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| '''Sean Noel Bonney''' (21 May 1969 – 13 November 2019) was an English poet born in ] and brought up in the north of ]. He lived in ] and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in ].<ref name="pf2019">{{cite web |last1=Staff |first1=Harriet |title=RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019) |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/11/rip-sean-bonney-1969-2019 |website=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=22 November 2019}}</ref> He was married to the poet ].<ref name="pf2020">{{cite web |title=Sean Bonney |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sean-bonney |website=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref> ] published poet William Rowe's obituary for Bonney in US online magazine ''Jacket2'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jacket2.org/commentary/sean-bonney-william-rowe|title=Sean Bonney (1969–2019) by William Rowe | Jacket2}}</ref> as well as releasing his own poem "The Death of Sean Bonney."<ref>{{cite web|last=Bernstein|first=Charles|title=The Death of Sean Bonney|website=Chicago Review|URL=https://www.chicagoreview.org/the-death-of-sean-bonney/|date=4 February 2020}}</ref> Detailed notes to Bonney's ] by Jacob Bard-Rosenberg are featured on the ] website.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2019/12/jacob-bard-rosenberg-on-sean-bonneys-writing-one-of-the-most-important-political-efforts-of-our-time | title=Jacob Bard-Rosenberg on Sean Bonney's Writing: 'One of the most important political efforts of our time' by Harriet Staff | date=27 December 2022 }}</ref> ''The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry'' has published a special edition on Bonney.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://poetry.openlibhums.org/collections/398/ | title=Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry | Collection }}</ref> | |||
| His publications include ''Blade Pitch Control Unit'' (2005), ''Baudelaire in English'' (2008), ''Document'' (2009), ''The Commons'' (2011), ''Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud'' (2011), ''Letters Against the Firmament'' (2015), and ''Our Death'' (2019). | |||
| '''Sean Noel Bonney''' (May 21, 1969 – November 13, 2019) was an English poet born in ] and brought up in the north of ]. He lived in London and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in Berlin.<ref name="pf2019">{{cite web |last1=Staff |first1=Harriet |title=RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019) |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/11/rip-sean-bonney-1969-2019 |website=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=22 November 2019}}</ref> He was married to the poet ].<ref name="pf2020">{{cite web |title=Sean Bonney |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sean-bonney |website=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref> | |||
| His publications include ''Blade Pitch Control Unit'' (2005), ''Baudelaire in English'' (2008), ''Document'' (2009), ''The Commons'' (2011), ''Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud'' (2011), ''Letters Against the Firmament'' (2015), and ''Our Death'' (2019). His work also appeared widely in print and online magazines associated with small press poetry and political activism, both in the UK and internationally (his work was frequently translated into other languages). The American critic and poet Keith Tuma declared that "he deserves to be the most popular poet in Britain",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tuma |first=Keith |url=http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/archive/Bonney_Sean.html |title=Sean Bonney (January 2007) |website=Meshworks: the Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance |access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref> and Bonney's work was widely-respected amongst groups of poets, activists and artists in the UK, America, Germany, Greece and elsewhere. | |||
| == Life and work == | == Life and work == | ||
| Together with other UK-based poets, Bonney's work marks a progression and continuance of the ], combining with his abiding interest in left-wing radical movements such as British punk, the ], the ], the American ], Surrealism and revolutionary art in general. Living at various points in Hackney, Hastings and Walthamstow, he was a regular attendee at the ]-led ] workshop, co-founding the reading series Xing the Line with ], and co-editing the press |
