Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

About the Journal

Professor Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill University, and Dr Scott Thurston, University of Salford, are the editors for the forthcoming Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. The journal will centre on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations: for example avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing. All of these terms have been variously adopted and contested by anthologies such as Children of Albion (1969), The New British Poetry (1988), A Various Art (1987), Floating Capital (1991), Conductors of Chaos (1996), Out of Everywhere (1996), Foil (2000), and the Anthology of British and Irish Poetry (2001).

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Editorial Board

Editors:

Professor Robert Sheppard (Edge Hill University)
Dr Scott Thurston (University of Salford)

Editorial Board:

Professor Peter Barry (University of Wales at Aberystwyth)
Dr Caroline Bergvall (University of Southampton)
Professor Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Dr Andrea Brady (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Dr Ian Davidson (University of Wales at Bangor)
Professor Alex Davis (University College Cork)
Professor Allen Fisher (Manchester Metropolitan University)
John Hall (formerly of Dartington College of the Arts)

Professor Robert Hampson (Royal Bedford and Holloway College, University of London)
Professor Romana Huk (University of Notre Dame)
Elizabeth James (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Professor Tony Lopez (University of Plymouth)
Dr Anthony Mellors (Birmingham City University)
Professor Peter Middleton (University of Southampton)
Dr Ian Patterson (Queens' College, University of Cambridge)
Professor Emerita Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University)
Professor William Rowe (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Professor Keith Tuma (Miami University, Ohio)
Professor Tim Woods (University of Wales at Aberystwyth)

How to Contribute

The Journal aims to provide a home for critical articles on the history, context, close reading and poetics of what has been termed 'innovative poetry'. Articles of up to 10,000 words, and short reviews (up to 2000 words) should be sent to either editor:

Professor Robert Sheppard
Department of English and History
EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY
St Helens Road, Ormskirk
Lancashire L39 4QP, UK

Dr Scott Thurston
School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD
Crescent House, Room 307
The Crescent
Salford M5 4WT, UK

Proposals can be emailed to: shepparr@edgehill.ac.uk or S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk

Electronic Submissions: The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry also has an electronic submissions database for which contributors can register. We encourage you to do so but at the same time, to avoid disappointment, please email one of the editors and let him know that your article has been uploaded for review. To use the electronic database click here.

Aims and Scope

In recent years there have been a number of academic conferences dedicated to 'innovative poetry' and its variants, including the Birkbeck conferences on poetics over the last 10 years, and several at the University of Plymouth including the successful Poetry and Public Language, which resulted in a volume of the same title (2007). The equivalent North American work is well-represented in academic work, but researchers on British and Irish poetry have no dedicated refereed journal, although a number of important books have been published lately, including Anthony Mellors's Late Modernist Poetry (2005), Robert Sheppard's The Poetry of Saying (2005), Ian Davidson's Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry (2006), Tony Lopez's Meaning Performance (2007) and John Wilkinson's The Lyric Touch (2007), as well as the expanding Salt Companion series, for which the two editors have edited a volume each. And, because one of the growing academic contexts for the development of debate about this contemporary writing is within creative writing teaching, learning and research, the journal is proposing to carry critical writing that derives from practice-led research and poetics. It is also proposing to occasionally consider questions of the pedagogy of teaching both the reading and writing of innovative poetry.