Literary Articles

Articles by Tim Love

• Poetry
  • Forms
    • Forms Workshop
    • The Legacy of Form (from AbleMuse)
    • Obscure Forms
    • Natural Forms (draft)
    • Relaxation Techniques (about loose forms)
  • Unity/fragmentation and Structure
    • Literary Order and Chaos
    • Broken Mirrors, flattened hierarchies
    • Literary Depth
    • Juxtaposing text
    • Joining the dots
  • Sonic and Visual Effects
    • Allusions (revised January 1996)
    • Metaphor (revised August 2008)
    • The End of the Line (revised July 1996) (from Acumen)
    • Making Lines
    • Lines Today
    • Coloured text
    • Rhyme
    • The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound (from Acumen)
    • Poetry punctuation
  • Misc
    • Poetry and Society in the UK
    • Classifying Your Poetry
    • Popularising poetry (Draft)
    • A response to Paterson's 'The Empty Image'
    • Attention and Poetic Effects
    • The Avant-garde and Language poetry
    • Prose poems
    • Attention to Detail (from Envoi)
    • Escape Routes
    • Padel, McGuickian and I
    • Beyond Reason
    • The formalist/free avant-garde/mainstream UK/US splits (from Acumen 53)
    • Leaving the poetry mainstream
    • No Idea
    • Measures of density
    • Poetic Requirements
    • Poetry or Prose?
    • Word Association
  • Meaning
    • The Lammas Hireling
    • Obscurity (from Sol)
    • The Sense of Resolution
    • The Scale of Meaning
    • Criticism
    • Puzzles
    • Not so difficult poems (partly from Envoi)
    • The Great Poetry Hoax (from Acumen)
    • Charlatanism, Poetry and Art
    • Games poets play
    • William Blake
  • Publication
    • Getting Poetry Published in the UK
    • Getting Poetry Published in the UK (August 2010)
    • UK poetry small press (publishers)
    • UK poetry small press (general)
    • Competitions
    • Goalies and Poetry Competitions
• Prose
  • Misc
    • Writing as Addiction (draft)
    • Writing Reviews
    • The language of reviews (draft)
    • What's wrong with SF?
    • Transparency, Barthelme and Lahiri
    • Story beginnings and endings
    • Short Prose
    • Flash in 2010
    • Narration and Time
    • Really?
    • There's something I have to tell you (from autobiography to story)
    • Flabby Prose
    • Ian Robinson and the artifice of prose
    • Twists: The old one-two
    • Genre and critiques
    • MultiPoVs (multiple points-of-view)
    • Child narrators in adult fiction
    • Organising a story collection (with Tania Hershman)
  • Publication
    • Short Stories and the UK Small Press
    • The Short Story, UK, December 1999
    • The Short Story, UK, September 2005
    • Publishing stories (September 2007)
    • Getting stories published in magazines (2009)
• Being a Writer
  • Paper Tiger, Burning Bright (from Jennings)
  • Why blog?
  • Don't give up your day job
  • Shortcuts to becoming a writer
  • Breaking into print
  • A Poetry Career
  • Writing and Authorship
  • Anonymity and the Poet
• General Publication
  • My dealings with UK literary magazines (revised March 1998)
  • UK literary magazines, 2002
  • UK literary magazines, 2007
  • "Magazine Reassessments 2010"
  • The WWW and Literary Standards
  • Vanity Publishing
• Misc
  • UK Public funding for literature 2008
  • Plugging the Gaps: Consultancy and Mentoring
  • Who? What? Where? Why? When?
  • "Blindspots"
• Literature and other things
  • Poetry, Madness and Cure
  • Poetry, Technology and the Internet (from Acumen)
  • Poetry and Gardens
  • Science and the Arts
  • Poetry about Science in the UK
  • Poetry, Mathematics, and Computing
  • Painting and Poetry
  • Illustrated Poetry
  • Image - Text - Image
  • Cornelia Parker: Word and Image
  • Jokes and Poetry
  • Sculpture and Involvement: towards an architecture of poetry (draft)
  • New Pastorals - A Streetmap (from Riding the Meridian)
  • Dreams and Writing
  • Poetry and Sport (draft)
  • Poetry goes Techno (draft)
  • Notation in Poetry and Music (draft)
  • Hidden Compromise and Disclosure
  • Chess, Beauty and Literature
• Perception
  • The Rabbit and the Duck
  • Seeing and Reading
  • First Impressions
• Voice
  • Losing your Voice (from Poetry Nottingham International)
  • Monologues
• Workshops
  • Exercises
  • Tact Attacked (from Poetry Nottingham International)
  • Recital workshop
  • What to say at workshops
  • Reading - the first few seconds
  • Reading - the first few minutes
  • Danger: Poets at work
  • The use and abuse of literary theory (draft)
  • Mixed Reviews
• Miscellaneous
  • Translating Dante's La Commedia Divina
  • Cambridge and Sherlock Holmes
  • Creativity and constraints
  • Alien bodies

