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European Southeast Asia Encounters with Islamic Expansionism, circa 1500–1700: Comparative Case Studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin in the Wider Indian Ocean Context
Authors: Hall Kenneth R.
Published: May 2015

This paper addresses the importance of commercial expansionism and cultural exchange in maritime Southeast Asia as both were foundational to Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British encounters with Islamic traders and regional ports of trade circa 1500–1700. Portuguese conquest of the Islamic sultanate of Melaka in 1511 and their subsequent imposition of restrictions on Straits of Melaka transit set in motion the relocations of numbers of multiethnic Islamic, South Asian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian traders and seafarers to emerging regional Islamic and Buddhist ports of trade. Local conversions to Islam and alternative developments of networked Buddhist institutions paired with that era’s economic and political opportunities in support of functional regional polities (represented in case studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin), which negated initial European East India Company ambitions to dominate regional trade.
The Perception of Reception: The Importance of Sir Thomas Roe at the Mughal Court of Jahangir
Authors: Chida-Razvi Mehreen M.
Published: May 2015

Sir Thomas Roe, sent as an official ambassador from King James I of England to the Mughal court of Jahangir in 1615, was a prolific writer during his time in the Mughal Empire. In Roe’s writings, he vividly portrays the importance he associated with his position as a royal ambassador, the stress he placed on his position at the Mughal court, and the self-perceived intimacy of his relationship with Jahangir. By examining Roe’s journal and letters, the contemporary autobiographical memoirs of Emperor Jahangir, and significant examples of contemporary Mughal painting, this article will investigate the reasons for Roe’s self-perceived importance to Jahangir, and Jahangir’s corresponding take on Roe and England. It will conclude that while Roe purposefully projected an image of self-importance at the Mughal court in his writings to enhance his status in England, his perceived reception by Jahangir was not the reality of the situation. Roe’s time at Jahangir’s court did not enhance the political status of England within the Mughal Empire; instead, his embassy served to increase the span of Jahangir’s visual imagery of power.
Reviving the Reconquista in Southeast Asia: Moros and the Making of the Philippines, 1565–1662
Authors: Hawkley Ethan P.
Published: May 2015

In medieval times, Christians on the Iberian peninsula fought wars to expel Muslim rulers from Europe. This protracted conflict, known as the Reconquista, was concluded in 1492 when the last of the Muslim rulers surrendered. Less than a hundred years later, in 1565, the Spanish Empire’s conquering impulse had carried it across two oceans into Southeast Asia, where Christian Spaniards, once again, confronted and fought against Islam. Though there are distinct differences between these two Christian-Muslim conflicts, there are also important similarities. As the Reconquista had done in Spain, Christian-Muslim conflicts in the Philippines—known as the Moro Wars—shaped local perceptions of Islam, established political and cultural boundaries, and attached personal loyalties to one or the other of these two global religions. This paper analyzes this process by focusing on two Christian conquests of Moros. The first of these was the conquest of Manila. When the Spanish arrived, Manila was a developing Moro settlement with ties to Islamic rulers on Borneo, Mindanao, and Jolo. Over several decades the Spanish gradually coopted Moro authority in Manila, and then finally expelled it through the prosecution of several conspirators involved in the Tondo conspiracy. This conquest established the political and cultural center of the colony and its emerging multiethnic colonial community. The second conquest happened on Min danao. Unlike the conquest of Manila, the conquest of Mindanao was never completed. Though the Spanish colony won several battles, Moro authority continued to thrive in the region. By focusing on the triumphal entry of a Spanish army following one of these victories, this paper shows how the constant Christian-Muslim conflict reaffirmed and gave personal meaning to the boundaries separating the Moros and the Christians in the archipelago. Together these two different conquests demonstrate how the revival of the Reconquista contributed to the creation of the Philippine colony.
The Cartography of Herman Moll and European Views of Muslim South Asia, 1700–1730
Authors: Zukas Alexander M.
Published: May 2015

