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Introducing our new Editorial Advisory Board
Posted by Scott Thurston on 2021-04-16

The Journal is delighted to officially introduce our new Editorial Advisory Board which convened in January of this year. The board's remit is to bring a diversity of new perspectives to the Journal, to think creatively about new initiatives and to advise on all aspects of the day-to-day running of the Journal and future directions of travel. The new board members and their research interests are [...]

PRINT COPIES OF FIRST ISSUE AVAILABLE
Posted by Scott Thurston on 2020-09-10

Gylphi -- the original publisher of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry -- is making some of the remaining print stock of the first run available for purchase online from this afternoon. Follow this link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114401257657Today copies of the inaugural issue are available and later issues will follow.

Lawrence Upton (1949-2020)
Posted by Scott Thurston on 2020-07-31

JBIIP was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lawrence Upton in February this year. Lawrence was a major figure in British poetry, distinguished in particular for his contribution to sound and visual poetry, and a prolific collaborator. Lawrence contributed an article on Bob Cobbing for our Cobbing special issue (Vol 4, No 2, Sept 2012, Print edition) and we are delighted to publish this [...]

Call for papers for Sean Bonney (1969-2019) special issue CALL CLOSED
Posted by Scott Thurston on 2020-06-05

We are seeking papers for a special issue dedicated to the work of Sean Bonney (1969-2019).   The author of numerous pamphlets and full-length collections, including Our Death (2019), Letters against the Firmament (2015), Happiness (2011), The Commons (2011), Document (2008), Baudelaire in English (2007) and Blade Pitch Control Unit (2005), Bonney was a crucial part of [...]

Special issue on Peter Larkin
Posted by Scott Thurston on 2020-05-20

We are delighted to publish the first article in our special collection based on the symposium ‘Peter Larkin: Poetry, Phenomenology, and Ecology’ which took place at the University of Warwick on 26th of April 2017. It is guest edited by Professor Emma Mason of the University of Warwick. A report detailing the symposium by Gabriel James de Sousa was published in Volume 11, Issue 1, 2019. The first [...]

Special issue on Race
Posted by Scott Thurston on 2020-04-17

We are delighted to report that the first three articles of our special issue on Race and Innovative Poetry, guest-edited by Professor Sandeep Parmar of the University of Liverpool, have now been published. The authors are Dai George (University College London); Nisha Ramayya (Queen Mary, University of London) and Mary Jean Chan (Oxford Brookes University). More articles by Romana Huk, Dave [...]