by Rod Mengham
‘Knife’ was first published in PN Review, 222 (March-April 2015), pp.55–6.
‘Soluble Culture’ was first published in The Kenyon Review (Summer/Fall, 2003), pp.72–7.
‘Walking with Sebald’ was first published in Leviathan Quarterly, No.6 (December, 2002), pp.56–8.
‘Their Master’s Voice; the Megaphones of Prague’ was first published in Frieze (Issue 78, October 2003), p.70.
‘End of the Line’ was first published as an image-text collaboration with Marc Atkins in London: from Punk to Blair, ed. Andrew Gibson and Joe Kerr (London: Reaktion Books, 2003), pp.445–57.
‘A Wild Nursery for the Arts: the Site of the V&A’ was first published in V&A Magazine, number 5 (Winter 2004/5), pp.56–64.
‘Atkins / Warsaw’ was first published as ‘Warsaw by Marc Atkins’ in The Liberal, Issue 7 (February/March, 2006), pp.66–7.
‘Lares et Penates’ was first published as ‘Deep Space: the Studio of Anselm Kiefer’ in Art Review, Vol.LVI (July, 2005), pp.80–2.
‘Spatial Utopias: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’ was first published in Art Review, Vol.LVII (October, 2005), pp.106–09.
‘A Perfect Likeness: Nineteenth Century Casts’ was first published in V&A Magazine, Number 9 (Spring, 2006), pp.56–61.
‘Not Him’ was first published as ‘Not Him: Nauman, Guston, Beckett’, in Poetry Review Vol.96:2 (Summer, 2006), pp.113–14.
‘Birth of a Mountain’ was first published in The Warwick Review Vol.1, No.1 (March, 2007), pp.139–43.
‘Light: A Total Installation’ was first published in Light [exhibition catalogue] (Winchester Cathedral, 2007), pp.3–5.
‘Margaret Tait’ was first published in Art Monthly, Number 310 (October, 2007), p.39.
‘The Real Avant-Garde’ was first published in A Room to Live In: a Kettle’s Yard anthology, ed. Tamar Yoseloff (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2007), pp.70–3.
‘Sutton Hoo: The Shipping Forecast’ was first published in The Warwick Review, Vol.2, No.2 (June, 2008), pp.28–32.
‘Shot By Both Sides’ was first published in Medals of Dishonour, ed. Philip Attwood and Felicity Powell (London: The British Museum Press, 2009), pp.33–7.
‘Assymetries in the Bush’ was first published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, special issue on ecopoetics, ed. Kate Fagan, John Kinsella and Peter Minter, Vol.14, No.2 (2009), pp.85–91.
‘The Folding Telescope and Many Other Virtues of Bruno Schulz’ was first published in The Kenyon Review Vol.XXXIII, No.3 (Summer 2011), pp.153–66.
‘Vacant History’ was first published as a text and image collaboration with Marc Atkins in Marc Atkins and Rod Mengham, Still Moving (London: Veer Publications, 2014), pp.67–8.
‘Underworld’ was written during an artist’s residency at ‘Les Recollets’, Paris, in 2013.
‘Doris Salcedo and the Philosophy of Furniture’ was delivered as a lecture at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in October 2015.
‘Steve McQueen’s Static and the State We’re In’ was first published as ‘The Poetic Nature of Static’ in Rachel Wells (ed.) In Focus: Static 2009 by Steve McQueen, Tate Research Publication (2017), http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/static-steve-mcqueen/poetic-nature,
‘The Prose Poem’ was first published as ‘A Genealogy of the Prose Poem’ in Countertext 3.2, ed. James Corby and Ivan Callus (2017), pp.176–86.
‘The Eighth Hill of Rome’ was first published in LRB Blog, 6 September 2017, www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/09/06/rod-mengham/the-eighth-hill-of-rome.
About the Author
ROD MENGHAM’S published poetry includes Chance of a Storm (Carcanet, 2015), Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001), Parley and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007) and with Marc Atkins a book of texts and film stills, Still Moving (Veer, 2014). He has published monographs and edited collections of essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, violence and avant-garde art, the 1940s, and contemporary poetry. He has co-edited the anthologies Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (2003) and Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (2005). His translations include Andrzej Sosnowski’s Speedometry (Contraband, 2014).
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First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Carcanet Press Ltd, Alliance House, 30 Cross Street, Manchester M2 7AQ.
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On the cover: ‘Redknife’ © Zuza Mengham.
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