Favourite Things: Individual Lists of Excellent Contemporary British Innovative Poetry Texts

I have put in alphabetic order responses to:

Can I invite you to send either to ukpoetry.info, as a comment on this blog [modernpoetryorguk] or to peter@greatworks.org.uk your list of the books/ebooks published in the last 5 years (since January 1, 2006) which have meant most to you (take that as you choose!) in connection with that diverse and fuzzy thing we call Innovative British Poetry. Say up to ten or so titles (+ author, publisher, date). In the interests of probity — not written or published by you.

I've put in links where possible to books or publishers — but note some books are out-of-print, and others from rather elusive publishers. And, please, send me your list to any of the above online places.

Tim Atkins 8 August 2011

• Sean Bonney, Baudelaire in English (Veer Books, 2008)
• Miles Champion, Eventually (The Rest Press, 2008)
• Lucy Harvest Clarke, Silveronda (if p then q, 2009)
• Amy De'Ath, Erec & Enide (Salt, 2010)
• SJ Fowler, Fights XX: The Songs of Salvador Sanchez (The Red Ceilings Press, 2011)
• Elizabeth Guthrie, X Portraits (Crater, 2011)
• Jeff Hilson, Bird Bird (Landfill Press, 2009)
• Jeff Hilson, In the Assarts (Veer Books, 2010)
• Peter Jaeger, Rapid Eye Movement (Reality Street, 2009)
• Simon Morris, Re-writing Freud (Information as Material, 2005; material online)
• RTA Parker, from The Mountain of California (Openned, 2011)
• Holly Pester, poetry & performances on www.hollypester.com
• Sophie Robinson, a (Les Figues Press, 2009)
• Jonty Tiplady, Zam Bonk Dip (Salt, 2010)

matt martin 21 September 2011

• David Bellingham, Fresh Fruit + Tables (The Changing Room, 2008)
• Sean Bonney, The Commons (Openned, 2011)
• Tilla Brading and Frances Presley, Stone Settings (Odyssey Books / Other Press, 2010)
• Adrian Clarke, Possession: Poems 1996-2006 (Veer Books / Writers Forum, 2007)
• Mary Coghill, Designed to Fade (Shearsman, 2006)
• Marianne Morris, Commitment (Critical Documents / Bad Press, 2011)
• J.H. Prynne, Sub Songs (Barque Press, 2010)
• Sophie Robinson, a (Les Figues Press, 2009)
• Nat Raha, Octet (Veer Books, 2010)
• Robert Sheppard, The Given (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010)

Richard Price 11 August 2011

• Tim Atkins, Folklore (Salt, 2008)
• Francesca Lisette, As the Rushes Were (Grasp Press, 2009)
• Peter McCarey, Collected Contraptions (Carcanet, 2011)
• Richard Moorhead, The Reluctant Vegetarian (Oystercatcher Press, 2009)
• Sophie Robinson, Lotion (Oystercatcher Press, 2010)
• Simon Smith, Reverdy Road (Salt, 2003)
• Simon Smith, Mercury (Salt, 2006)

Francesca Lisette 16 September 2011

• Sean Bonney, Document (Barque Press, 2009)
• Sean Bonney, For the Administration (after Rimbaud) (Crater, 2010)
• Andrea Brady, Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (Krupskaya, 2010)
• Michael Kindellan, Not Love (Barque, 2009)
• Frances Kruk, A Discourse on Vegetation and Motion (Critical Documents, 2008)
• Peter Manson, For the Good of Liars (Barque, 2006)
• Marianne Morris, either A New Book from Barque Press Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press , 2006) or Tutu Muse: Prophylactic Poetry for the Last Generation (Fly by Night Press, 2008)
• Marianne Morris, Commitment (Critical Documents / Bad Press, 2011)
• Reitha Pattison, Some Fables (Grasp Press, 2011)
• Sophie Robinson, a (Les Figues Press, 2009)
• Josh Stanley, Contranight Escha Black (Critical Documents, 2010)
• Keston Sutherland, Hot White Andy (Barque, 2008)
• Timothy Thornton, Jocund Day (Mountain, 2011)

Steve Willey 18 August 2011

• Sean Bonney, Document: hexprogress (yt communication, 2006)
• Sean Bonney, Document (Barque Press, 2009)
• Jennifer Pike Cobbing, Scrunch (Veer Books, 2010)
• Alex Davies, How Vivid the Claret (Arthur Shilling Press, 2010)
• Allen Fisher, Proposals (Spanner, 2010)
• Frances Kruk, A Discourse on Vegetation and Motion (Critical Documents, 2008)
• Francis Crot (Jow Lindsay), Cuntomatic (yt communication, 2007)
• Nat Raha, Floatation (privately printed, 2010?); sections in Klatch 2 (Openned, 2009) and on Sociopathetic Semaphores
• Will Rowe, The Earth has been Destroyed (Veer Books, 2009)
• Cesar Vallejo, translated Will Rowe, Poemas (yt communication, 2008)

Barry Schwabsky 6 October 2011

Tim Atkins, Folklore (Salt, 2008) Sean Bonney, Baudelaire in English (Veer Books, 2008) Amy De'Ath, Erec & Enide (Salt, 2010) Simon Smith, Reverdy Road (Salt, 2003); Mercury (Salt, 2006) Keston Sutherland, Hot White Andy (Barque, 2008)

• Tim Atkins, Folklore (Salt, 2008)
• Sean Bonney, Baudelaire in English (Veer Books, 2008)
• Andrea Brady, Ayla Chronicle (not yet published)
• Vahni Capildeo, No Traveller Returns (Salt, 2003)
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1876857889.htm
• Kelvin Corcoran, Backward Turning Sea
• Amy De'Ath, Erec & Enide (Salt, 2010)
• Lee Harwood, Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2004)
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2004/harwood.html
• Simon Smith, Reverdy Road (Salt, 2003)
• Simon Smith, Mercury (Salt, 2006)
• Keston Sutherland, Hot White Andy (Barque, 2008)

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