approx 138 online magazines and e-publishers 
123 writers' homepages and blogs
23 audio and video sites
46 print publishers and magazines
11 readings &c
list of lists: 49 foci of information
6 bookshops and booksellers
11 unexpected 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, May 2008. 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 ListServ 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.
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 (current issue includes Mark Cunningham) with "classic" texts (also in current issue seasonal material from Matthew Arnold and John Clare).
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: texts by, among others, Raymond Bianchi, Rosa Alcalá, Daniel Groves and Richard Kostelanetz, and two very rewarding essay, "One Earth, Four or Five Words: The Notion of 'Avant-Garde' Problematized" by Per Bäckström, and "Comixs and the Lowbrow" by Colin Upton, plus excerpts from a haunting multimedia work, "The Dandelion Clock".
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 eKleksographia, "a new journal of digital text-work", a blog, and now 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. Just 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.
"hopes to provide a forum for publishing poetry and prose poems with innovative language and imagery, including (but not limited to) 'language-oriented' formal experimentation." Current issue includes work by rob mclennan, Crag Hill, Skip Fox and others.
"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.
"Post-Avant Fiction & Poetries", gives online material 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 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, translations 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 & amp; Kent Johnson, "'Addressed to No One': Reading Jack Spicer's After Lorca". A very rewarding site (even if in near unreadable red on black).
is a really exceptionally well designed and vert active ezine – I am left speechless with delight at the sheer pleasure of reading it. The writing is of a very high quality. They also produce online/printable chapbooks.
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 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, and poems by Mairéad Byrne. 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.
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, among others, Fiona Templeton and Chet Wiener.
"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 has a lot material on Maltese poetry and writing (always lots of translations on the site).
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 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. I didn't pick up on any of the names, apart from Mark Cunningham, but I liked "This Submission to elimae Is Going to Change My Life" by Shane Jones, as well as work by Signe Cluiss and Craig Snyder.
Excellent writing of the highest quality, full of bite. Curreent issue includes Alan Halsey and John Lowther. The magazine is also printable as pdfs. Very good archives, well worth rummaging in.
"A Journal of Life and Letters edited by Andrei Codrescu" is well worth your time — full of complex pleasures and invention.
is a complex of projects, community-based, art-based, anarchist-based, with artworks and constructions on the site, based across Ontario and San Diego, and with much activity off-site and also as publications (eg of Linh Dinh, Michael Basinski, Charles Bernstein). I added the "etc" to the heading to label this site!
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. Let it continue and blossom!
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 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 has translations of Rilke by Alan Tucker, and work by Shahar Gold, Peter Dale scott and Joe Brennan.
edited by Angela Gardner is a very beautifully produced ezine, with a wide range of interesting writing on it.
does what it claims, in an elegant site, whose current issue contains poems by Peter Manson and Giles Goodland. And root around the archives, too!
"[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 includes Lawrence Upton, Christopher Mulrooney and Tanya Alex Murray.
"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).
"seeks to publish works of excellence and assumes that excellence is always the offspring of experimentation." Most recent issue contains work by Babriel Gudding and Kazim Ali. 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 Agustine, Michael Heller and Jesse Glass are all represented.
"This will hopefully be a blogzine co-op, a self-editing poetry & poetics magazine with no single perspective, no single set of interests." It does have Michael Peverett, Edmund Hardy, Melissa Flores-Bórquez, cassius-filo and Jamie Wilkes as contributors, 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, and of Peter Riley.
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
is a superb and huge online magazine from Australia. The current issue includes an excellent piece by Robert Bond on Iain Sinclair's poetry, and an extremely enlightening interview with Peter Riley, plus poems by Tom Clark, Amy King, Peter Robinson, 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."
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. 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, 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.
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.
is an elegant little magazine with poetry, prose, multimedia and art.
's current 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. There is also writing from Kenji Siratori, Sophie Mayer, César Vallejo, George Szirtes, Stephen Vincent and Simon Perchik. 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 number of writers, including Allen Fisher, Martin Corless-Smith, Sean Bonney, Mairéad Byrne, Tom Raworth, Lisa Jarnot and Randolph Healy as Quicktime movies amd mp3s. 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 an astonishingly glossy and lively e-zine also available as a podcast and on iTunes. Amy King is editor-in-chief.
an online journal of poetry and poetics has a wide range of poets represented, including John M Bennett, Andrew Nightingale, Jeff Harrison, John Lowther, Sheila Murphy, Diana Magallon and Catherine Daly, with e-books also, including William Allegrezza, Covering Over 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.
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 Charles Freeland.
edited by Tim Atkins, is a very fine-tuned e-zine, whose most recent issue includes, among others, Alan Davies, Laurie Duggan, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Jeff Hilson, Justin Katko, John Lowther and John Seed — also a ferocious set of links, and good reviews.
A very fine ezine, with a lot of visual material, including in most recent issue, Andrew Fieled, Eileen R Tabios, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Mark Cunningham.
"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?" 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.
"Art For the Wise and Discerning Reader" it claims, a magazine produced by a quite large group of people from Manchester (including James Davies). The magazine is paper only – but its site has a lot of material of interest, in a series of short essays on literature (mainly poetry), art, film, performance and music. Plus a couple of other little things, like poets as South Park characters.
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 personal blogs, Stoning the Devil for litcrit.
