Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (Sep 2022)
Sean Bonney’s Social Space
Abstract
This short piece focuses on the social spaces of Sean Bonney’s work through reading the poetic spaces of Bonney’s book Baudelaire in English (2008) alongside the physical and social spaces in which Bonney’s poems were read and received in London 2010-13, including the Tavistock Hotel bar and a short-lived squat off Leicester Square, as well as the university strikes of 2019.
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