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Lo-fi poetry: a best-of
In a recent interview with Helen Ivory, we discussed the new dawn of lo-fi poetry: zines that embrace their low-budgets, a preference for the hand-crafted over the sleek. Helen came up with this wonderful summary of the situation: ‘because of Kindle, books will generally become more beautiful as objects and be valued as such, rather…
Claire Trevien
Why We Built CAMPUS: A Foreword from our Director
With the launch of the CAMPUS blog, I’m delighted that we can now open up the Poetry School’s CAMPUS social network for public registration. CAMPUS is an online platform that incorporates the Poetry School’s tutor-led educational activity (online courses and workshops) and many free activities (digital poets in residence, live Q&A’s, video essays) within a…
Ollie Dawson
Live Q&A with Emily Berry – call for questions
The very talented and very wonderful Emily Berry will be online Friday 15 November 2013 at 1pm to answer your questions. Places are limited, so if you’d like to participate in this live Q&A with Emily and/or submit a question, please email [email protected]. Emily’s first book, Dear Boy, is one of the most lauded debut collections in recent times,…
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The Weird Transformists
The weird transformists apply the New Weird to poetry but are not restricted to sci-fi topics. The weird transformists do not see the poem as a fixed object but one that can be manipulated in a multiplicity of ways. The weird transformists know each poem has a different way of telling the time, which might…
Claire Trevien
Meet our Digital-Poet-in-Residence: an interview with Claire Trévien
An Interview with Claire Trévien
We first discovered Claire’s work through her excellent first collection, The Shipwrecked House (recently nominated for this year’s Guardian First Book Award), a freewheeling, sea-soaked reel of a book that’s as sharp as a scrimshaw knife. Claire is also the editor of Sabotage Reviews and co-editor/creator of Verse Kraken. So, naturally, we invited Claire to…
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Welcome to the CAMPUS blog, a new online space for poetry
The CAMPUS blog is a new home for independent voices, open to all CAMPUS members and non-members, exclusively dedicated to the discussion, support and creative development of poetry. If CAMPUS is the virtual common room where poets can connect and collaborate, then the CAMPUS blog is its public broadcast station. It is totally unrestricted, and…
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Two poems by Catherine Wagner
Poet Catherine Wagner reads two poems from her 2004 book Macular Hole as part of her performance in the UMaine New Writing Series on February 4, 2010. Clip contains some graphic language. A full event report can be read here http://nwsnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/event-report-catherine-wagner/
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