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Folklore is an ecstatic, dreamlike, and starkly realist poem sequence which extends, challenges, and continues the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, John Clare's visionary lyrics, the elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill, and linguistic innovation of Gertrude Stein and the language poets.
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TimAtkinshas been a member of the summer faculty at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and a member of Carla Harryman's Poets Theatre in San Francisco. He is theauthorof many books, includingAtkinsCollected Petrarch(a Times Literary Supplement and Salon.com book of the year),Deep Osaka(a photobook),Koto Y Yo(all from Crater Press), 25 Sonnets(The Figures),Petrarch(Book Thug),Horace(O Books) and a collaboration with his daughter, Yuki Lily Matsubayashi Atkins, A Girl Is A Machine Made Of Birds(Canary Woof Press). He is also theauthorof a play:The World's Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt(Stoma Press) and a novelThe Bath-Tub(forthcoming from Boiler House Press). He also wrote the introduction to breth: the collected-selected poems of bill bissett, published by Talon. He has read and performed his work in the Houses of Parliament (for Pussy Riot), in concert at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and all over North America and Europe. His work has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Catalan, French, and Lithuanian.Mother-a collaborative film-poem made with Graeme Maguire was a finalist at the Cyclop International Videopoetry Festival and at the Rabbit Heart Film festival in 2014. Poems have appeared in many anthologies, includingThe Penguin Book of the Prose Poem(2018)The Reality Street Book of the Sonnet, and Faber'sThe Thunder Mutters(edited by Alice Oswald). The founder and editor of the long-running international online poetry journal,onedit, Tim works in the Creative Writing programme at the University of Roehampton.
