Sean Bonney
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Sean Bonney is a contemporary English poet. Bonney was born in Brighton
and brought up in the north of England
. He now lives in London
.
His publications include Notes on Heresy (Writers Forum, 2002), Poisons, their antidotes (West House, 2003), Blade Pitch Control Unit (Salt, 2005), Document: hexprogress (Yt Communication, 2006), Baudelaire in English (Veer 2008), Document: poems, diagrams, manifestos (Barque 2009), and The Commons (Openned 2011). He edits the press Yt Communication with Frances Kruk
.
He was a regular attendee at the Cobbing
-led Writers Forum workshop. Together with other UK based poets his work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival
.
In Autumn 2011 he ran a seminar series on Poetry and Revolution at the University of Cambridge.
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
and brought up in the north of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. He now lives in London
London
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His publications include Notes on Heresy (Writers Forum, 2002), Poisons, their antidotes (West House, 2003), Blade Pitch Control Unit (Salt, 2005), Document: hexprogress (Yt Communication, 2006), Baudelaire in English (Veer 2008), Document: poems, diagrams, manifestos (Barque 2009), and The Commons (Openned 2011). He edits the press Yt Communication with Frances Kruk
Frances Kruk
Frances Kruk is a contemporary Polish-Canadian poet living in London, UK. Recent writing can be found in journals such as Damn the Caesars, Sous les Pavés, onedit, fhole, ditch, and HOW2. She has exhibited visual work and performed solo and collaborative poetry, music, and interdisciplinary...
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He was a regular attendee at the Cobbing
Bob Cobbing
Bob Cobbing was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life:...
-led Writers Forum workshop. Together with other UK based poets his work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival
British Poetry Revival
The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...
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In Autumn 2011 he ran a seminar series on Poetry and Revolution at the University of Cambridge.
Further reading
- Tim Allen & Andrew Duncan (eds.), Don't Start Me Talking: Interviews with Contemporary Poets (Salt: 2007)
- Andrea Brady, Report on a reading by Sean Bonney, Ben Watson and Stephen Rodefer (2003)
- Adrian Clarke, "Sean Bonney's Baudelaire" (Readings 3)
- Delilah Glaxo-Kleitmann & Steve Spence, Review of Blade Pitch Control Unit (On Company Time, 2006)
- Mark Jackson, "The Poetry of Sean Bonney: Form and Content in Poisons, their Antidotes" (Readings 3)
- Keith Tuma, "Some Younger British Poets" (Chicago Review 53:1, Spring 2007)