Together with other UK-based poets, Bonney's work marks a progression and continuance of the ], combining with his abiding interest in left-wing radical movements such as ], the ], the ], the American ], ] and revolutionary art in general.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://communemag.com/sean-bonney-1969-2019/|title=Sean Bonney, 1969-2019|date=21 April 2020}}</ref> He was am ] activist and ] who joined the ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-07 |title=Our Death: Aspects of the radical in Sean Bonney’s last book of poems |url=https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/feature-our-death-aspects-of-the-radical-in-sean-bonneys-last-book-of-poems/ |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=Overland Literary Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-21 |title=Sean Bonney, 1969-2019 |url=https://communemag.com/sean-bonney-1969-2019/ |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref> Living at various points in ], ] and ], he was a regular attendee at the ]-led ] workshop, co-founding the ] Xing the Line with ], and co-editing the press Yt Communication with ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ytcommunication.blogspot.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626162741/http://ytcommunication.blogspot.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-06-26|title=Yt Communication blog|date=2012-06-26|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref> A sequence of 14 line poems, ''The Commons,'' originally subtitled "A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle' combined contemporary uprisings with the voices of the ], the ], the ] and "the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.openned.com/print/the-commons-sean-bonney.html|title=Openned - Print - The Commons - Sean Bonney|website=openned.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref> | ||
| Following the completion of his PhD from ], from 2015 to 2019 Bonney was a ] at the ] at the ], conducting a project examining the work of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/literature/persons/wimis/Bonney/index.html|title=Sean Bonney|date=2016-03-31|website=jfki.fu-berlin.de|language=de|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref> | |||
| Bonney's next major project was his major sequence of 14 line poems, ''The Commons,'' originally subtitled "A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle', which combined contemporary uprisings with the voices of the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the english Civil War and "the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.openned.com/print/the-commons-sean-bonney.html|title=Openned - Print - The Commons - Sean Bonney|website=www.openned.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref> Like most of his writing since 2006, the poems-in-progress appeared on his blog, ''Abandoned Buildings;'' they were first circulated as PDF by Bonney, and then published as a book by Openned in 2011. The same year, Unkant published Bonney's ''Happiness: Poems after Rimbaud'', a book emerging from his study of Rimbaud's relation to the Paris Commune and his participation in the UK ] of 2010–2011, which immediately followed the election of a ] earlier in 2010. Following a series of "Letters on Poetics", departing from Rimbaud's famous letters to Georges Izambard, Bonney increasingly turned to the letter form: his "Letters on Harmony" and "Letters Against the Firmament", addressed to an unknown, middle-class interlocutor, were eventually collected, along with the newer sequences "Corpus Hermeticum" and "Lamentation", in ''Letters Against the Firmament'' (2015). | |||
| A scholar of revolutionary poetry, particularly that of the ], Bonney undertook a PhD in English at ] on the work of ], supervised by ]. (Elements of this work appear at his blog '''''.) In Autumn 2006, he was a guest lecturer at the ]. In Autumn 2011 he ran a seminar on Poetry and Revolution at the ]. Bonney also played a key role in organising the 2012 Poetry and Revolution conference that took place at Birkbeck, and participated in the 2014 Amiri Baraka conference at the ] in London. His critical work includes articles on Baraka, ] (Grace Lake), and a series of "Notes on Militant Poetics" addressing the work of writers, militants and revolutionaries such as ], ], and ]. Another abiding concern was the relation of politics to music, particularly ] and other forms of ], as well as the work of ]. | |||
