“An essential reading list for boys aged 14-18.”

Robert Sheppard Complete Twentieth Century Blues

Luke Kennard The Harbour Beyond the Movie

Chris McCabe The Hutton Inquiry

Kamau Brathwaite Words Need Love Too

“Because teachers don’t have the time to hunt around for what will inspire their pupils, one by one, this [...]]]>

My Salt reading list

“An essential reading list for boys aged 14-18.”

Robert Sheppard Complete Twentieth Century Blues

Luke Kennard The Harbour Beyond the Movie

Chris McCabe The Hutton Inquiry

Kamau Brathwaite Words Need Love Too

What will you get out of these books?

“Because teachers don’t have the time to hunt around for what will inspire their pupils, one by one, this list has a bit of everything in it, but most of all, a lot of edge. These books promise to show you what you didn’t believe poetry was capable of doing, after sitting through hours of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. These writers show poetry can be hot and dangerous, ridiculous, funny, angry, chilled out and blissful; anything you want it to be. And they’ll put all those dead poets in perspective.”

Biography

George Ttoouli is Education Projects Coordinator for the Poetry Society, where he coordinates the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and an Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Warwick Writing Programme. He’s also a freelance writer and editor. He likes grumbling about the fact that young people don’t know just how exciting poetry can be because they don’t know where to find it any more. He still has his copy of Brian Patten’s Gargling with Jelly, from when he was eight.

My Books

• Heaventree New Poets Volume 1, with Zoe Brigley and Michael McKimm, ISBN: 9780954531768

Find out more about me

http://gistsandpiths.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/ttooulig/

“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

Luke Kennard The Harbour [...]]]>

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

Luke Kennard The Harbour Beyond the Movie

Melanie Challenger Galatea

Chris McCabe The Hutton Inquiry

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