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson & Keston Sutherland, plus critical contributions by John Wilkinson (on Andrea Brady), Jeremy Noel-Tod (on Peter Manson), Sam Ladkin (in conversation with Chris Goode), Simon Jarvis (on Keston Sutherland), & Matt Ffytche (on Keston Sutherland) (some reviews available online), and fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry. There is some interesting material to read on the site from previous issues; and some added material coming from the British Poetry issue in more recent issues (including Peter Riley's listing of important [First Generation] Cambridge School poems), as well an interesting debate centred on Gender and Poetry, with several pieces online, and if you really want to get into differences operating between 1st & 2nd Gen Cambridge poets, a somewhat angry exchange of letters to the Review beteeen Peter Riley & John Wilkinson (for Experienced Poetry Users only).
have been a leading (the leading?) Canadian publisher of innovative writing for an heroically long time. Their site includes an Online Book Archive, which is very well worth exploring.
"The Collective was formed in 1990 to promote and publish contemporary poetry. Funds are raised through a series of poetry events held in and around South Wales." The real Black Mountain poets! Publishers of Graham Hartill.
from Cork do a magazine and so far one book. There is material online, including work by Giles Goodland.
is based in Norwich, is linked with the UEA Creative writing MA (oh gosh! The veritable oxbridge of them all!!), but, despite emetic language such as "the sharpest emerging poets around" (like very painful turds?), does have a wide range of interests. Daniel Kane's work is certainly worthwhile.
Rod Mengham's long-established Cambridge press exhibits only its wonderful list of titles on the site, part of the cambridgepoetry.org website.
Nicholas Johnson's press lists its publications — an extraordinarily high quality of material, including work from Nicholas Johnson, Ed Dorn, John Hall, Carl Rakosi, Maggie O'Sullivan, Bob Cobbing, Harriet Tarlo.
"is an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction." Fascinating publications, though only snippets available online.
appears a pretty good magazine from its contents pages on the website: David Chaloner, Sean Burn, Rob Holloway, Fanny Howe, Jim Leftwich, Sheila Murphy, Ray Di Palma, Andrew Duncan, Paul Green and Johan de Witt all in most recent issue. The site also gives some text and mp3s from editor Tim Fletcher's poetry and sound/music CD, Sheetlight.
Glenn Storhaug's very fine press publishes work by Alan Halsey (including the astonishing Lives of the Poets and Marginalien), Paul Matthews, Glenn himself, and Gavin Selerie's Le Fanu's Ghost; Some Business Of Affinity translations & versions by Paul Merchant I would also recommend. No poems on the site, but an interesting essay "On printing poetry aloud", about the importance of careful and individual typesetting and presentation of poems.
of Chicago publish very nice books (eg Lisa Jarnot, Fanny Howe, Tom Pickard), and also have available online pdfs of several issues of LVNG magazine (eg William Fuller, Mark Nowak, Devin Johnston).
of Brighton publish Marianne Morris and Jonty Tiplady.
is the website of a Canadian magazine and press extremely interested in British poetry, with details of its publications and other material, eg a Prynne bibliography, and reviews and similar stuff from the magazine, plus excerpts from the other publications. All valuable. There is a lot of Allen Fisher material from the publisher of Entanglement, including specimen poems, relevant poems not included in the book and a listing of critical comments on his work, and to publicise a new volume of work by Trevor Joyce, specimen poems from this too.
Always something new out of Cambridge! Pamphlets by Luke Roberts, Josh Stanley and Timothy Thornton, plus the excellent AXOLOTL magazine.
Catherine Daly's new small press's blog.
"is a publisher of interesting poetry: books, a magazine, downloads, and other forms, based in Manchester, UK. Established in 2008 it is the re-incarnation of Matchbox." There are a few texts (eg from Tony Trehy and Tom Jenks) and some downloads (eg from Ceri Buck and Tom Jenks) on the site, plus info on Manchester readings. Well done, James Davies, and all at Manchester.
publish artists' books exploring largely the materiality of books and texts, and playing advanced silly buggers with theory. So much money in anything labelled "art" is one thought; that the work here genuinely alters how one responds to a printed text is another.
Bridget Penney and Paul Holman published during the 90s, but have stock available — trading now as a (mainly) second-hand book business (with a poetry list). Publications inluded Jane Wodening, From the Book of Legends, Anthony Barnett Carp and Rubato, Catherine Walsh, Idir Eatortha and Making Tents, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Selected Poems, Paul Holman, The Memory of the Drift and the wondrous Loose Watch: A Lost And Found Times anthology (ed John M Bennett). Paul also has a blog, with recent work and other material posted on it; and a MySpace presence.
