Eighteens

£9, Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2011 (107 pages)

ISBN 978-1-907812-42-2

Eighteen poets writing eighteen poems of eighteen words each. Featuring:

• Richard Barrett
• Mark Cobley
• Emily Critchley
• Alex Davies
• Stephen Emmerson
• Alison Faulds
• S J Fowler
• Susana Gardner
• Harry Godwin
• Christine Hamm
• Jeff Hilson
• Emily Howard
• Simon Howard
• Peter Hughes
• Tom Jenks
• Linus Slug
• Maria Teutsch
• Tom Watts

Department #3

£3, Department, Feb 2011

The poetry of Department is poetry that is not content to inhabit “the poetic” (aesthetically elevated spiritualised leisure activity): that with the force of its own intensities & in-densities moves ‘out’ on to the street, moves among political spaces (complicating – & analysing complicities – all distinctions between public & private worlds), & lives in the overlap between sound & discourse, music & information. Department poetry is non-departmental poetry. It does not refuse formal exactness (though it troubles a certain ideology of forms as Universals), but it does refuse constraint; it troubles order to deny all attempts at a control order for poetry (know your place). These principles underlie the practice of Department issue #3. & will underlie the practice of future issues.

Featuring:

Marie-Angelique Bueler

Wayne Clements

Matt Dalby

David Grundy

Catherine Hales

Ryan Ormonde

Posie Rider

Marcus Slease

Tom Watts

zimZalla object 008

zimZalla object 008, A Dictionary of Poetic Forms by Tom Watts, is now available. Playfully deconstructing the structures and strictures of formalised verse, the dictionary is a set of rules for non-participants and a guide book to places already visited.

£1.50 (P&P included)

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Three Imminent zimZalla Objects

• Blueprints by Andrew Topel (November)
• A Dictionary of Poetic Forms by Tom Watts (December)
• World Banner by Lucy Harvest Clarke (January 2011)

Keep an eye on zimZalla's website for more information.