For Will Rowe Veer Vier: For Will Rowe Veer Journal 4 Veer Books 2014 Veer 056 Published by Veer Books in September 2013, electronic version 2014. Copyright and all other rights remain with the individual authors/artists. Many thanks to the authors for their contributions to this journal. Edited by Carol Watts and Stephen Mooney, and Co-edited with additional authors for the electronic version by Aodán McCardle, with special thanks and gratitude to Constanza Ceresa for all her work on this project, and on the jamboree itself. Front cover poem: Maggie O’Sullivan, ‘For Will Rowe’ Back cover poem: Aodán McCardle, from stonepoems ISSN: 2046-3529 EAN: 977-2046352-00-9 Veer Books would like to acknowledge the support of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) Birkbeck, and the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, since 2003, and that of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey. For more Veer Books see http://www.veerbooks.com Alternatively, you can email Veer Books at
[email protected] For Will Rowe 'What poetry needs to be in this situation, changes'. On the occasion of your jamboree, poems to celebrate a friend, colleague, comrade, poet, whose curiosity and commitment work at the stakes of what poetry needs to be. You make things possible. With love and thanks. Veer Vier: For Will Rowe Front Cover Image, Maggie O’Sullivan, ‘For Will Rowe’ Will Rowe, ‘POETRY EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE’ 9 Gilbert Adair, from syzem plate 31: For Will 11 Demosthenes Agrafiotis, ‘GENOPRIMITIVE’ 13 Bruce