This is an interesting and diverse US poetry magazine, whose website contains a smattering of poems from issues, including work from Paul Celan, Pierre Reverdy, Jack Spicer, Rae Armantrout.
publishes pocket-sized poem sequences, from, Linh Dinh, Richard Price, Vahni Capildeo, R. F. Langley, Daniel Kane, Leo Mellor and others. There are brief excerpts on the website.
publish booklets by Kelvin Corcoran, Alan Baker, Tilla Brading, Lee Harwood, Peter Dent, Martin Stannard, with poems online. Also on the site is the excellent e-zine Litter.
A selection of poetry & articles from the print magazine. Most interesting issue compares two 'Aspects of the Contemporary': David Constantine, What good does it do? (My goodness me, I do wonder. Have a cup of tea.) & Matthew Caley, Neo-hogbutchererbigdriftities: tracing a line out of the mainstream (as much fun as it sounds).
catalogue for John Welch's excellent press and magazine, whose titles include work by Tom Lowenstein, Nigel Wheale and John Welch.
James Davies' venture, Manchester-based, is gorgeous: poems in matchboxes, elegantly designed & presented. Current poets include Scott Thurston, Ray DiPalma. Allen Fisher, Tim Atkins, Lisa Jarnot, Craig Dworkin, Bill Griffiths, Togara Muzanenhamo; and with neat original artwork. Little gems! The texts are all on the website; but that's beside the point. Fully interactive 3D presentation we are not yet up to out here in cyberspace.
Anthony Rudolf's press primarily publishes translations, listed on its site, which include from Rilke, Paz, Jacottet and Nerval.
"is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on artists' books, fine press printing and the mimeograph revolution." Blog website for a journal,
is the website of a University of Houston magazine, with very attractive specimens of nano fiction online.
"a literary organization in the San Francisco Bay" publish novels and short stories, and also the free Poetry Flyer, available online, and good fun.
Peter Hughes's new press has already got a beautiful list of booklets to its credit. There are brief extracts on the site, and a section on Peter's own poetry.
is an excellent magazine produced in Manchester, with samples of issues available online, with work from Arlene Ang, Richard Barrett and Lucy Harvest Clarke (+ news of forthcoming readings in Manchester).
Have booklets from Peter Brennan, Adam Simmonds, Christine North, Nicholas Potamitis and Mario Petrucci, with a small sample of each.
Charging for poetry online! At £29.50, possibly interesting, for back issues of PN Review, the only "mainstream" British poetry magazine consistently engaging with writing that intersects with this site, plus an increasing archive of back issues (that could cover 30 years). But I think I'll hold onto the principle of cybercommunism a little longer. Current issue is accessible if you take the "free view".
is the website of Jeremy Hilton's excellent Fire magazine, with some poems on the site.
has a page on the Seren Books site, with full details of this now very exciting and open magazine, giving a vivid sense of contemporary English language Welsh poetry.
Major UK publisher of innovative poetry (& prose) (proprietor Ken Edwards) — no texts online, but full details of all publications & some links.
"Our interest in experimental criticism, text-based art and the performance space of the book infects our process." Interesting and not at all straight-forward texts in other words — I like that sort. Published to date: Holly Pester & Daniel Rourke.
James Wilkes publishes his own work as this imprint: in beautiful and visually imaginative ways.
"Wales's leading literary publisher" started out with poetry, and has expanded into a wide range of publishing. Now there's Welsh culture for you. The poetry list is very long, and very broad.
publish Australian, Greek and British poets, including Richard Burns, Peter Robinson and even Peter Porter — no texts online, but details of all publications.
Barry Tebb has two sites — this one, which includes poems by other writers, including Michael Haslam, and also Barry Tebb — Poet, novelist, critic and publisher. Go to them for his strong opinions, his absolute devotion to poetry as a positive, therapeutic and educative experience, and his poems, which work well.
"A small press dedicated to publishing innovative poetry." Aaron Tieger's Anxiety Chant is the first publication.
Paul Green's Press publishes a strong list, including Betsy Adams, Bruce Adams and Bill Griffiths, details of which are given on this site.
