A new addition the the Poems section of the websiteL
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Single Poem Roundup: Crowson, Crowcroft, Blackstone
Time for another look at three recently published poems, from three different poets in three different journals: ‘Small decrees of dust: A love song with moths’ by Sarah-Jane Crowson, published in Stone Circle Review; ‘The Other Cheek Turn’ by Kate Crowcroft, published in Berlin Lit; and ‘When asked to map the downfall of our relationship’ […]
Dr. Bakunetsu
I’ve added a new poem to the site’s poetry jukebox/gashapon machine. This is an old one, first published in 2009, that I’ve re-edited recently, though it’s still a little raggedy.
Single Poem Roundup: Williams, Hovda, Crymble
Let’s look at three recently published poems from three different authors and three different online journals. I’ve picked: ‘Heirloom’ by Phillip Crymble, published in issue 13 of Bad Lilies; ‘How to Tank in Overwatch 2‘ by Sara Hovda, published in Cartridge Lit; and ‘Static’ by Chrissy Williams and Tom Humberstone, published in issue 3 of […]
Frayed Ends: On the Longevity of Digital Poetry
Change, change — that’s what the terns scream down at their seaward rocks;fleet clouds and salt kiss — everything else is provisional, us and all our works. — ‘Fianuis’ by Kathleen Jamie This paper was originally delivered as a talk at Poetry, Representation and the Archive, a symposium hosted by the University of East Anglia on 25th May 2023. My practice […]
Still Life With Octopus / Tania Hershman
The poems in Still Life With Octopus slip down very easily — sometimes a little too easily, like they’re elastically escaping their tank. You think you’ve got them in focus, and then they’re gone. Not literally, of course; you can head back to the top of the page and comb them again, looking for the […]
Lyonesse by Penelope Shuttle
Lyonesse (Bloodaxe, 2021) presents a problem. On the one hand, it’s tricky to talk about because I don’t feel able to map out the book’s depths. Parts of it remain sunken and mysterious to me – I can claim no commanding vantage point, despite having browsed it on-off for a couple of months and read […]
On Starlings, with Caleb Parkin and Holly Hopkins
How does a poem mimic (or capture, or transmute) something so visual, so kinetic, so unliterary, as the sight of a murmuration of starlings? And is there any point in it trying to, when we can see the spectacle for ourselves at any time, via a brief internet search? Where is the sense in using […]
Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems
I’m presenting an extended abstract at the DiGRA 2019 conference in Kyoto this coming week, based on my practical PhD research. This is the final introduction/summary text:In Ludic Mutation: The Player’s Power to Change the Game (2012), Anne-Marie Schleiner describes how artists and players alike resist the mechanically and culturally imposed rules of digital games […]
Off the Page: Chapter Two
I’m doing a short talk this Saturday at the British Library, alongside Kirsten Irving, discussing our various experiments with interactive and gaming poetry and also touching on my own research into this area over the last three years.We’re on at 13.45, but as part of a packed schedule of speakers, including interactive fiction writer Emily Short […]