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 most interesting piece in the current issue, apart from poems by Frances Presley and a review by Allen Fisher of Redell Olsen's Secure Portable Space, is an essay by Alan Halsey, "An Open Letter to Will Rowe" on the current situation of poetry in England.
"is an exhibition of Text Art and Visual Poetry bringing together contributions from poets, artists and makers of works which explore the visual and cultural impact of the word, the sign, and the slogan in public space." This is its website – an interesting sequence of visual works from, among others, Jim Leftwich, John Bennett, Sophie Robinson, John Hall, Stephen Rodefer, Alan Halsey and many more.
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. The current issue is centred on 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 and the British Electronic Poetry Centre.
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.
is 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 constent little production, with work from a wide range of poets and some informative and engaged reviews. Most recent issue includes Peter Hughes, Mark Cunningham, Chris McCabe and Alistair Noon.
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 an attractively wide-ranging little e-zine: eg, the current issue includes poems by Sarah Law, Peter Riley, Peter Robinson and George Szirtes, and an excellent 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.).
is quite a fun mainly US-based poetry & criticism e-zine. Very interesting is content 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.
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.
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 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).
This is an interesting ezine produced by a collective, with roots in open source software, Totnes, and working-class culture. Intelligent and informed articles + this is now where John Muckle publishes on the Web, so lots of his excellent poems.
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." Current issue of 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 creative.
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.
"is a women-centered poetry journal, dedicated to publishing quality work, by both sexes, depicting and exploring the female experience." It's quite fun — full of energy and pleasure.
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. Current issue features code poetry.
"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.".
A range of British and American poets are published on this site.
contains details of D M Black's poetry, reviews of his work, links to other poetry sites, and details of his publications.
Sean Bonney's blog presents him as "Poet, collagist, polemicist, libertarian marxist, antagonist".
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 blog with "New Writing In Various Forms". Great creative energy here.
"expression not convention" — poems, music and art on Dylan Harris's homepage
is A S Morgan's blog, with work and links to her online publications
'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.
is Elieen Tabios's main blog (just renamed), 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 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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
Another staggering site: R G Gregory's life and work as a huge project of action and words.
Charles Freeland's website has on it a lot of his writing, poems and prose.
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 — "This witness protection business is working a treat". Aha! he unmasks himself in his most recent issue — actually it seems a public fact all along — as David Wheatley. More power to him!
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.
has a very elegant site, with a few texts on it, some sound files and some links.
's MySpace presence.
's MySpace presence, with some excellent music on it.
Mairéad Byrne's glorious poetic blog
"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.
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.
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
'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 Kevin's blog!
"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.
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.
"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 several websites centred on his poems:
dream-holes in the net
Ut (with translations from Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Char, Breton and Apollinaire)
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, notings, explorations, etc. of a mainly writerly nature. Travelogue, too. Open-ended, is the hope" 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 Chris Gutkind's MySpace presence.
A text, with photos, by Ian Davidson.
'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.
Michael Lee Johnson's site, with interviews, information and links.
hosts some stimulating and haunting animated texts, emblems and bottle imps.
is Richard Barrett's blog, which gives a good picture of both the now very lively Manchester poetry scene and the state of Mark E Smith Studies.
"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.
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, and a blog, Things Being What Things Being: fire causes alarm as suddenly the forests hover, oh they hover. Oh, they hover, they change colour, and suddenly shoot off like rockets.
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.
Sophie Robinson's blog in totally acerbic black, pink & limegreen: exciting.
"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.
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
is the homepage of Devin Davis (aka townee)
is Chris McCabe's blog.
Lawrence's MySpace presence will have to serve for the moment, with biography and bibliography, and recent postings.
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.
is an interview based blogzine, starting with Geraldine Monk.
'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".
is Amy King's elegant & funky website, which has pix, poems, links to her poems and some fine other links (including to the PJ Harvey website).
'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.
Some podcasts available of readings, including Amy King, Kent Johnson and Geoffrey Gatza, on the BlazeVOX blog.
carries notices of a series of readings in Providence, RI, plus mp3s from readings, including Anselm Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Susan Howe, James Schuyler and others.
I think a slightly guerilla site, with some excellent material of poets reading, from Kathy Acker to Sergei Yessenin, via Fielding Dawson and Jack Spicer.
"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.
is an e-zine available as a podcast on iTunes. Amy King is editor-in-chief. An interesting recent issue edited by Evie Shockley of work by African American poets.
Interviews (with Linh Dinh and Ron Silliman) and readings of her own work. (I've a feeling I'm misusing this technology — we're in a world of newsfeeds and podcasts here — or maybe you are. Please forgive me, Amy! I'll get to grips with it soon!).
podcasts from Poesias Magazine, including Amy King material (see entry above), and a wide range of readings. This is not the actual site for the magazine — try here, but possibly easier to access on a PC rather than an iTune feed (podcast).
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 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 | |
Thursday, 15.00-15.30 |
Blake: The complete works of William Blake read by Resonance actor in residence, Tam Dean Burn | |
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 sortn 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.
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 databases LiteratureonLine LION & Twentieth-Century English Poetry. 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. 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), and as well an interesting debate centred on Gender and Poetry, with several pieces online.
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.
from Cork do a magazine and so far one book. There is material online, including work by Giles Goodland.
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.
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 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.
Catherine Daly's new small press's blog.
"is a publisher of experimental 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. 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. 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, Pau
