Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
@innovativepoetry.bsky.social
A journal of avant-garde, underground, late Modernist, non-mainstream and/or experimental British and Irish poetries since the late 1950s
https://poetry.openlibhums.org/
Image courtesy of the Anna Mendelssohn estate
https://poetry.openlibhums.org/
Image courtesy of the Anna Mendelssohn estate
We are looking for writers and academics with an interest in innovative poetry scholarship to contribute book reviews of critical monographs and other scholarly titles on innovative poetry. Get in touch with any questions or find out how to submit on our website: poetry.openlibhums.org
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
poetry.openlibhums.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We are looking for writers and academics with an interest in innovative poetry scholarship to contribute book reviews of critical monographs and other scholarly titles on innovative poetry. Get in touch with any questions or find out how to submit on our website: poetry.openlibhums.org
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar
Eleanor Careless leads a seminar entitled: Serve your own sentences: Incarceration in the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.
Wednesday, October 29th, 6pm
Email for Zoom link writersforumworkshop.uk/innovative-p...
Eleanor Careless leads a seminar entitled: Serve your own sentences: Incarceration in the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.
Wednesday, October 29th, 6pm
Email for Zoom link writersforumworkshop.uk/innovative-p...
Innovative Poetry Readings in London
Writers Forum Workshop is pleased to host this listing of readings, exhibitions, performances, discussions, workshops and courses taking place on London’s innovative poetry scenes. If you wri…
writersforumworkshop.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar
Eleanor Careless leads a seminar entitled: Serve your own sentences: Incarceration in the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.
Wednesday, October 29th, 6pm
Email for Zoom link writersforumworkshop.uk/innovative-p...
Eleanor Careless leads a seminar entitled: Serve your own sentences: Incarceration in the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.
Wednesday, October 29th, 6pm
Email for Zoom link writersforumworkshop.uk/innovative-p...
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CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments
conferences.leeds.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
Reposted by Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
You can now read 3 reviews of my The Necessity of Poetics linking from this blogpost : robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/10/revi..., and a few of my comments on them.
August 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
You can now read 3 reviews of my The Necessity of Poetics linking from this blogpost : robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/10/revi..., and a few of my comments on them.
Just published: Linda Kemp's review of Robert Sheppard's The Necessity of Poetics (2024)
'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"'
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"'
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Book Review: Robert Sheppard, <em>The Necessity of Poetics</em> (2024)
Linda Kemp reviews Robert Sheppard, The Necessity of Poetics (2024)
poetry.openlibhums.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Just published: Linda Kemp's review of Robert Sheppard's The Necessity of Poetics (2024)
'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"'
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"'
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
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My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by @innovativepoetry.bsky.social! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8... 🖤
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by @innovativepoetry.bsky.social! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8... 🖤
hot off the press:
a new creative-critical piece by @heyastranaut.bsky.social
'From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry'
feat. Papachristodoulou on her ecofeminist sculptural poems 'human-hive' & 'raining bees' 🐝
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8...
a new creative-critical piece by @heyastranaut.bsky.social
'From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry'
feat. Papachristodoulou on her ecofeminist sculptural poems 'human-hive' & 'raining bees' 🐝
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8...
From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry
Using one of my experimental poems as an example, this essay demonstrates how sculptural poetry can stand as a form of resistance as well as a feminist gesture with the potential to shape and heal soc...
poetry.openlibhums.org
May 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
hot off the press:
a new creative-critical piece by @heyastranaut.bsky.social
'From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry'
feat. Papachristodoulou on her ecofeminist sculptural poems 'human-hive' & 'raining bees' 🐝
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8...
a new creative-critical piece by @heyastranaut.bsky.social
'From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry'
feat. Papachristodoulou on her ecofeminist sculptural poems 'human-hive' & 'raining bees' 🐝
poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8...