{"id":2080,"date":"2012-05-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:37:38","slug":"adventures-in-form-receives-a-pbs-special-commendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/adventures-in-form-receives-a-pbs-special-commendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Form receives a PBS Special Commendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to say that our recent bumper publication, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/02\/adventures-in-form\/\">Adventures in Form: A Compendium of New Poetic Forms, Rules &amp; Constraints<\/a> has received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Book Society.<\/p>\n<p>In their Summer bulletin, published today, the PBS describe the book as &#8216;an anthology that sparkles and intrigues&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;<em>Adventures in Form<\/em> raises fundamental questions, about the value of novelty to poetry, for example, about change and choice, sense and nonsense, and about the concept of &#8216;voice&#8217; in poetry, how it might be revitalised, channelled and challenged&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other reviews, Todd Swift calls it &#8216;one of the most eye-opening books of the decade&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/toddswift.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/04\/adventures-in-form.html\">Eyewear<\/a>) whilst Katy Evans-Bush says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;<em>Adventures in Form<\/em> is a gem, gorgeous as always from Penned in the Margins, and ambitious. It\u2019s stuffed full of sweets. The book is a joy. It\u2019s full of discoveries. It marks a new era where poets of different kinds can work together on an acknowledged shared project, instead of dicing up the whole project of poetry into tiny bits.&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/baroqueinhackney.com\/2012\/03\/31\/adventures-in-form-among-others\/\">Baroque in Hackney<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m also thrilled that <em>Adventures<\/em> was highlighted on the back page of the <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em> where Paul Stephenson, Valerie Laws and Nathan Penlington came in for particular praise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tom<\/p>\n<p><em>Adventures in Form<\/em> features over ninety poems by forty-six contributors including Patience Agbabi, Christian B\u00f6k, Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Roddy Lumsden, Ian McMillan, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel and Hannah Silva.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/02\/adventures-in-form\/\">Order online for \u00a39.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to say that our recent bumper publication, Adventures in Form: A Compendium of New Poetic Forms, Rules &amp; Constraints has received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Book Society. In their Summer bulletin, published today, the PBS describe the book as &#8216;an anthology that sparkles and intrigues&#8217;&#8230; &#8216;Adventures in Form raises fundamental questions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16199,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/16199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}