| Following the completion of his PhD, from 2015 to 2019 Bonney was a postdoctoral researcher at the ] at the ], conducting a project examining the work of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/literature/persons/wimis/Bonney/index.html|title=Sean Bonney|date=2016-03-31|website=www.jfki.fu-berlin.de|language=de|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref> His poetry during this time was concentrated in two major projects: the sequence ''Cancer: Poems after Katerina Gogou'', a series of poems after the Greek anarchist poet, actor and activist ], and ''Our Death,'' a series of prose poems which included poems after ], ] and others. Excerpts of these sequences appeared in the pamphlets ''Cancer'' (2016) and ''Ghosts'' (2017), and were collected in the book ''Our Death'' (2019), published shortly before Bonney's passing. Bonney's final poems, posted at his blog, ''Abandoned Buildings'', included the series of anti-fascist poems, '''' reactions to the rise of the Far Right across Europe and America, "" and "". | |||
| Bonney died on 13 November 2019 in Berlin.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/11/rip-sean-bonney-1969-2019| title = RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019) by Harriet Staff {{!}} Poetry Foundation| date = 9 February 2022}}</ref><!-- Citation says "tragic accident" and makes no mention of suicide. --> | |||
| ==Books== | ==Books== | ||
| *''London Review Bookshop Samplers, No. 2'', Face Press, 2019. | *''London Review Bookshop Samplers, No. 2'', Face Press, 2019. | ||
| *'''', Commune |
*'''', ]<nowiki/>s, 2019. | ||
| *''Ghosts'', , 2017. | *'''', , 2017. | ||
| *''Cancer: Poems After Katerina Gogou'', A Firm Nigh Holistic Press, 2016. | *''Cancer: Poems After Katerina Gogou'', A Firm Nigh Holistic Press, 2016. | ||
| *, Ill Will Editions (online), 2016. | *, ] (online), 2016. | ||
| *''Letters Against the Firmament'', ], 2015 | *''Letters Against the Firmament'', ], 2015 | ||
| *''Letters: on Harmony'', Iodine Press, 2013 | *''Letters: on Harmony'', Iodine Press, 2013 | ||
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| *'from ''Tracts and Commentaries: A Lecture''<nowiki/>' (in ''Pilot: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry'', 2007) | *'from ''Tracts and Commentaries: A Lecture''<nowiki/>' (in ''Pilot: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry'', 2007) | ||
| *''Black Water'', ], October 2006 | *''Black Water'', ], October 2006 | ||
| *''Document: hexprogress'', |
*''Document: hexprogress'', Yt Communication, May 2006 | ||
| *'''' ], 2005 | *'','' ], 2005 | ||
| *''Poisons, Their Antidotes'', West House Books, 2003 | *''Poisons, Their Antidotes'', West House Books, 2003 | ||
| *''Notes on Heresy'', Writers Forum, 2002 | *''Notes on Heresy'', ], 2002 | ||
| *''The |
*''The Domestic Poem'', Canary Woof, 2001 | ||
| *''From the |
*''From the Book of Living or Dying'', , 1999. | ||
| *''Astrophil and Stella'', Writers Forum, 1999. | *''Astrophil and Stella'', Writers Forum, 1999. | ||
| *''now that all the popstars are dead'', damnation publications, 1996 | *''now that all the popstars are dead'', damnation publications, 1996 | ||
| *''Marijuana in the breadbin'', Doktor Hypno publications, 1992 | *''Marijuana in the breadbin'', Doktor Hypno publications, 1992 | ||
| == External links == | |||
| * (Bonney's blog from 2006-2019, containing most of his poems from this period) | |||
| * (Bonney's additional blog from 2017 to 2019) | |||
| * (Toronto: Test Reading Series, September 2007); NB: this resource contains dead links to mp3s which are independently available on the Internet Archive (see other sections of Bonney's Misplaced Pages page for those links) | |||
| * (Voiceworks, March 2011) | |||
| * | |||
| *Sean Bonney's | |||
| *Sean Bonney's page at | |||
| *Sean Bonney's | |||
| == Critical writing == | |||
| * (notesonbaraka.blogspot.com, July 2019), three essays | |||
| *'That Thing out There', Afterword to ], ''Collected Poems'' (Crater Press, 2017) | |||
| * (Talk, ''Cesura//Acesso'', 2016), (audio of one of the essays published on Bonney's "Round Midnight" blog) | |||
| * (Text of talk given in Berlin, October 2014) | |||
| * (Enclave Review 10, Spring 2014), a longer version of the ICA piece | |||
| * (ICA, 2014) | |||
| * (''Mute'', 2014) (On Blanqui, ], ] and ]) | |||
| * (''Mute'', 2013) (On ]) | |||
| * (''Abandoned Buildings'', 2012-2013) | |||
| *''Tensions between Aesthetic and Political Commitment in the Work of Amiri Baraka'' (PhD dissertation, unpublished, University of London, Birkbeck, 2012) | |||
| * (Sous Les Pavés 3, March 2011) | |||
