People
Derek Beaulieu: Author of five books of poetry (most recently the visual poem suite silence), two volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection How to Write) and over 150 chapbooks, Derek Beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging contemporary Canadian writing.
Publisher of the acclaimed smallpresses housepress (1997-2004) and no press (2005-present), and editor of several small magazines in Canada, Beaulieu has spoken and written on poetics internationally. Toro magazine recently wrote “using techniques drawn from graphic design, fine art and experimental writing, [Beaulieu] vigorously tests the restrictions, conventions, and denotations of the letters of the alphabet.”
Beaulieu’s fractal economies (talonbooks, 2006) included a cogent and widely-discussed argument for poetry which worked beyond strict meaning making, pushing the boundaries into graphic design, gesture and collaboration.
In 2006 he was a performer at the Nyhil Poetry Festival in Reykjavik (Iceland) and in 2007 he was keynote speaker at the Oslo poesifestival. He has performed his work at festivals and universities across Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2010 he will be featured reader at the Soundeye Festival (Cork, Ireland).
Lucy Harvest Clarke lives in the South of England where she is a writer and a house painter. She is currently working on poems and objects and a double door. Her work Fable Table was exhibited at the Alight on Landing exhibition. Some new work will feature in the forthcoming Department magazine. Her collection of poems Silveronda is published by if p then q.
Tina Darragh: DEEP ECO PRÉ, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published as an ebook this November by Little Red Leaves. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, Darragh participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Her current project, “no-fuss-bus”, investigates the use of poetry to elide discussion of class and race in US school systems by its inclusion in the Talented and Gifted Magnet School programs designed to foster “voluntary busing”.
Click here to watch Tom Jenks’ interview with Tina Darragh as part of her reading at The Other Room reading series and here to watch the reading itself
Matt Dalby started to reinvent his poetic practice in 2008 after being exposed to the work of Caroline Bergvall. His main focus has been sound poetry. He’s mostly to be found at santiago’s dead wasp.
James Davies‘ collections are Acronyms (onedit), The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and aRb with Simon Taylor as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism; currently working on Absolute Elsewhere. Plants is forthcoming in 2012 from Reality Street. He is one of the organisers of The Other Room The Other Room and edits if p then q.
Stephen Emmerson‘s chapbooks include, ‘X’ The Arthur Shilling Press 2009, and ‘Attack of the Gas Powered Angels’ KnivesForksandSpoons 2010. Since these publications he has adapted a more conceptual non linear approach to poetry. He recently read at Morden Tower for the FREAKLUNG ODEs anthology launch in memory of Barry MacSweeney.
SJ Fowler is one of the most prolific and inventive young poets emerging in Britain. A formidable reader, his poetry is concerned with the latency of aggression in passive cultures, and the violence of the banal. A devotee of boxing, his symbolic engagement with the combative arts lends his writing an assailing immediacy. Concurrently antagonistic and innovative, his poetry is distinct and affecting whether spoken or read from the page – Robert Sutcliffe (editor of Kitt press). More here.
James Harvey studied Biology at UCL, and Biology inspires much of his poetry. His previous publications are the one poem book Mackerelling (Intercapillary Editions, 2009), e-pamphlet Parts Composers (Openned, 2009), broadsheet From Marx’s Capital (Kater Murr’s Press, 2009) and chapbook Temporary Structures (Veer, 2009).
Julius Kalamarz received his MFA from Columbia University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Opium Magazine, Juked, Word For/Word, Counterexample Poetics, The Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter and others.
Holly Pester is an experimental sound poet and writer undergoing practice-led research at Birkbeck College in ‘Speech and the Archive in Intermedia Poetry’. Her performances texts are experiments in the sound and shape of speech, blending pre-verbal noises with semantic surrealism in an affecting investigation into language transmission. Holly’s work is published in onedit and in City States, a new anthology of London poets (Penned in the Margins). Holly Pester performed at the Serpentine Poetry Marathon in October and will take part in the Bury Text Festival 2011.
Andrew Topel:
to·pel
Pronunciation: ‘toe-pell
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): to·pel·inzki /-p(&-)el[ki]/
Etymology: from the mind of God, from the womb of Topel, Sharon, 1977
Intransitive verb : to form poetry or as if from language robed in Swahili
Transitive verb 1 : to cause a deep rumble trapped in whispers 2 : to make compositions made of letters, music or thoughts (as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface of linguistic texture
an·drew
Pronunciation: ‘an-(“)drü
Function: noun
Usage: to name what changes shape
Etymology: And (&) from the bowels of other universes
Rew, proper name and short for renew : a person who is sewn in ink
andrew topel is the editor & publisher of avantacular press, specializing in books of visual poetry & other-stream writing. view the on-line catalog at – http://avantacular-press.blogspot.com/
Tom Watts lives and works in south-east London. His poetry has been published in Equilibrium Magazine, Remark, Plus-Que-Parfait, Streetcake Magazine, and a chapbook is forthcoming on The Arthur Shilling Press. Away from poetry, he writes reviews for Rabbit Hole Urban Music, and his short story ‘Wasps’ was long-listed for the 2010 Fish Short Story Prize. He is currently grappling man to man with his first novel. So far the novel is winning.
He is fascinated by the accidental glimpse of the internet that broken coding provides. When, like the bones of a busted umbrella, the facade of the internet is ripped away and it’s scaffolding revealed, it always has the appearance of a chaotic randomness. It is in fact the opposite as every letter, symbol, and mark must be in exactly the right place for the code to work. This is demonstrated beautifully by the probably simple error of composition that has caused the site or blog to malfunction and blurt out the ugly piece of code.
Grzegorz Wróblewski, born in1962 in Gdansk and raised in Warsaw, has been living inCopenhagen since 1985. He has published nine volumes of poetry and two collections of short prose pieces inPoland; three books of poetry, a book of poetic prose and an experimental novel (translations) inDenmark; and a book of selected poems in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as a selection of plays. His work has been translated into ten languages.
The English translations of his poems and/or plays have appeared in London Magazine, Poetry London, Magma Poetry, Parameter Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Delinquent, Chicago Review, 3rd bed, Eclectica, Mississippi Review, Absinthe: New European Writing, Common Knowledge, Word Riot, Practice: New Writing + Art, The Mercurian – A Theatrical Translation Review, Lyric, CounterPunch, Exquisite Corpse, Guernica, Jacket Magazine, Otoliths, Cambridge Literary Review, 3:AM Magazine, Past Simple, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI Online, Words Without Borders, Shampoo, Seneca Review,
Postmodern Culture, West Wind Review
and in the following anthologies: Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (Arc Publications, Todmorden, UK 2003), Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird (Zephyr Press, Brookline, USA 2004), A Generation Defining Itself – In Our Own Words (MW Enterprises, USA 2007).
Selected poems Our Flying Objects (Equipage Press, Cambridge, UK 2007), new and selected poems A Marzipan Factory (Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2010).
His chapbooks to date are: These Extraordinary People (erbacce-press, Liverpool, UK 2008) and Mercury Project (Toad Press, Claremont, USA 2008), A Rarity (Cervena Barva Press, W. Somerville, USA, 2009).
