Robert Hampson was Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now a Research Fellow in the Institute for English Studies, University of London, where he co-organises the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar (with Amy Evans Bauer). His publications include New British poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester University Press, 1993), with Peter Barry; Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool University Press, 2010) with Will Montgomery; and Clasp: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s (Shearsman, 2016) with Ken Edwards. His own poetry publications include Seaport (Shearsman, 2008), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), and re-worked disasters (kfs, 2012), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize.

• Introduction (Robert Hampson)Chapter 1: Siting Place (Will Rowe)Chapter 2: Toward Health (Pierre Joris)Chapter 3: Start Place in Flux (Redell Olsen)Chapter 4: The poet, the document and the documentary (cris cheek)Chapter 5: Chreods, Catastrophes (Steven Hitchins)Chapter 6: Fractalising the Front Line (Will Montgomery)Chapter 7: Apocalypse Then (Robert Sheppard)Chapter 8: Reading 'Mummers' Strut' (Scott Thurston)Chapter 9: Lines of Flight (Clive Bush)Chapter 10: The New Complexity (Pierre Joris)Chapter 11: Artefactu(r)al Logic in Allen Fisher's SPUTTOR (Calum Hazell)Chapter 12: Imperfect Fit (Allen Fisher, Paige Mitchell, Shamoon Zamir)Chapter 13: Philly Talks (Allen Fisher, Karen Mac Cormack et al.)

Robert Hampson was Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now a Research Fellow in the Institute for English Studies, University of London, where he co-organises the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar (with Amy Evans Bauer). His publications include New British poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester University Press, 1993), with Peter Barry; Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool University Press, 2010) with Will Montgomery; and Clasp: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s (Shearsman, 2016) with Ken Edwards. His own poetry publications include Seaport (Shearsman, 2008), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), and re-worked disasters (kfs, 2012), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize.

• Introduction (Robert Hampson)Chapter 1: Siting Place (Will Rowe)Chapter 2: Toward Health (Pierre Joris)Chapter 3: Start Place in Flux (Redell Olsen)Chapter 4: The poet, the document and the documentary (cris cheek)Chapter 5: Chreods, Catastrophes (Steven Hitchins)Chapter 6: Fractalising the Front Line (Will Montgomery)Chapter 7: Apocalypse Then (Robert Sheppard)Chapter 8: Reading 'Mummers' Strut' (Scott Thurston)Chapter 9: Lines of Flight (Clive Bush)Chapter 10: The New Complexity (Pierre Joris)Chapter 11: Artefactu(r)al Logic in Allen Fisher's SPUTTOR (Calum Hazell)Chapter 12: Imperfect Fit (Allen Fisher, Paige Mitchell, Shamoon Zamir)Chapter 13: Philly Talks (Allen Fisher, Karen Mac Cormack et al.)

Robert Hampson was Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now a Research Fellow in the Institute for English Studies, University of London, where he co-organises the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar (with Amy Evans Bauer). His publications include New British poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester University Press, 1993), with Peter Barry; Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool University Press, 2010) with Will Montgomery; and Clasp: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s (Shearsman, 2016) with Ken Edwards. His own poetry publications include Seaport (Shearsman, 2008), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), and re-worked disasters (kfs, 2012), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize.

• Introduction (Robert Hampson)Chapter 1: Siting Place (Will Rowe)Chapter 2: Toward Health (Pierre Joris)Chapter 3: Start Place in Flux (Redell Olsen)Chapter 4: The poet, the document and the documentary (cris cheek)Chapter 5: Chreods, Catastrophes (Steven Hitchins)Chapter 6: Fractalising the Front Line (Will Montgomery)Chapter 7: Apocalypse Then (Robert Sheppard)Chapter 8: Reading 'Mummers' Strut' (Scott Thurston)Chapter 9: Lines of Flight (Clive Bush)Chapter 10: The New Complexity (Pierre Joris)Chapter 11: Artefactu(r)al Logic in Allen Fisher's SPUTTOR (Calum Hazell)Chapter 12: Imperfect Fit (Allen Fisher, Paige Mitchell, Shamoon Zamir)Chapter 13: Philly Talks (Allen Fisher, Karen Mac Cormack et al.)