"Poetry is the supreme fiction" Wallace Stevens

Shortform CV

Poetry Journals: published in

• Arras, Tongue-to-Boot, Ecopoetics, Zyzzyva and many others.

Radio:

• 1 hour special feature [interview & reading] on Resonance FM London [2003]

Correspondent:

• Correspondent of The Poetry Project Newsletter, St Mark’s Poetry Project, New York [1997-2001]
• Contributing Editor to Psalm 151, New York – Paris [1996-2001]

Group Shows / Poets’ Theatre:

• Participant in Edwina Ashton’s “Kitten Fayre” Rivington Street London [2000]
• Participant in Gavin Turk’s “Agricultural Fayre” London South Bank [1999]
• Actor in Kevin Killian's "Bad Lieutenant", San Francisco [1993-1994]
• Member of Carla Harryman’s Poets’ Theatre, San Francisco [1993-1994]

Poetry Administration & Reading Series:

• Organised and co-ran the reading series at Platform Gallery, Brick Lane, London [1996-2000] with Miles Champion
• Responsible for liaising with and booking international writers as well as publicity and accounting.

Internet:

• Designer and Editor of online poetics journal: www.onedit.net
• Author site at University of Southampton BEPC: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poets/atkins.htm

Archived Reading:

• The Archive Of The Now
• http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~enstaab2/

Teaching:

• Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, UEL, London [2006-]
• Creative Writing Teacher, Roehampton University, London [2004-2006]
• Creative Writing Teacher, Birkbeck College, University of London [London, 1995].
• Creative Writing Teacher for The Poets in Schools Program [San Francisco 1993-1994]

• Catalan Concrete Poetry
• New York School Poetry & Poetics
• Small Press Poetry Publications
• Post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics
• Intra-lingual translation
• Internet poetics
• Editor of onedit.net / an online journal of contemporary poetry
• Horace
• Petrarch

• CC1000: Study Skills
• CC1101: The Creative Imagination
• CC1102: The Writer's Voice
• CC2103: Creative Non-Fiction
• CC2104: Lyric, Rhythm, and Sound
• CC3000: BA Creative Writing Dissertations
• CC3303: Life Writing
• CCM005: MA

All publications post 2001:

• "Folklore" [2008] Salt
• "Horace" [2007] O Books
• “Horace” [2006] Matchbox Series
• "THESEPAGESAREMARKEDBYWOMEN" [2006] Cambridge Conference Publication
• "The Thunder Mutters" - Anthology [2005] Faber
• “Last Poems” [2003] Tolling Elves.
• "The Grid Project" - Anthology [2003] Just Buffalo Literary Centre
• "Football Haiku" [with Miles Champion] [2001] Pocket Books

Key publications pre 2001:

• "Resolute" - Anthology [2000] Platform Gallery Publications
• "FOIL: An Anthology of New British Writing" [2000] Etruscan Press
• "Sonnets" [2000] The Figures
• "To Repel Ghosts" [1998] Like Books
• "Folklore" [1996] Heart Hammer