Poetry Book Society Winter 2019 Bulletin E-Book

• Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 57

Beschreibung

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Winter 2019 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. WINTER SELECTIONS October, November, December 2019 Choice: TBC Recommendations: TBC Commendation: TBC Wild Card: TBC Translation: TBC

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What do you do when the sun forgets to come out in the longest darkness of winter months?

- Juana Adcock

FOUNDED BY T. S. ELIOT 1953

WINTER 2019 NO. 263

CONTENTS

CHOICE

Juana Adcock • Split • Blue Diode Press

RECOMMENDATIONS

Charlotte Ansell • Deluge • flipped eye

Kwame Dawes & John Kinsella • Tangling with the Epic • Peepal Tree Press

Denise Riley • Selected Poems • Picador

Zoë Skoulding • Footnotes to Water • Seren

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Charlotte Mew • Selected Poetry and Prose • Edited by Julia Copus • Faber

RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION

Esther Dischereit • Sometimes a Single Leaf • Arc PublicationsTranslated by Iain Galbraith

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Amy Acre • And They Are Covered in Gold Light • Bad Betty Press

WILD CARD

Mimi Khalvati • Afterwardness • Carcanet Press

REVIEWS

LISTINGS

CHOICE SELECTORSRECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATION

SANDEEP PARMAR& VIDYAN RAVINTHIRAN

TRANSLATION SELECTOR

GEORGE SZIRTES

PAMPHLET SELECTORS

A.B. JACKSON& DEGNA STONE

WILD CARD SELECTOR

ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU

CONTRIBUTORS

SOPHIE O'NEILLNATHANIEL SPAIN

GUEST REVIEWER

JADE CUTTLE

EDITORIAL & DESIGN

ALICE KATE MULLEN

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

This season’s Bulletin embodies much of what we have tried to achieve over the last three years of running the PBS – striving to present to you the best of contemporary poetry, with insightful reviews and commentary. Behind the scenes, much effort has gone into ensuring the PBS welcomes all poetry publishers to submit work to our PBS selectors. So we are delighted this season’s Choice, Juana Adcock is a lesser known poet published by a brand new publishing company Blue Diode Press. Here’s hoping the same critical success follows on from her PBS selection as with many of our other Choices.

It’s a diverse selection this winter, collections from new poets, established poets, neglected poets, we have them all! As ever, we love to hear your thoughts, both positive and constructive, so please do let us know what you think of the selections, your membership, or anything else poetry-related either through our social media channels, over email or phone – we genuinely love to hear from you.

Thanks to everyone who came to our National Poetry Day celebrations at the wonderful Blackwell’s in Oxford; Mary Jean Chan and Anthony Anaxagorou gave stunning performances. Our next event is a Translation Conference, taking place in Norwich on 30th November, tickets are available through our website, so please do come along.

Christmas is not so far away, so do consider giving the gift of poetry this Christmas – you can buy PBS gift memberships or simply a PBS gift-voucher and let the recipient choose to go wild on book purchases or a membership. Keep an eye on our website www.poetrybooks.co.uk and across social media @poetrybooksoc for more poetic gift inspiration throughout the festive season.

SOPHIE O’NEILLPBS & INPRESS DIRECTOR

PBS CHOICE: JUANA ADCOCK

Juana Adcock is a poet, translator and performer working in English and Spanish. Her poems and translations have been published in magazines such as Magma, Structo, Words without Borders,Asymptote, Kenyon Review, Gutter, Glasgow Review of Books, New Writing Scotland, The Dark Horse and several anthologies in Mexico and the UK. Her first collection, Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014) explored the anatomy of violence in Mexico. In 2016, Adcock was named one of the Top Ten New Voices From Europe by Literary Europe Live and Literature Across Frontiers, and she has performed at numerous festivals internationally. In 2006 she received a year-long writing fellowship from CONARTE in Mexico, and in 2016 she was awarded a Scottish artists’ fellowship to complete a writing residency in Banff, Canada. She has lived in Glasgow since 2007, where she also plays in the bands Las Mitras and The Raptors.

SPLIT

BLUE DIODE PRESS | £10.00 | PBS PRICE £7.50– PBS CHOICE, WINTER 2019

Juana Adcock’s second collection, Split, opens with a long sequence of ‘Serpent Dialogues’ between a woman and a snake. Part Genesis, part Plato, the two debate “the true nature of desire”, among other things.

WOMAN: Snake, what do you think of monotheism?

Since everything is holy, I mean

SNAKE: Men – humans – need to organize everything. Messages need to be packaged in a way that’s intelligible to them, otherwise they’d be lost.

W: That’s why the Mass is didactic in structure, like a theatre play, is what you’re saying

S: Yes, but the sacred element is also built through repetition. Repetition is much loved by men

W: You don’t dislike it either, since you come here to see me every day

S: It’s nice on this rock

W: There are countless others to choose from

The combination of seduction, lovers’ anxiety, mortal danger and philosophy works extremely well, dosed up by a mix of irony and vulnerability that is delivered so directly it is occasionally devastating. Reminiscent of Anne Carson’s dialogic poetic work, Adcock’s formal dexterity throughout this collection testifies to the breadth of her intellectual enquiry and her literary inheritance. Adcock’s first collection was published in 2014 in Mexico, where she was born (she now lives in Scotland). Mexico appears in this book, too, via ancient mythical as well as contemporary political references, as in the poem ‘Juárez / Ecatepec’: “I was looking, in vain, for the newspaper article / that told our story among the deluge of pages // on the thousands of women of similar fates.” Most readers should be aware of the decades-long murder, rape and disappearances of female factory workers in the border city of Juárez, Mexico. These crimes implicate male violence at every level of authority and yet the killings have not ended. Adcock’s poem is brutally honest – she presents the ubiquity of these deaths through the eyes of the murdered as well as those who are unable to prevent their continuation.