Sophie Mayer

Attention-grabbing headline for some books & projects worthy of the attention grab! First up, I have a couple of "drag sonnets" in Tom Chivers' madly ambitious Adventures in Form, which made No. 8 on the Independent's 50 Best Summer Reads list (just after Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles: magnificent company to be in), and a poem in Todd Swift's nifty anthology of YBPs, Lung Jazz (currently being tweet-reviewed by Andrew Oldham). Also in poetry, Mark Burnhope's curated "reading loop" imagining/calling forth a UK-based disability poetics for Wordgathering 22 (June 2012) features a sequence of mine, 'Recovery Positions.' And to the other side of poetry, The Cinema of Me, Alisa Lebow's long-awaited edited collection on first-person documentary, is now out & about, including my essay ' "If I Am (Not) for Myself": Michelle Citron's Diasporic First Persons' on the wonderful filmmaker Michelle Citron. Indie presses all around (Penned in the Margins, Cinnamon, Wallflower @ Columbia): please support and celebrate the impassioned work of these editors and publishers!