This paper will discuss the work of the premier British cartographer of the early eighteenth century, Herman Moll, and his depictions and descriptions of the Muslim areas of South Asia (Mughal India and the Indonesian archipelago in particular). Moll was a strong proponent and propagandist of British overseas expansion, South Asia being one area of particular interest to him. His maps disseminated and popularized information and perspectives brought back by European merchants, travelers, and pirates and were meant to be purchased by (mainly) British merchants, elites, and wealthy commoners interested in understanding Muslim Asia and the opportunities and challenges for British economic and political interests in that part of the world. Moll’s visual and graphic vocabulary highlighted European commercial and political contact with the societies and empires of South Asia. His maps functioned as strategic documents about British engagement with Muslim South Asia and showed the possibilities and limits of significant cross-cultural encounters during his active cartographic period (ca. 1700 to ca. 1730), a time when an emerging British Empire encountered well-developed indigenous empires in South Asia.
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals”: Mappila Muslims and Legal Encounters in Early British Colonial Malabar
Authors: Abraham Santhosh
Published: May 2015

The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminals,” “robbers,” “rebels,” “docile Hindus,” “fanatic Muslims,” “untrustworthy Arabs,” and so on. Such nomenclatures were invented to describe how those groups reacted against the colonial invasion and were an important tool in delegitimizing such local uprisings. The discourses to label the non-Western population as inherently dangerous in the colony were also to alleviate its own fears and anxieties. An array of colonial scholars have worked on the making of criminal communities and groups in northern India through the discourse of race, caste, and tribe, especially Thuggees and Sansis, who were known for their perceived criminal propensities. Most studies on native criminality in colonial India have focused on the mid or late nineteenth century, with special reference to the ways and reasons by which the native tribes, peasants, and groups were labeled “criminals” by the colonial state. This paper looks into the ways in which “native criminality” was perceived during the early days of British rule in India, with special reference to the British rule in Malabar, where the colonial state maneuvered to classify certain sections of the Malabar population as distinct from the rest.
Bad Bread and the “Outrageous Drunkenness of the Turks”: Food and Identity in the Accounts of Early Modern European Travelers to the Ottoman Empire
Authors: Dursteler Eric R.
Published: May 2015

During the early modern era foodways were an important signifier of identity. This is evident in the extensive body of literature produced by the growing number of Europeans who ventured into the Mediterranean, especially the lands of the Ottoman Empire. These travelers commented at length on the foods they encountered, their preparation, and how they were consumed. They drew on widely known classical models, as well as their own familiar foodways, to produce culinary geographies that delineated stark boundaries between East and West, Islam and Christianity, and that inscribed alterity and barbarity onto Ottoman culture. Ottomans ate undercooked bread, adulterated with seeds and spices, and meat prepared in an unrefined fashion that was barely removed from its natural state. They consumed this food while seated on the ground and without the benefit of civilized utensils, and hypocritically washed it all down with large quantities of wine. In the early modern Mediterranean world who you were was defined, at least partly, by what you ate and how you ate it.
Melville’s Chimney: Queer Syntax and the Rhetoric of Architecture
Authors: Simonsen Rasmus R.
Published: May 2015

This essay explores the connection between architectural tropes and sexual rhetoric in Melville’s short story “I and My Chimney.” The argument focuses on the inversion of conventional hierarchies such as top/bottom, straight/crooked, masculine/feminine, and natural/depraved. These inversions are all centered on the massive chimney of the story, guiding the rhetorical redistribution of unspoken queer desire through inverted parallels and a preoccupation with all things “backwards.” The trope of verticality combines with Melville’s use of different back-turning syntactical devices, such as periodic sentences and hypotaxis, to disrupt the forward motion of the plot. An analysis of rhetorical schemes such as polyptoton further reveals how Melville’s linguistic confusions disrupt the sexual hierarchy of phallus and anus to an extent that compels us to reconsider the phallo-centrism that Melville critics have argued is more or less universal to his style. The “backwardness” of Melville’s rhetoric expresses an inexpressible desire that can only be represented by a prose style turned against itself, which mimics the narrator’s resistance towards normative living arrangements of the mid-nineteenth century.
Of Tombs and Wombs, or, The Whale, Part III
Authors: Moe Peter Wayne
Published: May 2015

