Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Spring 2012.
Welcome to a strange new world in which a poem can be written using only
one vowel, processed through computer code, collaged from film trailers,
compiled from Facebook updates, hidden inside a Sudoku puzzle, and even
painted on sheep.
Discover a multitude of new and unusual poetic forms - from tweet to
time-splice, and from skinny villanelle to breakbeat sonnet - in this
inspiring and inventive anthology. Adventures in Form features over
ninety poems by forty-six contributors including Patience Agbabi,
Christian Bök, Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Roddy Lumsden, Ian McMillan,
Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel and Hannah Silva.
Editor: Tom Chivers is a writer and literary arts producer. His
books include How To Build A City (2009) and The Terrors (2009),
which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. He has edited the
Penned in the Margins books Generation Txt (2006), City State: New
London Poetry (2009) and Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry (2010).
He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. He was also co-Director of
London Word Festival from its inception in 2008 until 2011, and was a
recipient of a Breakthrough Award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
