Twitters for a Lark: The Poetry of the European Union of Imaginary Authors
is published by Shearsman Books
at £9.99 and in available at
Working in collaboration with a
team of real writers, Robert Sheppard has created a lively and entertaining
anthology of fictional European poets. There is no resultant ‘Europoem’, but a
variety of styles that reflects the collaborative nature of the poems’
production, the richness of a continent. The works range from the comedic to
the political, from the imaginatively sincere to the faux-autobiographical,
from traditional lyricism to the experimental. Accompanied by biographical
notes, the poets grow in vividness until they seem to possess lives of their
own.
Although devised before the
neologism ‘Brexit’ was spat across the bitter political divide, this sample of
28 poets of the EUOIA (European Union of Imaginary Authors) takes on new
meanings in our contemporary world that is far from fictive, ‘fake news’ or not.
The collaborators are: Joanne
Ashcroft, Alan Baker, James Byrne, Alys Conran, Kelvin Corcoran, Anamaría Crowe
Serrano, Patricia Farrell,
Allen Fisher, S. J. Fowler,
Robert Hampson, Jeff Hilson, Tom
Jenks, Frances Kruk, Rupert Loydell, Steve McCaffery, Eiríkur Örn
Norðdahl, Sandeep Parmar, Simon Perril, Jèssica Pujol i Duran, Zoë Skoulding, Damir Šodan, Philip Terry,
Scott Thurston.
Twitters for a Lark heralds
a new movement: the European Poetry Revival. It is a book that arrives like a
new channel forged by collaborative poets, with all past ideals of state rolled
up in an old five pound note. This illuminated sect of future Rimbauds lightens
the island’s burden, the lights on their vessels burning like the tips of duty
free cigarettes.
Chris
McCabe
Hub post
Read more about the European Union
(of Imaginary Authors) here and here.
A video of the 2015 Liverpool Camarade: EUOIA poets at an earlier stage here.
Read about the August 2017 reading of the EUOIA poets (pre-launch of Twitters) here.
Read about the November 2017 Luton mini-launch here.
Read about two de-selected poems from the anthology here.
Read about the 'Kybarti Nocturne' remode here.
A video of the 2015 Liverpool Camarade: EUOIA poets at an earlier stage here.
Read about the August 2017 reading of the EUOIA poets (pre-launch of Twitters) here.
Read about the November 2017 Luton mini-launch here.
Read about two de-selected poems from the anthology here.
Read about the 'Kybarti Nocturne' remode here.
Read a response to the project by collaborator Rupert Loydell here.
Read about the August 2017 Other Room Manchester reading of the EUOIA poets (pre-launch of Twitters) here. The EUOIA Other Room reading from last August is now available here.
Read about the August 2017 Other Room Manchester reading of the EUOIA poets (pre-launch of Twitters) here. The EUOIA Other Room reading from last August is now available here.
And read about the Leicester (States of Independence) launch:
Read about the April 2018 Bangor launch, here.
Read about the Manchester 2018 launch
here:
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/twitters-for-launch-part-of-european.html
There is a review by Billy Mills Here
There is a review by Billy Mills Here