Articles by others

• Poetic Features
  • The Monstrosity of the Long Poem by Nerys Williams from Poetry Wales, Autumn 2009
  • A Manifesto On The Contemporary Sonnet: A Personal Aesthetics (Tony Barnstone)
  • Metaphor (Owen Barfield)
  • Metaphor and Theme (Paul Hurt)
  • The American Voice (Lance Lee)
  • Extravagances, Hesitancies, & Urgencies: On the Line in Poetry (Mark Irwin)
  • Reasoning Rhyme (by Andrew Philip)
  • Benign Obscurity (Donald Justice)
  • Why is modern poetry so difficult? (John Tranter)
  • Leaping Into the Unknown: The Poetics of Robert Bly's Deep Image (Kevin Bushell, from Gruene Street)
  • Poets on Complexity
  • Sound-patterning (from TextEtc)
  • Go Figure - Clarity and the Modern Metaphor (by Anna Evans, from Umbrella)
• Formalism
  • A Field Guide to the Poetics of the '90s (R.S. Gwynn)
  • Neo-Formalism: A Dangerous Nostalgia (Ira Sadoff, from APR)
  • Loaded Terminology of the Poetry Wars (by Robert Darling, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
  • The Shape of Poetry, Part I (by Paul Lake, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
  • The Shape of Poetry, Part II (by Paul Lake, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
  • The Inner Meaning of Poetic Form (by Frederick Turner, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
  • In Defense of Meter (by Annie Finch, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
  • Typographical Tics: Social Climbing and the New Formalism (by Joseph S. Salemi, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
• Prose and Poetry
  • On the Prosing of Poetry (Joan Houlihan)
  • Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical "Choice" and Historical Formation by Marjorie Perloff
• Modernism
  • Modernism (from Wikipedia)
  • 21st Century Modernism: Introduction (Perloff)
• Postmodernism
  • The Genealogy of Postmodernism: Contemporary American Poetry (Albert Gelpi, from The Southern Review)
  • The Questions of Postmodernism (David Lehman, from Jacket)
• Oulipo
  • The Oulipo Factor: The Procedural Poetics of Christian Bok and Caroline Bergvall (Marjorie Perloff, from Jacket)
  • Toward a General Theory of the Constraint (Bernardo Schiavetta, from EBR)
  • Oulipo ends where the work begins (Christopher R. Beha)
  • L'art contemporain de Georges Perec (3 documentary videos)
• Individual Poets and Poems
  • Prynne and The Movement (Steve Clark, from Jacket)
  • The Application of Thought to Poetry: A Criticism of John Ashbery (Gavin Fergusson)
  • Normalizing John Ashbery (Marjorie Perloff, from Jacket)
  • Plathetic Fallacies (Fred Beake, from Lynx)
  • J. H. Prynne's "On the Matter of Thermal Packing" (Vance Maverick, from Lynx)
  • Deaf to Meaning: On J.H.Prynne's The Oval Window (Neil Reeve and Richard Kerridge, from Jacket)
  • An Introduction to the Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Rod Mengham and John Kinsella)
• Theory and Criticism
  • Agoraphobia, and the embarrassment of manifestos: notes towards a community of risk (Drew Milne, from Parataxis)
  • Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry (University of Toronto)
  • Critiquing Critiques by RJ McCaffery, from "Aside"
  • Literary criticism (from TextEtc)
• The State of Poetry