"Founded in November 1984 the magazine plays on. It is a 144 page book of poetry, prose poems, fiction, essays, translations, interviews and reviews published three times a year. Regular columns include Noise From The Cabin by Sarah Hopkins, From The Other Side Of The Fence by Tom Chivers and Afterword by David Caddy. Regular essayists and reviewers include Dzifa Benson, Ian Brinton, Peter Carpenter, Brendan Cooper, Jennifer K Dick, Sean Elliott, Edward Field, Sheila Hamilton, Linda Healey, Jeremy Hilton, Brian Hinton, Norman Jope, Alexis Lykiard, Gary Metras, Andrew Shelley, Dennis Tomlinson, John Welch. Newcomers are always welcome." Damned good print poetry magazine!
is the site of an interesting print magazine, with some poems online.
run by Leona Medlin and Richard Price, publishes modern Scottish poetry, poetry associated with 'The Poetry Workshop' (London), and modernist poetry in translation. Their list includes Richard price's own work, Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, WN Herbert, and translations of Vallejo and French modernists. Publishing has ceased, but the backlist is still interesting
"The poetry we publsh is extraordinarily varied, from quirky and powerful Brighton voices to Cambridge modernists, from established to scarcely emergent." Their fine list includes Andrew Duncan, Simon Smith, Norman Jope, Alan Morrison, Martin Jack, Kenneth Macleod. Excellent production values as well!
"is an experimental arts magazine based in Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Produced by a collective of artists, writers and designers, White Fungus is an ongoing experiment in community media art." It's really good, with a sense of a genuinely innovative and responsive community across a range of arts, dealing with the issues and concerns of both their particularity as New Zealand, in the Pacific, and much, much else (anyone's particularity directly addressed is often our particularity). It has no distribution in UK. That's an argument for travelling to New Zealand. Some very interesting material on the website.
"To celebrate the 250th anniversary of William Blake's birth, on 28th November 2007, artists Felicity Roma Bowers and Helen Elwes and poet Micalef invited over 60 artists and poets inspired by the spirit and work of William Blake to submit a page to be published in a limited edition artists' book." Available from this webpage, on Felicity Roma Bowers' site, with contributions from a wide range of individuals, including Brian Catling, John Gibbens, Michael Horovitz, John Michell, Adrian Mitchell, Tom Phillips RA, James Wilkes and Robin Williamson, with a beautiful slide-show of pages available.
"A quarterly publication for fresh new poetry with a bite" is a little more domesticated than it claims, and is the website for a print magazine, with some material online. It hosts some interesting writing — current issue includes Richard Parker on Zukofsky's Bottom: On Shakespeare .
is the publishing arm of mIEKAL aND, "propagating experimedia simplexity since 1981". A wealth of material concerned with "collage technique of 20th century art, [and] the visual & concrete poetry movements" is published, though only a small percentage is available online.
Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk's blog for their yt communications publishing empire.
For regular updates and full details, check Readings in London. I am not, I am afraid, going to put information needing updating on this page.
arranged by David Miller, Alyson Torns and Keith Jebb, normally upstairs at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, at 7.30, £5 or £3. I find this series extremely enlightening, as may be clear from the work on the site. Good readings, with a wide range of poets. Usually the third Tuesday in the month. For further details of readings contact David Miller on katermurrATbtinternet.com or check on Readings in London.
"London's hottest new music and poetry club brings you the cutting edge of experimental music and poetry", on a boat (Bar&Co), moored at Temple Pier on the Embankment. The music looks good; but the poetry??? Look, guys, if you think Sibyl Madrigal & Zolan Quobble are the cutting edge of poetry (experimental or not) — you know about poetry precisely less than I do about the improv scene. There is potential, though, I am sure.
Lists of and links to some other Cambridge activities, including a lot of publishing, the other Cambridge poetry conference, the Cambridge Poetry Summit, and reading series.
arranged by Jeff Hilson and Sean Bonney. At 7.30, £5 or £3 – The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket St, London Bridge SE`1 3HN. For further details of readings contact J.HilsonATroehampton.ac.uk or check on Readings in London. I find this series also extremely enlightening, as may be clear from the work on the site. Very much poets reading to their peers, with a very strong collective sense. Almost always the first Thursday in the month.
Very interesting: younger, less male-dominated and more multiethnic, and with a quite possibly very open policy: Sophie Robinson, Hannah Silva, Caroline Bergvall & Alex Walker have read at events. Follow what they are doing! Videos and audio on the site. Organised by Anthony Joseph & Sascha Akhtar.
is a reading/performance series worth looking out for, with both Hannah Silva and Sophie Robinson performing for them.
