SurVision is an international English-languagesurrealist poetry project, comprising an onlinemagazine and a book-publishing outlet.SurVision magazine, founded in March 2017 by poetAnatoly Kudryavitsky, was a platform forsurrealist poetry from Ireland and the world. SurVision Books, the book imprint, started up the following year.
Editor | Anatoly Kudryavitsky and Tony Kitt |
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Categories | Literature |
Frequency | biannual |
Founder | Anatoly Kudryavitsky |
Founded | 2017 |
Country | Ireland |
Based in | Dublin |
Language | English |
Website | www |
SurVision published a biannualmagazine of the same name, containingsurrealistpoetry, includingtranslations 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. TheDublin Review of Books has called it "currently the only international magazine devoted exclusively to surrealist poetry."[1]
TheMunich-basedGerman-languageSignaturen Magazine announced that they will be publishing German translations of the best poems fromSurVision.[2] In an interview withSignaturen, Anatoly Kudryavitsky described the magazine's editorial policy:
AtSurVision, 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 inSurVision magazine was shortlisted forAn Post's Irish Poem of the Year.[3]
In July 2024, the editors announced on their website that "after eight successful years and the publication of 15 issues, the editors of SurVision felt that the magazine had come to a natural end of its time as a poetry periodical. However, the SurVision website will continue to display all the materials published from January 2017 until July 2024. SurVision will go on as a book-publishing outlet."
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 poetJames Tate.[4]
Year | Winners of 1st Prize | ||
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2018 | Christopher Prewitt | Anton Yakovlev | |
2019 | John Thomas Allen | John Bradley | |
2020 | Alan Elyshevitz | Henry Finch | |
2021 | Charles Borkhuis | Stuart Ross | |
2022 | Noah Falck andMatt McBride | Michael Zeferino Spring | |
2023 | Don Berger | Robert Miltner | Jeffrey Cyphers Wright |
2024 | Mark Blaeuer | Michael Handler Ruby |
SurVision started publishing books in April 2018. The first two titles in the New Poetics series were 34-page chapbooks byNoelle Kocot[5] and the Irish surrealist poetCiaran O'Driscoll.[6] More books followed, including a chapbook by the US Surrealist poetElin O'Hara Slavick, two full-size collections by the US Surrealist poetGeorge Kalamaras, andSelected Poems by the German poetAnton G. Leitner; in 2019, chapbooks by English experimental poetHelen Ivory[7] and Irish poetsJohn W. Sexton,[8] Afric McGlinchey, Tony Kitt,[9] and Tim Murphy;[10] and in 2020, chapbooks by Irish poets Matthew Geden andTony 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 inPoetry 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 ofIreland in 2018.[13]