Poetry. PALACE OF REPTILES is a dance and a ritual conducted in language, a plumbing and sounding-out of buried histories and vocabularies. Ranging from the brief and beautiful "Ellen's Lament" to the central long poem "Doubtless," the eight poems of this book touch on multiple genres (elegy, celebration, performance art, poetics talk) in order to transform them. Maggie O'Sullivan's other books include RED SHIFTS, also available from SPD.

Palace of Reptiles

Literature & Fiction

O'Sullivan, Maggie

Poetry

The Gig

<p>Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. For over four decades, Tom Raworth has been one of the essential contemporary writers. Poet, printer, publisher, editor, translator, virtuoso performer, visual artist, satirist, foreign correspondent and perpetual shapeshifter, Raworth is an influential and widely admired figure on both sides of the Atlantic; his many publications include TOTTERING STATE, a selected poems now in its third edition, and the monumental Collected Poems published in 2003 by Carcanet. But such accolades seem ony to chase their elusive subject, who remains one of the liveliest and most provocative presences on the contemporary scene. REMOVED FOR FURTHER STUDY is the first booklength appraisal of this quintessential moving target. It brings together new writing on Raworth by twenty-three poets and critics from both sides of the Atlantic, previously uncollected texts by the poet, and a detailed bibliography of his work. Contributors include David Ball, cris creek, Ian Davidson, Nate Dorward, Ken Edwards, Gunnar Harding, Anselm Hollo, Fanny Howe, J. C. C. Mays, Peter Middleton, Alan Munton, Tom Orange, Marjorie Perloff, Simon Perril, Joan Retallack, Peter Robinson, Claude Royet-Journoud, Robert Sheppard, Ron Silliman, Jonathan Skinner, Keith Tuma, Ben Watson and John Wilkinson. REMOVED FOR FURTHER STUDY provides a fresh and engaging set of response to the work of one of the major poets of our time.</p>

Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth

<p>Cultural Writing. Peter Riley is the author of over two dozen books of poetry, including DISTANT POINTS and SNOW HAS SETTLED [.] BURY ME HERE. His work is grounded on a deep knowledge both of the modernist poetries of the present and of the literatures of past centuries, and it reflects the author's knowledge of other languages, his travels, and his interests in archaeology, geology and music. Its voice often meditative but always urgent, Riley's poetry is both uncategorizable and of the highest distinction. This collection is the first substantial critical consideration of Riley's work. Inside are an interview with the poet, poetry, thirteen essays on his work, and a bibliography.</p>

The Poetry of Peter Riley

Riley, Peter

Poetry. The first book-length showing of Allen Fisher's work of the 1990s and 2000s, Entanglement is a meditation on loss, damage and noise, as sources of harm and as sites of unpredictability and creativity. For Fisher, art is transformation, and in these poems - clashing, combining, recombining, moving restlessly from Piers Plowman to Kurt Cobain to genetic engineering - such transformation is ultimately a form of healing.

Entanglement

Fisher, Allen

Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. ANTIPHONIES is a primer on some of the most exciting work in contemporary Canadian poetry. These essays discuss a wide range of work, from books already acclaimed as modern classics--such as Erin Moure's O Cidadan, Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE: AN EPIC, and Karen MacCormack's IMPLEXURES--to the equally remarkable work of Susan Clark, Catriona Strang, Lissa Wolsak, Christine Stewart, Deanna Ferguson, Lise Downe, Nancy Shaw, a. rawlings, Marie Annharte Baker and others. The essays are complemented by brief selections of poems and poetics statements.

Antiphonies: Essays on Women's Experimental Poetries in Canada

History & Criticism

Poetry. This book collects seven texts written between 1981 and 1999, by UK-born, US-based poet/multimedia artist cris cheek. cheek was one of the key figures in the London poetry scene of the 1980s--the so-called "linguistically-innovative poetry" grouping later anthologized in Robert Sheppard and Adrian Clarke's FLOATING CAPITAL: NEW POETS FROM LONDON. Likewise, he became central to developments in Performance Writing emerging out of variant distributed networks during the following decade. He has remained a prolific, genre-slipping figure: poet, performance artist and musician, whose activities range from the ambitious conceptual project Things Not Worth Keeping to recordings with the ensembles Slant and Garam Masala. Yet to date his publications have been relatively scarce and elusive, a situation which PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING goes far to rectify. "Finally a good and rich span of writings from cris cheek. Here's an artist and writer whose work has always taken up active tenancy of the languages and the streets of urban living, recording them and composing them back into the dense abstract neighborhoods of his pieces. With this careful selection, cris cheek reminds us that he is a Londoner and as such is as inhabited by Dickens' dark maze of industrial streets as by mind-altering years of activist art lodgings, smoggy thoughtful wanderings or the eerie shock of the thatcheritic city. That's at least two hundred years of grime, greed and energy you'll find distilled in the cellular lines and ink splashes of this great volume"--Caroline Bergvall.

Part: Short Life Housing

Cheek, Cris

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