An excellent scene! Readings take place irregularly in the basement of The Foundry, an art and peformance venue where Shoreditch meets Hoxton in splendid industrial chic (with organic Pittfield beer). At last: a valid innovative poetry event attracting an audience with a median age under 30 – few sad old codgers in macs like myself there (but they didn't throw me out for uncoolness!). Openned magazine is available as a download, including work from Richard Barrett, Joe Dargue, Christopher Mulrooneyamp; Ryan Ormonde, This website is exemplary and packed with rich and useful material, well-presented. It has a superb set of listings for London events, and it is linked with The Other Room readings in Manchester. The site carries "Openned Reader (headlines from 50+ poetry sites)", and deeply useful and well-organised links. Well done, Steve Willey & Alex Davies! This is how things should be. I should retire.
"Poetry reading series and website in Manchester, UK", is linked with Openned, but centered on a now lively Northern scene. Video and photos on the site.
is a London art gallery, which quite often hosts poetry readings. Check it out!
The Berlin Festival of Poetry in English's MySpace page. "Performance, mainstream and modernist poetry meet to entertain, move and challenge", with a good and mixed lineup, including Carrie Etter and Maurice Scully in last event (a November date). Alistair Noon seems the main man here. Well done!
"We're a database for all live poetry, spoken word events, and poetry in performance coming up in the next 14 days." Most of this is essentially entertainment-based or therapy for amateurs. But the odd event may spark the interest of our readers.
"Evenings of performance poetry murmurings and musical offerings. Analogue communication and artistic appreciation. Dancing and dress-up heartily encouraged." Looks fun — Sophie Robinson at last gig.
arranged by Shearsman Books, at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH at 7.30 (no admission fee, but donations welcome). Always good poets, of course, Shearsman publish no others! A slightly older, more respectable audience than some readings, with a quiet atmosphere (from its rather curious setting!)
This fair is organised by RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications), who publish artists' books and organise collaborative projects, publications, exhibitions and events. Usually Friday and Saturday at the end of October, at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. It brings together a range of publishers, concerned mainly either with artists' books and/or small press poetry publications, including eg Bad Press, Bookartbookshop, Coracle (Ireland), Moschatel Press (UK), Poetic Practice (Royal Holloway University), Reality Street Editions, Veer Books, West House Books, Wild Hawthorn Press, yt Communication. There are usually readings. The webpage has on it at the moment some brief QuickTime movies of poets reading, including Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, Simon Cutts and Spike Hawkins. An excellent event.
at the very engaging Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL, third Sunday of the month, 3–5, £4, offers poetry and music, cakes and ale, with the post-avant crowd for your Sunday afternoon pleasure. Check out the MySpace page, or the Facebook Group. I organise and present it. See you there!
The Text Festival occupies the boundaries between art and poetry, examining the response of text artists and poets to the substantial ambiguity of language. A 12 week programme of events held in Bury, Lancashire, featuring exhibitions, public art commissions, publications and performances by internationally recognised practitioners and some of the newest talents in the field. This is the major British festival based on the idea that art can be read as poetry and poetry can be viewed as art." Main events April 30–May 3. Attractions: Tony Lopez, Carol Watts, Phil Davenport, Language beyond Poetry Symposium (jointly organised with Birkbeck College University London) , Steve Miller, Tony Trehey (organiser) + visiting Americans Ron Silliman & Geof Huth. An important & exciting event.
Jow Lindsay, bless him, compiles this running blog of poetry events in London and elsewhere. Invaluable!
Exhibition will take place 15th August–19th September 2009 at artworks-MK, UK and then hopefully tour to other venues. Books to be sent in by June 1st 2009. The theme for the 2009 creative book-arts open exhibition is CLOSURE. Submit!
is a very long-running series of workshops, linked with the Writers Forum Press, founded by the late Bob Cobbing, and now carried on by Lawrence Upton and Adrian Clarke. These are open workshops within an experimental tradition. Details of all events, and how they proceed, are all given on the MySpace page.
"is Kit Fryatt and Dylan Harris." Is a series of poetry readings in Dublin, with Maurice Scully and Dylan Harris amongst others. Is a press. Good work! News on the eek collective blog.
on Dee Rimbaud's website has many, many lists of addresses and links in connection with poetry. Very good coverage of the whole British poetry scene(s), if weak on the avant-garde
the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library. This site is underway, with some material on Australian poets post-1900 online (alas for Fay Zwicky, it's a very alphabetic project). "This site will provide reliable texts of a wide range of poems by contemporary and earier writers as well as contextual and critical material, including interviews, photographs and recordings." Invaluable. Keep up with it as it builds.
is an online and print collection of recordings, printed texts and manuscripts, focused on innovative contemporary poetry being written or performed in Britain. It is hosted by Queen Mary College, London. At present, the Archive consists of readings by nearly 100 mainly UK-based poets. It is a very necessary place to visit, a truly massive resource. Well done, Andrea! I cannot praise this site highly enough.