The image of a human stuck in the belly of a whale has currency. It recirculates through Jonah, medieval poetry and art, Pinocchio , a handful of Batman comics, a Bruce Springsteen song, yarns from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century whalers––among other places––and, of course, Melville’s Moby-Dick . This essay is two-stranded. To account for why the Jonah trope has such resonance, I first follow the narrative of ingestion by, in utero entombment within, and deliverance from a whale, this narrative appearing in a wide range of texts. I then consider Jonah’s “rhetorical velocity,” the frequent repurposing and retelling of his narrative, in order to speak to the interplay between, and malleability of, metaphor, narrative, and the belly of the whale.
A Midrash on Melville: Recalling Ishmael, Esau, and Jacob from Lives of Exile, Estrangement, and Entanglement
Authors: Gellman Jonathan S.
Published: May 2015

This essay uses interpretive techniques and conclusions from rabbinic midrash and John Calvin’s biblical commentaries to fathom and follow the course of biblical allusions in Father Mapple’s sermon and its chapel setting in Moby-Dick and through Pierre, The Confidence-Man, Clarel , and the poem “Art.” In midrash, both plain meaning and intuitive readings are used to bridge textual gaps and contextual differences and to project authorial purpose. Melville’s layered imagery is susceptible to such midrashic interpretive methods. In particular, Melville uses Jacob’s flight, deceit, and dreaming respectively to explore how striving, inconsistency, and the synthesis of contrary traits shape literary character. Despite their differences, Melville’s works and midrash both employ sermons, exegesis, and exemplary narrative and engage reason, imagination, and spirituality. These resources are harnessed to serve similar aims: confronting and reconciling the complexity of character and experience, revealing hidden truths, and pursuing transcendent purpose.
The Bachelor and the Orphan
Authors: Reed Christian
Published: May 2015

Redburn tells two stories at once. One is about an orphan, seeking himself in a world his father could not have imagined; the other is about a bachelor, the novel’s retrospective narrator, studying his lack of a desire for such conventions as marriage and fathering. Sometimes these two stories bolster one another; other times one bluffs or buries a secret on the other’s behalf. This essay explores the pleasures and enigmas of this queer dynamic. First, I examine the young Red-burn according to his attachments to other people and potential futures. Then I track the bachelor narrator’s adventure through four styles as he searches for one adequate to express his desire, or its apparent absence. Finally, I find that orphan and bachelor Redburns converge in a passage where another orphan, and an early lover named Harry Bolton, is called “my zebra.” Jacques Lacan’s exposition of metaphor is no less crucial to the argument than Peter Parley’s account of “Hunting the Zebra.” A concluding section of the essay defends the novel’s often disparaged ending, in which Harry’s end stands in for Redburn ’s.
Le monde des spectacles dans la ville du futur: Comment s’évader d’une société positiviste?
Authors: Barel-Moisan Claire
Published: May 2015

In his two main futuristic novels, Le Vingtième Siècle (1883) and La Vie électrique (1890), Albert Robida presents a dystopian society ruled by individualism, industrialism, and the search for profit. In this technological world, positivist values seem to reign while humanities appear as largely despised. Through the means of anticipation, Robida gives an acute satire of his historical moment. The present article considers the central importance of spectacles in Robida’s futuristic society: both their ideological function and their eventual use by future citizens as a means of evasion, a means to experience the freedom of aesthetic pleasure. Thanks to the “téléphonoscope,” plays, operas, concerts and ballets enter each citizen’s daily life, but a closer look at the plays’ aesthetics and their industrialist production shows that they are very much a part of this consumer society. Far from providing an escape, futuristic spectacles are truly incarnations of society’s values. The logic of spectacularization and advertising thus extends to the whole society, mirroring the situation of the writer himself. (In French)
“Quand arrivera la guerre de demain—Bientôt, je veux l’espérer”: Récits de guerre future, généricité et discours social
Authors: Letourneux Matthieu
Published: May 2015

