Andrew Nightingale
Oversteps publications
The Big Wheel (2009)
The Big Wheel includes visual poems (“Word death mandalas” and “Maps of my hermetic future”), a poem made from poker dice permutations, an encounter with the Apennine sibyl, and a poem about Katherine Mansfield.
Sample poems from The Big Wheel
Word death mandala #5
Recent news
Recent poems by Andrew Nightingale appear in South 46 (a poem based on an inscription at Ruan Major Church), in an anthology called Take Tea with Turing (a poem based on Anne Waldman’s Makeup on Empty Space) and in the Templar 2012 anthology Octopus.
[13-Oct-12 ]
Three poems by Andrew Nightingale appear in the anthology Seductive Harmonies, published by Avalanche Books. The anthology includes work by Leonard Cohen, Alison Brackenbury, Harry Shukman and Hannah Silva.
[6-May-12 ]
Recent work by Andrew Nightingale appears online in Shadowtrain #36 and in Otoliths. The visual pieces in Otoliths include poems based on patterns generated with a reaction-diffusion simulator, on maps of islands, on volume 5 of Tristram Shandy, and on an unusual deck of cards. Work published in 2011 in Vlak issue 2 can also now be viewed online.
[30-Apr-12 ]
Andrew Nightingale‘s poem “Being Mary Henry” is included in VLAK, a biannual print magazine, published in Prague, London, New York, Paris, Melbourne and Amsterdam. The poem, based on the film Carnival of Souls (free to watch online) and annotated with eight diagrams, investigates what it is to be Mary Henry, the film’s protagonist.
[12-May-11 ]
Ten Clouds, a poem by Andrew Nightingale, is now available as a free ebook on the Red Ceilings Press website. The ten poems, based on ten types of cloud, form a narrative about an untranslatable book, a Venetian secret society, a Hungarian mathematician and swordsman, some experimental music, a Thai bride and a little martial art.
Also this month, Andrew’s poem, “The Pioneers”, has been published in Rialto 71.
[21-Apr-11 ]
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