Better than Language anthology

“Better Than Language brings together the work of thirteen young poets engaging with the broadest conceivable range of late modernist modes and strategies. Sometimes difficult but always enticing, the restlessly smart poems collected here offer a wide-open invitation to adventurous readers.”

Edited by Chris Goode. The poets represented are: SARAH KELLY | JONNY LIRON | FRANCESCA LISETTE | JOE LUNA | NAT RAHA | LINUS SLUG | JOSH STANLEY | TIMOTHY THORNTON | ANNA TICEHURST | JONTY TIPLADY | MIKE WALLACE-HADRILL | TOMAS WEBER | and STEVE WILLEY

Paperback 234x156mm: 253pp
Publication date: 25 July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9563706-1-7

Launch events:

Thursday 28th July:
Stoke Newington International Airport
London N16 7NJ
7.30pm
£5, or free entry with book purchase (£10 on the night)

Monday 8th August:
Hi Zero
Brighton

For more information & orders, see Ganzfeld Press.

From the future

By Chris Goode.

Thompson, de-headed & gutted:

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Chris Goode at the ICA

Wouldn’t it be great if Chris Goode wrote blog post-sized blog posts instead of apocalyptic all-consuming tours de force? Maybe, but the only way to find out for sure is to break up a recent and helpfully modularly-apocalyptic tour de lui into thirty chunks and schedule one to post each day, but leaving a gap in the schedule of about a month and then scheduling an apology for not posting more regularly and a notice of an upcoming gig and a promise of another post the next day and then scheduling a gap of about two months and then scheduling the rest.  So that’s what I’ve done.