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Digital Poetics #11 Anyway, the birds live: Hannah Regel
These poems are having a domesticated tantrum.
Digital Poetics #10 what date do other countries celebrate 4th of july? : Caspar Heinemann
Caspar Heinemann returns to the87press with a wandering lyric in response to the 4th of July.
Digital Poetics #9 Solastalgia: Calliope Michail
This poem tangles in self-devouring cycles through Erysichthon’s legacy of exploitation & ecological violence.
Digital Poetics #8 These Punks of Zenith: Karen Sandhu
In Sandhu’s poem we are all punks. Chewed up yet skipping along the open road. This is a journey of fire and art and pink blusher.
Digital Poetics #7 ADVICE FROM MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER: POEM FOR THE DAUGHTER I NEVER HAD: Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil's fierce lyric captures the entangled skein of white supremacy and empire; holding them in its gaze, in its teeth.
Digital Poetics #6 Minor concerns addressed to the spacecraft: Kat Sinclair
Kat Sinclair's 'Minor concerns addressed to the spacecraft' enivsages the listless everdayness that might accompany the impending doom of a spacecraft landing, and how an embodied response plays out.
Digital Poetics #5 On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry: Dom Hale
Dom Hale's 'On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry' is an ode in solidarity and love for much-missed friends and comrades, sounding out through the locked down scrambled seasons.
Digital Poetics #4 fragments from Munchausen by eproxy resin: Rob Kiely
Munchausen by eproxy resin is an attempt at a satire of Elon Musk by Rob Kiely. Fragments available here.
Digital Poetics #3 Scherzos Benjyosos 3: Keston Sutherland
One of a forthcoming set of four scherzos, all in ternary form, all with designs on new life, albeit Benjy’s.
Digital Poetics #2 Summer on Lock: Ed Luker
Summer is a time for leisure and to be with friends. In poems, the idea of summer and seasonal change can be a herald of hope for the future. During a global pandemic, what do we do with our hopes? Within all the new and old restrictions, poems can nourish our fantasies, desires, anticipate the world beyond.
Digital Poetics #1 Ventolin: Luke Roberts
A half spring-time ode half elegy called 'Ventolin' by Luke Roberts. The first in our 24 part Digital Poetics series.