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WELCOME TO GISTS AND PITHS

A Japanese poetry student of Ezra Pound's, on being asked what makes a poem, responded "It should contain gists and piths."

Gists and Piths is a blog dedicated to the discussion and publication of contemporary poetry. Here you'll find book reviews, poetry news, original poetry, manifestoes, articles and much more.

Anyone interested in contributing work - poems, reviews, articles and opinion pieces - please see our submission guidelines here.

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WHERE MY EYES GO

Raw Light

RNA Blog Interview - I've been interviewed today on the Romantic Novelists Association blog, largely about my forthcoming novel The Queen's Secret - published under the pseud...
3 hours ago
Ictus

szymborska obit - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/02/wislawa-szymborska?newsfeed=true
21 hours ago
Polyolbion

Introducing Lizzy Dening... - I previously knew Nasty Little Press solely through having reviewed one of their chapbooks - Martin Figura's *Boring The Arse Off Young People* - for Sphin...
1 day ago
Eyewear

100 Best Living British Poets: #80 JOHN FULLER - John Fuller #80
1 day ago
Intercapillary Space

The Divided Line: Jan 2012 - Running through the *incognito of every lived instant* in a poem. Without image, without strategy. BOOK REVIEWS [#] Rhys Trimble, Mynydd (Hafan Books) [...
2 days ago
Cut Out and Keep

A week at the flicks - Hello! I hope you're well. Sorry I haven't seen much of you this week, but I have been to the cinema twice. Watching films at the cinema costs skywards o...
1 week ago
War Poetry

Keith Douglas Redivivus - 'Ted did a beautiful [BBC] programme on a marvelous young British poet, Keith Douglas, killed in the last war... Both of us mourn this poet immensely and f...
1 week ago
this is yogic

The New Market - YOU ARE NOW ON PRIVATE PROPERTY reads the flimsy A-frame at the Western edge of Spitalfields. A formless winter sun splits the Church in two. And so I ente...
2 weeks ago
Litterbug

- On Saturday I met with Clive Allen and Adrian Buckner in a cafe on the campus of Nottingham University. The meeting was one of our regular ones at which...
1 month ago

WHAT'S GOING ON

38 Degrees
Amnesty International
Avaaz
Greenpeace
Hope Not Hate
Liberty
One Voice Movement
Our World Our Say
The Permaculture Association

MAGAZINES, E-ZINES, BLOGS, AUTHORS

POETRY PRESSES

@las Press
Ahadada Books
Cinnamon Press
Copper Canyon Press
Exact Change: Classics of Experimental Literature
Five Seasons Press
Flarestack Poets
Flarestack Press
Leafe Press
Nine Arches Press
Oystercatcher Press
Parthian Books
Penned in the Margins
Perdika Press
Salt Publishing
Shearsman Books
Skysill Press
Tall Lighthouse Books
West House Books
Worple Press

POETRY ARCHIVES

Archive of the Now
Carcanet's Audio Archive
Electronic Poetry Center
Modern American Poetry
PennSound - University of Pennsylvania Poetry Recordings
Poetry Magazines
Selby's List
The Poetry Archive

PLACES OF INTEREST

A Humument
Amateur - Peter Blegvad's Site
David Lynch's Interview Project
Gerry Loose's Homepage
Marjorie Perloff
Modern Poetry
Poems That Go
Poetry Library
Poetry Society
Poets on Fire - Live Poetry News
Robert Grenier's Sentences
The Hooting Yard
Tom Phillips
Ubuweb

THE PAST CONTINUES TO HAUNT US

▼ 2011 (47)
- ▼ December (3)
- ► November (9)
- ► August (5)
- ► July (3)
- ► June (1)
  - Getting Shifty
- ► May (10)
- ► April (13)
- ► March (1)
  - Simon Turner - Recent Activities
- ► February (1)
  - Because we know you don't come here for Zeitgeist
- ► January (1)
  - George Ttoouli - Suspended Sentence

► 2010 (32)
- ► December (9)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (1)
- ► June (2)
- ► May (11)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (1)

► 2009 (108)
- ► December (11)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (22)
- ► September (14)
- ► August (5)
- ► July (3)
- ► June (8)
- ► May (10)
- ► April (12)
- ► March (16)
- ► February (2)
- ► January (2)

► 2008 (73)
- ► December (8)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (8)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (9)
- ► July (6)
- ► June (7)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (7)
- ► March (8)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (4)

► 2007 (37)
- ► December (1)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (8)
- ► September (2)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (1)
- ► June (4)
- ► May (5)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (9)

A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED

Aggressive Interview Alan Baker Alasdair Paterson Alex Pryce Alistair Noon Andrew Bailey Andrew Taylor Andy Webb Articles Basho Basil Bunting Award Bird Poems Borges Brian Turner Cack-handed attempts at satire Carol Ann Duffy Carrie Etter Catherine Hales Cecil Day-Lewis Censorship Charles Johnson Chris McCabe Chris Mlalazi Chris Torrance Christian Bok Claire Trevien Cliff Yates Close Readings Conversations Critics David Gascoyne David Lynch David Morley Elisabeth Bletsoe Emily Hasler Eric Gregory Winners Errr... Feminism Flarestack Poets Fragments Freedom on the internet Generation Txt Gerry Loose Herbert Read Horizon Review Interior Traces Jacqui Rowe James Brookes James Wilkes Jane Commane Jane Holland Janet Sutherland JG Ballard John Berger Jon Ware Leafe Press Lee Harwood Likestarlings Luke Kennard Mainstream vs Avant Garde manifestos Marginal Notes Marjorie Perloff Mark Goodwin Martin Green Matt Merritt Matt Nunn Memoir Memos to Self Michael McKimm Midlands Poetry Series Milorad Krystanovich Modernism Nathan Thompson Nine Arches Press penned in the margins Poems Poetics Postmodernism Prunella Clough Radio 4 Resonance FM Reviews Ron Silliman Rupert Loydell Salt Sean O'Brien Self-reflctive conversations with previous blog posts Shameless Plugging for Friends and Associates Statements of Intent Submissions Surrealism Ted Hughes The Book of Random Access The Lammas Lands Thor Unfinished Reviews Valzhyna Mort Visual Poetry War poetry Zimbabwe Zoë Brigley