Andrew Taylor Poetry

Thanks to the editors of Morii Zine, Otoliths  and Anthropocene who have published recent poems. Links here:

Morii Zine
Otoliths 
Anthropocene 

I’ve been re-working, remixing or sampling (probably a mixture of all 3) Branwell Brontë’s poems. Alan Baker at Litter magazine, has kindly published 3. The poems can be read here.

Three poems, ‘The Tactile Excursions’, ‘A Sad Balloon’ and ‘Leopold’ have been published in Litter. My thanks to Alan Baker. The poems are here.

Music of 2021

The Coral ‘Coral Island’

Mogwai ‘As the Love Continues’

Low ‘Hey What’

Haiku Salut ‘The Hill, the Light, the Ghost’

Dean McPhee ‘Witches Ladder’

Saint Etienne ‘I’ve been trying to Tell You’

Conrad Clipper ‘Heron’s Book of Dreams’

Lael Neale ‘Acquainted with Night’

Dave Depper ‘Europa’

Athene/James A McDermid ‘Mourning Dove’

NGC 4414 ‘Morning’s Light/Beauty Eventually Dies’

Mary Lattimore ‘Collected Pieces Volume 2’

Laura Cannel & Kate Ellis ‘November Sounds’

Geneva Drive ‘First Light/ Solar Painting’

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis ‘Carnage’

Lump ‘Animal’

Eydis Evensen ‘Bylur’

Roedelius & Tim Story ‘Spirit Clock’

Mary Lattimore & Growing ‘Gainer’

Charles Vaughan ‘April 15’

Various artists ‘On Mary’s Porch’

& lots more.

I’m pleased to be ‘launching’ my new book, online, as part of the English Research Seminar series at Nottingham Trent University, in association with the university’s Centre for Travel Writing Studies. The launch takes place between 1.00 and 2.00 p.m. on Wednesday 10th November on Microsoft Teams. Please email andrew.taylor@ntu.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

Here is the abstract for the session:

Breaking Lines: Not There-Here and the Poetics of Travel Through discussion and readings of my poems this research seminar will consider the poetics of travel writing. It will consider continuities and departures, the role of influence (including that of institutional research contexts), the use of form and poetic constraints, technologies of travel and communication, and the representation of place and movement, both human and non-human. The seminar will trace the theme of travel through my earlier collections, including Radio Mast Horizon (Shearsman, 2013), March (Shearsman, 2017) and Aire (Red Ceilings, 2018), and in my new collection of poetry, Not There—Here, published by Shearsman in October 2021. The new book takes the reader from England into pre and post-Brexit Europe, negotiating the arrival of the nightingale, European breakfasts, fast trains into Paris and the ‘beautiful drift’ of the French landscape. Further consideration will be given to the publication of small-press titles, which has been a long-favoured mode of poetry publishing. The seminar is held in conjunction with NTU’s Centre for Travel Writing Studies.

Thanks to Rupert Loydell for his review of Not There-Here. The review is at the recently resurrected Stride Magazine. Go here for the review and here to the Shearsman site for more details about the book.

Thanks to Rupert for publishing two new poems that were written during the summer. The poems are here.

My thanks to Alan Baker for a thoughtful review of Not There-Here in Tears in the Fence. The review is here.

My thanks to Philip for publishing two poems in Noon # 20. You can read the entire edition here.