Publications by Peter Philpott
This does not include material recorded as audio or video, and available online, which is listed with links on Peter Philpott: Audio & Video.
Books
- The Bishops Stortford Variations (Great Works Editions, 1976)
- What Was Shown (Ferry Press, 1980)
- Loot 2: 3 A Narrative of the Travails of S Whilst He Is in Prison (supplement to Spectacular Diseases, 1981)
- Some Action Upon The World (Grosseteste, 1982)
- Textual Possessions: Three Sequences (Shearsman Press, 2004)
- To the Union (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010)
- Are We Not Drawn . . . (Shearsman, 2009)
- Ianthe Poems (Shearsman, 2015)
- Wound Scar Memories (Great Works Editions, 2017)
- Telling the Beads: A Spiritual Year Book for Our Times After Bede & Brecht (Great Works Editions, 2020)
Major Texts Online
These are largely unpublished in print.
- A Year and a Day in the Dark Forest (written 1981-1982), at http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/yd/yd1.html
- David Houssart, Peter Philpott & Jon Slater, The Playground (Great Works/The Playgound, 1986) at http://modernpoetry.org.uk/playground/pg.html, with drawings by David Houssart, photo by Andy Partington & sound files of some of the poems in performance (digitally remastered by David Houssart), including some poems from A Year and a Day in the Dark Forest — further details online at http://modernpoetry.org.uk/playground/mp3s.html
- Towards the End at http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/end/end0.html and IL (the pair written 1998–9)at http://www.greatworks.org.uk/il/a1.html (written 1997–8) — sequences taking off from a poem in "In the Present Historic Tense" (section 1 of Textual Possessions) — I originally created Great Works website as the only way of presenting the matrix structure of IL.
- Robert Blake, Connie Beauchamp, Gerri Dixon, Simon Gregory, Mark Hall, Erwin Hass, Tina Hyett, Emma Liukunas, Mikaela Moriarty, Peter Philpott, Bradley Tabor & Spencer Termott, In the Dirt of the Post-Lyric: A Collaborative Cycle (written 2006–8) at http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/itd.html , with an mp3 of the author reading a version of section 4: Spencer Termott, "The Matching Tye Set" on Sad Press at https://sadpress.wordpress.com/tag/termott/feed/
- Within These Latter Days: a poem committed against purity, precision, perfection (written 2011–13); a sequence of 100+ poems, following stochastically governed sequences of widely varied forms/constraints/recipes, with various repetitions of vocabulary, and varying openness to external language events, blogged at http://withinthese.blogspot.co.uk/.
- A Second Life: (written 2013–2014) a sequence of poems, matching chance & constraint, where we are & where we could be, blogged at http://a2ndlife.org.uk/
- Within These Latter Days, a Second Life: a poem committed against purity, precision, perfection: a cut down & continuous version of both Within These Latter Days & A Second Life, which is the typescript of a projected book, and easier to read than the two blogged versions. Link is to an open shared pdf on Dropbox.
- Wound Scar Memories (Great Works Editions, 2017) has two elements available online. "Fragments of Vulgar Things", the first of the three sequences of poems in the book is accessible via Intercapillary Space either from the page with the sixth poem of the sequence of it, or directly from Dropbox. A Note On Some Matters with Britain is an essay on Academia.edu, discussing political implications of the changes occurring in Migration Age Britain for the present, and picking up some potentially obscure points in my writing, specially in Wound Scar Memories. It is printed in Wound Scar Memories under the more tricksy title "Not a Note on Some Matters with Britain".
- Telling the Beads: A Spiritual Year Book for Our Times (Great Works Editions, 2020) continues the Dark Age themes of Wound Scar Memories, following Bede's account of the Anglo-Saxon calendar (also inspired by Brecht's Die Hauspostille). Apart from a page about it on Great Works, the site hosts the texts for Three Milks Month (May), and those for the Holy Month of September are on e·ratio (2017).
