{"title":"Emily Critchley","description":"Emily Critchley was born in Athens in 1980 and studied at the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Cambridge. In 2006 she organised the first experimental women’s poetry festival at Cambridge University and in 2010 she curated the London Cross-Genre Festival at the University of Greenwich, where she currently lectures in English and Creative Writing. Emily is one of the featured poets in the recent anthology \u003cem\u003eInfinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Carrie Etter (Shearsman, 2010).","products":[{"product_id":"love-all-that-ok","title":"Love \/ All That \/ \u0026 OK","description":"\u003cb\u003eClick on Download \/ View above to download your exclusive e-card!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the inaugural Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove \/ All That \/ \u0026amp; OK\u003c\/i\u003e, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004, and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke', 'The Sonnets' and 'Poems for Other People'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her formally adventurous poetry implicates its author in, then deftly upends, the conventions - political, sexual, intellectual, and emotional - that threaten to diminish the purview of any fierce, bright, 21st-century female. Critchley practises a brisk vernacular anti-lyric, often in the name of love and always in a language that (pounding Pound) 'hath 'ham' innit.' As an antidote to a future that 'may be very wrong,' these poems are absolutely right.\"\u003cbr\u003eJean Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The project is high electrics and considerable. I particularly care for the frailty and edges of coherence loss. It's the intelligent frays that push under my thought and matter most.\"\u003cbr\u003eAllen Fisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Really intelligent, coquette, fuck-you work... a space for a new kind of anti-misogynism in poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Critchley\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Athens in 1980 and studied at the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Cambridge. 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These are just some of the questions posed in \u003ci\u003eStress Fractures\u003c\/i\u003e, a new and wide-ranging collection of essays on the future of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Good news for poetry.”\u003cbr\u003eRichard Morrison, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e on Penned in the Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Chivers\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1983 in south London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eHow To Build A City\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). A winner of the inaugural Crashaw Prize, he is Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eTears in the Fence\u003c\/i\u003e, was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. 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