Constellation: Alice Notley
Curated by Carol Watts and Edmund Hardy
Contents“‘As - I - say - a - word,’” “she said again”
“but in a” “staccato way,” “a - new - star - appears’” “And at
each word she said” “a point” “of light appeared”
- Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette, p.99
[#] Carol Watts and Edmund Hardy: Introduction
In The Pines
[#] John Hall: Beginning to read Alice Notley’s In the Pines
[#] Steve Willey: The Sounds of the Pines
[#] Catherine Wagner: On ‘In The Pines’
[#] Michael Peverett: Alice Notley, “In Forgetting”
[#] Pansy-Maurer-Alvarez: This Plot, This Place
[#] Elizabeth James: ‘Our violent times’: reading notes
[#] David Kennedy: This Is Not Poetry #27
From 165 Meeting House Lane to Margaret & Dusty and after
[#] Lisa Samuels: Words for Alice Notley
[#] Ian Davidson: Bodies, near and far: Alice Notley
[#] Sophie Robinson: ‘Incidentals in the Day World’
[#] Susana Gardner: “Alice ordered me to be made”: As deconstruction of hearts or,- a hand of broken sonnets
[#] Steven Waling: Alice Notley’s ‘January’: An Appreciation
[#] Lynne Hjelmgaard: Notes on Alice Notley’s ‘Desert For All Of Music To Take Place’
[#] Elizabeth Bryant: A response to Alice Notley’s ‘Sweetheart’
[#] Dana Ward: That Alice Notley & Jay-Z & Dana Would Speak Through The Imperfect Media of Dana
Mysteries of Small Houses
[#] Carol Watts: On ‘Would Want to Be in My Wildlife’
[#] Jon Clay: Alice Notley’s ‘A Baby Is Born Out of a White Owl’s Forehead – 1972’
[#] Peter Middleton: “101” from Mysteries of Small Houses
[#] Amy Hollowell: After Alice Notley’s “1992,” from Mysteries of Small Houses
[#] Jen Currin: After “Remember What I Came Here to Do to This World Very Little Actually”
[#] Sarah Hopkins: Response to Alice Notley’s ‘Lady Poverty’
[#] Elizabeth Treadwell: After ‘Beginning with a Stain’
The Descent of Alette
[#] Caroline Bergvall: Alette in the Subway
[#] Zoë Skoulding: Notes on ‘A red-lined map’: The Descent of Alette
[#] Piers Hugill: Materials for a reading of ‘“I stood waiting”’ from The Descent of Alette
[#] Melissa Flores–Bórquez: Notley, Monteverdi & Infinite Negativity
[#] Claudia Keelan: Poet of Prophecy: Our Anti-Saint Alice Notley
Alma, or the Dead Women
[#] Ralph Hawkins: ‘Radical Feminist’ from Alma, or The Dead Women
[#] Tim Allen: and if it’s its it’s true: Some thoughts on Alma, or The Dead Women by Alice Notley
[#] Jennifer Cooke: Alice Notley’s ‘Decomposition’
From the Beginning
[#] Edmund Hardy: Alice Notley’s From the Beginning: To a poem’s unreason
Above the Leaders
[#] Stephen Mooney: On Above the Leaders
[#] William Rowe: Alice Notley: A Poem from Above the Leaders
Negativity’s Kiss
[#] Redell Olsen: 3 Selections from “Negativity’s Kiss” by Alice Notley
[#] Alice Notley: Ten poems from Negativity’s Kiss
Constellation: Alice Notley
This Constellation is a collaboration between Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, Openned and “Intercapillary Space”.
[#] Main Birkbeck Notley page
[#] Openned Video Constellation of Notley reading at Birkbeck, May 2008
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The Notley collage image used throughout the Constellation is by Susana Gardner
The Openned video constellation was filmed by Stephen Willey, page design and blog design by Alex Davies & Stephen Willey, special thanks to Adrian Tribe at Birkbeck