Tim Atkins
The author of many books, including Atkins Collected Petrarch, Deep Osaka, Koto Y Yo, On Fathers < On Daughtyrs , 25 Sonnets, Petrarch, and Horace. His poems have appeared in many anthologies, including The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem (2018) The Reality Street Book of the Sonnet, and Faber’s The Thunder Mutters (edited by Alice Oswald). He is also the author of a play: The World’s Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt, and a novel The Bath-Tub (forthcoming from Boiler House Press). He has read and performed his work in the Houses of Parliament (for Pussy Riot), in concert at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and all over North America and Europe.
He has been a member of the summer faculty at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and a member of Carla Harryman’s Poets’ Theatre in San Francisco. His work has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Catalan, French, and Lithuanian. His current work is the long poem NOTHING CONCLUSIVE HAS YET TAKEN PLACE IN THE WORLD THE ULTIMATE WORD OF THE WORLD AND ABOUT THE WORLD HAS NOT YET BEEN SPOKEN THE WORLD IS OPEN AND FREE EVERYTHING IS STILL IN THE FUTURE AND WILL ALWAYS BE and sections are appearing in poetry journals in the USA, the UK, and Canada.
Testimonial
“My time as BMoCA + SWOON International Artist 2019 was wonderful. I arrived with the aim of completing a manuscript that I had been working on for eighteen months and, by the end of my residency, it was done. The time and the space that I was given allowed me to get through thousands of editorial decisions with speed and clarity.
Of equal importance was the fact that I met a diverse and hugely-talented group of practitioners who were extremely generous with their time and their work, and who were hugely interested in, and supportive of mine. It was moving and exciting to present my work to a large and appreciative audience. The time that I spend here will be important to me—creatively and personally—for the rest of my life.”