Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: TOWARDS A COLLECTIVE POETICS Curated by @JoeyFrances We're now open for submissions that explore collectivised poetic practices in the innovative tradition Please send abstracts by 1 March 2024! poetry.openlibhums.org/news/666/

My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/877…

JBIIP is now on BlueSky! Follow us @innovativepoetry.bsky.social 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵

NEW at JBIIP: Simon Pomery @simonpomery, 'Sonic Poetics: Sean Bonney’s Sound Spectrum in _Our Death_' poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/108…

big news indeed!

... was unbelievable". Rejecting the projected common home as commercial opportunity and ‘a cheap imperialist trick’, Prynne suggests that we should turn to poetry to know the condition of home in that larger sense.'

'"There was that unbelievably gross photograph of the earth taken across the surface of the moon, which is now in all the soap ads, which was supposedly the first picture of earth as home. My god, the stunning alienation of that piece of sentimental whimsy disguised as hatred...

NEW at JBIIP: Placing Homelessness: 'Reading J.H. Prynne's Wound Response' by Rajalekshmi Krishnakumar and Nandini Ramesh Sankar 🌙🌙 'Speaking of the famous ‘Earthrise’ image of 1968 in his Olson lecture, Prynne says... poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/633…

what a fabulous makeover @openlibhums

NEW at JBIIP: A long-form report on the 'Poetry and Care' conference held at the University of Plymouth in September 2023 Jointly authored by @Joanna_Nissel , @scott_thurston , Mélisande Fitzsimons and Steve Spence poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/116…

aswirl is back for another year! the submission window for the spring issue is now open. send in your short, minimal & concrete poems by 31st January.

We’re looking to hire a new Poetry Editor! ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO APPLY. The position is part-time (£38k-£40k, pro-rata). Apply by emailing us a CV & a cover letter telling us why you’d be perfect for the role. Closing date: Thu 4 Jan Further info: poetrylondon.co.uk/poetry-editor/

NEW at JBIIP: Grace Connolly Linden, The place of the voice in Virgil’s _Eclogues_ and in Holly Pester’s _Eclogues for Idle Workers_ with one of our best-ever table of contents: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/818…

OPEN CALL BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH (1958-2023): open call for responses, creative, critical, and/or in memoriam to one of Britain’s greatest innovative poets Submit here:  poetry.openlibhums.org/submissions/

"So much has been given to the consideration of blue." Jacket artwork for @AngelinaDRoza's 'The Blue Hour', which developed from a series of small watercolours created earlier this year, elements of which were later selected and arranged on a y-axis, from negative to positive.

free submissions are open retweet for good karma anthropocenepoetry.org/submissions

Review of the first retrospective of British-Jewish poet and artist Anna Mendelssohn, the subject of one of our special issues: poetry.openlibhums.org/collections/30…

another exciting Mendelssohn development -

exciting news for Mendelssohn scholars - exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery opening this 11 October!