A University of Virginia project has a huge and superbly presented and organised selection of (almost wholly recent American) artists' books online.
The website for Beat Scene magazine has a lot of information on books, news, and pix of the beat writers, from whose mighty loins we are all sprung.
"Discussion and news list for practitioners and readers of current poetry and poetics, with emphasis on recent postmodern and innovative poetries in Britain and Ireland." Centred more on discussion of writing than posted writing. Link is for archive. Open access: you can apply to join (from the page linked to — but check archive first to make sure it is your sort of place!)
This site, a joint venture of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, the Poetic Practice Group at Royal Holloway College, and the Department of English, University of Southampton, is a reference guide to the work of contemporary British poets "from the parallel tradition". Parallel? Hmmm. Launched in May 2002, it plans to provide information on poets and their publications, and with audio files coming to accompany examples of their work. 35 parallel traditional poets so far. There is now a number of readings added as .msv files.
as defined in Wikipedia (I think by Billy Mills). New readers start here! This is certainly where I am coming from, and many of the writers who most have influenced me, including some poets on this site, mentioned & positioned. Blue links in article text have definitions.
Why are none of the British blogs listed above on this site?
This site feels largely abandoned, which is a great pity. The usable material is a series of brief interviews with a wide range of contemporary postmodern (ie they're fully aware they are writing at this time, not another) poets.
or from Douglas Clark's Lynx: Poetry from Bath for a very large and interesting site, including his own poetry, and an astonishing archive of contemporary British poets. This is a thorough and wide-ranging listing, that gives access to a wealth of worthwhile sites. It helped inspire the greatworks.org.uk website.
at Birkbeck College "is a forum for the study and performance of contemporary poetries, and research into their historical, political and theoretical contexts". They host poetry readings, performances, workshops, exchanges, seminars, lectures, and conferences (details on site), run two web journals and have developed a publishing venture, Veer Books, and are committed to fostering the whole range of poetic practice, including sound, visual, and digital poetry, with particular emphasis upon work that is innovative in its materials and forms. Will Rowe and Carol Watts are the good people responsible for all this.
"primarily interviews about poetry, poetics, poets by tom beckett and guests" is a very large blog with huge numbers of interviews with current avantgardist etc American poets.
"began it's life as cult literary magazine, one of a new generation of intelligent urban magazines emerging from east London’s literary scene." Now transformed into an online community. May prove worthwhile. Will let you know.
This is a site with a lot of potential — a range of poetry (by many names unknown to me, though often interesting, and including Paul Holman and Sascha Akhtar), plus some very good links of interest to anyone writing poetry.
"a small think and do tank based in London exploring the potential of new media for creative readers and writers & investigating the evolution of cultural discourse as it moves from printed page to networked screen." Download read:write, an if:book report on digital possibilities for literature, commissioned by Arts Council England, or Sophie multimedia authoring software (to make multmedia enbooks). Check activities on the bookfuturesblog. A useful site for changing times and changing media.
at the University of Iowa Libraries, provides a vast range of dada publications, available as image files, cross-referenced with an index of authors, plus some other links.
"Writer's block? Cure writer's block with creative writing games — brainstorming widgets — poetry generator — character name generator". All sorts of systematic processes from all sort sof sources, not only obviously dada/surrealism and Mr Burroughs, but Jeff Noon, Charles bernstein and Bernadette Mayer. All good stuff!
Really good stuff. Life in the old bitch yet! I recommend their newsletter, Prehensile Tail, which includes "To Have Done With The Spectre Of God": good reading!
