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About James Knight

James Knight is an experimental poet and digital artist, whose work has appeared recently in Minor Literature(s), Fur-Lined Ghettos, The Interpreter’s House, Burning House Press, and Reflections, an anthology published by Penteract Press. Void Voices, his polyphonic reimagining of Dante’s Inferno, was published by Hesterglock Press in 2018. You can find him at thebirdking.com and on Twitter @badbadpoet.

Monster: visual poems by James Knight

James Knight

Veiny Cathedral Transaction (detail) - visual poetry by James Knight

Monster is a sequence of visual poems, in which I interrogate notions of the monstrous, mixing gothic tropes with cut-up text from Karl Marx, Bram Stoker, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, Slipknot, … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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