ZARF Poetry

ZARF (2015-2020) was an experimenting poetry magazine edited by callie gardner. it continues as Zarf Editions, a pamphlet press publishing new poetry. you can find its pay-what-you-can ebook store at gumroad.com/zarfeditions twitter.com/zarfpoetry

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dear subscribers and friends,

zarf #15 is here!! featuring poems from Zein Sa’dedin, Tessa Berring, Rosa Jones, Nehaal Bajwa, Millie Rosette, Memoona Zahid, Alexa Winik, Anna Cheung, Asta Kinch, & Aisha Farr, plus Matthew Travers on Sean Bonney and Flo Taylor on Dena Igusti. as promised, this is a digital and completely free edition available at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/zarchive – it also comes in print-your-own-pamphlet format with instructions for assembly.

this will be the last issue of Zarf magazine. thank you to everyone who has read us over the last five years, sent in work, and passed it from hand to hand, and especially those on this list who encouraged and supported. Zarf Editions, our pamphlet press, is still up and running at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/pamphlets AND many of our past titles are now available as ebooks at gumroad.com/zarfeditions for pay-what-you-can.

so long

callie

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ZARF is now reading for march 2020! we are looking for

> blue moons

> bronze tongues

> rosy ejecta

> illegal names

> immoderate outbursts

> trash crowns

> neck ribbons

> and all other rebellious adornments

send us 3 pages by 31st march to [email protected] and we will read it for Issue #15. we will also consider 500-word reviews of poetry pamphlets, zines, and small press books.

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ZARF #14 is here! with poems by sidrah zubair, hilary white, arun sood, sadia pineda hameed, radha patel, s. niroshini, isabela montello, stéphane mallarmé (translated by peter manson), nour el-issa, lotte l.s., anna jepson, sarah cave, linda kemp, sally-shakti willow, sy brand, tom betteridge, jakky bankong-obi, sandra alland

plus! e. v. moore reviews Very Authentic Person by kat sinclair, flo taylor reviews Kalimba by petero kalulé, and arianne maki on Dream Babes 2.0, edited by victoria sin

buy now for £2, or £4 with our most recent pamphlet <3

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really excited to announce the Glasgow launch of the next Zarf Editions pamphlet, Sylvie Siren and Other Poems by Lana Hughes on Saturday 12th October ~ 2-4pm at Glasgow Women’s Library! 

with readings from

Etzali Hernandez

Sandra Alland

and Gloria Dawson

🕸️💜📖 

the launch will be held in the Glasgow Women’s Library Community Space, which is fully wheelchair accessible via ramp and lift. there are gender-neutral accessible toilets. performances will be through a microphone and texts will be projected onto the wall during performances.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ZARF #14

we want your pomes!

seeking all zarfables

including the following:

> neo-sonnets

> deconstructed sestinas

> electric epyllions

> post-verse

> fake poetry

> fighting words

> bloody noses

> skinned knees

> bruise that stays bruise

> & all other abrasions

please send a PDF

w/ no more than 3pp of poems

to [email protected]

by friday 11th october 2019

:D

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dear readers & friends of zarf,

i’m pleased to say that Zarf #13 is now available to order from zarfpoetry.tumblr.com ! 

with poetry by meenah williams, kashif sharma-patel, virna teixeira (translated by shelly bhoil), april hill, gemma jackson, jay g. ying, derawan rahmantavy, lisa samuels, jessica tillings, edmund hardy, jade mars, nell osborne, and mira mattar 

– plus gloria dawson reviews caspar heinemann, kashif sharma-patel reviews sandeep parmar, nisha ramayya, and bhanu kapil, and colin lee marshall reviews aurelia guo.

as always it’s £2 inc p&p (£3 overseas), but if you don’t have the cash to spare drop me a line.

much love,

callie xxx

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poetry reading announce! 7pm, Saturday 18 May, at Typewronger Books in Edinburgh w/ poems from Azad Ashim Sharma, Dominic Hale, Callie Gardner, and Gloria Dawson – £free! hope to see you there xxx

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submissions are open!

dear poets – zarf submissions are open! 

we are seeking 

> poems of indulgence > poems in occupation > poems without organs > vituperations > colony collapses > paradigm shifts > unapologetic poems > lost poems > loss poems > lossy compressions > & all other loss-leaders

submit no more than three pages 

with a one-sentence bio 

to [email protected] by 30th april 2019

can’t wait to read your screeds!

🍦🧨🐝☢️📬

[zarfpoetry]

submissions are open!

dear poets – zarf submissions are open! 

we are seeking 

> poems of indulgence > poems in occupation > poems without organs > vituperations > colony collapses > paradigm shifts > unapologetic poems > lost poems > loss poems > lossy compressions > & all other loss-leaders

submit no more than three pages 

with a one-sentence bio 

to [email protected] by 30th april 2019

can’t wait to read your screeds!

