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SurVision is an international English-language surrealist poetry project, comprising an online magazine and a book-publishing outlet. SurVision magazine, founded in March 2017 by poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky, is a platform for surrealist poetry from Ireland and the world. SurVision Books, the book imprint, started up the following year.

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SurVision Magazine

SurVision
EditorAnatoly Kudryavitsky and Tony Kitt
Categories Literature
Frequencybiannual
FounderAnatoly Kudryavitsky
Founded2017
Country Ireland
Based in Dublin
LanguageEnglish
Website www.survisionmagazine.com

SurVision publishes a biannual magazine of the same name, containing surrealist poetry, including translations from other languages. The magazine has been noted for the range of its contributors, who have included both established and new writers from Ireland and other parts of the world. The Dublin Review of Books has called it "currently the only international magazine devoted exclusively to surrealist poetry." [1]

The Munich-based German-language Signaturen Magazine announced that they will be publishing German translations of the best poems from SurVision. [2] In an interview with Signaturen, Anatoly Kudryavitsky described the magazine's editorial policy:

At SurVision, we appreciate rich language and honed poetic skills. We have a soft spot for poetic experiments, but we believe that such an experiment has to be successful in order to beget publishable texts. The reader will probably notice that we prefer poems that create distinct visual images to abstract Surrealist poems. [2]

In 2018, John W. Sexton's poem "The Snails" which appeared in SurVision magazine was shortlisted for An Post's Irish Poem of the Year. [3]

The James Tate International Poetry Prize

Since 2018, SurVision has awarded the annual James Tate International Poetry prize for the most favoured collection of surrealist poems. So far, the prize has always been shared between two or more poets. The prize was named in honour of the writer and poet James Tate. [4]

YearWinners of 1st Prize
2018 Christopher Prewitt Anton Yakovlev
2019 John Thomas Allen John Bradley
2020Alan Elyshevitz Henry Finch
2021 Charles Borkhuis Stuart Ross
2022 Noah Falck and Matt McBride Michael Zeferino Spring
2023 Don Berger Robert Miltner Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

SurVision Books

SurVision started publishing books in April 2018. The first two titles in the New Poetics series were 34-page chapbooks by Noelle Kocot [5] and the Irish surrealist poet Ciaran O'Driscoll. [6] More books followed, including a chapbook by the US Surrealist poet Elin O'Hara Slavick, two full-size collections by the US Surrealist poet George Kalamaras, and Selected Poems by the German poet Anton G. Leitner; in 2019, chapbooks by English experimental poet Helen Ivory [7] and Irish poets John W. Sexton, [8] Afric McGlinchey, Tony Kitt, [9] and Tim Murphy; [10] and in 2020, chapbooks by Irish poets Matthew Geden and Tony Bailie. [11] Anthologies of contemporary Surrealist poetry from Ireland and Russia were also published in 2020, followed by an anthology of Ukrainian poetry about the war edited by Tony Kitt and published in April 2022. In May 2022, SurVision announced on their website that Tony Kitt joined their editorial team.

In his detailed review in Poetry Ireland Trumpet of three collections of work by Irish poets, Michael S. Begnal has written that "SurVision is a press that brings energy and excitement to Irish poetry." [12]

According to a MEAS report containing a statistical analysis of Irish poetry publications, SurVision Books was the joint-second most prolific poetry press on the island of Ireland in 2018. [13]

Notable contributors

Publications

Collections of poetry

Anthologies

Chapbook series (highlights)

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References

  1. Tim Murphy, On the Waves of the Surreal, Dublin Review of Books, 1 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 Kühn, Kristian E. "Interview Anatoly Kudryavitsky engl. - Signaturen". signaturen-magazin.de. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  3. Shortlist unveiled for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018, An Post, 25 October 2018.
  4. James Tate Prize,SurVision.
  5. Matthew Paul. Let's Get Metaphysical Sphinx Reviews, 2020
  6. Poem of the week: Kiss, The Irish Times, 27 July 2019.
  7. Rosie Jackson, Maps of the Abandoned City by Helen Ivory, London Grip Poetry Review, 19 July 2019
  8. Wakey, Wakey by Colin O'Sullivan, Dublin Review of Books, 1 September 2020
  9. Heidi Beck, Twinkling mischief, Sphinx Reviews, 2019.
  10. Helena Nelson, An art gallery of poems, Sphinx Reviews, 2020.
  11. Co Down writer and Irish News journalist wins international poetry prize, The Irish News, 5 February 2020.
  12. Michael S. Begnal. "Fusion Fission: Surrealism now". Poetry Ireland Trumpet #8, July 2019, p. 9
  13. Dr Kenneth Keating and Dr Ailbhe McDaid, Gender in Poetry Publishing in Ireland, MEAS, Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector: Literature in Ireland, 2018.