Robert Hampson writes:<\/p>\n
Ever since I wrote some of the work that appeared in\u00a0reworked disasters<\/em>\u00a0(kfs, 2013), I have been interested in exploring the sonnet form through found materials. \u2018The sonnets \u2018white upon white\u2019 and \u2018memories read as dreams\u2019, part of a sequence called\u00a0earthborn(e)<\/em>, sample and write through critical texts by Mae Losasso and Amy Evans Bauer with the compact space of the sonnet stretched to link North American cities with Italy and Greece, respectively. \u2018Sonnet 61\u2019, which is a rewriting of Shakespeare\u2019s sonnet 61 in response to Sophie Seita\u2019s take on it in her \u2018Texts on Translation\u2019 (Subsisters<\/em>, 2017), is a straggler from an earlier sequence,\u00a0blood moon<\/em>, which engaged with the contemporary through the language of various texts on Shakespeare. The sonnets of\u00a0serie noire<\/em>\u00a0take off from a three-day visit to Paris and from the Japanese word\u00a0nagori<\/em>\u00a0(meaning remains, traces, vestiges, the sorrow of parting, but also, as Lisa Robertson informed me, the taking of pleasure in that last experience). The visit took place just days before the UK left the EU, and lockdown has given the poems an added poignancy for me. \u2018Covode 18\u2019 is the penultimate poem in the sequence\u00a0Covodes 1-19<\/em>\u00a0(Artery Editions, forthcoming), a fragmented, long-form documentation of the last year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. During the 70s he co-edited (with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry) the magazine\u00a0Alembic<\/em>\u00a0which, among other things, was instrumental in introducing North American LANGUAGE poetry to England. More recently, he has edited another poetry magazine, purge. He also co-edited (with Peter Barry)\u00a0New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible<\/em>. His collections of poetry include:\u00a0Degrees of Addiction, A Necessary Displacement, A City at War, Seaport<\/em>, and\u00a0C for Security<\/em>. His selected poems,\u00a0Assembled Fugitives<\/em>, was published by Stride in 2000.Covodes 1-19 will be published by Artery editions later this year<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robert Hampson writes: Ever since I wrote some of the work that appeared in\u00a0reworked disasters\u00a0(kfs, 2013), I have been interested in exploring the sonnet form through found materials. \u2018The sonnets \u2018white upon white\u2019 and \u2018memories read as dreams\u2019, part of a sequence called\u00a0earthborn(e), sample and write through critical texts by Mae Losasso and Amy Evans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[59,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Unknown.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1Gh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}To read the poems:\u00a0Robert Hampson Poems<\/a><\/h4>\n