Anthologies, Collaborations, etc
- participant in, curated by Paul Green, Variations Various Artists (Spectacular Diseases, 1985)
- contributor to, edited by Andrew Crozier & Tim Longville, A Various Art (Carcanet, 1987; Paladin, 1990)
- from Utters and from Poem to Watch TV to in Elephant Candy (Ankle Press, 1993)
- most of "Noting Nothing" (section 2 of Ianthe Poems) in, edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe, Veer-About 2010–2011 (Veer, 2011) on Intercapillary Space
- Emily Howard, Mark Cobley and Simon Howard, kaddish: the second part of Plus-que-Parfait, with guest contributions from Richard Barrett, Peter Philpott and Tom Watts (The Red Ceilings Press, 2010; available online at http://issuu.com/theredceilings/docs/kaddish); original blog version on Plus-que-parfait at http://plusqueparfaitblogspotcom.blogspot.co.uk/2010_05_01_archive.html (including image)
- 3 poems in, edited by James Wilkes, Herbarium (Capsule Press/Wayward Plants, July, 2011); also available online and as a video of their reading (July 22, 2011) on the Urban Physic Garden site at http://www.physicgarden.org.uk/2001-2/
- section from Within These Latter Days in Writers Forearm: poetry from writer forum workshop — new series (November, 2011)
- contribution (beginning "Oh God let8 try this with red") in curated by Stephen Emmerson, Albion (Like This Press, 2013)
- "Tony Frazer, Publisher, Shearsman Books" in A Festschrift for Tony Frazer (November 7, 2015)
- How Dawit Isaak Lives was written for and performed at The English PEN Modern Literature Festival 2017, held on April 1, 2017, at Rich Mix, 35–47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Magazines (including online)
There are more in even more fugitive productions from the 70s & 80s.
- extracts from 2 poems in edition: a - monument to the trees (University of Keele, 1969?)
- poem in edition: b - writing in the sand (University of Keele, 1970?)
- poems in Sesheta 5 (Summer 1973)
- 3 poems in Great Works 2 (October 1973)
- poem in The Curiously Strong: Final Issue (1975)
- excerpt from Journeys & 2 poems in Great Works 4 (1975)
- poem in The Last Curiously Strong (IV, 9 & 10) (1975)
- 5 poems in Saintly Fingers 4 (December, 1975)
- from Unfinished Business in Perfect Bound 3 (1977)
- from Unfinished Business in Windows 3 (April, 1977)
- from Unfinished Business in The Wolly Of Swot part 2: Lost in the Land of the Worm-Eaters (1977?) (also "The Tarot Poem", section from Unfinished Business in early issue of sister? magazine, Peeping Tom)
- 2 poems in Vanessa 5 and 6 (Autumn, 1978) (poems in earlier issues, but I can't trace these!)
- 3 poems in words worth 1:3 (1979)
- from Unfinished Business in Reality Studios Vol. 1 Nos. 8/9/10 (January-March 1980)
- 10 poems from Some Action Upon the World in Grosseteste Review Vol. 13 (1980/81)
- 3 poems in pen:umbra 1 (June, 1989)
- 2 poems in Archaeus "Art Issue" (1989)
- 6 poems in Active in Airtime 4 (1995)
- 3 poems in involution (iii) (April, 1995)
- poem from Utters in Parataxis: modernism and modern writing Number 8/9, 1996
- poem in Tears in the Fence 33 (Autumn, 2002)
- various poems on Great Works (2002-2011) http://www.greatworks.org.uk/archive.html#philpott
- from "An Encounter Upon the Beach at Minehead with the Prince of This World" (section 2 of Textual Possessions) & "Two Poems (Philosophical, Heroic, Particular and with Long Titles)" in Tears in the Fence 34 (Spring, 2003)
- from "An Encounter Upon the Beach at Minehead with the Prince of This World" (section 2 of Textual Possessions) in Angel Exhaust Eighteen (Spring, 2005)
- from To the Union in Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry 15: Review 2005 (April, 2005)
- from To the Union in Fire 26 (September, 2005)
- from "An Encounter Upon the Beach at Minehead with the Prince of This World" (section 2 of Textual Possessions) in Angel Exhaust Nineteen (Autumn, 2006)
- extract from Are We Not Drawn . . . in liminal pleasures Two (Autumn, 2006)
- 5 poems in fragmente: a magazine of contemporary poetics issue 9, 2007
- sequence from Are We Not Drawn . . . on P.F.S. Post: Maximum Post-Avant http://artrecess.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/peter-philpott-uk-from-are-we-not.html
- opening of The Book of Air on The Argotist Online at http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Philpott%20poem.htm
- from "Speculations" (section 1 of Ianthe Poems) in 10th Muse 17 (2011)
- "Dubbadea" (section 3 of Ianthe Poems) on blart 2 http://blartmagazine.jimdo.com/blart-2/