🍦🧨🐝☢️📬

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Zarf Editions Pamphlet #7 is now available: The T(y)ranny by Alison Rumfitt!

you can buy it for £3 over at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/pamphlets

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Zarf Editions Pamphlet #6 is now available: Night Waters by Pratyusha!

you can buy it for £3 over at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/pamphlets

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zarf 12: the #veronicaforrestthomson issue is finally here. there would be no zarf without this amazing poet – i looked for a quote to open the editorial but left a lacuna since nothing seemed adequate, except to say a long-overdue 'so long and thanks for all the artifice’ to VFT.

with poems from ann vickery, jessica rhodes, Cedric mesmer, michael farrell, ella o'keefe, bil sabab, peter manson, daisy lafarge, dominic hale, pratyusha & jane goldman 

plus pratyusha reviews lila matsumoto and holly pester reviews sam solomon 

order now from zarfpoetry.tumblr.com !

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Episode 1 - Race

In our first podcast, we discuss race and poetry with Dorothy Wang and Nisha Ramayya. We close with Nisha reading from her recent work. 

Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/shedpodcast/shed-episode-1/

Discussed with both Dorothy and Nisha is the forthcoming ‘RAPAPUK 2′ conference, which both are heavily involved in co-organising - more details http://www.rapapuk.com/october-2018.html

Note: at 14.37 Dorothy Wang says that there ‘isn’t a double standard’ for poetry, but this should have been ‘there is a double standard’.

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we have a new pamphlet out: circlusion by Gloria Dawson, aka @trespassingassemblies !

you can buy it for £4 over at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/pamphlets

🦄🌸🎟🎀💞🏄‍♀️

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our next reading is coming up! 

please join us as

     zarf poetry presents

          MAYA CHOWDHRY and NATHAN WALKER

                7pm, Wednesday 21st March

                     The Middle Room @ Wharf Chambers

                            Wharf Street, Leeds

                                   **free entry**

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And you can find it on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/186126858783304/

ACCESSIBILITY: This is in the Middle Floor, which is up a flight of stairs and two steep steps into the room itself. There are toilets on the Middle Floor. We will use amplification. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs we can help out with.

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ABOUT THE POETS

Maya Chowdhry is an inTer-aCtive artist, poet and Transmedia writer. Her poetry collections are The Seamstress and the Global Garment (Crocus Press, 2006) and Fossil (Peepal Tree Press, 2016). She has won many accolades for her work; ‘Butterfly Orchid’ was highly commended in the Forward Prizes, ‘Microbial Museum’ was Guardian poem of the week and she previously won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Using invisible theatre and Transmedia storytelling she created ‘Ethical People Movement’, which was produced as part of ‘Continent Chop Chop’ by Virtual Migrants, a story told through poetry, music and digital-media connecting legacies of inequality to climate change. Her collaboration ‘Tales from the Towpath’ at Manchester Literature Festival was shortlisted for the 2014 New Media Writing Prize, and her digital poetic work ‘Ripple’ anthropogenic climate change was shortlisted for the 2015 Dot Award. Maya is currently working on ‘Peas on Earth’, an Arts Council funded research and development project exploring food justice through investigating the use of augmented reality to produce an immersive live experience.

Nathan Walker is a performance artist and poet from Workington, West Cumbria. Recent publications include ‘Condensations’ (Uniformbooks) and ‘Action Score Generator’ (If p then q Press). He has published work in 3:AM magazine, Gorse, Datableed, Alterity Studies Journal and Huellkurven. Nathan has performed at galleries and festivals including Chapter Arts Center, Grace Exhibition Space, Performance Space, Baltic 39, Catalyst Arts and Plymouth Arts Center. He is based in York where he co-organises Oui Performance with the artist Victoria Gray and teaches performance at York St John University. www.nathan-walker.co.uk

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ZARF 11 IS OUT NOW!

with poems from maria sledmere, cam scott, kay gabriel, lana hughes, amy mccauley, iris colomb, d. i., daniel lourenço, sean wai keung, nicholas laughlin laura elliott, eloise hendy, allen fisher, sophie essex, rey conquer, and angus sinclair

PLUS alice tarbuck reviews safiya allaf AND katy lewis hood reviews julia rose lewis

all for £2 inc. postage (£3 outwith the uk) ~ we look forward to sharing these sunny works!

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you are invited to the launch of Toward Passion According, a new pamphlet of poems by Jazmine Linklater – with readings from Laura Elliott, Sally-Shakti Willow, and Jazmine Linklater! 

7pm, Sunday 18th February, at the Peckham Pelican, 92 Peckham Road, London

you can also find information about the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/201428337106581/

entry is free, and there will be a book & zine table. we hope to see you there!

ABOUT THE POETS

Sally-Shakti Willow researches and writes utopian poetics at the University of Westminster, where she is also a visiting lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing.  Her poems have been published by Adjacent Pineapple, Eyewear, The Projectionist’s Playground and Zarf.  The Unfinished Dream, a collaborative chapbook with visual artist Joe Evans, was published by Sad Press in 2016. Sally is the research assistant for The Contemporary Small Press project run by the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, and is on the judging panel for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for literary fiction from the small presses.  Follow her on Twitter: @Spaewitch.

Laura Elliott is a poet and library worker in London. She co-edits the poetry publishing experiment para·text with Angus Sinclair (@paratextual | paratext.co.uk). Her debut collection, lemon, egg, bread, was published by Test Centre in 2017.

Jazmine Linklater’s lives and writes in Manchester. Her first pamphlet, Toward Passion According is published by Zarf Editions, 2017 (you can buy it here), and a second, Découper, Coller, follows from Dock Road Press in 2018. She runs social media for T-junction International Poetry Festival and works part-time at Carcanet.