Launch
The London launch of Arcadian Rustbelt is being hosted by the Xing the Line series. It will be at a café called Jaguar Shoes, in Kingsland Road, Hoxton, on Sunday March 9th, 2025. You will hear a line-up of specially selected poets:
Harry Gilonis
Khaled Hakim
Elizabeth James
Frances Presley
David Rees
Simon Smith
The café is near the junction with Old Street.
The gig is on a Sunday, and the trains stop earlier on a Sunday. This is why Xing the Line has an early start, 6 pm. “Doors at 6pm for a 7pm start. £5”.
The reading will probably wind up soon after 9.30. Then we will probably hang in the Jaguar Shoes bar.
"This is a generational anthology and a once in a generation anthology.
-editors
Where does the first generation of British underground poetry end and the second begin? Really, of course, there's too much overlap to create periods of this sort. You can only have an arbitrary cut-off according to date or publication of a previously considered anthological volume. [T]hey've chosen two dates, 1980 and 1994, as publishing boundary markers for those included in Arcadian Rustbelt. Although describing this as a ‘crude measure’, Duncan and Goodby’s implication is that poets also need to be formally innovative, or at least radical in some way, to have hope of inclusion. Furthermore, they speak of a type of poetry that has been disappeared by gatekeepers they are chary of naming. This means ‘if you're indicted, you're invited’. It is also hoped that a book like this will not define itself into a backwater but will lead to other books, just as David Rees's high street [on the cover], with its boarded up shops and greasy, much dug-over tarmac, will allow for travel out of that deprived zone into other perhaps more fruitful areas.
- David Hackbridge Johnson"
Harry Gilonis
Khaled Hakim
Elizabeth James
Frances Presley
David Rees
Simon Smith
The café is near the junction with Old Street.
The gig is on a Sunday, and the trains stop earlier on a Sunday. This is why Xing the Line has an early start, 6 pm. “Doors at 6pm for a 7pm start. £5”.
The reading will probably wind up soon after 9.30. Then we will probably hang in the Jaguar Shoes bar.
"This is a generational anthology and a once in a generation anthology.
-editors
Where does the first generation of British underground poetry end and the second begin? Really, of course, there's too much overlap to create periods of this sort. You can only have an arbitrary cut-off according to date or publication of a previously considered anthological volume. [T]hey've chosen two dates, 1980 and 1994, as publishing boundary markers for those included in Arcadian Rustbelt. Although describing this as a ‘crude measure’, Duncan and Goodby’s implication is that poets also need to be formally innovative, or at least radical in some way, to have hope of inclusion. Furthermore, they speak of a type of poetry that has been disappeared by gatekeepers they are chary of naming. This means ‘if you're indicted, you're invited’. It is also hoped that a book like this will not define itself into a backwater but will lead to other books, just as David Rees's high street [on the cover], with its boarded up shops and greasy, much dug-over tarmac, will allow for travel out of that deprived zone into other perhaps more fruitful areas.
- David Hackbridge Johnson"
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