"Information all in one place for writers and those involved in creating or supporting new writing and literature in the UK. We have regularly updated information on courses, mentoring, critical appraisal services, conferences and events, jobs, commissions, residencies, competitions, organisations, networks, training providers, books, magazines, and funding for professional development." At base, useful. Don't go get a Poetic Career, please, or become a Creative Professional — but you may find some support.
is an internet listing opportunity open to little presses of the U.K., mainly print material. Inaugurated by Bill Griffiths, Bob Trubshaw, and Peter Finch, in March 2000. Now with involvement of Peter Manson. A wide range of little presses (including Dreadful Work Press, Psychic Tymes and Kropotkin's Lighthouse), but with a very good listing of recently published poetry, with snippets and how to get hold of it.
is a vast and exhaustive listing of Internet sites relevant to poetry and literature (with a UK bias). It is very thorough, uptodate & wide-ranging, with a huge range of resources. A noble and useful work! Poetry and Society in the UK is a very interesting and I think alarmingly accurate overview of the present state of play in what is sometimes called "The Poetry World".
An ambitious new site: " the free online poetry project that gives you the chance to explore new and different areas of what we now call 'poetry'. Although the Systems is based in London we have contributors from all over Britain, who share our passion for innovation and experimentation in poetry. Help us introduce poetry back into London life by submitting poems to us in all media forms." Includes page and digital texts, podcasts, essays and a forum. The only names I recognise are James Wilkes and Hannah Silva. If this builds up it could well be a vital centre.
Peter Howard's site of poems and poetry resources has a real wealth of material, in particular a careful selection of what are claimed as the best poetry websites, and includes The Cambridge Poetry Page, a listing of readings in Cambridge.
"lyrikline.org is the platform on the internet on which poems are available to listen to, and to read both in their original languages and various translations: a concert of verse in the voices and languages of the authors. 470 poets and 4700 poems in 49 languages are available by now as well as more than 5100 translations in 44 languages!" German-based, and with a European emphasis. The English-language selection is a little bizarre, but from what I can see the German and Dutch selections are very useful, so I'm sure most of the others are also. Original texts, plus translations, and sound-files.
Often illuminating and interesting interviews by Didi Menendez of MiPOesias with (American) male poets.
"An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000)" is very good indeed, with texts, critical articles, interviews, further links and reading for a wide range of twentieth Century American poets, linked, obviously, to the OUP anthology.
"MINUS SPACE is a curatorial/critical project based in Brooklyn, New York, presenting the most innovative reductive, concept-based art by international artists working in all media. Reductive, concept-based work is generally characterized by its use of plainspoken materials, monochromatic or limited color, geometry and pattern, repetition and seriality, precise craftsmanship, and intellectual rigor." Major name I picked up on is Richard Kostelanetz.
A component of the large Philly Sound Blog, presenting a thriving poetry scene in Philadelphia, The Neglectorino Project is a series of comments by American poets on poets they feel neglected (some names I was surprised to regard as neglected — Spicer & Wieners — heaven help us!), with links to Internet material (often, necessarily secondary) provided. A noble project! And it's given me the URL of the Joseph Ceravolo homepage — Spring in This World of Poor Mutts is a book still as good as its title.
"Good Reading Starts Here! News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more." Very useful list of US online literary magazines.
"Networking Support for Artists"; or "New Work Network (NWN) promotes and supports the development of the new work sector which includes, but is not limited to: new performance, live and interdisciplinary arts practice." "The term 'New Work' can be used to cover a wide spectrum of practices that are not solely based within a traditional art form, but which share a sense of experimentation and a ‘blurring’ of art form boundaries. Members of New Work Network are involved with a variety of practices, such as: experimental performance, new media, live art, experimental dance, site specific work, sonic art, moving image, science and art, intervention and socially engaged practices." Hiyiyi. Well, I've paid my moneys (£15! — but I think proper arty artists are used to claiming such expenditure against tax), so I'll see how it goes.
This site, based in Berlin, offers an online magazine of translations of contemporary German poetry, with also extensive links to literary translation magazines, English-language expat cultural communities and resources, events organised by no-man's land in Berlin and the lauter niemand network.
A forum for anonymous reviews, edited by Keston Sutherland and jUStin!katKO. Disappointingly sparse for a potentially good idea.
"aims to gather links to the web's most interesting poetry and writing about poetry and ideas", and is updated daily. It shares the agenda of broadsheet literary editors, and, probably like them, is trying its best. There is always something interesting on it, including a wide selection of poems recently published online.
Glenn Bach's "portal for place-based research and creative projects, focused primarily on the humble and revolutionary act of walking".
Tom Chivers'brandname, now attached to an organisation that publishes, arranges events and projects, even manages artists (including Chris McCabe). This could be the start of something big; but I'm not sure the percentages will work out.
"a taster of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland", is solidly based in the commercial mainstream, but with odd flashes of interest. There are quite active discussion boards with some familiar names present on them.
"Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics, promoting specific projects for internet and print publication, and providing a forum for you to debate your own critical and creative work." Much original writing posted as well as discussion of writing. Link is for archive. Open access: you can apply to join (from the page linked to — but check archive first to make sure it is your sort of place!)
is the publisher of Poetry magazine (that's heroic-age Modernist Poetry [Chicago]), and has been the recipient of controversial largesse. It's been spent well on the site, which has a wide range of excellent material, with extensive archives (including texts of back-issues of Poetry since 1987), superb little printable pdfs of poem-posters, and an excellent blog, Harriet.
This is an Amsterdam-based attempt at setting up a worldwide poetry site, using national subsites, which at present range from Australia to Zimbabwe, and in between. The site is in English and the poems are given in English translation as well as the original language. The selection of poets is made separately in each country, but seems genuinely open — check out the Australian poetry section: damned good!.
The United Kingdom material includes now Alan Halsey, Denise Riley, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Frances Presley, Lee Harwood, Penelope Shuttle, Peter Riley, Richard Price and Vahni Capildeo, with introductions, bibliographies, links etc, and some general links to British poetry-related websites. The range of poets featured is now getting perhaps genuinely representative.
website has a lot of information for anyone trying to get poetry published, including a thorough list of UK poetry magazines & a list of websites. Perhaps a rather institutionalised concept of "the Poetry World", or is that sour grapes?
is the public library devoted to poetry on the South Bank, in the Royal Festival Hall. There are a lot of information and many links on its website.
gives access, with search facility, to some back issues from a range of UK magazines, eg Angel Exhaust, 10th Muse, Ambit; Fire; Oasis; Painted, spoken; Poetry Nation; Shearsman; The Interpreter's House; The London Magazine. All good! From the Poetry Library's archives.
This is an interesting site, which gives a space and webpresence to a large number of contemporary British poets. These include Chris Gutkind, Chris Hardy, André Mangeot, David Miller, Sharon Morris, Christopher North and Stephen Watts.
Peter Manson has handily compiled this as a specialised Google search engine focusing on 70 poetry websites, mainly focusing on innovative poetry, and with a British bias.
There is a lot going on, as the website shows, on a genuinely broad front. The involvement in the Poetry International Website is positive, though it has not yet been given much publicity by the Society.
The website of the Academy of American poets is a very useful and worthy affair, much larger and more inclusive than our own dear PoetrySock. There many, many poets (obviously mainly US), with audio, short essays, poems and links, plus material on poetic movements, and readings etc. A valuable resource.
"a transformed cyberspace place", is the social network element of Didi Menendez' Goss 183 empire, with multimedia, blogs and all the social networking stuff too.
This is the very useful section of the huge Salt website, though its coverage is a little patchy and unfiltered. But a listing of Agents, Archives, Authors, Blogs, Bookstores, Centres, Competitions, Conferences, Courses, Directories, Festivals, Funding, Libraries, Magazines, Organisations, Prizes, Publishers, Radio Shows, Television Programmes, Venues, Workshops, worldwide but anglophone, has huge potential. Especially if the site can access its database more effectively: guys, the "next" buttons aren't working!
has an engaging site, with yearly lists of the best Scottish poems, an interactive map with contemporary poems on places, and a bookshop.
is an offshoot from Ahadada Books, who envision it "as a loose affiliation of writers, booksellers and small press publishers. It's social networking software for the independents. . . . a place wherein you may create your own reviews, news, and interviews, join in the discussions, organize events and stay connected." It has definite potential. Give it a try!
"is an international collaborative network engaging with writing across the expanded field of literature, art and performance — including artists working with text, visual and language poetry, digital writing, performance, theatre, film, music and dance." It is one of several conjunctions of Arts Council and academic funding and values, with lots of "curating", projects, dialogue and associates; but there are several excellent writers (with academic positions) involved. Potential. I've joined, so I shall discover.
is a great institution listing magazines, print & online, across world (though mainly US based).
is a huge and well-organised site, covering modernist and language-centred poetry, mainly American focused, as well as e-poems. There are very full bibliographies, sets of links etc. A fascinating and very useful reference. I last ended up there looking at a series of photos of Louis Zukofsky. Must try and get this site listed on it!
Apart from amusing word-games & language generators, a wealth of sites listed relevant to both historical and current surrealism
Irresistibly titled, and at present quite small Irish-based social network for persons (and bovines) interested in poetry. It has a very good feel, and I shall bullock around here a bit, I hope. "People of Donegal, Dublin, Dubai and Dalston! This is our poetry group open to anyone who wants to join and get involved."
