Y’all want some contemporary poetry recommendations?

The Odyssey by @Jkchunt is an epic poem (comprising a long series of erasure poems), in which the narratives of the Apollo 11 mission, Homer’s Odyssey and 2001: A Space Odyssey are played out simultaneously in a self-reflexive journey into the reader’s inner space.

In Un coup de dés... @ezboya transforms Mallarmé’s poem into an ecstasy of feather-sharp ruptures. The void is a thick cream. The word, the gesture, in joyous anguish: explosante-fixe!

Through Servant Drone, @umaestrutura and @haulpawkins (de)construct little artefacts made of greetings cards, blood and economic instability. Collaboration? Dance? Boxing match? All of the above. And a gathering of the detritus that defines us.

Matthew Mahaney’s poetic algorithms bypass routines of mimesis and self-expression. A human is a machine. A poem is a series of unexecutable instructions. @salopress

In Object Permanence, @Toby_Fitch’s inventive, challenging calligrammes track luminous words through the void of the printed page. No dead poeticisms here: language living in a captured *now*.

Stray Arts by is a virtuosic display of poetic inventiveness, in which @Anthony_Etherin adopts a range of constraints and thereby imparts every word and image with startling energy. The man’s a modern Frankenstein: behold his creation!

The visual poems in Messages from Elsewhere - An Alien Graffiti by @littledeaths68 take writing back to its intuitively pictographic origins. Each piece seems both figurative and abstract, asemic and logographic. Utterly wonderful. @timglaset

Astropolis by @HeyAstranaut recalls the excitement and sense of discovery of early modernism. The poems are inviting, delightful, challenging, dynamic. I keep going back to this book.

Lots of people can see faces in patterns created by weathering of old stonework. @maryfrancesness sees miniature epics. Sea Pictures combines beautiful photography with a cut-up of Melville and Coleridge, narrated in a compelling first person plural.

contra FLUX by @mdbolsover layers musings, allusions and illusions, in the stream-of-consciousness of a mind tuning in and phasing out of itself and the perceived world. A thousand troubled moments make a tumbling monument.

In Extreme Violets, @miggyangelpoet’s visionary autobiography, spirit and matter inhabit the same space, a nocturnal cityscape graffitied with the blood of the poet. The poems are raw, unguarded, disquietingly beautiful.

Blood. Flower. Joy! by @cwoodwardpoetry is an organic, incantatory synthesis of voices ancestral and contemporary. Each poem is an earthy celebration and a woozy spell. @KFandS_press

Ada Unseen by Frances Presley codifies the mathematics of beauty through a set of variations on the life and work of Ada Lovelace. The poems are consciously orientated in the landscape of our current ecological concerns. @ShearsmanBooks

In Perseverance Valley @campanilecave makes ludic-melancholic music, channelling the voices of the Mars Rovers in a meditation on language, time, togetherness and the relationships between distant objects. @KFandS_press

palingEnesia by @cornpone loops a novel set of pictographic figurations in combinations that make funny machines, brutal nostalgia, and the blips and bloops of our interactions. The colours are gorgeous.

and what if we were all allowed to disappear ( @taniahershman) demonstrates that innovative structural devices needn’t be detrimental to accessibility or emotional impact. The book reminds me of Webern’s music; every poem is a brief movement of startling invention & condensation.

On the Rod is @x_rVb_x’s subversive reVISION of Kerouac’s macho-poetic road novel. A wealth of techniques including erasure, painting and collage create a living poetry out of a dead book. There’s a ferocious, iconoclastic humour at work throughout.

All Particles & Waves by @DavidSpittle7 is a journey into the loops and warps of language and memory, expressed in surrealistic imagery and quicksand syntax.

In Death Magazine @MattHaighPoetry employs a Dadaist scalpel to excise from the corpse of our culture the addled brain, the empty heart. Here you’ll find masterfully crafted cut-up and sardonic lyricism. @saltpublishing

In this delightful collection of prose poems @omahaglenn demonstrates that experimental poetry need not be a po-faced business. The banality of our discourse is remixed, reconfigured in satirical, absurd vignettes.

There’s an intriguing restlessness and rootlessness in @Shadow2train’s Identity Papers. I love these prose poems: they’re understated, often touching or funny, and they operate with the perfect logic of a dream.

Corpses by @VikShirley is a series of delightfully morbid vignettes, prose poems laced with irony and wit. The collection is a fairground mirror to our absurd lives.

Aase Berg’s Dark Matter enacts the violence of being and the threat of extinction in an imaginary hellish landscape that corresponds powerfully with our fragile, complicated reality. This book, translated by @JohannesGoranss, is a work of genius.

The House of the Tree of Sores by @p_cunning is a Swedish-English Ikea hellscape. Eschewing the comfortingly unheimlich manoeuvres of mild surrealism, the poet’s volatile word-world is a threat and a challenge, to the world and to the reader. Utterly stunning.