My Salt reading list
“These are, give or take, my favourite Salt offerings. All five are ambitious and unique works that stretch our understanding of what poetry can be. In starkly different ways, they all satisfy Ezra Pound’s dictum to ‘Make it new’.”
Anthony Joseph The African Origins of UFOs
Sean Bonney Blade Pitch Control Unit
What will you get out of these books?
“My salty quintet is, at turns, frenetic, energetic, comic and demotic; inward-looking and outward-going; full of fire, ire and (in the case of Joseph) iere. This is language turned up, inside out and on its head. If you think poetry and politics don’t mix, Bonney and McCabe will prove you wrong with their systematic and passionate deconstructions of the languages of power. If you’ve never laughed out loud whilst reading verse, give Mr Kennard a try. These books are genuinely transformative, never dull or patronising, and invite you to engage with them as fluid, performative texts. You don’t so much read these books; they read you.”
Biography
Tom Chivers is a writer, editor and live literature producer. He is Director of Penned in the Margins and co-Director of the popular London Word Festival. He is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence and Editor of Litro. Born London, 1983, Tom’s creative and critical work is widely published in literary magazines. In Spring 2008 he was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute. His prize-winning debut collection is How To Build A City (Salt, 2009).
My Books
- How to Build a City WINNER OF THE CRASHAW PRIZE (Salt 2009), ISBN 978-1-84471-564-0
- City State: New London Poetry, editor (Penned in the Margins), ISBN: 978-0-9553846-8-4
- Generation Txt, editor (Penned in the Margins), ISBN 978-09553846-1-5
Find out more about me
www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk
www.londonwordfestival.com
http://thisisyogic.wordpress.com
