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The Conversation Papers
PublisherThe Conversation Paperpress
Country United Kingdom
Website conversationpoetry.co.uk

The Conversation Papers (formerly Conversation Poetry Quarterly) is a UK-based poetry magazine founded in 2007 and produced by The Conversation Paperpress. The magazine aims to promote the idea of poetry as a socially critical art [1] and is the connected to the Dialecticist school of poetic thought.

In 2009 it became the English-language publication of The Conversation International [2] - a radical writing and publishing collective with members from countries across the world, with the aim of creating a cross-cultural poetic dialogue through translation and co-operative publishing.

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References

  1. "Official website". Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  2. Conversation International Archived 2010-11-25 at the Wayback Machine