black and white and red all over…..it’s like the Berlin Wall never fell
Belcher & Fulwood Industries present
OPEN BOOK + CHAINLINK =
writing on the perimeter
CHAINLINKis a NEW journal from Nottingham England of critical thinking about poetry, politics, art, culture and whatever burning issue the editor fixates upon at any given moment.
CHAINLINK is at odds with trends, movements, agendas, tick boxes and the poetry establishment in general.
CHAINLINK agrees with Andy Croft’s assertion that “conversations about poetry have been replaced by conversations about poets, discussions of tradition by accusations of plagiarism, and the language of literary criticism by the hyperbolic language of press releases promoting corporate prizes and celebrity book festivals.”
CHAINLINK values artistic integrity and craftsmanship over networking and blatant self-promotion, intelligent discussion over cheap social media acclamation, and the cut through of honest criticism over the infantile mindset of poetry as a “merit badge” activity.
CHAINLINK is radical or reactionary depending on your point of view, a natural candidate for cancellation or no-platforming that’ll be damned if anyone’s going to silence it. Whether Chainlink exists to keep its contributors inside or everybody else outside remains to be seen.
CHAINLINK is neither the hero you want nor the hero you need, but the anti-hero our divisive, deleterious and dumbed-down times deserve…
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