| * (The Poetry Project Newsletter 226, Feb-March 2011) | |||
| * (''Pores, A Journal of Poetics Research'', Issue 5) (On Free Jazz and Poetry), also published at | |||
| *"What the Tourists Never See: the Social Poetics of Geraldine Monk", in ''The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk'', ed. Scott Thurston (Salt, 2007), pp. 62-78 | |||
| * (Readings 1) | |||
| * (Quid 12, March 2004), pp. 10-17 | |||
| * , in ''Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology '', eds. Esther Leslie and Ben Watson (London: SAF Publishing Ltd., 2005), pp. 109–18; originally delivered as a talk at the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology (ICE-Z), Theatro Technis, London, 16 January 2004 | |||
| * (''Pores, A Journal of Poetics Research'', Issue 2, 2002) (On 9/11) | |||
| == Editorial Work == | |||
| *''Live from Occupied Lady Mitchell Hall... Exclusions Imminent / Off with their Heads'' (Cambridge, November 2011) | |||
| *''the poetry is not in the pity'', edited with Frances Kruk (London: yt communication, 2009) | |||
| *''Sporangiophores: Works by Harry Godwin, Nat Raha, Michael Zand, and SL Mendoza'', edited with Frances Kruk (London: yt communication, 2009) | |||
| *''war pigs: yt communication bulletin: Sept 11 2006'', edited with Frances Kruk (Hackney: yt communication, 2006) | |||
| *''hick moth: yt communication bulletin: 2nd July 2006'', edited with Frances Kruk (Hackney: yt communication, 2006) | |||
| *''hex map: yt communication bulletin: May 31 2006'', edited with Frances Kruk (Hackney: yt communication, 2006) | |||
| == Interviews and Conversations == | |||
| *Jeffrey Grunthaner, Bomb magazine, December 2019), | |||
| *Sacha Kahir, Colin Hacklander, Farahnaz Hatam, and Sean Bonney, (Poland, October 2018) | |||
| *Stephen Collis and Sean Bonney, "We Are An Other: Poetry, Commons, Subjectivity", in ''Toward. Some. Air.: Remarks on Poetics'', eds. Fred Wah and Amy De'Ath (Banff Centre Press, 2015) | |||
| *Paal Bjelke Andersen and Sean Bonney, (Audiatur, 2014) | |||
| *Richard Owens, , 2012 | |||
| *David Grundy and Sean Bonney, (''Eartrip Magazine'', 2012) | |||
| *Kit Toda, Dan Eltringham and Annie McDermott, (The Literateur, February 2011) | |||
| *Ian McMillan, (BBC Radio 3, 5 February 2010) | |||
| *Steve Willey, (2010), film featuring interview with Sean Bonney | |||
| *Frances Kruk and Sean Bonney, (Mercer Union, Toronto September 2007) | |||
| *Interview in ''Don't Start Me Talking: Interviews with Contemporary Poets'', eds. Tim Allen and Andrew Duncan (Salt: 2007) | |||
| *Rob Holloway, (London, March 2003) | |||
| == Audio Recordings & Films == | |||
| * (Film by EC Davies and Sacha Kahir, featuring poetry by Sean Bonney, October 2019) | |||
| *, from the album ''Test 3'' (Garage, Berlin, 29 July 2019) | |||
| * (Berlin, 8 October 2019), with music | |||
| *Reading at Poetry Emergency (Salford, November 2018), , , | |||
| * (Berlin, 2017) | |||
| * (Berlin, 2017) | |||
| * (Series of films shot in Berlin, 2017); see also the note on ''In Hell'', at (Union Docs, February 2019) | |||
| *Reading at Artichoke (Vierte Welt, Berlin, 4 February 2016), , | |||
| * (Berlin, October 2015) | |||
| * (March 2015) | |||
| * (Rich Mix, London, 25 October 2014) | |||
| * (Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 3-5 April 2014) | |||
| * (Contains recordings of 'Letters on Harmony', 'Cancer', 'Ghosts', and others, 2013-2018) | |||
| * (The Village Hall, Shoreditch Works, London, 11 December 2013) | |||
| * (''Dusie'' website, linked from , 8 December 2013) | |||
| * (''Dusie'' website, linked from , 8 December 2013) | |||
| * (Brighton, 26 April 2013) | |||
| * (Xing the Line, The Apple Tree Pub, London, 25 May 2012) | |||
| * (Rich Mix Centre, London, 11 February 2012) | |||
| * (Association of Musical Marxists, 2012) | |||
| * (Rich Mix, London, 15 October 2011) | |||
| *Reading at ''Happiness'' launch (The Blue Posts, London, 6 October 2011), , , | |||
| * (Carnivale, London, 21 September 2011) | |||
| * (Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, 10 September 2011) | |||
| * (Prague, 16 May 2011), with Czech translation | |||
| * (The Serpentine Gallery, London, 17-18 October 2009) | |||
| * (Manchester, 5 August 2009] | |||
| * (Cork, Ireland, 4 July 2008) | |||
| * (Mercer Union, Toronto, 20 September 2007) | |||
| * (London, Winter 2006) | |||
| *''mysteries of hackney'', Three films by Sean Bonney, made on Amhurst Road, N16, early 2006 (, 2006): , , | |||
| * (Cork, Ireland, 6 July 2005) | |||
| == Magazine publications == | |||