During the French Third Republic, a genre of stories arose that recounted imaginary international conflicts—what one might call “future war” novels. These works draw on other, closely related series organized by genre or by type of media production: revenge tales, Alsatian stories, fiction for children, scientific adventure stories, etc. But these “future war” novels also interact with non-narrative texts: strategic fictions, journalistic articles, military, historical and geographical books, and more. Each author redefines the genre of “future war” novels by negotiating among these different media and generic sources in his own way. With our analysis of the “future war” stories, we seek to demonstrate how a popular genre must be considered in its historical context. The specific practice of communication engages the text in its relationship with the genre- or media-based series to which it belongs, but this serial relationship is defined in its interaction with the other series that resemble it. (In French)
The Epistemology of the Parrot
Authors: Penteado Bruno
Published: May 2015

This article presents a reading of “Un cœur simple” from a perspective that brings together the philosophy of stupidity, the animal, and religion. Focusing on the links between stupidity and irony, it proposes that Félicité’s fusion of God and the parrot implies a hermeneutical grid that sees religion as parrotry, insofar as her transcendence depends upon the idea of God as purveyor of non-referential language. In “Un cœur simple,” irony operates within the problem that a judgment of stupidity poses: judging someone stupid becomes a stupid judgment.
Une évasion paradoxale: Le fantastique de John-Antoine Nau
Authors: Chassay Jean-François
Published: May 2015

Force ennemie , a novel by John-Antoine Nau published in 1903, was the first recipient of the Prix Concourt. The story’s main character, Philippe Veuly, wakes up one morning to discover that he is in an unfamiliar bedroom. He then learns that, in fact, he has been in an asylum for two weeks, but he doesn’t know why. Gradually, he feels inhabited by a strange force beyond his control: a force that appears to be an extraterrestrial who has taken refuge in him. Veuly escapes from the asylum and looks for a woman with whom he fell in love, all the while still carrying the creature. Is it really an alien force? Or is Veuly’s mind deeply disturbed? Nau’s novel occupies an uncertain and evocative state, at once a work of science fiction, a tale of the fantastic, a psychological investigation, and a sociological commentary. (In French)
L’économie mallarméenne de la gloire
Authors: Thériault Patrick
Published: May 2015

Beyond its officially epideictic purpose, Rodenbach’s sonnet “Pour la gloire de Mallarmé” (1897) offers a probing commentary on what can be seen as the Mallarméan economy of glory. It calls for a reflection on certain aspects of Mallarmé’s persona and social scenography, which may have facilitated the glorious inscription of his name in the literary landscape of his time and in the history of modern literature. Conversely, turning to a textual dimension, it draws attention to the rhetorical and hermeneutic motivations of this economy; it suggests that a strategy of self-fetishization, similar to that which the poet deploys in the social space, is at work in his rhetoric, in his way of appearing or disappearing as a subject of enunciation. It is this Mallarméan economy of glory that I intend to explore in both its institutional and textual dimensions. To do so, the close reading that I propose will focus on the image of the relic that represents the symbolic core of Rodenbach’s poem. (In French)
La robinsonnade d’anticipation: Sur une forme composite et ses péripéties
Authors: Stiénon Valérie
Published: May 2015

In nineteenth-century French literature, adventure novels and futuristic fictions share various narrative and thematic features which generate an extensive set of “science fiction adventure” novels that have not attracted much critical attention to date. However, such hybrid narratives lead us to reconsider a certain kind of futuristic fiction as it is defined as much by a geographical shift as by time travel. The particular and prolific case of the robinsonnade , regarded as a pivotal subgenre of adventure, facilitates highlighting such generic interferences. This paper examines four novels related either to utopian travel literature or to Jules Verne’s literary and editorial paradigm of the “voyages extraordinaires” in order to shed light on the dynamics framing the earliest forms of science fiction built on the topic of remote, flying, or spatial island. (In French)
Introduction
Authors: Barel-Moisan Claire
Published: May 2015

