Andrea Brady
	Born in Philadelphia, USA, 1974. Studied at Columbia University in New York and then at Cambridge University in the UK, where I wrote a PhD on seventeenth-century poetry. Now teach early modern literature as well as contemporary poetry at Queen Mary, University of London. I have given many public readings in the UK and the US, including at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver; the Centre Internationale de Poésie Marseille; Poetry Hearings Berlin, and a reading tour of the rust belt USA in April 2007. The US tour was mounted in support of the recent special issue of Chicago Review (53.1) on New British Poetry, which focused on her work along with that of Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Sutherland. I recently completed 'Wildfire', a large collaborative project about Greek Fire, White Phosphorous, obscurity and illumination, which has been published on the Dispatx art collective website. I am interviewed by Andrew Duncan on The Argotist website. With Keston Sutherland I run the small press Barque which specialises in contemporary English language poetry. A page describing my work is available at the British Electronic Poetry Centre; my professional qualifications are on display on a page at Queen Mary, University of London. I am the Director of the "Archive of the Now." I discussed the Archive with Rosheen Brennan in an interview for How2.
Recordings Most of this recording was made at Crossing the Line, the Plough, Museum Street, London, on 7 October 2005. 'Ammonia Crisps the Air' 'Building Site' 'Honesty' 'How Much to Have a Go' 'Hymn on the Nativity' 'A Quick Half in the Skinners Arms' 'Swing State' 'To Be Continued' 'WORKSITIN' 'Caught' 'Saw Fit' Reading at KSW, Vancouver 17 September 2005 Reading for National Poetry Day on 'World Update', BBC World Service, 6 Oct. 2005 The following recording was made at the Cambridge Women's Experimental Poetry festival, held 6-8 October 2006 in Cambridge, UK and organised by Emily Critchley and Catherine Brown. 'Friendship' from Wildfire: 'Pyrotechne' from Wildfire: 'Thrown Fire' from Wildfire: 'In Law' from Wildfire: 'Love's Fire' from Wildfire: 'Meat' from Wildfire: 'Alchemistry' Bibliography Poetry 'Wildfire' (2007, Dispatx.com) Embrace (Glasgow: Object Permanence, 2005, 57pp) Cold Calling (Barque Press, 2004) Vacation of a Lifetime (Cambridge and Applecross, Australia: Salt, 2001, 130 pp). Liberties (New York: Potes & Poets and Cambridge: Barque, 1999) Cranked Foil (Cambridge: Poetical Histories, 1997) Poems published in Arras, the baffler 15, big allis 8, the Capilano Review, CCCP 9 Poetry Archive, Chicago Review 47.3 (Fall 2001), The East Village Poetry Web 5 (1999), How2 1.8 (Fall 2002); Jacket 3, 9; Object Permanence 8 (Feb. 1997); Parataxis 10; Poetry Review 94.3 (Autumn 2004); Quid; Radical Society; Ratapallax; Salt 10 (1997); Slope; Stand n.s. 1.4 (Dec. 1999); triquarterly, Verse 16.3 and 17.1.  Criticism English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning. Early Modern Literature in History Series, ed. Cedric Brown and Andrew Hadfield (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).  'Making Use of This Pain: A Report from the John Wieners Archives', Paideuma, forthcoming 2008. 'The Other Poet: John Wieners, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Olson' in Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School, ed. Daniel Kane (Dalkey Archive Press, Dec. 2006, ISBN 1-56478-460-6) 'Dying with Honour: Literary propaganda and the second English Civil War', Journal of Military History 70.1 (Jan. 2006): 9-30 'Zero Longitude: Notes on Kevin Nolan's Elegiac Centres', The Paper 5 (Oct. 2002): 27-35; reprinted in Occasions of Poetry: Elegy, Walking, Spirituality, ed. David Kennedy (Stride, forthcoming 2006) 'For Immediate Delivery: on the semiotics of blogs' in Put About: a critical anthology on independent publishing, ed. Maria Fusco and Ian Hunt (London: Book Works, 2004) Entries for all contemporary American and British poets for