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


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.






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…





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
