Thought I'd chip in some recommendations of innovative/inventive poetry, most books out recently and staring at me from my desk. Mainly Canadian and American, reflective of my degree work in Montreal and of my own poetry. I'm happy to expand this list (significantly) if anyone would like more information on recent innovative poetry publications in Canada and the U.S. We also have a few experimental poetry journals above the 49th: See The Capilano Review and Filling Station in particular.
Toward.Some.Air: Remarks on Poetics... Eds. Fred Wah & Amy De'Ath. 2015, Banff Centre Press.
Anne-Marie Albiach, Cinque le Choeur: 1966-2012. 2014, Flammarion.
Ronald Johnson, The Book of the Green Man (reissue). 2015, Uniformbooks.
Ronald Johnson, ARK (reissue). 2013, Flood Editions.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Interstices. 2014, Subpress.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Graphic Novella. 2015, Xexoxial Editions.(see http://cordite.org.au/artworks/graphic-novella/)
Sina Queyras, MXT. 2014, Coach House Books.
Lisa Robertson, Cinema of the Present. 2014, Coach House Books.
Julie Carr, Think Tank. 2015, Solid Objects.
Ammiel Alcalay, "neither wit nor gold." 2011, Ugly Duckling Press.
Helena Eriksson, Strata. 2014, Shearsman Books. Trans. Jan Teeland and Wendy Klein.
Johannes Helden, Terraforming. 2014, OEI Editor.
Peter Jaeger, A Field Guide to Lost Things. 2015, if p then q press.
Oana Avasilichioaei, Limbinal, with translations of Paul Celan. 2015, Talonbooks.
Meanwhile, in Cardiff... stay tuned for some lovely experimental poetry events this fall, http://cardiffpoetryexperiment.blogspot.co.uk.
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Thanks so much for this list, Tim. It's truly terrific and I anticipate much happy exploration. It occurred to me, after posting, that much of my own recent reading has been devoted to big collecteds - I've also been absorbed by Manson's Mallarme (though obsessively returning of late to his "Poems of Frank Rupture"), and the big Berrigan volume. As for the rest-well, it's truly exciting to learn of such variety and abundance. Many thanks again!
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Re books from the past 5 years Jeremy, well discounting many great chapbooks and the retrospectives (though I'd have to include the 2 Reality Street Bill Griffiths volumes, Carcanet's Queneau books, Peter Manson's Mallarme translations and collecteds of Berrigan and McClure) a list of the books that I remember enjoying most would definitely include Robert Sheppard's brilliant 'A Translated Man', Paul Holman's fascinating 'Tara Morgana'', Sam Riviere's '81 Austerities', Maggie O'Sullivan's 'Waterfalls', Peter Hughes' 'Quite Frankly', Adrian Clarke's 'Eurochants', Holly Pester's 'Hooves', Andrew Jordan's 'Hegemonick, Sean Bonney's 'Happiness', Luke Kennard's 'A Lost Expression', Melissa Lee-Houghton's 'A Body Made of You', Giles Goodland's 'What the things Sang, Alec Finlay's 'Be My Reader, Patricia Farrell's 'The Zechstein Sea', Colin Herd's 'Glovebox and Other Poems', Kelvin Corcoran's 'Sea Table', Chris McCabe's 'Speculatrix', Jeremy Reed's 'Bona Drag', Tom Raworth's 'Windmills in Flames', Tom Jenks & S.J. Fowler's '1000 Proverbs', Niall McDevitt's 'Porterloo', John Gallas '52 Euros' and also his 'Fresh Air and The Story of Molecule', David Greenslade's 'Rarely Pretty Reasonable', Ian Seed's 'Makers of Empty Dreams', James Davies 'Plants', Johan de Wit's ' GERO/NIMO, oh and from anthologies, Harrriet Tarlo's 'The Ground Aslant' and David Miller's 'The Alchemist's Mind' - oh and all my books of course and those by my mates. Enough to be getting on with I think.
My taste is not everyone's of course.
Cheers
Tim
On 1 Sep 2015, at 15:42, Jeremy F Green wrote:
Perhaps the ground has shifted somewhat? I don't think Jamie's the only person to find these reiterations frustrating.
I'd like to believe that there's still enough energy and interest invested in poetry-actual poetry rather than reified divisions and ancient histories--that there can be shifts and changes in the landscape of our understanding. Perhaps there's some use in being more specific here, hence the question about books from the last five years. I'm feeling out of touch, so I'd welcome any enthusiastic recommendations (and many thanks for suggesting Karen Solie, Jamie).
Best,
Jeremy
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