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Words, pictures, performance. New book: Moreau’s Doctored Bodies (@steelincisors). The Bird King made me do it.

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Rightly maligned as the pompous author of curiously underwhelming theoretical tests, André Breton was nevertheless a brilliant and daring poet. This bilingual edition provides a comprehensive survey of his work. In his gaze, the worlds of dream & waking reality are synthesised.

Rightly maligned as the pompous author of curiously underwhelming theoretical tests, André Breton was nevertheless a brilliant and daring poet. This bilingual edition provides a comprehensive survey of his work. In his gaze, the worlds of dream & waking reality are synthesised.
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Czech Surrealist Jindrich Heisler was a highly original poet and painter. His book From the Strongholds of Sleep is one of the most stimulating books of visual poetry in any language.

Czech Surrealist Jindrich Heisler was a highly original poet and painter. His book From the Strongholds of Sleep is one of the most stimulating books of visual poetry in any language.
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Aase Berg’s Dark Matter enacts the violence of being and the threat of extinction in an imaginary hellish landscape that corresponds powerfully with our fragile, complicated reality. This book, translated by @JohannesGoranss, is a work of genius.

Aase Berg’s Dark Matter enacts the violence of being and the threat of extinction in an imaginary hellish landscape that corresponds powerfully with our fragile, complicated reality. This book, translated by @JohannesGoranss, is a work of genius.
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In The Moth Apocalypse portal fantasy transforms a vast harvest of tweets into a panicking palpitating winged thing, circling and spiralling around a red flame. The death’s head laughs at us.

In The Moth Apocalypse <a href="/Turrentula/">portal fantasy</a> transforms a vast harvest of tweets into a panicking palpitating winged thing, circling and spiralling around a red flame. The death’s head laughs at us.
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Sense Violence by Helena Boberg (translated by @JohannesGoranss ) is contemporary surrealism at its most dangerous. Images of flowers, eggs, eyes, bodies, milk, snakes lock in to each other, break apart, feverish with the violence of language.

Sense Violence by Helena Boberg (translated by @JohannesGoranss ) is contemporary surrealism at its most dangerous. Images of flowers, eggs, eyes, bodies, milk, snakes lock in to each other, break apart, feverish with the violence of language.
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In Inoculation, Paul Woodford adumbrates a new language formed from the detritus of electronic sign systems. The cycle of visual poems is chaotic and noisy, but ultimately tethered to a vision, a novel way of reading/writing.

In Inoculation, <a href="/pauldwoodford/">Paul Woodford</a> adumbrates a new language formed from the detritus of electronic sign systems. The cycle of visual poems is chaotic and noisy, but ultimately tethered to a vision, a novel way of reading/writing.
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Brian Baker Probably Not James I’m no fan of minimalism, but Ann Jäderlund’s Lonespeech (translated by @JohannesGoranss ) demonstrates that a short poem can open up a vista of potential meaning, when grammar, syntax and lexis work in unexpected ways.

<a href="/SciFiBaker/">Brian Baker</a> <a href="/Inauthenticity/">Probably Not James</a> I’m no fan of minimalism, but Ann Jäderlund’s Lonespeech (translated by @JohannesGoranss ) demonstrates that a short poem can open up a vista of potential meaning, when grammar, syntax and lexis work in unexpected ways.
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I keep returning to the incomparable Pierre Reverdy. His understated, uncluttered poems do strange things with tense, voice and image, to powerfully beautiful and unnerving effect.

I keep returning to the incomparable Pierre Reverdy. His understated, uncluttered poems do strange things with tense, voice and image, to powerfully beautiful and unnerving effect.
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From the archive: a creative review of a classic of Czech surrealism, Vítězslav Nezval’s The Absolute Gravedigger, for minor literature[s]. minorliteratures.com/2017/05/10/the…

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Our Swiss poetry @prohelvetia celebration takes place National Poetry Library on Weds July 2nd at 8pm with Kate Wakeling James Knight HAN SMITH Jessica Zuan, Nathalie Schmid, Christian de Simoni europeanpoetryfestival.com/swiss25

Our Swiss poetry @prohelvetia celebration takes place <a href="/natpoetrylib/">National Poetry Library</a> on Weds July 2nd at 8pm with <a href="/WakelingKate/">Kate Wakeling</a> <a href="/badbadpoet/">James Knight</a> <a href="/Han_Smiff/">HAN SMITH</a> Jessica Zuan, Nathalie Schmid, Christian de Simoni europeanpoetryfestival.com/swiss25