Links to British Innovative Poetry Sites - checked, updated and even subbed

I've just updated the Links to British Innovative Poetry Sites page on modernpoetry.org.uk. (What else to do this rainy Easter?) Please do communicate all corrections and additions - it is only a partial view. More Favourite Thing lists would always be welcome, too. In the meantime, I'll move to work on the rest of the site, checking & updating the various lists, and I think trying to downplay the historical approach for something focusing more finely on the here & now. And I do desperately need and would welcome all suggestions for additions & improvements to the whole site.

My feelings are to raise the site to a kind of glowing currency over the summer - then possibly leave it as a monument to this point. Not certain; I'll decide when it's all finely polished and resplendent (briefly).

Some Favourite Things Now Thinged

I've now put up the promised page with what lists I have been sent, at http://www.modernpoetry.org.uk/livelists.html. I've regularised the format for titles, given relevant links, and ignored both blatant breaches of the Rules and also the nuances people actually expressed about their lists.

I've added a wordcloud, which has some rather fine arrangements of language (& I shall be invoicing Barque Press immediately). It's also online at http://worditout.com/word-cloud/43923.

So, if you haven't done so (& you probably haven't, have you?), please send me your list, to here, to ukpoetry.net or to peter@greatworks.org.uk.

Some favourite things ...

I'm thinking on the next step in the perpetual renewal of modernpoetry.org.uk. On the Useful Lists for British Innovative Poetry page I always feel the "Excellent Books of Contemporary British Innovative Poetry" is probably defective (more so than the two online listings, which merely need updating). I shall crowdsource!

Can I invite you to send either to ukpoetry.info, as a comment on this blog or to peter@greatworks.org.uk your list of the books/ebooks published in the last 5 years (since January 1, 2006) which have meant most to you (take that as you choose!) in connection with that diverse and fuzzy thing we call Innovative British Poetry. Say up to ten or so titles (+ author, publisher, date). In the interests of probity - not written or published by you. I'll put the lists up on modernpoetry.org.uk as a webpage adjunct to the Lists page, and a collated Top Ten or Twenty on the Lists page. Probably mid September, to give you time to work out the list as you relax on your hols.

If this works, we can do some more lists...