Displacement

First some OULIPO background, as a reminder to me and anyone else who needs it.   From the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics ...

Our greatest poet’s dead, so let’s run a dual carriageway through his childhood landscape.  Apart from a motivated group of local peopl...

I've been reading hundreds of pamphlet submissions to the Rialto’s competition.   Absorbing, fascinating… and intensive.   Three of us...

This post is for anyone anywhere who wonders if poetry in the sea is viable – as a reading, an event, performance art or just for fun.  Th...

“Here is the gift of a poetry festival for each of you”.   That’s how the Poetry in Aldeburgh website introduces itself.   A heroic group...

What is the language using us for?   What were we all doing at the book fair, selling and buying books, networking, reading, listening?  ...

This poem’s music has been bumping along at the back of my brain, coming in and out of focus along with the words.   I’m obsessed with the ...