The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge UP, 2005) 'Grief Work in a War Economy', Radical Philosophy (July/Aug. 2002): 7-12 Response to Don Paterson, New British Poetry,' Chicago Review 49.3/4 and 50.1 (Summer 2004) 'The Same War Continues: Denise Levertov, New Selected Poems', Poetry Review 94.2 (Summer 2004) 'Object Lessons: George Oppen, New Collected Poems', Poetry Review 94.1 (Spring 2004) 'Walking and Standing Still in Suffolk: R. F. Langley, More or Less', Poetry Review 93.1 (Spring 2003): 67-73 'Out of This World: Peter Robinson, Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen', Poetry Review 92.4 (Winter 2002): 96-99 'The Middle Distance: Lorine Niedecker, Collected Poems', Poetry Review 92.3 (Autumn 2002): 87-91 'A Review of Left Under a Cloud by Stephen Rodefer', Jacket 15 'Brief Notes on Reverses by John Wilkinson', Jacket 9 Review of Poetry magazine, Times Literary Supplement, 11 March 2005 Sample text: DAMAGED GOOD   In the clearing smoke scours the photographs, hiding the animal labour which moves insects and their information all over the face of the earth. I arrive in kind by light rail transport rough and undependable, rocking sideways with a peg of metal to make it ring eratogenically like spraypaint in a cylinder. And get my tag up on the boundary stone. Apprentice to the art of uniforms. Off the peg on the make, ashamed to be at ease among gillyflowers where I toss suffering to be carried back by animals, the cabbage moth, the ordinary bee. Chances start out anthological, and are re- distributed by rationing, for loss looks better and is altogether better an ethic.  I am who ties together the navigation menu all the compassed interests of Variety all three corners of the fading earth. Watch all day the screen in ratio, facing its light and movement with more affect and concentration than the branching face of a lover, as these spaces slip into degrees. Two move abreast the loan of specificity keeping an eye on the melancholic hourglass, poised beside the leftward arrow, of the machine asking us to wait some more. We share one hope, and it infuses even the green-lipped mussel we eat sickly, and the curl of green-fringing kale. It bolts up the sky and our assertion that there will be a future clearing the smoke swings from its rootless peg. That the blood will root, and take turns through all the living work done on the earth to divide and return to us intact. Ours is the most abstract, and furthest from the truth.   Reviews: Simon Perril, ‘Two Slices of Toast: Emptiness and Disappointment in Recent Works by Peter Manson and Andrea Brady’, Symbiosis 11.1 (April 2007): 75-88. Tom Jones, ‘Andrea Brady’s Elections’, Complicities (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, December 2007), 139-147. Josh Robinson, ‘“Abject Self on Patrol”: Immaterial Labour, Affect, and Subjectivity in Andrea Brady’s Cold Calling’, Complicities (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, December 2007), 148-157. John Wilkinson, ‘Off the Grid’, Chicago Review 53.1 (Spring 2007): 95-115, reprinted in The Lyric Touch (Cambridge: Salt, 2007). 'Behind the Veil', review of Embrace, by Marianne Morris, Jacket 29 (April 2006) Keston Sutherland, University of Sussex: 'Vocal Stupor 2: Notes on Love Poetry', and Jonathan Clay, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Andrea Brady's 'Saw Fit': Poetic Innovation and Politics' (New Readings of British Contemporary Poetry, University of Dundee, 3 June 2006) Robin Purves, 'American Change: A Note on Andrea Brady and the Language of Consumption', Edinburgh Review 114 (2004): 177-185 Stuart Kelly, 'All lines are busy', review of Cold Calling, Poetry Review 94.2 (Summer 2004): 95-7 Reviews of Vacation of a Lifetime: Publishers Weekly 23/9/02; Keith Elliot, Terrible Work; John Hall, 'Eluded readings: trying to tell stories about reading some recent poems', The Gig 15 (Sept. 2003). Review of Liberties: Nada Gordon, readme By downloading files from this site, you agree to our Terms and Conditions