| * | |||
| *, from ''Baudelaire in English'' | |||
| * (2009?), from ''Baudelaire in English'' | |||
| *, from “Letters in Turmoil” | |||
| *, "Still: 7 Love Poems" | |||
| == Poetry readings == | |||
| * (Freedom Bookshop, London, 13 February 2020) | |||
| * (Oakland, 18 January 2020) | |||
| * (Autonomous Steki Perasma, Athens, 12-13 October 2019), flyer | |||
| * (Berlin, 8 October 2019) | |||
| *, with music (Berlin, 20 July 2019) | |||
| * (Hopscotch, Berlin, 13 June 2019) | |||
| * (Berlin, 21 May 2019) | |||
| * (Berlin, 27 February 2019) | |||
| * (Scarborough, 2 February 2019) | |||
| * (University of Salford, 21 November 2018) | |||
| * (The Horse Hospital, London, 10 August 2018) | |||
| * (The Poetry Library, London, 1 August 2018) | |||
| * (Barbiche, Berlin, 12 April 2018) | |||
| * (University of Cambridge, 24 February 2018) | |||
| * (London, 22 February 2018) | |||
| * (Berlin, 2 February 2018) | |||
| * (Berlin, 2018-2019), with music | |||
| * (Edinburgh International Book Festival, 19 August 2017) | |||
| * at (One Eye Gallery, University of Liverpool, 9 August 2016) | |||
| * (T. Chances, London, 7 July 2016) | |||
| * (Berlin, 11 June 2016) | |||
| * (Berlin, 4 June 2016) | |||
| * (Norwich, 23 April 2016) | |||
| * (Berlin, 7 April 2016) | |||
| * (Vierte Welt, Berlin, 4 February 2016) | |||
| * (Athens, 14 November 2015) | |||
| *Reading at the Free Academy, in the ruins of Plato's Academy (Athens, 14 November 2015) | |||
| * (Athens, 13 November 2015) | |||
| * (Berlin, October 2015) | |||
| * by ] (Enitharmon, London, 2 July 2015) | |||
| * (Coventry, 11 June 2015) | |||
| * (Brighton, 24 February 2015) | |||
| * (Royal Holloway, London, 2 December 2014) | |||
| * (Queen Mary University, London, 22 October 2014) | |||
| * (Cork, Ireland, 13 July 2014) | |||
| * (T. Chances, London, 12 June 2014) | |||
| * (Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 3-5 April 2014) | |||
| * (Norwich, February 2014) | |||
| *Reading at Amid the Ruins (Daniel Blau Gallery, London, 19 January 2014) | |||
| * (Poetry Café, London, 5 January 2014) | |||
| *Reading on Malet Street picket line (Birkbeck College, London, 3 December 2013) | |||
| * (Chemnitz, 22 October 2013) | |||
| * (Berkeley, 5 October 2013) | |||
| * (London, 28 September 2013) | |||
| * (Colorama squat, London, 10 January 2013) | |||
| * (Vogue Fabrics, London, 18 October 2012) | |||
| * (Cork, Ireland, 14 July 2012) | |||
| * at the (Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 2 June 2012) | |||
| * (Xing the Line, The Apple Tree, London, 25 May 2012) | |||
| * (The Farm Tavern, Brighton/Hove, 20 April 2012) | |||
| * (Falmouth University, 17-18 February 2012) | |||
| * (Rich Mix Centre, London, 11 February 2012) | |||
| * (The Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, 9 February 2012) | |||
| * (Lady Mitchell Hall, University of Cambridge, 23 November 2011) | |||
| * (English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 17 November 2011) | |||
| * (The Hope, Brighton, 31 October 2011) | |||
| * (The Blue Posts, London, 6 October 2011) | |||
| * (Carnivale, London, 21 September 2011) | |||
| * (Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, 10 September 2011) | |||
| * (Hay-on-Wye, 3 June 2011) | |||
| * (Prague, 16 May 2011) | |||
| * (The Lamb, London, 15 March 2011) | |||
| * (London, 11 March 2011) | |||
| * (The Poetry Cafe, London, 5 March 2011) | |||
| * (Leicester, 2 March 2011) | |||
| * (Bangor, Wales, 6 December 2010) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, 29 October 2010) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, 20 October 2010) | |||
| * (The Old Red Lion, London, 12 October 2010) | |||
| * (Rich Mix, London, 24 September 2010) | |||
| * (William IV, London, 22 September 2010) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, 15 September 2010) | |||
| * (Morden Tower, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 27 June 2010) | |||
| * (Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 18 June 2010) | |||
| * (London, 12 June 2010) | |||
| * (Royal Holloway, University of London, 16-20 March 2010) | |||
| * (Ormskirk, 25 February 2010) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, London, 17 February 2010) | |||
| * (Komedia, Brighton, 10 November 2009) | |||
| * (The Serpentine Gallery, London, 17-18 October 2009) | |||
| * (Cafe Oto, London, 24 September 2009) | |||
| * (Manchester, 5 August 2009), photo | |||
| * (London, 18 June 2009), with music by Dominic Lash | |||
| * (London, 25 March 2009) | |||
