COVODES

Robert Hampson was formerly Professor of Modern Literature in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway; Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies, University of London; Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria; and on the faculty of the New School of the Anthropocene. He has been involved in the field of contemporary innovative poetry since the 1970s as editor, critic and practitioner. During the 1970s he coedited the magazine Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards. He coedited (with Peter Barry) the pioneering volume New British poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993); and, more recently, has co-edited (with Will Montgomery) Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool UP, 2010); (with Ken Edwards) Clasp: late modernist poetry in London on the 1970s (Shearsman 2016); and (with cris cheek) The Allen Fisher Reader (Shearsman 2020). His own poetry has appeared in a range of magazines including Cid Corman's Origin and Alan Davies 100 Posters in the 1970s. More recently, he has published poetry in The Cafe Review, Long Poem Magazine, Junctionbox, Molly Bloom, Mercurius, parmenar, The Wolf, tentacular magazine, and Rewilding: an ecopoetic anthology (2020). His early booklets included degrees of addiction (Share 1975); How Nell Scored (Poet and Peasant 1976); a necessary displacement (pushtika 1978); a feast of friends (Pig Press 1982); A City at War (Northern Lights 1985); Nevsky Prospekt (with David Miller) (hardPressed poetry 1988); a human measure (hardPressed poetry 1989); unicorns: 7 studies in velocity (pushtika 1989); dingo (with Gerlinde Roder-Bolton) (pushtika 1994); seaport: interim edition (pushtika 1995); a new hampshire sampler (with Gerlinde Roder- Bolton) (pushtika 1996); and the artist-book, C for Security (pushtika, 2001). Assembled Fugitives: selected poems 1973-1998 was published by Stride (2001). His best-known work is seaport (Shearsman, 2008). More recent publications include pentimento (pushtika 2005); an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010); the long view / wish you were here (artist-book with Leena Nammari) (2011); out of sight (Crater Press 2012; reworked disasters (Knives forks and spoons 2013); and Liverpool (hugs &) kisses (with Robert Sheppard) (ship of fools / pushtika 2015). He taught with Redell Olsen on the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway. For many years he ran the TALKS series that Bob Perelman set up in London, and has been co-running the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar (which replaced it) ever since.

nevermind 1
Covode 1: the people's disease 3
Covode 2: a planetary testimony 7
Covode 3: the little lockdown: a synthetic meditation 13
Covode 4: the pleasure dome 19
Covode 5: double exposure 27
Covode 6: risky business 31
Covode 7: a stranger cluster 35
Covode 8: the liberation of Paris 41
Covode 9: synchronicities 45
Covode 10: bang to eternity 53
Covode 11: an eco-system south of Portland 59
Covode 12: our little universe 63
Covode 13: et in arcadia ego 71
Covode 14: space milestones 75
Covode 15: something in the air 85
Covode 16: a more perfect union 91
Covode 17: after 100, 000 deaths 95
Covode 18: out of this world 103
Covode 19: out of the blue 111