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This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental writers. Maggie O'Sullivan has an international reputation as a poet both on the page and as a mesmerising performer. Influenced by Bob Cobbing, Barry MacSweeney and Susan Howe, to name just a few - her work breaks through traditional boundaries of performance and writerly practice and, along with Geraldine Monk, she can be seen as a profoundly important player in the early feminist avant-garde in the UK that emerged during the 1970s. She continues to be a major influence on new women's writing to this day and this volume of essays rightly locates (and relocates) her influence, methodologies and artistic practice within a thriving alternative British poetry.
List of contents
- Ken Edwards: Introduction
- Charles Bernstein: Colliderings: O'Sullivan's Medleyed Verse
- Mandy Bloomfield: Maggie O'Sullivan's Material Poeticsof Salvaging in red shifts and murmur
- Romana Huk: Maggie O'Sullivan and the story of
- metaphysics
- Peter Manson: A Natural History in 3 Incomplete Parts
- Nicky Marsh: Agonal States: Maggie O'Sullivan and
- a feminist politics of visual poetics
- Peter Middleton: 'Ear Loads': Neologisms and Sound
- Poetry in Maggie O'Sullivan's Palace of Reptiles
- Marjorie Perloff: "The Saturated Language of Red":
- Maggie O'Sullivan and the Artist's Book
- Will Rowe: Preface to In the House of the Shaman
- Robert Sheppard: Talk: The Poetics of Maggie O'Sullivan
- Scott Thurston: States of Transformation: Maggie O'Sullivan's 'Busk, Pierce' and Excla
- Redell Olsen: Writing / Conversation with Maggie O'Sullivan
- Nerys Williams: "My tend sees errant, Vulnerable Chanceways": Maggie O'Sullivan's House of Reptiles and recent American Poetics
- Maggie O'Sullivan and Scott Thurston
About the author
Chris Hamilton-Emery was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied painting and printmaking in Leeds. He is Publishing Director of Salt in Cambridge, England. Writing as Chris Emery, his work has appeared in numerous journals including The Age, Jacket, Magma, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review, Quid and The Rialto. A first full-length collection, Dr. Mephisto, was published by Arc in 2002. A pamphlet, The Cutting Room, was published by Barque in 2000. He was anthologised in New Writing 8 (Vintage, 1999). A new collection of poetry, Radio Nostalgia, is forthcoming from Arc in 2006. He lives in Great Wilbraham with his wife, three children and various other animals.
Summary
This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental writers. Maggie O'Sullivan has an international reputation as a poet both on the page and as a mesmerising performer. Her work breaks through traditional boundaries of performance and writerly practice.
