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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
Digital Poetics 3.16 Jazz, Utopia, Nonbeing: Tigran Hamasyan at the Barbican by M. Elijah Sueuga
M. Elijah Sueuga contemplates Tigran Hamasyan's live jazz performance at the Barbican considering the history of jazz, ancestry, and deracination
Digital Poetics 3.15 The Remedy is Resistance: On Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation’ by Jeanine Hourani
In this review, Jeanine Hourani highlights the importance of centering the socio-political, historical and material realities of mental health in Palestine. Honouring the book’s methodological and theoretical approaches, Jeanine amplifies the voices of Palestinian mental health workers and uses a Fanonian, anti-colonial lens to illustrate the revolutionary and liberatory potential of psychoanalysis.
Digital Poetics 3.14 Vatic Example and A Gathering Nebulous Cauldron: Two Parts by Will Alexander
Two dizzying parts by surrealist heavyweight Will Alexander: “Because Sri Aurobindo that there exists self-kindled suns always blazing with the anatomy of lightning. Its spikes, its vehemence, its irradiation by lightning. One then thinks of Arctic soils exploding.”
Digital Poetics 3.13 Life over Art: Remembering Baroness Elsa by M. Elijah Sueuga
Writer M. Elijah Sueuga reviews The Baroness, an exhibition showcasing and responding to the legendary Dadaist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, looking into themes of queer embodiment, street life and memory
Digital Poetics 3.12: Broken Ghazal in 22 sentences (222 words) by Bhanu Kapil
‘Antique, gritty, I left England, never to be seen again.’
Bhanu Kapil deploys the broken form or mood of a ghazal to evoke memories of leaving a country, then returning to it (England) after many years.
Digital Poetics 3.11: Definitions by Tom Crompton
A series of definitions from Tom Crompton: ‘Undilutable slang truth.’
Digital Poetics 3.10: Voice, Poetry & Really Being Alive / Enclosures
Poems from a workshop conducted at Camden Art Centre in response to Jesse Darling’s ‘Enclosures’ exhibition; a poetic practice of duration and modernist perambulation working through metal skeletons, surveillance capitalism and fragility
Digital Poetics 3.9 3 Poems by Ronnie McGrath
Three sharp poems from neo-surrealist Ronnie McGrath: ‘Ra’s astrological earth child/ revolutionary mouth of some architectonic geometry’
Digital Poetics 3.8 Auto-poetics at Turf Projects
A selection of pieces produced during a writing workshop conducted by Azad at Turf Projects, Croydon