You can see some other photographs AND some short videoes, HERE
@ the LRB Bookshop, Central London
Andrea Brady taking a trans-Atlantic turn with some excellent new poems
John James reading both from the anthology and from beyond. He did read the teasing 'A Theory of Poetry' (it's anything but) in response to my introduction on poetics as a speculative writerly discourse...
Sophie Collins reading from the anthology and from new book, published this week, Who Is Mary Sue?
John James reading, me watching, Pete Clarke's cover design on the Edge Hill banners!
Atlantic Drift (Arc/Edge Hill University Press) is a new anthology
featuring 24 poets from Britain,
Ireland, the USA and Canada. It seeks to highlight both
new and established writers from both sides of the Atlantic
and in between, defining and redefining the various ...By
developing a dialogue between English-speaking traditions, Atlantic Drift includes some of the most exceptional poetry and poetics written in the 21st
century.
But also visit this page HERE for the various posts I've made concerning the book, its editing, including videos and photos. Or, outside London, follow this link to Arc’s website to buy, here.
See here a short video about our launch in Edinburgh. It is obviously aimed at students
but it does give a good idea of what the anthology is about and about the
processes behind getting it published (at incredible speed), and the hard work of editors, poets and interns, all of whom speak so eloquently about it.
You may see it again here, along with another video about the Edge Hill Short Story prize event: with colleagues and students.
It's nice to have got this splendid anthology out; at the moment, though, I'm working on the EUOIA anthology Twitters for a Lark. (See here for an account of the recent EUOIA night, but read about the odd coincidences of working on both books at once, here. One coincidence not catalogued there is the strange purple light that seemed to creep from the Edinburgh launch into photos of the Manchester night a few days later!) This book may be bought (eventually) here: http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/product/6460-robert-sheppard-ed---twitters-for-a-lark
NB Here are two more videoes, of Sean Bonney reading:
