Open Access Archive
Digital Poetics #32: 4 Poems by Hatty Nestor
Hatty Nestor's poems are from a longer book that explores suspended temporal states, such as chronic pain, immunity, guilt, carceral logic and economies of time, the nature of confessing, and institutional surveillance.
Digital Poetics: 3 Poems by Carlos Mauricio Rojas
3 poems from Carlos Mauricio Rojas that talk about themes of migration, queer and trans existence, and multicultural heritage.
Digital Poetics #29 Yes, I Am A Destroyer (Extract) by Mira Mattar w/ Essay from Kashif Sharma-Patel
An extract from Mira Mattar's astonishing novel 'Yes, I Am A Destroyer' with a response from Kashif Sharma-Patel.
Digital Poetics #28 Nothing Preacher by Tim Atkins
From a series of film-poems on exile, resistance & creation. Filmed in Denver in Nov 2019 during an artist's residency at BMoCA.
Digital Poetics #27 Lymbs and Delirium: Chapter 2 by Zachary Knowland-Barker
Zach's next chapter of his long poem Lymbs and Delirium is an ambient exploration of ritual & bodies; broken bodies, transmuting bodies, bodies in trance, dance and ecstasy.
Digital Poetics #26 Aesthetics and Time Constraints: Marie Buck
Marie Buck's essay is a reply, critique and contextualisation of Joe Luna's 'Writing for Freedom', published last week on the Hythe.
Digital Poetics #25 Writing for Freedom: Joe Luna
Joe Luna considers the claims made for and on behalf of poetry by the radical Bay Area press, Commune Editions.
Digital Poetics #24 side with the immanent vex: prologue by James Goodwin
After the taser shooting of Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara, 'side with the immanent vex' is a dysorderly attempt to situate the intense register of his resistant, resounding protest in the musicality of a vexed syntax and frayed grammar.
Digital Poetics #23 x F(r)ictions: Water Series: 2 by Morisha Moodley
A poetic film by Morisha Moodley on water and motion, drawing on spirituality and embodiment. This film is part of an ongoing series.
Digital Poetics #21: BEAST: Venus As A Soft Boi Dub by Sascha Akhtar w/ Intro by Ghazal Mosadeq
Oral poetry creating ‘neu’ language through lived experience with ancient classical Sufi metaphysical tropes.
Digital Poetics #20 x F(r)ictions: A field of islands by Edmund Hardy
Inspired by atmospheric adventure games such as Myst, and a poem by Édouard Glissant of the same name, this is a short film which starts with the desire to undo pain and constriction by finding 'negative islands' from which the world might be unmade.
Digital Poetics #19 I AM A FREE I AM NOT MAN A NUMBER by Cole Denyer
Some high-pitched satirical mode material from Cole Denyer. Keeping it whetted, lying down in enemy language.
Digital Poetics #18 Force of Nature: Amy De'Ath
The spinning torus of capital makes us sick! But it’s not sublime, nor out of our hands. Here’s ‘Force of Nature’ by Amy De’Ath.
Digital Poetics #17 x F(r)ictions: Let's go to lunch, habibi by Sarah Gaafar
"Let's go to lunch, habibi" explores ideas of abandonment, anger and longing through disrupted and fragmented storytelling.
Digital Poetics #16 A Basket Woven of One’s Own Hair: Nisha Ramayya
This poem splays the hokey kokey across an echolalic ars poetica. Don your shell and dive into a network of spatial explorations!
Digital Poetics #14 leaf person: Callie Gardner
a poem about wanting to be outside when you have to be inside, the difference between reading and standing in a forest, and turning the page.
Digital Poetics #13 On Every Page May I Present A Lion or An Elephant: Mayakovsky tr. Rosy Carrick
Rosy Carrick's super-cute and never-before-translated 1926 children's poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Digital Poetics #12 Accidental Pirate Day: Samuel Solomon
Speculative architecture of the English seaside town. Mascots appear at the nude beach. A mini-epic in orange.
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.