Tout marche, tout grandit, tout s’augmente autour de nous […]. La science fait des prodiges, l’industrie accomplit des miracles, et nous restons impassibles, insensibles, méprisables, grattant les cordes faussées de nos lyres, fermant les yeux pour ne pas voir, ou nous obstinant à regarder vers un passé que rien ne doit nous faire regretter. On découvre la vapeur, nous chantons Vénus, fille de l’onde amère; on découvre l’électricité, nous chantons Bacchus, ami de la grappe vermeille. C’est absurde! ()
Tentatives d’évasion?: Jules Verne, des topoï réalistes à la recherche d’un genre nouveau
Authors: Couleau Christèle
Published: May 2015

There is no shortage of flights and evasions in Jules Verne’s novels. The most spectacular of these is undoubtedly that of the novelistic writing itself, which quickly deviates from the conventions formed most notably by Balzac. In between a confirmation of literary heritage and a desire for emancipation from the same, the writing of Paris au XX e siècle and Cinq semaines en ballon bears witness to Verne’s renegotiation of the realist rulebook at the beginning of his career as a novelist. Through a tripartite displacement of the realist narrative towards the extraordinary, the scientific, and the spaces abroad, Verne found his own vein. (In French)
Fuir l’exotisme: l’“aventure nostalgique” du merveilleux-scientifique français
Authors: Bréan Simon
Published: May 2015

Novels belonging to the “merveilleux-scientifique”—a category that Maurice Renard applied to Wells’ heirs in French literature—turn exotic journeys to outer space into “nostalgic adventures,” in which heroes, portrayed as victims, are abducted by unknown forces and baffled by whatever they find, far from home. While characters fight for survival in hostile environments such as Mars, Mercury, and the planet’s upper atmosphere, and against vile and murderous creatures embodying the Other in its most repellant aspects, novels by Maurice Renard, Jean de La Hire, or Gustave Le Rouge provide the reader with a sense of adventure laced with anguish at the prospect of what lies in the unknown reaches of the universe: dangerous wonders humbling both scientists and would-be conquerors. (In French)
Out of line
Authors: Dharker Imtiaz
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Psalm
Authors: Laux Dorianne
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Some Tentative Definitions: “B”
Authors: Sam-La Rose Jacob
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Motherbird
Authors: Alvi Moniza
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Stone Trees
Authors: Groarke Vona
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Yes I admit that I have ate, and: You know that intermingled time of night and day
Authors: Waldron Mark
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Envoi
Authors: Howe Sarah
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
A Courtship
Authors: Rees-Jones Deryn
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Real Estate
Authors: Adcock Fleur
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Meditations on Yellow
Authors: Fainlight Ruth
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Thirsting
Authors: McCannon Olivia
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
In Passing
Authors: Stevenson Anne
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Down into St. Cuthbert’s Swallet
Authors: Borodale Sean
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
The Willow Forest
Authors: Ormsby Frank
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Fluctuations of Going
Authors: Lewis Gwyneth
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Mermaids, and: Her Blue Body Full of Light
Authors: Shire Warsan
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Introduction
Authors: Astley Neil
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
White Lightning
Authors: Andrews Nin
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Heartland
Authors: Gross Philip
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Murmuration
Authors: Mort Helen
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Etching, drypoint
Authors: Warner Ahren
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Bunny
Authors: Collins Sophie
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
All De Doo-Dah Day
Authors: Hudgins Andrew
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
A Debate
Authors: Agard John
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
The Snow Queen
Authors: Feaver Vicki
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Encounters with Dust
Authors: McGuckian Medbh
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Stars
Authors: Stoddart Greta
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
The Breathing
Authors: Boruch Marianne
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Lobo-Lobo, and: Swimming Chickens
Authors: Hill Selima
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Tobacco
Authors: Lleshanaku Luljeta
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
A Note from the Poetry Editor
Authors: Skoyles John
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
New Orleans Dithyramb
Authors: Hamby Barbara
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Laying the Fire
Authors: Motion Andrew
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
The Lady on the Lid, and: Côté coeur
Authors: Constantine David
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Night Steps
Authors: Jackson Major
Published: May 2015

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down “the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.