An online academic journal, devoted to the serious and contemporary study of prosody (though not tending to examine contemporary poetic practice, and with some links to total junk verse).
are a fascinating and informative (but now not very current) listing of poetry on CD and Cassette by David Kennedy, part of Cortland Review: An Online Literary Magazine in RealAudio.
attempts to list and link to writing available in electronic format, and that could not be published in print without sacrificing or altering significant elements. Now has added also Literature Unbound: "A Guide to Literary Resources on the Web" — very full, very American
Often illuminating and interesting interviews by Didi Menendez of MiPOesias with (American) female poets.
is the website of a collaborative group of artists based in Huddersfield working in the community and internationally.
lists a number of writers and artists, with full details, examples of work etc. Figures of interest include David Miller, Ruth Fainlight, Judith Kazantzis and George Szirtes.
So few! Please send in more, either online, or dealing in lovable dear old paper, that have a worthwhile stock (any stock?) of the sort of writing on this site. Useful is the page on the Salt site which lists their stockists.
tries for an online alternative bookshop. Poetry publishers are bluechrome, West House and Poetical Histories, plus a nostalgic line in political groupuscules eg International Communist Current — in worse state than the Gulf Stream.
17 Pitfield St, London N1 6HB (020 7608 1333), stock artists' books and small press publications.
is the blog of Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., with details of readings in Washington area, plus a lot of very interesting books — look for "New in Poetry & Theory" tag.
at 51 The Cut, London SE1 8LF, has a good stock of literature and theatre books, and also hosts readings. I believe it has changed its name – but still has a current internet presence on the Calder Publishing website.
Some stock at Snooper's Paradise, Kensington Gardens, North Lane, Brighton, but mainly trading on the internet — wide second-hand stock, including some recent poetry.
West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN, have an extensive second hand catalogue specialising in modernist poetry from small presses, including obviously its own publications.
Painting, creative writing, photography and walking weeks at an Arts Centre in the mountains up from Alicante. Civilised and creative.
is a vast panorama of photographs of a superbly imaginary city, by Oscar Guzmán. Part of the ZoneZero photography site.
"is a group blog by people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists". Fascinating and very stimulating. Part of the website of Discover magazine.
Theologically, it's just cockaminy elitist Mystery. But the language is superb. And it provides a valuable sidelong take on established religion. This site of the US-based Ecclesia Gnostica has a very valuable online library, with many rare texts available.
is a link into another world of writing on-line: short stories, novels, e-books, audiotexts available, plugging into a world of narrative & emotion, not just sent out to be consumed, but also part of an interaction with its audience.
electronic version of this haunting and mysterious early Renaissance illustrated book.
Cats in all their lovable absurdity. I like the language use, he freely admits. I don't give my cat cheeseburgers.
Styles J. Kauphmann is an improvising musician in contact with the innovative poetry scene. His blog contains writings on improvisation and some specimens of his work.
is my son-in-law's band: dark Goth rock
This is a fascinating site, produced by Paul Hurt, who works in Linkage Theory, with applications to poetry (& other arts), society and technology and design.
How to conjure spirits. Much else that's fascinating in the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition.
"Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of 'life in the Jurassic'." You may find a visit interesting and enjoyable.
"Mykus are poetic conversations: four line thoughts and responses with interesting rhymes and rhythms. People world-wide use this folk-art to discover their innermost thoughts — and then to connect with others. Mykus are written by myku masters and beginners, so feel free to jump in." Yes, on one level fraudulent naffness & indulgent kitsch — on another a fascinating use of both poetry and technology.
This is where I find out what's going on in this world: superb coverage of political (in the largest sense) events worldwide
Rosie Musgrave does very beautiful and moving things with stone.
"is a cross-disciplinary journal of cultural studies that fosters the publication of reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas." It's a fascinating contemporary anthropology blog, linked with an academic journal, Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces.
sent me a postcard; I have followed it up – she is "an electro-acoustic flutist whose work is fixed and improvisatory, pre-recorded and performed live, organic and synthetic, analogue and digital, human and robot", and she's very good indeed. Good audio material on her website.
This looks increasingly like common sanity.
The best site for information on the Voynich Manuscript, a bizarre and quite haunting anomaly.
is a very mainstream literature festival run by good friends of mine. You may not like all of it — but you might take to some (& if not to any, do, please reconsider & recall the self-defeating vice of sectarianism). Dartington in July is very beautiful, too.