- fragments from A Second Life in Scabs Are Rats Four (2014)
- The third month, "Holy Month", of Telling the Beads online on e·ratio (2017)
- The first three sections of of 17 Instances of Fairy Tales online on adjacentpineapple (2018)
Reviews etc by Peter Philpott
- Review ("Four Books" — Anthony Barnett, Poem About Music; Andrew Crozier, The Veil Poem; Allen Fisher, Place I-XXXVII typescript; Iain Sinclair, The Birth Rug) in Great Works 3 (July, 1974)
- review ("Three Pieces"- Paul Buck, re/qui/re(qui)re; John James, One for Rolf; David Miller, All My Life) in Great Works 5 (December, 1975)
- "Lee Harwood" — introduction, bibliography and brief selection on Poetry International Rotterdam's website at http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/5699/0/Lee-Harwood
- "Denise Riley" — introduction, bibliography and brief selection on Poetry International Rotterdam's website at http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/5698/0/Denise-Riley
- "Profile of the poet Paul Holman: A response to Paul Holman's The Memory of the Drift (Shearsman, 2007)" (review) originally published on Geometer online magazine, now on Paul Holman's website at http://paulholman.drupalgardens.com/content/peter-philpott-profile-poet-paul-holman
- review (Karen Mac Cormack, Implexures) in 10th Muse 16, 2009
- "A Quick Introduction to the Poetry of . . . " — These were issued as A4 "tasting notes" at the Diverse Deeds poetry and music performances towards the end of 2009, and for Stort Poetry Group readings in 2012-3. They give my hints to an audience as to what to expect from the poets reading, and ways to make sense of this if they were unused to the poetry, plus where they could encounter their work, especially online. The webpages are virtually verbatim from the original paper copies.
Statements About Poetry, Publishing etc by Peter Philpott
You may find useful also my comments on my available books in Peter Philpott: Books in Print
Reviews of Work by Peter Philpott
I have omitted some brief notices of early publications.
- William Oxley, "Adventures with Words" — review of Textual Possessions on Stride (August, 2004), at http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/2004/August/oxley%20philpott%20rev.htm
- Andrew Shelley, "Textual Possessions by Peter Philpott; Migrations by Gloria Gervitz" in Tears in the Fence 41 (Summer, 2005) — I'm moved to comment on this piece, as it has altered my poetic practice since I read it. 10 pages, more than half of which concern Textual Possessions, written with absolute passion, & fierce attention to language, often very positive in tone, but failing the work. Unlike Gloria, it ain't cliterature or "Deep vagina-talk." < sigh > His critique, though based on a Jungian feminism < uh-oh! >, has constantly pushed me beyond a formal decentredness to some attempt at an inner decentredness, fluidity & acceptance of the full & absolute reality of process < yeah, no frigging archetypes — too easy, Andrew! >.
- D.C. Andersson, "State of the (internet poetry) Nation" — review of Great Works #10 (February 3, 2008) on D.C. Andersson's blog at http://dcandersson.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/state-of-internet-poetry-nation.html
- Laurie Duggan, "thursday night in London, sunday in Sydney" — brief review of reading with Sophie Robinson at The Blue Bus, July 3, 2008 on Graveney Marsh at http://graveneymarsh.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/last-night-in-london.html
- Peter Gillies, "On The Beach" — review of Are We Not Drawn . . ., November, 2009 on Stride at http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag2009/Nov%202009/Peter%20Philpott.gillies.htm
- Laurie Duggan, "57 varieties" — brief review of reading with Emily Critchley at The Blue Bus, October 19, 2011 (including photo) on Graveney Marsh at http://graveneymarsh.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/57-varieties.html
- Steve Spence, "Lots of Risks" — review of Peter Jaeger, A Field Guide to Lost Things and Ianthe Poems, July 2015, on Stride at http://stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202015/July%202015/Jaeger.Philpott.spence.htm
- Gareth Prior, "The world and the child: Peter Philpott" — review of Ianthe Poems, August 30, 2005 on Gareth Prior's blog at http://garethprior.org/the-world-and-the-child-peter-philpott/
- Ian Brinton, "Ianthe Poems by Peter Philpott (Shearsman Books)" on the Tears in the Fence Blog at http://tearsinthefence.com/2015/09/07/ianthe-poems-by-peter-philpott-shearsman-books/