| * (Tottenham Chances, London, 10 March 2009) | |||
| * (Wigmore Hall, London, 7 May 2009) | |||
| * (The Leather Exchange, London, 5 March 2009) | |||
| * (Komedia, Brighton, 3 March 2009) | |||
| * (University of Sussex, 23 January 2009) | |||
| * (London, Winter 2008) | |||
| * (Maggie's Bar, London, 16 December 2008) | |||
| * (University of Roehampton, London, 2008) | |||
| * (Conway Hall, London, 24-25 October 2008) | |||
| * (Xing the Line, The Leather Exchange, London, 2 October 2008) | |||
| * (Cork, Ireland, 4 July 2008) | |||
| * (London, 5 June 2008) | |||
| * (The Meeting House, Brighton, 7 May 2008) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, London, 17 November 2007) | |||
| * (Firehouse 13, Providence, Rhode Island, 2 October 2007) | |||
| * (Buffalo, New York, 27 September 2007) | |||
| * (Mercer Union, Toronto, 20 September 2007) | |||
| * (London, Winter 2006) | |||
| * (The Spitz, London, 2 November 2006) | |||
| * (Conway Hall, London, 21 October 2006) | |||
| * (University of Cambridge, 2 March 2006), with live music | |||
| *Reading at Xing the Line (Poetry Café, London, 9 September 2005) | |||
| * (Cork, Ireland, 6 July 2005) | |||
| * (London, 14 November 2003) | |||
| * (London, March 2003) | |||
| * (London, 4 March 2003) | |||
| == Talks & Lectures == | |||
| * (Autonomous Steki Perasma, Athens, 12-13 October 2019) | |||
| * (Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin, 16 July 2018) | |||
| * (English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 24 February 2018) | |||
| *Introduction to Benedict Seymour's film ''Dead the Ends'' (Anagram Books Distribution, Berlin, 28 January 2018), with Sacha Kahir | |||
| * (John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, 4 December 2017) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, London, 13 December 2014) | |||
| * (The Village Hall, Shoreditch Works, London, 11 December 2013) | |||
| * (Technische Universität Chemnitz, 23 October 2013), with Frances Kruk | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, 18 May 2013) | |||
| *"Rimbaud, Fanon: the Negation of Imperialist Time" (Matters of Time, Cambridge French Postgraduate Conference, Queens Building, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, 28 April 2013) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, London, 14 November 2012) | |||
| * (Edinburgh University, 11 September 2011) | |||
| * (London, 12 May 2010) | |||
| * (Birkbeck College, London, May 2005), with Ben Watson | |||
| == Further reading == | |||
| *William Rowe, (Jacket2, 18 January 2020) | |||
| *Ed Simon, (Poetry Foundation, 13 January 2020) | |||
| *Beverly Pérez Rego, | |||
| *Alessandro Scanu, (SlamPoetry, December 2019) | |||
| *Adam Piette, (Blackbox Manifold 23, Winter 2019), includes a review of ''Letters Against the Firmament'' | |||
| *Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, (Prolapsarian, December 2019) | |||
| *Robert Sheppard, (Pages, November 2019) | |||
| * (Centre for Poetics, University of Cambridge, November 2019) | |||
| * (Lundi Matin 218, November 2019) | |||
| *Timothy Thornton, "" (November 2019) | |||
| *David Grundy, (Streams of Expression, November 2019) | |||
| *Woody Haut, (23 November 2019) | |||
| *Clark Allison, (Stride Magazine, September 2019), Review of ''Our Death'' | |||
| *Walt Hunter, ''Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization'' (Fordham University Press, 2019) | |||
| *], (Post45 2, July 2019) | |||
| *], in ''Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital'', eds Ruth Jennison and Julian Murphet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) | |||
| *Jacob Edmond, (Columbia University Press, 2019) | |||
| *Daniel Eltringham, (2019) | |||
| *Ed Luker, | |||
| *Walt Hunter, (Cultural Critique 98, Winter 2018), pp. 72-94 | |||
| *Luke Roberts, Stephen Willey, Anna Strong Safford, and Al Filreis, (Jacket2, March 2018), discussing ''Happiness'' | |||
| *Arul Benito Gerard, (Hix Eros 8, March 2018) | |||
| *David Grundy, (March 2018) | |||
| *Note on Sean Bonney, (August 2017) | |||
| *James Day, (Third Text 30:3-4, 2016) | |||
| *Adam Learmonth, (Dundee University Review of the Arts, April 2017) | |||
| *Jasper Bernes, ''The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization'' (Stanford University Press, 2017) | |||
| *John Bloomberg-Rissman, (Galatea Resurrects 27, December 2016) | |||
| *Max Porter, (Granta, December 2016) | |||
| *Robert Sheppard, ''The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) | |||
