Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Bulletin E-Book

• Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 49

Beschreibung

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Tim Liardet, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Denise Saul and Kayo Chingonyi.SPRING SELECTIONS January, February, March 2018 Choice: Sophie Collins, Who is Mary Sue? (Faber) Recommendations: Hannah Sullivan - Three Poems (Faber) Robin Robertson - The Long Take (Picador) Phoebe Power - Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet) Kaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Penguin) Commendation: Laurie Duggan - Selected Poems (Shearsman) Guest Selection: Meryl Pugh – Natural Phenomena (Penned in the Margins) Translation: Luljeta Lleshanaku - Negative Space (Bloodaxe Books)

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My only reading was of signs, but I read a lot of signs

– Sophie Collins, Who is Mary Sue?

FOUNDED BY T S ELIOT 1953

SPRING 2018 NO. 256

CONTENTS

CHOICE

Sophie Collins • Who is Mary Sue? • Faber

RECOMMENDATIONS

Kaveh Akbar • Calling a Wolf a Wolf • Penguin

Phoebe Power • Shrines of Upper Austria • Carcanet

Robin Robertson • The Long Take • Picador

Hannah Sullivan • Three Poems • Faber

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Laurie Duggan • Selected Poems 1971-2017 • Shearsman

RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION

Luljeta Lleshanaku • Translated by Ani Gjika Negative Space • Bloodaxe

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Ramona Herdman • Bottle • HappenStance

GUEST SELECTOR | KAYO CHINGONYI

Meryl Pugh • Natural Phenomena • Penned in the Margins

REVIEWS

NEWS & EVENTS

LISTINGS

CHOICE SELECTORSRECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATION

SANDEEP PARMAR& TIM LIARDET

TRANSLATION SELECTOR

GEORGE SZIRTES

PAMPHLET SELECTORS

A.B. JACKSONDENISE SAUL

GUEST SELECTOR

KAYO CHINGONYI

CONTRIBUTORS

ALICE KATE MULLENNATHANIEL SPAINEMILY TATEREBECCA ROBINSONSOPHIE O'NEILL

EDITORIAL & DESIGN

ALICE KATE MULLEN

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

Thank you to everyone who has been in touch with positive responses to the new-look Bulletin. A lot of work went into the redesign and we really appreciate your comments.

As with last quarter, I need to start this letter with a farewell and a welcome. I’d like to extend a huge thank you to Tim Liardet who has come to the end of his Selector tenure with this Bulletin. Tim has written some wonderful and incisive commentaries in the time we have worked together and was extremely supportive when we took over management of the PBS, we will miss him!

We are delighted to welcome Vidyan Ravinthiran as our new Book Selector. Vidyan’s first collection Grun-tu-molani, published by Bloodaxe, was shortlisted for many awards including the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He reviews frequently in Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review and the TLS and is currently a lecturer at Birmingham University.

Our events continue with the PBS sponsored StAnza lecture by Sinéad Morrissey on 8th March and Bolton University PBS Showcase featuring Karen McCarthy Woolf and Michael Symmons Roberts on the 24th April. We also look forward to welcoming you to Newcastle on the 3rd May for the Northern Poetry Symposium at Sage Gateshead. This year's symposium explores poetry in translation in partnership with NCLA and The Poettrio Experiment Project at Newcastle University. NCLA's Newcastle Poetry Festival runs from the 2nd – 5th of May, opening with US Pulitzer prize-winner and PBS Recommendation Jorie Graham. The festival programme will be launched by Jackie Kay on the 15th March.

If you missed the Vlog reviews by Jen Campbell of the PBS Winter selections, they can be found on www.poetrybooks.co.uk. The Spring Vlog will go live in March. We had some wonderful submissions to the Student Poetry Prize which will be judged by Sam Buchan-Watts. The winners will be announced in early March and the 1st prize winning poem will be featured in the Summer Bulletin.

We hope you enjoy our Spring Selections, we are delighted to have so many debut collections within the Choice and Recommendations this time. It is really inspiring to read so many new and varied voices.

- Sophie O’Neill, PBS and Inpress Director

PBS CHOICE: SOPHIE COLLINS

Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published by Book Works in November 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women’s Library. Who Is Mary Sue? is her first poetry collection.

WHO IS MARY SUE?

FABER | £10.99 | PBS PRICE £8.25– PBS CHOICE, SPRING 2018

The lyric subject, the “I” as an object or specimen of representation, is one of the main fields of enquiry in Sophie Collins’ Who is Mary Sue? Who or what is the self, as embodied, gendered, subject to violence, shame and desire, in this “apparently personal” (to paraphrase Sharon Olds) space of poetry?

In her collection’s title sequence, Collins addresses the many ways in which women’s writing, and women authors, are denigrated. Mary Sue, we are told, is a “pejorative term” which categorises female protagonists of fan fiction as idealised versions of the author. An all-too familiar social and aesthetic combination of bad reading and misogyny devalues any writing that privileges female experience as narcissism. As Collins writes: “Thus Mary Sue becomes, in my eyes, an unwitting embodiment of the double standard of content.”

From ‘Preface’ to ‘Postface’, Collins sets her sights on the author-self, as constructed by late capitalism. Her sequence, ‘A Whistle in the Gloom’, begins with a passage from Denise Riley’s Words as Selves