Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VI

Literature & Fiction

Bigsby, Christopher

Short Stories & Anthologies

Boiler House Press

Ten Thousand Things

Emily Critchley

Latanoprost Variations

Jeff Hilson

What does it mean to be human Poetry asks this question. The answer, if one looks in any anthology - from any country or era - would appear to be that humanity consists of hopelessly doomed romantics, variously-religious spiritual seekers, or soldiers. It takes a lot of searching to find a poetry about the most universal and human of activities; that of parenting or of being parented. In recent years, poets such as Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Anne Waldman have all written long celebrations of motherhood, but there has never been a poetry written by fathers about the father-daughter relationship. Tim Atkins ON FATHERS

On Fathers < On Daughtyrs

Atkins, Tim

Word / World

Morris, Marianne

In response to surges of violent British nationalism and political paranoia around borders, and to related social and ethical crises, JT Welsch and gnes Lehczky have assembled an anthology to mark the vital contribution of non-UK-born writers to this country s poetry culture. Wretched Strangers brings together innovative writing from around the globe, celebrating the irreducible diversity such work brings to British poetry. While documenting the challenges faced by writers from elsewhere, these pieces offer hopeful re-conceptions of shared foreignness as Lila Matsumoto describes it, and the peculiar state of exiled human, in Fawzi Karim s words. The book is published by Boiler House Press to commemorate the anniversary of the June 2016 EU Referendum and in solidarity through struggles ongoing and to come. Proceeds will be donated to charities fighting for the rights of refugees. Alireza Abiz, Astrid Alben, Tim Atkins, Andre Bagoo, Veronica Barnsley, Khairani Barokka, Leire Barrera-Medrano, Katherine E. Bash, ine Belton, Caroline Bergvall, Sujata Bhatt, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Fina Bolger, Ben Borek, Andrea Brady, Serena Braida, Wilson Bueno, James Byrne, Kimberly Campanello, J.R

Wretched Strangers Writing Against Brexi

Ágnes Lehóczky

History & Criticism

The long-awaited third collection from one of the UKs finest, most virtuosic of modern lyric poets. These poems take the reader on surprising journeys of healing, hard-won amid personal and social vicissitudes including triumph over addiction, and alcoholism -- and open spaces in which to share in emotional, quasi-spiritual transcendence despite. Who could ask for more When poetry is the centre of your life the strength of some poets will get fixed in the orbit of your day, their poems settled into the memory of mind and body. Sophie Robinson is one of my absolute favourites, her lines returning to me, visceral, unsettling, exacting, and stunning! If you read one book of poems this year, let it be this! Shes a gateway drug, keeping you wanting all books of poetry to be as genius to make part of your waking life. CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death.

Rabbit

Sophie Robinson

Poetry

Self Heal

Walton, Samantha

of sirens, body & faultlines is a book of prophecy against this Brexit era, rising from a post-2008 London, where crisis and austerity meet the vanity projects of the super-rich. Committed to the immediacy of a present that is precarious and under surveillance, of sirens... attends to queer, transfeminist and people of colour counter-memories and histories. It seeks new expressions of desire and modes of breath, pushing against the gravities that would rather these lives and worlds disappear.\nWhile arguing with the radio may seem futile, syntax, punctuation, grammar and the page must still all be mobilised to help create new conditions of possibility for collectivity, for poetry to speak. Raha's exceptional, experimental, queer lyric mobilises all aspects of language to reveal contradictions of capitalism and defuse populist rhetoric. This is a writing of city life against the flows to capital; labouring bodies speaking back to the demands of work and the fictions of xenophobic politicians. It concerns herstory, transfeminism, collectivity; the everyday of South East London, transformation and decolonisation, through counter-memories, anti-memoir, and a trans poetics.

Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines

Nat Raha

sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics

Francesca Lisette

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