Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Tony Rickaby : Lorry

Tony Rickaby’s conceptual works, installations and paintings have been shown throughout Europe and the US. His current practice reflects on walks around South London, where he lives. Recently he has written for Litro Magazine, Stepaway Magazine, Message in a Bottle, ken*again, The Camel Saloon, experiential-experimental-literature, Sugar Mule, The Whistling Fire and Fox Chase Review. His book Detours was published in 2014.

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Robert Swereda : with impaired the pleasure of which is facing

Robert Swereda is the author of Signature Move (KFS press) and re:verbs (Bareback press) and has published work in Canadian and  international journals.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Chris Turnbull : from [sic]

Chris Turnbull lives near Ottawa, Ontario. Recent books include continua (Chaudiere Books, 2015) and [ untitled ] in o w n (CUE Books, 2015), alongside work by Heather Hermant and angela rawlings, respectively. Recent work has appeared in Spiral Orb 11 and Brick Books' A Celebration of Visual/Concrete Poetry Part II (ed. Amanda Earl). She is currently collaborating with Portuguese artist and poet bruno neiva on a multi-form poetic series and working on site specific installations, or pieces, with Fieldworks and CSArt Ottawa. She plants poems on trails via her footpress, rout/e.

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Eileen R. Tabios : Great American Novel

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released about 40 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her most recent are THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016) and INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems and New 1996-1915 (Dos Madres Press, 2015). With poems translated into eight languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized ten anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays in addition to serving as editor or guest editor for various literary journals.  She maintains a biblioliphic blog, “Eileen Verbs Books“; edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review; steers the literary and arts publisher Meritage Press; and frequently curates thematic online poetry projects including LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (a recommended list of contemporary poetry books).  More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com


Thursday, March 3, 2016

Amanda Earl : Chapter 3 of Exodus from the Vispo Bible

Amanda Earl's visual poetry has been exhibited in Russia and Canada, has been published in Fantagraphics' The Last Vispo Anthology. Her visual poetry chapbook Of the Body was published by Kingston's Puddle of Sky Press. A Fieldguide for Fanciful Bugs was published on line by avantacular press. Snippets & excerpts of her visual poetry have appeared on line at DrunkenBoat.com, The Volta, Tip of the Knife & UnlikelyStories.Org and in print in Dreamland IX (Prince George, BC, 2016). Gary Barwin gave a lovely write up of Earl's visual poetry over on Jacket2.  For more vispo, please visit EleanorIncognito.blogspot.ca.