| *Simon Perril, "High Late-Modernists or Postmodernists? Vanguard and Linguistically Innovative Poetries since 1960", in ''The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010'', ed. Edward Larrissey (Cambridge University Press, 2016) | |||
| *Fern Richards, (The Norwich Radical, April 2016) | |||
| *Woody Haut, (April 2016) | |||
| *Steve Spence, (Stride Magazine, February 2016), Review of ''Letters Against the Firmament'' | |||
| *Ian Davidson and Jo L. Walton, | |||
| *{{cite book|first=Simon|last=Perril|chapter='Kinked Up Like It Wants to Bark': Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the ''Poète Maudit''|pages=95–108|editor-first1=Abigail|editor-last1=Lang|editor-first2=David|editor-last2=Nowell Smith|title=Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2015}} | |||
| *Jon Clay, (Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 7, September 2015) | |||
| *Verity Spott, "" (''Two Torn Halves'', 2015) | |||
| *Steve Willey, (July 2015) | |||
| *Steve Willey, (March 2015) | |||
| *David Nowell Smith, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) | |||
| *], "" (''Pages'', 2014) | |||
| *Patricia Farrell, (London Conference in Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, June 2014) | |||
| *Jennifer Cooke, (Revolution and/or Poetry, August 2013); updated as (Tripwire 7, 2014), pp. 109-122 | |||
| *Dan Eltringham, (The Occupied Times, July 2013) | |||
| *Zoë Skoulding, "Misremembered Lyric and Orphaned Music", in ''The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry'', ed. Peter Robinson (Oxford University Press, 2013) | |||
| *David Nowell Smith, (Études britanniques contemporaines 45, 2013) | |||
| *Sophie Robinson, , eds. Jeremy Noel-Tod and Ian Hamilton (Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 61 | |||
| *Esther Leslie, (The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics No. 44–45, 2012–2013), pp. 8-27 | |||
| *Jacob Edmond, (Jacket2, December 2012) | |||
| *Alison Croggon, , Overland, March 2012 | |||
| *Steve Spence, (Stride Magazine, March 2012), review of ''The Commons'' | |||
| *Robin Purves, (Hi Zero 11, February 2012) | |||
| *Clive Scott, (Cambridge University Press, 2012) | |||
| *John Bloomberg-Rissman, (Galatea Resurrects 17, December 2011) | |||
| *Juliet Wilson, (Sabotage Reviews, June 2011) | |||
| *Samantha Walton, (University of Nottingham, Spaces of Alterity, 26 April 2011) | |||
| *Richard Owens, (Damn the Caesars, March 2011) | |||
| *Esther Leslie, ''Bouleversed Baudelairizing: On Poetics and Terror'' (Essays on Bonney and Anna Mendelssohn) (Veer Books, 2011) | |||
| *Richard Owens, (The Poetry Project Newsletter 225, Dec/Jan 2010/11) | |||
| *Ian Davidson, ''Radical Spaces of Poetry'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) | |||
| *The Commune, (19 November 2010) | |||
| *Bebrowed's Blog, (6 September 2010) | |||
| *Mike Wallace-Hadrill, (Cambridge Reading Series pamphlet, June 2010), p. 7 | |||
| *Jeff Hilson, (Canary Woof, March 2010) | |||
| *], "" (Pores, 2009) (on Kruk and Bonney's collaboration on a performance of ''The Commons'') | |||
| *Peter Philpott, (September 2009) | |||
| * (Readings 3) | |||
| *Shirley Dent, (The Guardian, 3 June 2008) | |||
| *Mark Jackson, (Readings 3, May 2008) | |||
| *Various, (Metafilter, July 2007) | |||
| *Keith Tuma, (Chicago Review 53:1, Spring 2007) | |||
| *Keith Tuma, (January 2007) | |||
| *Jow Lindsay, (Onedit reviews), originally published in ''Everyone's Cup of Tea #1'' (Bad Press Serials #5, December 2006) | |||
| *Delilah Glaxo-Kleitmann & Steve Spence, (''On Company Time: Anonymous Poetry Reviews'', 2006) | |||
| *David Kennedy, (PN Review 156:30:4, March-April 2004), Review of several books including ''Poisons, their Antidotes'' | |||
| *Ben Watson, (Poetry Review 93:4, Winter 2003-04) | |||
| *], (British Electronic Poetry Centre, December 2003) | |||
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English poet (1969–2019)
Sean Noel Bonney (21 May 1969 – 13 November 2019) was an English poet born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England. He lived in London and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in Berlin. He was married to the poet Frances Kruk. Charles Bernstein published poet William Rowe's obituary for Bonney in US online magazine Jacket2, as well as releasing his own poem "The Death of Sean Bonney." Detailed notes to Bonney's poetics by Jacob Bard-Rosenberg are featured on the Poetry Foundation website. The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry has published a special edition on Bonney.
