Work published elsewhere

Web Publications

• Poems
  • Trying Again (Snakeskin)
  • Interviewing Beckett's Milkman (Snakeskin)
  • Poems from the Poetry Library's archive (Staple, Smiths Knoll and Weyfarers).
  • Wordbound (The Flea)
• Prose
  • Method of Loci (Horizon Review).
  • The economics of despair (Everyday Fiction)
  • A Letter to the Editor (Folly)
• Articles
  • New Pastorals - A Streetmap (Riding the Meridian)
  • The Legacy of Form (Able Muse)
  • Strange Forms (Horizon Review. "a very interesting essay" - Tom Sutcliffe, "Start the week", BBC Radio 4, Oct 20th, 2008).
    Points I meant to add were that
    • Poetry is essentially about words, and these forms establish an unbreakable link from poetry to words
    • Organic Form is when the form and the words evolved together - when form's not an afterthought. The later the constraint's applied, the more likelihood there is of strain - like the budding poet who only worries about the rhyme when they're on the 2nd line of a couplet, as if form were taking belated priority over content.
      But some types of Art deliberately and uncompromisingly assert form or procedure over content. It's a different game, but one with potential. Escher wouldn't compromise, nor in many cases would Cage. It's like the game mathematicians play. It's interesting to see what "beauty" survives or emerges if you keep to the rules, it's almost as if it were a discovered (rather than invented) "truth", something buried or inherent in the form/constraint that has to be "brought out". I think there's room on the spectrum for such works.
    • "The Back Seat of my Mother's Car" (Julia Copus) is a line-palindrome
    • "Uncouplings" (Craig Arnold) uses anagrams

Selections

• an SF selection
• a poetry selection (and list of places published)
• a prose selection (and list of published pieces)
• Love the Poet (ephemera)

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Updated May 2011