‘Having your lyric cake and eating it’

References: [1] “just to distract you like the inside”: a correspondence wrapped up in Bernadette Mayer’s poetry; [2] Pleasure and Provocation: Kay Gabriel Interview with Jordy Rosenberg; [3] A+E COLLECTIVE; [4] Enter a Cloud: On / With / For / After W.S. Graham

Colin Herd is a poet and lecturer at the University of Glasgow. His recent collections include Click and Collect and You Name It. Colin has published reviews and articles in publications including Aesthetica Magazine, 3:00 AM Magazine, PN Review, and The Independent. Maria Sledmere is a writer and artist. She lectures at the University of Strathclyde and teaches at the University of Glasgow and Beyond Form Creative Writing. She’s also the editor-in-chief of SPAM Press. Some of her recent books include Visions and Feed and String Feeling.