Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry goes Open Access!
The Open Library of Humanities is
extremely pleased to announce that the journal that I started with Scott Thurston,
the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, will be the first subscription
journal to move to the completely open-access model offered by the OLH. The
journal, previously published by Gylphi, centres on the poetic writings that
have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations,
for example: avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave
Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition,
formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the
Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing.
More
here.
The eagle-eyed will notice that I have stepped down as one of the
editors of the journal. Perhaps I should explain that (I should explain that: in case anybody
thinks it is disagreement or pique that made me jump); I had always decided to
leave, before I’d even set it up! I see (or saw) my role as setting up provisional
institutions and then moving on to set up new ones. Also there is a clear younger generation of scholars capable of
furthering the journal’s aims! (I’m still on the board, so I'm still on-board, so to speak.)
See the Bill Griffiths special edition here. The last print edition...
Robert
