Márton Koppány’s opus of visual poetry stands as a remarkable entry into the ledger of post WWII European poetic innovation and expression. Behind him sits a life’s work, denoted by intellectual rigour and brilliance, as he has quietly, but indelibly, edged his medium forward. Producing work of immense quality, consistently, in the field of visual poetry for over thirty years, he has inspired new generations of poets while working from the inside out of his environs in Budapest and with a capacity for profound inflection and wholly accurate understatement (to a level of humorous / satirical reverence so poorly missing from much experimental poetry) he has tackled the nature of his own family history and it’s entwining with the darker days of modern Hungary. His work is thus indicative of the possibilities, and even the necessities, of visual poetry, his fundamental mode one of honesty in expression, led by a suspicion and engagement with the limits of language. Koppány has always maintained an incisiveness that has attracted the plaudits from poets in his field, and his sophicated, intellectual and urbane corpus has rendered him simply one of Europe’s finest poets and an immense contributor to often the most stimulating field of contemporary poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-69-marton-koppany/
Incorporated into the interview are 13 poems by Marton, selected to display the width and evolution of his work over the last 30 years.
Here are the poets published on 3am over the last few weeks:
Grzegorz Wroblewski - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/grzegorz-wroblewski-5-poems/
Kristen Stone - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/kristen-stone-4-poems/
Our October 15th event at the Rich mix arts centre in Brick Lane is shaping up to be our finest. As well as the visiting Macedonian poets, present thanks to our partnership with Arc publications and literature across frontiers, we will also be welcoming the remarkable Russian poet Ilya Kaminsky, who is visiting from America. Ilya is the subject of an upcoming interview and an internationally lauded poet. Finally, the event will see the culmination of the first Maintenant Camarade project, which sees nine pairings of British based poets reading work they have created specifically for the event which will be published by the fantastic Red Ceilings press in a limited edition chapbook. http://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/
The following poets will be reading original work in what should be a truly memorable night of poetry, please do come along!
Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe
Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson
Holly Pester & Patrick Coyle
Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins
Emily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood
Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood
Tom Chivers & Ben Borek
James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar
James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq
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