NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4907359268 ISBN 13: 9784907359263

Publisher: Isobar Press, 2019

This anthology presents a carefully arranged and strikingly diverse selection of poems from the issues of NOON: journal of the short poem that appeared between 2004 and 2017. Focusing on poems of less than fourteen lines, Philip Rowland has assembled a richly suggestive, renga-like chain of over two hundred poems by almost half as many poets, at the same time showcasing some of the most interesting minimalist poetry being written in English today.

Review:

Praise for the journal:

It cheers me up that there are still people on the planet who think poetry is worth such care and attention. – Geraldine Monk

So full of splintered richness. – Jane Hirshfield

Evidences the wealth of the minimalist tradition, resolutely international. – Alistair Noon

NOON succeeds in exemplifying the Borgesian idea that all literature can be read as by a single author, that ‘in this correlation, the identity or plurality of men’ (or of women) ‘doesn’t matter.’ – Barry Schwabsky

You have drawn together so many I have prized so long – who would have seemed an improbable mix, if not ‘incompatible’ – and, placing them side by side, shown how they are wholly of a time, a world, ours. – John Martone

About the Author:

Originally from London, Philip Rowland is a long-time resident of Tokyo, where he works as a professor of English. He has published widely on contemporary short-form poetry and poetics and is the founding editor of NOON: journal of the short poem; he is also co-editor of the anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013). He has published five books or pamphlets of poetry, the latest being Something Other Than Other (Isobar Press, 2016).