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[Digital Poetics 4.5] on hydrocarbons and containment by Mau Baiocco
Poems drawn from an unfinished sequence on hydrocarbons and containment, where the geographical coordinates have been removed.
[Digital Poetics 4.4] The Longest Possible Route by Andrew Key
An exploration of the role of digression, deferral, unrealised action, and impatience in literature and aesthetic experience, via Flaubert, Shklovsky, Feldman, and Hejinian.
[Digital Poetics 4.3] Three Poems by Tom Betteridge
A selection of poems - sounded-out, with yous, helical - from Tom Betteridge's forthcoming book Dog Shades (JUST NOT, 2023)
[Digital Poetics 4.2] Ophélimité: a specimen of emptiness by Keston Sutherland
This essay describes some of the early attacks on Marx by right-wing economists. It considers some of the consequences of the rejection of the labour theory of value and the development of an increasingly mathematized economic theory of marginal utility. What are the implications of this shift from a critical theory of the lives of producers to an econometric and nominalist theory of the habits of consumers? What does it mean for poetry?
[Digital Poetics 4.1] Two Poems by Shani Cadwallender
These poems, paying notice to un-idyllic trees in urban landscapes, probe at the uneasy but productive identifications between humans and nature made possible by language. The first, about a poplar on Peckham Rye, reinscribes the site of Blake’s vision of Ezekiel in an examination of literary legacy; the second explores perception and the trouble with anthropocentric metaphor through an observation of leaves that linger around streetlights.
Digital Poetics 3.32 Elsewhere and until by Ali Graham
'Elsewhere and until' feels through and with climate grief, hatred of golf, the colour pink, e-waste, the Sublime, procrastination, and leisure.
Digital Poetics 3.30 Two Poems from ‘Centre’s Reserve’ by Mantra Mukim
These are extracts from a long unfinished poem about Raipur and its many offerings of postindustrial sublime.
Digital Poetics 3.29 On the Fly with Andy Robert by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
In this creative critical essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the latest work of artist Andy Robert, whose work blurs the line between abstract and figurative, and explores themes of migration, belonging and the concept of the image itself.
Digital Poetics 3.28 A Body of Thought by Richard Capener
Richard Capener reviews Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive by Karenjit Sandhu in which the archive disrupts and is disrupted, a non-site enabling embodied intensities
Digital Poetics 3.27 On ‘New Weathers’ by Kashif Sharma-Patel
Our editor Kashif Sharma-Patel reviews New Weathers (ed. Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis) a collection of lectures dealing with the ecological crisis, social organisation, transgressive identity and the role of poetics
Digital Poetics 3.26 Identification by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay
Through Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay's 'Identification', though it may be described as a body being lost at sea—she has reverted into being a “boat”: a carrier floating in the in-between, finally free from earthly bounds and psychological deterrents.
Digital Poetics 3.25 Two Poems by Ed Luker
Drifting through the desert of "a real damn shame of a crisis," Ed Luker went to Mexico last April and found a way to push through all the bad feelings
Digital Poetics 3.24 Two Poems by Priyanka Voruganti
Two meditations on the hysterics (and ironies) of faith by Priyanka Voruganti
Digital Poetics 3.23 Five Units by makalani bandele
These five units by makalani bandele linger in sonic and syntactical experiments utilising musical conversations and algorithmic contingency.
Digital Poetics 3.22 Mesh by Alex Aspden
Alex Aspden weaves experimental impressions of voluntary exile with the highs of love in the dead of summer
Digital Poetics 3.21 Everscapes by T. Person
T. Person’s monumental Everscapes began, in 2020, as a collection of automatic writings set in the queue for a club. The queue is a lustrous backdrop for desire, anticipation, loss and memory.
Digital Poetics 3.20 Freedom in the Lyric Continuum: Workshop @ AP Berlin
A selection of poems from participants of a workshop held at AP Berlin
Digital Poetics 3.19 The Monstrous and the Other: Hew Locke’s Installation at Tate Britain by M. Elijah Sueuga
M. Elijah Sueuga’s latest column piece looks at Hew Locke’s animated parade of figures installed at the Tate Britain, meditating on anticolonialism and the politics of artistic compromise
Digital Poetics 3.18 from ‘Digits After Orph’ by Chris Gutkind
‘Digits After Orph’ is gridded atop Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, to amplify the contrast, that sequence being one of presence (and other things), this one of absence (and other things), exploring some realities and mindsets and speculating on them.
Digital Poetics 3.17 Asbestosis by Dom Hale
An eviscerating poem about Imperial Chemical Industries by Dom Hale