Useful Lists for British Innovative Poetry

27 Crucial Websites on Contemporary British Innovative Poetry

• The Argotist Online – magazine & blog
• The Archive of the Now – academic site & resource
• Barque – publisher
• Contemporary Poetics Research Centre – a lot of wide-ranging academic activity
• A Dusie Isles Reader – online mini-anthology
• Great Works – ezine & links
• How2 – writing by women
• Intercapillary Space –continually expanding poetry space
• Jacket – international (Australian-based) ezine, but heavy focus on UK avant-garde and its history
• Litter – ezine
• The Lyre – oh, wicked, wicked blog!
• Maintenant – an opening to Europe
• Meshworks – American site (University of Miami) with a heavy concentration of British and Irish writers' sound and video files
• onedit – ezine
• Openned – readings, epublisher &c: vital focus for information (London-based)
• The Other Room – readings, videos &c: vital focus for information (Manchester-based)
• Penned in the Margins – readings, events, publisher
• poetrymagazines.org.uk – online archive
• press free press – a poetic collective's activities
• Reality Street Editions – publisher
• Salt Publishing – publisher and focus for information
• Shadow Train – ezine
• Shearsman – ezine, epublisher & publisher
• The Small Press Catalogue – documenting all the latest releases from the small poetry presses of Britain
• Stride Magazine – ezine & publisher
• Veer About 2010–2011 – online mini-anthology
• West House Books – publisher & bookseller

21 Worthwhile Contemporary British Innovative Poetry Blogs

• Litterbug – Alan Baker
• abandonedbuildings – Sean Bonney
• Amy De'Ath
• graveney marsh: Random jottings on poetry, visual culture, local oddities and the weather – Laurie Duggan
• Carrie Etter
• Gists and Piths – George Ttoouli & Simon Turner
• Oceanographer of O – Elizabeth James
• Sad Press: A Big Poetry Firm in the City – Jow Lindsay
• Tony Lopez
• The True History of the Working Class – Chris McCabe
• Delirium's Library – Sophie Mayer
• The Portal of Lost Wanting – Marianne Morris
• Openned
• The Other Room
• Michael Peverett
• Pages – Robert Sheppard
• Tom Raworth
• Jeffrey Side
• The Cadfael Forecast – Timothy Thornton
• BrandosHat – Steven Waling
• William Watkin
• georgiasam – David Wheatley

23 Excellent Books of Contemporary British Innovative Poetry

Check out also Favourite Things — individuals' choice of books/ebooks published in the last 5 years (since January 1, 2006) which have meant most to you, with wordcloud.

• Tim Atkins, Folklore (Salt, 2008)
• Elisabeth Bletsoe, Landscape from a Dream (Shearsman, 2008)
• Sean Bonney, Document: Poems Diagrams Manifestos July 7th 2005–June 27th 2007 (Barque Press, 2009)
• Kelvin Corcoran, Backward Turning Sea (Shearsman, 2008)
• Ken Edwards, Nostalgia for Unknown Cities (Reality Street, 2007)
• edited Carrie Etter, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010)
• Allen Fisher, Leans (Salt, 2007)
• Roy Fisher, The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
• Giles Goodland, What the Things Sang (Shearsman, 2009)
• Alan Halsey, Lives of the Poets (Five Seasons Press, 2009)
• Lee Harwood, Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2008)
• edited Jeff Hilson, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street Editions, 2008)
• Paul Holman, The Memory of the Drift: Books I-IV (Shearsman, 2007)
• Peter Manson, Adjunct: An Undigest (Barque Press, 2009 [2nd edition])
• Maggie O'Sullivan, Body of Work (Reality Street, 2006)
• JH Prynne, Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
• JH Prynne, Sub Songs (Barque Press, 2010)
• Tom Raworth, Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2003)
• Denise Riley, Selected Poems ((Reality Street, 2005)
• Peter Riley, A Map of Faring (Parlor Press, 2005)
• Gavin Selerie, Music's Duel: New and selected Poems (Shearsman, 2009)
• Simon Smith, London Bridge (Salt, 2010)
• Keston Sutherland, Hot White Andy (Barque Press, 2009)

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