ISSUE 19

  

Brave New Word ISSUE 19

AKA Slight Return

Editor's note:

The last time i was doing Brave New Word - I was expecting to move forward with new issue coming out every quarter. 

It didn't happened because I wasn't feeling like doing another Brave New Word issue.

The pandemic, lots of dayjob, other commitments were keeping me away from the zine. It was draining. My heart wasn't there for a while and I didn't wanted to do a half-hearted issue.

But people kept sending stuff and I kept explaining that BNW was on hiatus. After a while, i looked through the submissions and understood that there is a new issue. 

Because of that, this issue is a celebration of those who believed in the meme of Brave New Word. 

A bit of comparison

• Issue 18 cycle had 162 submissions total. I was actively promoting the submission call and there were a lot of first-timers.
• Issue 19 "cycle" had 49 submissions total. Most of them were from folks who already were featured in BNW, but nevertheless - 49 is a lot. Especially if you consider that i went radio silence right after Issue 18 went live.

There is also another reason for hiatus - new Blogspot layout. For reasons beyond understanding, the whole post scheduling system doesn't work properly. Sure, it is just an inconvenience, but one that discourages you from doing anything on this platform.

Without further ado - Brave New Word, Issue 19.

Issue Line-up:

1. Vernon Frazer - 5 Pieces
2. Szilveszter Botond - Perspiration of Incision
3. Mark DuCharme - Three pieces
4. Stephen Bett - The Works
5. Jim Leftwich and Jeff Crouch - An assorted collection of collaborations
6. Christian ALLE - The Works
7. Seth Leeper - 5 poems
8. Andrew Brenza - Five Pieces
9. Charles J. March III - Crisis Scrawlings
10. Michael Basinski - The Works + Ode to Daphne
11. Karl Jirgens - Pareidolic Response
12. Yury Zavadsky - "ea" 

Yury Zavadsky - "ea"

 

Dr. Yury R. Zavadsky (Ukr. Юрій Завадський; official transliteration: Iurii Zavadskyi), poet, translator, literary critic, performancer, noise artist, PhD in Theory of Literature. 

Born in Ternopil, Ukraine in 1981. In 2006 completed his postgraduate studies at the Department of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature of the Faculty of Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University. 

Worked as an assistant to the Journalistic Department of the Philological Faculty of Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University. Today is CEO of Publishing House “Krok”. Currently is an editor of scientific almanac “Studia methodologica”. 

Yury published 5 books of poetry and has a number of publications in Ukrainian and Polish periodicals. Author of one of the first hypertextual poems in Ukraine “Cyharky”. 

In 2010 Yury Zavadsky recorded the album with band “ZSUF” (electronica, experimental, psychedelic music) under the title “zsuf yuryzavadsky” representing the first recorded Ukrainian project of such kind of music with sound poetry. 

Nowadays plays noise with band SUBPRODUKT. As translator and publisher, he works with authors from Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Fiji, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Georgia. Yury translates from Polish contemporary Polish poetry.

Here's his album EA. Recorded and mastered by DJ Kapusta

Jurij · ea - sound poetry album