Sean Bonney Explained

Sean Noel Bonney (21 May 1969 – 13 November 2019) was an English poet born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England. He lived in London and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in Berlin.[1] He was married to the poet Frances Kruk.[2] Charles Bernstein published poet William Rowe's obituary for Bonney in US online magazine Jacket2,[3] as well as releasing his own poem The Death of Sean Bonney.[4] Detailed notes to Bonney's poetics by Jacob Bard-Rosenberg are featured on the Poetry Foundation website.[5] The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry has published a special edition on Bonney.[6]

His publications include Blade Pitch Control Unit (2005), Baudelaire in English (2008), Document (2009), The Commons (2011), Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud (2011), Letters Against the Firmament (2015), and Our Death (2019).

Life and work

Together with other UK-based poets, Bonney's work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival, combining with his abiding interest in left-wing radical movements such as British punk, the Angry Brigade, the Red Army Faktion, the American Black Power movement, Surrealism and revolutionary art in general.[7] Living at various points in Hackney, Hastings and Walthamstow, he was a regular attendee at the Bob Cobbing-led Writers Forum workshop, co-founding the reading series Xing the Line with Jeff Hilson, and co-editing the press Yt Communication with Frances Kruk.[8] A sequence of 14 line poems, The Commons, originally subtitled "A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle' combined contemporary uprisings with the voices of the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the english Civil War and "the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs".[9]

Following the completion of his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, from 2015 to 2019 Bonney was a postdoctoral researcher at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, conducting a project examining the work of Diane di Prima.[10]

Bonney died in an accident on 13 November 2019 in Berlin.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff . Harriet . RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019) . Poetry Foundation . 22 November 2019.
  2. Web site: Sean Bonney . Poetry Foundation . 7 January 2020.
  3. Web site: Sean Bonney (1969–2019) by William Rowe | Jacket2.
  4. Web site: Bernstein. Charles. The Death of Sean Bonney. Chicago Review. 4 February 2020.
  5. Web site: Jacob Bard-Rosenberg on Sean Bonney's Writing: 'One of the most important political efforts of our time' by Harriet Staff . 27 December 2022 .
  6. Web site: Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry | Collection .
  7. Web site: Sean Bonney, 1969-2019. 21 April 2020.
  8. Web site: Yt Communication blog. https://web.archive.org/web/20120626162741/http://ytcommunication.blogspot.com/. dead. 2012-06-26. 2012-06-26. 2019-12-06.
  9. Web site: Openned - Print - The Commons - Sean Bonney. openned.com. en. 2019-12-06.
  10. Web site: Sean Bonney. 2016-03-31. jfki.fu-berlin.de. de. 2019-12-06.
  11. Web site: RIP Sean Bonney (1969–2019) by Harriet Staff Poetry Foundation. 9 February 2022.

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