Department Poetry Magazine

Department #5. Now available

2011-12-25T17:55:00.004Z

A4. 44 pages. £2.50.

New work from

Iain Britton

JP Duran

SJ Fowler and Anatol Knotek

RTA Parker

Nat Raha

Andy Spragg

and Steven Waling

stutter studies by ollie evans

2011-10-03T21:51:00.010+01:00

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22pp. £2.50 via PayPal in sidebar

Telegraphic Transcriptions by Stephen Emmerson

2011-08-17T23:18:00.006+01:00

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77pp. £8.00 via PayPal in sidebar

Department Submissions

2011-07-11T14:35:00.006+01:00

Department Poetry Magazine welcomes submissions: we don't have a fixed publishing schedule & we do have special issues/invitation issues - but we are always interested in imaginative, beautiful, fierce, experimental, stretching the boundaries etc. writing.

To contact the editors

barrett dot richard 1 at google mail dot com (remove space between richard & 1 & google & mail)

simon howard 60 at g mail dot com (remove spaces between simon & howard & 60 & g & mail)

Department #4 - NOW OUT!

2011-05-17T13:33:00.003+01:00

Issue 4 of Department is now available - with work by Mark Cobley; S.J. Fowler; Harry Godwin; Matthew Hall; Colin Herd; Peter Hughes; Tom Jenks; Justin Katko; Carol Watts.

Paypal button, Issue 4.

from Department #4; Harry Godwin, 'Acker Mole'

2011-05-17T13:19:00.004+01:00

III

The Rat asleep
The Mole, seeking to badger,
sought his sinewy cap & fled
visions obtuseness
following the bell-pull deep-
toned aroma

IV

red brick wide hearth dried
herb
he shuffled
underground the under
heartily
the Badger beamed
on ham

V

never for a moment did he dream
abandoning . balls . fresh waves
sobs saves . a dingy little . a little
dinghy . a dingy dinghy . "O dear,
O dear (Judie, hello it is... .
Garibaldi . a skittle-alley . and
other modern heroes of . Hackney .
No bread! No . Capital!

Notation to Marie-Angelique Bueler's COMPOSING ON THE SPOT: FREE IMPROV AS INSTANT COMPOSITION

2011-03-04T20:24:00.018Z

1) A YOUNG SKETCH 21/12/2010

2) PATCHWORK 22/12/2010

3) ALL IN C 24/12/2010

4) HAZY GLIMMER 27/12/2010

5) 192 29/12/2010

6) ZOOM 28/12/2010

7) TAKE OVER 21/12/2010 AND 13/01/2011

8) EITHER SIDE 31/12/2010 AND 01/01/2011

9) BIG BANG MINI 31/12/2010

10) TO YOUR HEALTH 07/01/2011

Department 3 now published

2011-02-23T08:55:00.004Z

Department 3 is now available to order!

absurdly held together spare parts surgically con-
noted in various discourses & ultimately dispensable

adverbial constructs to die for my tongue explore
your taste of freedom beyond these tracking motion
across oceans hollowed out random noise in the
data what’s yours & do you I’ll buy you

one & maybe often that’s the predictable car-
ded into the till & waiting for christmas enhanced
& altered allowing for migrations in line my
place or yours pinned down in the crossfire
of contradictions a radical overhaul lip-sych
simulation produced & processed according to

chipped bone teeth perfectly aligned immobilised

Catherine Hales, 'bar code blues'

Department issue #3 - editorial

2011-02-01T08:57:00.001Z

The poetry of Department is poetry that is not content to inhabit “the poetic” (aesthetically elevated spiritualised leisure activity): that with the force of its own intensities & in-densities moves ‘out’ on to the street, moves among political spaces (complicating – & analysing complicities – all distinctions between public & private worlds), & lives in the overlap between sound & discourse, music & information. Department poetry is non-departmental poetry. It does not refuse formal exactness (though it troubles a certain ideology of forms as Universals), but it does refuse constraint; it troubles order to deny all attempts at a control order for poetry (know your place). These principles underlie the practice of Department issue #3. & will underlie the practice of future issues.

Department issue #3

2011-01-31T09:11:00.001Z

Coming very soon - issue #3 of Department poetry magazine.

Poetry by
Wayne Clements
David Grundy
Catherine Hales
Ryan Ormonde
Posie Rider
Marcus Slease
Tom Watts

Essays by
Marie-Angelique Bueler
Matt Dalby
David Grundy