Category Archives: Maintenant
Maintenant #67 – Kirmen Uribe
I write very slowly. I can be thinking in a poem for months. You can’t write poetry as a novel. One poem a day. The writing process is completely different. I think poetry is the best gender to express something essential in our life. The strength of a good poem is incomparable.
Maintenant #67 – Kirmen Uribe
I write very slowly. I can be thinking in a poem for months. You can’t write poetry as a novel. One poem a day. The writing process is completely different. I think poetry is the best gender to express something essential in our life. The strength of a good poem is incomparable.
Maintenant #66: Valzhyna Mort
Winner of the Crystal of Vilenica poetry award, lauded on both sides of the continent, Mort is a resolute and dexterous presence in contemporary East coast American poetry circles. A native of Belarus, her poetry is remarkable for its elegance and fluidity, and its ability to maintain an idiom both utterly modern and somehow enduring.
Maintenant #66: Valzhyna Mort
Winner of the Crystal of Vilenica poetry award, lauded on both sides of the continent, Mort is a resolute and dexterous presence in contemporary East coast American poetry circles. A native of Belarus, her poetry is remarkable for its elegance and fluidity, and its ability to maintain an idiom both utterly modern and somehow enduring.
Maintenant #65: Marco Giovenale
The literate and artistic world has always been something falling out of rigid borders and definitions, but the positive growth in schooling in the West and the spreading of that strange kind of mirrored collective conscience/unconscious known as the world wide web, make the situation more and more undecipherable.
Maintenant #65: Marco Giovenale
The literate and artistic world has always been something falling out of rigid borders and definitions, but the positive growth in schooling in the West and the spreading of that strange kind of mirrored collective conscience/unconscious known as the world wide web, make the situation more and more undecipherable.
Maintenant #64: Željko Mitić
Contemporary Serbian poetry has something new to offer, first of all a new energy. The scene is alive, a lot of new voices have emerged.
Maintenant #64: Željko Mitić
Contemporary Serbian poetry has something new to offer, first of all a new energy. The scene is alive, a lot of new voices have emerged.
Maintenant #63: Colin Herd
Inarguably symbolic of the dexterity and erudition of a new generation of Scottish poets, Colin Herd is an instantly memorable presence in the contemporary poetry scene north of the border. Deft, at times demure, urbane and insightful, his poetry is effusive in its grace and ease of motion.
Maintenant #63: Colin Herd
Inarguably symbolic of the dexterity and erudition of a new generation of Scottish poets, Colin Herd is an instantly memorable presence in the contemporary poetry scene north of the border. Deft, at times demure, urbane and insightful, his poetry is effusive in its grace and ease of motion.
Maintenant #62: Pekko Käppi
The Jouhikko playing tradition was practically dead at the beginning 20th century. There were only a handful of players left in remote villages. So its overall importance in the world isn’t that significant, I mean statistically. However to me Jouhikko is one of the dearest things I am dealing with, almost to the point of being a nuisance. For me Jouhikko is an elemental tool and companion, but at the same time I have been thinking that I should some distance from it too. My history with it started roughly fourteen years ago. After finishing high school and trying to figure out what to do I found myself reading an article about the history of Finnish Folk music and there was a few lines written about this strange instrument I had never heard of.
Maintenant #62: Pekko Käppi
The Jouhikko playing tradition was practically dead at the beginning 20th century. There were only a handful of players left in remote villages. So its overall importance in the world isn’t that significant, I mean statistically. However to me Jouhikko is one of the dearest things I am dealing with, almost to the point of being a nuisance. For me Jouhikko is an elemental tool and companion, but at the same time I have been thinking that I should some distance from it too. My history with it started roughly fourteen years ago. After finishing high school and trying to figure out what to do I found myself reading an article about the history of Finnish Folk music and there was a few lines written about this strange instrument I had never heard of.
Maintenant #61: Marcus Slease
Though the Maintenant series tries not to overstate the importance of the poet’s origin, practicality alone demands an attempt to show the range of European poetries with a representative range of nations. However in actually seeking out those poets creating exciting, original, genuinely evolutionary work, we find many cannot be tied to one single nation – they are migratory, multi-lingual – pan-European if not pan-global. Marcus Slease fits this archetype more than most.
Maintenant #61: Marcus Slease
Though the Maintenant series tries not to overstate the importance of the poet’s origin, practicality alone demands an attempt to show the range of European poetries with a representative range of nations. However in actually seeking out those poets creating exciting, original, genuinely evolutionary work, we find many cannot be tied to one single nation – they are migratory, multi-lingual – pan-European if not pan-global. Marcus Slease fits this archetype more than most.
Maintenant #60: Luljeta Lleshanaku
Her poetry reflects her marked humility and reverence for the written word, utterly unique and yet universal in a way that belies the overuse of that word.
an interview with Luljeta Lleshanaku ( Albania ) by SJ Fowler
Maintenant #60: Luljeta Lleshanaku
Her poetry reflects her marked humility and reverence for the written word, utterly unique and yet universal in a way that belies the overuse of that word.
an interview with Luljeta Lleshanaku ( Albania ) by SJ Fowler
Maintenant #58: Nikola Madzirov
His poetry is deft, sure and canny, he wields a wry and wise and often elusive aesthetic
an interview with Nikola Madzirov ( Macedonia ) by SJ Fowler
Maintenant #58: Nikola Madzirov
His poetry is deft, sure and canny, he wields a wry and wise and often elusive aesthetic
an interview with Nikola Madzirov ( Macedonia ) by SJ Fowler
Maintenant #57: Tomas S. Butkus
Sometimes seen as an irreverent and idiosyncratic poet, due perhaps his use of many mediums (text, video, sonic art, collage), his membership in an experimental art performance collective or his distinctive use of surrealist imagery – his work in fact continues the revolutionary underground spirit of creativity that underpinned some of the greatest poetry Europe produced while Lithuania was under Soviet occupation.
An interview with Tomas S. Butkus ( Lithuania ) by SJ Fowler
Maintenant #57: Tomas S. Butkus
Sometimes seen as an irreverent and idiosyncratic poet, due perhaps his use of many mediums (text, video, sonic art, collage), his membership in an experimental art performance collective or his distinctive use of surrealist imagery – his work in fact continues the revolutionary underground spirit of creativity that underpinned some of the greatest poetry Europe produced while Lithuania was under Soviet occupation.
An interview with Tomas S. Butkus ( Lithuania ) by SJ Fowler
