The Word Museum by Richard Moorhead
-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– Richard Moorhead has a reputation for being a poet with a taste for poetic sequences particularly
Read more-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– Richard Moorhead has a reputation for being a poet with a taste for poetic sequences particularly
Read more-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– A wonderful line in Susanne Ehrhardt’s biography states that ‘she had been living with the English
Read more-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– The Bastille is an independent literary magazine published by the non-profit organization, Spoken Word, in Paris.
Read more-In conversation with Claire Trévien- Ira Lightman makes public art around the UK, regularly appears on BBC Radio 3’s The
Read more-In conversation with Claire Trévien- Helen Ivory is a poet and artist. Her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is Waiting for Bluebeard (May
Read more-Reviewed by Jennifer Edgecombe– Poetry Weekly and Rising are two A5 poetry magazines. They look very similar with respect to
Read more-Interviewed by Claire Trévien– 1. Tell me about this new anthology you’re editing, Aliens: Recent Encounters. I was particularly intrigued by
Read more1. You’ve just launched 79 rat press as part of the literary exhibition Nothing to Say, can you tell me a little bit more about what inspired both these things?
79 rat press has grown organically out of eight cuts gallery, which I have run since 2010, and under which umbrella I’ve published some wonderful books that have had remarkable critical success for such a tiny outfit, such as Penny Goring’s The Zoom Zoom and Cody James’ The Dead Beat. It also hosts The New Libertines and all sorts of other events.
I think I have become aware though that I can make most of a difference through very sharply focussed, very small events and editions. I also wanted to get back to my original intention with eight cuts gallery of something literary based on a model from the art world. As you probably know, I am obsessed with both Modernism and 20th century art, culminating in the Young British Art movement. Tracey Emin is the biggest influence on my own writing, and what I have felt for a long time is that to get people truly talking about what literature can do, we need more events like art’s Freeze and Sensation, and more figures like Jay Jopling and Nick Serota to push challenging literature into the public consciousness. I think the last time that really happened was in the 60s and 70s when Carmen Callil launched Virago and Lawrence Ferlinghetti brought the Beats to the world through City Lights. I’ve always thought of myself as some kind of very weak shadow of Ferlinghetti, the guy behind the scenes who writes himself but whose pleasure is bringing other people to the world.
Read more– reviewed by Paul Fitchett – I had heard Good Things and exciting rumours about Penning Perfumes – the poetry and perfume
Read more-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– It’s a compliment to say that Oxford Poetry, one of the oldest poetry magazines of its
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