Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry

Tom Chivers (editor) was born in 1983 in South London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) and How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009). A winner of the inaugural Crashaw Prize, he is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence, was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of London Word Festival.

• Introduction - Tom Chivers The Architecture of Fictional Rooms - Luke Kennard Post-Avant: A Meta-Narrative - Adam Fieled Emily Dickinson, Vampipire Slayer - Sophie Mayer Hejiniaian's Faustienne Beings-with - Emily Critchley These Terabytes I Have Tried to Shore Agaiainst Our Ruins - Theodoros Chiotis Every Rendition on a Broken Machine - Ross Sutherland Hidden Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry - David Caddy Arranging Excursions to Disparate Worlds - Simon Turner Slam: A Poetic Diaialogue - Tim Clare Roots Manuva's Romantic Soul - David Barnes Composing Speech - Hannah Silva Radio And - - James Wilkes Enjoying and Examining Poetry - Alex Runchman The Line - Katy Evans-Bush

An exciting introduction to new directions in poetry. - Times Higher Education This is a unique book brimming with some wonderful, and indeed weird, critical minds; I've seen nothing else quite so current and enlivening on the subject of poetry available at the moment. - Horizon Review