Pertinent Actions: Poetic Practice Anthology

‘Pertinent Actions celebrates a paradigm shift in the teaching of creative writing. Royal Holloway’s Poetic Practice program emphasizes materials of production and reproduction, site specificity, invented forms, book making, collective spirit, poetics, and the full possibilities of VVV — visual-vocal-verbal. At the same time, and without missing a beat, there is mind-filling attention to gender, race, environment, and class. The proof, like they say, is in the pudding: the poems performed on the pages of this book are an explosion of imagination, an exuberant display of the possible.’ (Charles Bernstein)