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PUBLICATIONS
Recent work is included in This Line is Not for Turning: An Anthology of British Prose Poetry
(edited by Jane Monsoon, published by Cinnamon Press), in Poetry Wales (Voume 47, Number 2, edited by Zoë Skoulding), in Pinstripe Fedora (Issue 9, edited by Jane Nakagawa, available here), and in Alan Baker's Litter.
My second book, Shifting Registers, was published by Shearsman in April 2011. Details can be found here on the publisher website.
'The mystery and sadness of empty rooms,
chance encounters in the street, trains traveling through a landscape of snow become magical in Ian Seed's poems... '—
John Ashbery
'A hazy lyrical ambiance jostles with a more abstract,
mathematical quality [...] endlessly elusive yet filled with charm and promise' — Steve Spence, Stride magazine.
'The disfigured face and the beloved face, for Seed, are one'— Virginia
Konchan, Intercapillary Space. See full review here.
'....there’s
literature of value here, ideas worth rolling around in the tired grey matter upstairs; bringing both light and shadow, blending
them, making you nervous'— Joe Downes, Lancaster In Review.
Other recent work:
Amore mio, a short story is published by
Flax as a Kindle Ebook. It can be purchased here.
‘A deft, honest and sometime uncomfortable story of a
relationship growing beyond its first flush. Ian Seed conveys disappointment and betrayal in a compulsive story that is sharp,
dry and perfectly shaped. I wanted to look away, but needed to know what was going to happen. A beautifully balanced, compassionate
short story.'—Sarah Hymas.
the straw which comes apart, a translation from the poems of Ivano Fermini, is published by Oystercatcher Press. Click here for more information.
'Magnificent translation' —Milo
de Angelis.
My first
full-length collection of poems, Anonymous Intruder, was published by Shearsman Books in 2009.
Excerpts
from reviews:
'These poems and prose poems are full of atmosphere, fractured stories and suggestive directions'.
Steven Waling, The North.
'...the voices and landscapes in Anonymous Intruder are both elusive
and yet hauntingly present'. Paul Wright, Writing in Education.
'...beauty, in Seed’s debut,
never loses its power, and is everywhere pressing, active.' Virginia Konchan, Jacket Magazine.
'The movement of the book and of its constituent pieces is towards the music and the light, and away from the apparent
security of the closed, the static and the fossilised.' Peter Hughes, Intercapillary Space.
'I
keep returning to this text, and I feel that these are poems I'll live with over time, which is a good recommendation
for any book.' Alan Baker, Litter.
'The Anonymous Intruder is a marvellous masterly book
of poems.' Rupert Mallin, textVISUAL.
'The feeling of being seduced into taking a series of atoms
as a whole is strangely pleasurable.' Tony Williams.
Some complete reviews can be found at the links
below:
JacketIntercapillary SpaceRupert MallinLeafe PressStrideTony Williams
Poems, fiction, reviews and translations (from French,
Italian and Polish) have appeared in such publications as The Argotist Online, Blackbox Manifold, The Cafe Irreal, Dream Catcher,
Dwang, Fin, Foam:e, Flax Books (Lancaster litfest), Free Verse, Great Works, Litter, nth position, The Other Side of the Ragged
Edge, The Penniless Press, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride, textVISUAL, Tears in the Fence
and Word f/word.
Ian Seed is a member of the Sixfold Poet group.
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