Author Archives: MW Bewick

How’s your poetry social media looking? Overflowing with prizes and pamphlets? The birdsong and death rattle of submissions windows opening and closing? A landfill of small successes and failures? A rising ocean of ennui and angst? No? Just me? As a previous post suggests, it all gets a bit intense and overhyped sometimes. But sometimesContinue reading “Review: ‘Nostalgia Opera & Streetside Meat,’ by Ford Dagenham”

What is a good poet? And who cares? Seriously though, it’s unanswerable, subjective, redundant, a waste of time, clickbait, whatever whatever whatever. Of course it is. You know it and I know it. Shakespeare or Spencer? (Someone in the crowd yawns.) Hughes or Plath? (That old chestnut.) Ashbery and O’Hara, pictured above? (Could be!)… But…Continue reading “What is a good poet?”

I have some new writing out. A Study of a Long-lived Magma Ocean on a Young Moon is a pamphlet created with Ella Johnston and published through our little ol’ Dunlin Press. Ella has contributed asemic writing/art and I’ve added the words. The title comes from a scientific paper, and we riffed on it. AndContinue reading “A Study of a Long-lived Magma Ocean on a Young Moon”

My new chapbook, The End of Music, published by The Black Light Engine Room and the indomitable PA Morbid, is out now. What’s it all about? It’s about playing in never-quite-famous indie bands “back in the day”, and also about loads of rock and pop stars who are no longer with us. Not exactly theContinue reading “The End of Music – a new chapbook”

From the foreword to The Zircon Ferries, published by Beir Bua Press: The poems, writings, texts – I’m not too concerned with definitions – in this short collection of recent work is purposely heteroglossic. Or maybe that’s polyphonous, or dialogic, in its multifarious registers of language. It encompasses instances of office jargon, marketing strategy terminology,Continue reading “The meaning of The Zircon Ferries”

Poems featured: ‘What is to be Done?’‘A Partition of Times’‘Object-Oriented’‘The Shudder of the New’ Referencing: Lenin, Beeching, cosmists, Rancière, common time, OOO, Graham Harman, Harman, Hegel, Deleuze, cheese sandwiches, Heidegger, Warhol, James Kelman, Wivenhoe, and more. MWB

My latest bunch o’ poems, The Zircon Ferries, is out now with Beir Bua Press. Thanks so much to Michelle Moloney King and the press for publishing it, and to Ella Johnston for the artwork on the cover and the vispo elements inside. Here’s some nice stuff people have said about the poems: And here’sContinue reading “The Zircon Ferries is out now”

Totally excited to announce that I have a new longish-pamphlet of poems, The Zircon Ferries, coming out at the end of August 2021 with the incredible Beir Bua Press. The press, based in Co. Tipperary, is run by award-winning poet Michelle Moloney King. It’s the publishing press of sister site Beir Bua Journal and publishesContinue reading “The Zircon Ferries, a new pamphlet by MW Bewick”