Nothing Conclusive Has Yet Taken Place in the World Etc

NOTHING CONCLUSIVE HAS YET TAKEN PLACE IN THE WORLD THE ULTIMATE WORDOF THE WORLD ANDABOUT THE WORLD HAS NOT YET BEEN SPOKEN THE WORLD IS OPEN AND FREE EVERYTHING IS STILL IN THE FUTURE AND WILL ALWAYS BE consists of meditations upon the state of the world andthe role of the poet in our turbulent andincreasingly-violent era. Taking the form of reflections upon the experiences of the poets Ovid & Atkins, NOTHING occupies a space in which 21st century horrors-the persecution of refugees and economic migrants, Brexit, Trump, conservative resistance to the long-overdue process of decolonising the canon, questions of poetic agency, encounters with predatory male poets, the global rise of fascism, and life among the everyday demagogues and barbarians-are reflected and refracted through engagements with the exilic experiences and writings of poets across the ages.

TimAtkinshas been a member of the summer faculty at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and a member of Carla Harryman's Poets Theatre in San Francisco. He is theauthorof many books, includingAtkinsCollected Petrarch(a Times Literary Supplement and Salon.com book of the year), Deep Osaka(a photobook), Koto Y Yo(all from Crater Press), 25 Sonnets(The Figures), Petrarch(Book Thug), Horace(O Books) and a collaboration with his daughter, Yuki Lily Matsubayashi Atkins, A Girl Is A Machine Made Of Birds(Canary Woof Press). He is also theauthorof a play: The World's Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt(Stoma Press) and a novelThe Bath-Tub(forthcoming from Boiler House Press). He also wrote the introduction to breth: the collected-selected poems of bill bissett, published by Talon. He has read and performed his work in the Houses of Parliament (for Pussy Riot), in concert at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and all over North America and Europe. His work has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Catalan, French, and Lithuanian.Mother-a collaborative film-poem made with Graeme Maguire was a finalist at the Cyclop International Videopoetry Festival and at the Rabbit Heart Film festival in 2014. Poems have appeared in many anthologies, includingThe Penguin Book of the Prose Poem(2018)The Reality Street Book of the Sonnet, and Faber'sThe Thunder Mutters(edited by Alice Oswald). The founder and editor of the long-running international online poetry journal, onedit, Tim works in the Creative Writing programme at the University of Roehampton.