  • Final Cut: The Selection Process for Break, Blow, Burn (Camille Paglia)
  • Poetry without borders (by Todd Smith, from Oxford Forum)
  • Claiming the Poetry Heartlands by Judy Gahagan, from "Acumen"
  • Current difficulties (from TextEtc)
  • From Scotland to Suburbia: A Landscape of Current British Poetry (Jon Corelis)
  • Why poetry is dying (Joseph S. Salemi)
  • How Can You Read That Stuff? or Why? (Christopher Lott)
• Contemporary Poetry
  • Introduction to OTHER British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, from Jacket)
  • From the Charity Shops..Two British Anthologies (Michael Peverett, from Lynx)
  • Elsewhere and Everywhere..other new (British) poetries (Robert Sheppard, from Lynx)
  • On Contemporary American Poetry (James Rother, from Contemporary Poetry Review)
  • After free verse: The new non-linear poetries (by Marjorie Perloff)
• Literature and Maths/Science
  • Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language (Julie Kane)
  • The Neural Lyre: Poetic Meter, the Brain, and Time (Frederick Turner, Ernst Poppel)
  • Some Aspects of Cognitive Poetics (Reuven Tsur)
  • Further Reflections on the Poetry-Science connection (Eugene Garfield)
  • Mathematics and Literature
  • Mathematics in Poetry (JoAnne Growney)
• Miscellaneous
  • Numbers Trouble (JULIANA SPAHR and STEPHANIE YOUNG)
  • Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades (by Christopher Funkhouser)
  • The Escape From Coherence: An Introduction to Creative Reading by Jeffrey Side (from The Argotist Online)
  • Poetry in Turbulence (from The Argotist Online)
  • Groups and Boundaries: The Field of Poetry Around 1995 by Andrew Duncan (from The Argotist Online)
  • How to Win at Poetry Workshops
  • Foundations of Interactive Narrative by Zach Tomaszewski
  • The Mystique of the Difficult Poem (by Steve Kowit)
  • Point-Driven Understanding: Pragmatic and Cognitive Dimensions of Literary Reading
  • The American Voice (Lance Lee)
  • Anonymous sources: a talk on translators and translating
  • Spatial Relationships (The potential of the avant-garde in poetry in Australia) (John Kinsella)
  • A Brief Look at the Avant-Garde and "Western" Spirituality (John Kinsella)
  • C-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-n-g an ad-hoc introduction to american language poetry (John Kinsella)
  • Netdeath and the Loss of Page Style (John Kinsella)
  • Word Use in the Poetry of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Poets
  • Madness in the new poetry (Peter Davidson, from The Atlantic)
  • Abstraction and Ambiguity in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen (Jeffrey Side)
  • Accommodating Chaos (Hale Chatfield)
  • As Imagination Bodies Forth the Forms of Things Unknown (Mark Turner)
  • Innovation contra Acceleration (Peter Larkin, from Lynx)
  • An evolutionary approach to literary reading: Theory and predictions (David S. Miall)
  • The Book Market II (John Unsworth)
  • A Defense of M.F.A. Programs in Poetry (R.J. McCaffery)
  • novelists 'r' us (Laura Miller)
  • Post-Post Dementia (Joan Houlihan)
  • The Word as Such: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry in the Eighties (Marjorie Perloff)

OtherCollections

• Poetry Articles and Essays (from the great american poetry show)