the87press and Shearsman Books warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of Anna Mendelssohn's collected poetry (edited by Sara Crangle).
Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism & the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex. Her books include Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey, 2011), and, with Peter Nicholls, On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (Bloomsbury, 2012)
Poppy O’Shaughnessy Mendelssohn’s eldest child
Lynne Harries Mendelssohn’s longstanding friend
Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is the author and editor of books on 19th and 20th century fiction, 20th century poetry, violence and avant garde art, and language and cultural history. He's also editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets, which published 4 of Anna Mendelssohn’s books and pamphlets. A translator of Polish poetry, Mengham’s own books of poetry include Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001), Chance of a Storm (Carcanet, 2015) and Grimspound & Inhabiting Art (Carcanet, 2018). In 2020, he was given a Cholmondely Award for Poetry by the UK Society of Authors.
Frances Kruk is a Polish-Canadian poet and artist from Calgary, AB. Her most recent books are lo-fi frags in-progress (Veer, 2015), and PIN (yt communication, 2014). Many of her written and visual werx are featured in the anthologies Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (Reality Street, 2015) and Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010). She has performed and presented internationally at experimental poetry festivals and scholarly symposia. London and birdsong live in her lungs.
Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, based in Edinburgh. Her third collection of poetry is of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018). Nat's recent publications include 'blubber, guts, southern leith', a long poem on Edinburgh's role in industrial whaling and its near-ecocide, in MAP Magazine (online); 'Imagining Queer Europe Then and Now', a special issue of Third Text journal (January 2021), co-edited with Fiona Anderson and Glyn Davis; and the pamphlet four dreams (Earthbound Poetry Series, 2020). Nat completed a PhD in queer Marxism at the University of Sussex, and is a Research Fellow on the 'Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism' project at the University of St Andrews, which will open an exhibition at Glasgow Women's Library in late Summer. She co-edits Radical Transfeminism Zine.
Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020); and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2021). He is currently working on books about risk analysis and divination; the Cantares Mexicanos; and the mytheme of Atlantis. He is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches in the department of Creative Writing.
John Wilkinson is an English poet living in the United States where he is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. His most recent book of poetry is My Reef My Manifest Array from Carcanet; and Bloomsbury recently re-published his critical book Lyric in Its Times in paperback. This June, The Last Books will publish a new cycle of poems titled Wood Circle.
Verity Spott is a poet from Brighton. Verity teaches poetry as part of the Creative Writing Programme and is the author of (most recently) Coronelles Set 1 (Veer Books) and Hopelessness (The 87 Press, https://tinyurl.com/87Verity).