SurVision is an international English-language

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poetry project, comprising an online magazine and a book-publishing outlet. ''SurVision'' magazine, founded in March 2017 by poet

Anatoly Kudryavitsky Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Russian: Анатолий Исаевич Кудрявицкий; born 17 August 1954) is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet, editor and literary translator. Biography Kudryavitsky's father, Jerzy, was a Ukrainian-born Polish n ...

, is a platform for

poetry from Ireland and the world. SurVision Books, the book imprint, started up the following year.

SurVision Magazine

SurVision publishes a biannual magazine of the same name, containing

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...

, including

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s from other languages. The magazine has been noted for the range of its contributors, who have included both established and new writers from Ireland and other parts of the world. The '' Dublin Review of Books'' has called it "currently the only international magazine devoted exclusively to surrealist poetry."Tim Murphy
On the Waves of the Surreal
''Dublin Review of Books'', 1 April 2019. The

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-based

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''Signaturen Magazine'' announced that they will be publishing German translations of the best poems from ''SurVision''. In an interview with ''Signaturen'', Anatoly Kudryavitsky described the magazine's editorial policy: In 2018,

John W. Sexton John William Sexton (born 1958) is an Irish poet, short-story writer, radio script-writer and children's novelist. He also writes under the pseudonyms of Sex W. Johnston and Jack Brae Curtingstall. Life Sexton was born of Irish parents in New ...

's poem "The Snails" which appeared in ''SurVision'' magazine was shortlisted for ''

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s Irish Poem of the Year.

The James Tate International Poetry Prize

Since 2018, SurVision has awarded the annual James Tate International Poetry prize for the most favoured collection of surrealist poems. So far, the prize has always been shared between two or more poets. The prize was named in honour of the writer and poet James Tate.

SurVision Books

SurVision started publishing books in April 2018. The first two titles in the New Poetics series were 34-page chapbooks by Noelle Kocot and the Irish surrealist poet Ciaran O'Driscoll. More books followed, including a chapbook by the US Surrealist poet Elin O'Hara Slavick, two full-size collections by the US Surrealist poet

George Kalamaras George Kalamaras is an American poet and educator. He is Professor of English at Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he has taught since 1990. He has published nineteen collections of poetry, twelve of which are full-length, including '' ...

, and ''Selected Poems'' by the German poet Anton G. Leitner; in 2019, chapbooks by English experimental poet

Helen Ivory Helen Ivory (born 1969) is an English poet, artist, tutor, and editor. Career Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe Books collection is ''The Anatomical Venus'' ( 2019), which centres on women and otherness. She has co-edited wit ...

and Irish poets

, Afric McGlinchey, Tony Kitt, and Tim Murphy; and in 2020, chapbooks by Irish poets Matthew Geden and

Tony Bailie Tony Bailie is a novelist, and journalist from Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. Works Tony Bailie is an Irish writer and journalist who, as of 2018, has published three novels and two poetry collections. His first novel, ''The Lost ...

. Anthologies of contemporary Surrealist poetry from Ireland and Russia were also published in 2020, followed by an anthology of Ukrainian poetry about the war edited by Tony Kitt and published in April 2022. In May 2022, SurVision announced on their website that Tony Kitt joined their editorial team. In his detailed review in Poetry Ireland Trumpet of three collections of work by Irish poets, Michael S. Begnal has written that "SurVision is a press that brings energy and excitement to Irish poetry." According to a MEAS report containing a statistical analysis of Irish poetry publications, SurVision Books was the joint-second most prolific poetry press on the island of

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in 2018.Dr Kenneth Keating and Dr Ailbhe McDaid
Gender in Poetry Publishing in Ireland
MEAS, Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector: Literature in Ireland, 2018.

Notable contributors

* Adam Aitken *

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* Patrick Chapman * Patrick Deeley *

Alison Dunhill Alison Dunhill (born 1950) is an English artist and art historian, and also a published poet. Biography Born in London, Dunhill trained in Fine Art at the University of Reading under Sir Terry Frost and Rita Donagh. In the early 1970s she had a ...

* Janet Hamill * Philip Hammial *

* Noelle Kocot *

Medbh McGuckian Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster ...

* Mary O'Donnell * Ciaran O'Driscoll * John Olson *

Dilys Rose Dilys Rose is a Scottish fiction writer and poet. Born in 1954 in Glasgow, Rose studied at Edinburgh University, where she taught creative writing from 2002 until 2017. She was Director of the MSc in Creative Writing by Online Learning from 2012 ...

Stuart Ross Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor. Ross was born in Toronto's north end in 1959 and grew up in the Borough of North York. He began writing at a very young age and was first published at age ...

* G. C. Waldrep *

Les Wicks Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of fifteen books of poetry. Early life and education Wicks gre ...

* Jeffrey Cyphers Wright * Dean Young

Publications

Collections of poetry

, ''That Moment of Wept'' , and ''Through the Silk-Heavy Rains'' * Anton G. Leitner, ''Selected Poems 1981-2015''. Translated from German.

Anthologies

* ''Seeds of Gravity: An Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist Poetry from Ireland'', ed. by Anatoly Kudryavitsky (2020) * ''MESSAGE-DOOR: An Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist Poetry from Russia'', ed. by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, bilingual English/Russian (2020) * ''Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War'', ed. by Tony Kitt (2022) * ''Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology'', ed. by Tony Kitt (2023)

Chapbook series (highlights)

* Noelle Kocot, ''Humanity''. * Ciaran O'Driscoll, ''The Speaking Trees''. * Elin O'Hara Slavick, ''Cameramouth''. *

, ''Stowaway''. *

, ''Maps of the Abandoned City''. *

, ''Inverted Night''. *

, ''As Pure as Coal Dust''.

References

External links

Editor's interview in Signaturen Magazine

SurVision at Poets & Writers Database
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