His publications include Blade Pitch Control Unit (2005), Baudelaire in English (2008), Document (2009), The Commons (2011), Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud (2011), Letters Against the Firmament (2015), and Our Death (2019).
Life and work
Together with other UK-based poets, Bonney's work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival, combining with his abiding interest in left-wing radical movements such as British punk, the Angry Brigade, the Red Army Faction, the American Black Power movement, Surrealism and revolutionary art in general. He was am anti-fascist activist and revolutionary socialist who joined the 2011 London riots. Living at various points in Hackney, Hastings and Walthamstow, he was a regular attendee at the Bob Cobbing-led Writers Forum workshop, co-founding the reading series Xing the Line with Jeff Hilson, and co-editing the press Yt Communication with Frances Kruk. A sequence of 14 line poems, The Commons, originally subtitled "A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle' combined contemporary uprisings with the voices of the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the English Civil War and "the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs".
Following the completion of his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, from 2015 to 2019 Bonney was a postdoctoral researcher at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, conducting a project examining the work of Diane di Prima.
Bonney died on 13 November 2019 in Berlin.
Books
- London Review Bookshop Samplers, No. 2, Face Press, 2019.
- Our Death, Commune Editions, 2019.
- Ghosts, Materials, 2017.
- Cancer: Poems After Katerina Gogou, A Firm Nigh Holistic Press, 2016.
- All This Burning Earth: Selected Writing, Ill Will Editions (online), 2016.
- Letters Against the Firmament, Enitharmon Press, 2015
- Letters: on Harmony, Iodine Press, 2013
- Four Letters, Four Comments, Punch Press, 2012
- Happiness (Poems After Rimbaud), Unkant Publishing, 2011
- The Commons, Openned, 2011
- For the Administration, Crater Press, 2010
- 5 After Rimbaud, Grasp Press, 2010
- Document: Poems, Diagrams, Manifestos: July 7th 2005 - June 27th 2007, Barque Press, 2008
- Baudelaire in English, Veer Books, 2007
- 'from Tracts and Commentaries: A Lecture' (in Pilot: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, 2007)
- Black Water, Yt Communication, October 2006
- Document: hexprogress, Yt Communication, May 2006
- Blade Pitch Control Unit, Salt Publishing, 2005
- Poisons, Their Antidotes, West House Books, 2003
- Notes on Heresy, Writers Forum, 2002
- The Domestic Poem, Canary Woof, 2001
- From the Book of Living or Dying, Writers Forum, 1999.
- Astrophil and Stella, Writers Forum, 1999.
- now that all the popstars are dead, damnation publications, 1996
- Marijuana in the breadbin, Doktor Hypno publications, 1992
References
- Staff, Harriet. "RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019)". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- "Sean Bonney". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- "Sean Bonney (1969–2019) by William Rowe | Jacket2".
- Bernstein, Charles (4 February 2020). "The Death of Sean Bonney". Chicago Review.
- "Jacob Bard-Rosenberg on Sean Bonney's Writing: 'One of the most important political efforts of our time' by Harriet Staff". 27 December 2022.
- "Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry | Collection".
- "Sean Bonney, 1969-2019". 21 April 2020.
- "Our Death: Aspects of the radical in Sean Bonney's last book of poems". Overland Literary Journal. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Sean Bonney, 1969-2019". Commune. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Yt Communication blog". 26 June 2012. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- "Openned - Print - The Commons - Sean Bonney". openned.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- "Sean Bonney". jfki.fu-berlin.de (in German). 31 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- "RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019) by Harriet Staff | Poetry Foundation". 9 February 2022.
