SurVision

SurVision is an international online poetry magazine and book-publishing company. SurVision Magazine was founded in March 2017 in Ireland by poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist poetry in English. The book imprint, SurVision Books, followed in 2018.

SurVision Magazine[]

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, which includes both established and new writers from Ireland and elsewhere. The Dublin Review of Books has remarked that it is "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 outlined 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, the poem titled "The Snails" by John W. Sexton published in SurVision magazine was shortlisted for An Post Irish Poem of the Year.^[3]

SurVision Books[]

In April 2018, SurVision started their publishing project. The first two publications in the New Poetics series were 34-page chapbooks by Noelle Kocot^[4] and the Irish surrealist poet Ciaran O'Driscoll.^[5] More books followed, including a chapbook by the American Surrealist poet Elin O'Hara Slavick, a full-size collection by the American Surrealist poet George Kalamaras and Selected Poems by the German poet Anton G. Leitner;^[1] in early 2019, chapbooks by the English experimental poet Helen Ivory^[6] and the Irish poets John W. Sexton,^[7] Afric McGlinchey and Tim Murphy;^[8] in 2020, chapbooks by Irish poets Matthew Geden and Tony Bailie.^[9] According to the publisher's website, anthologies of contemporary Surrealist poetry from Ireland and Russia have been published in 2020.

Quoting the critic Michael S. Begnal, whose article in Poetry Ireland Trumpet is a detailed review of three poetry collections by Irish poets published by SurVision Books, "SurVision is a press that brings energy and excitement to Irish poetry."^[10]

According to a MEAS report providing statistics for Irish poetry publications, SurVision Books was the joint-second most prolific poetry press on the Island of Ireland in 2018.^[11]

Notable contributors[]

Publications[]

Collections of poetry[]

• George Kalamaras, That Moment of Wept. ISBN 978-1-9995903-7-6
• Anton G. Leitner, Selected Poems 1981-2015. Translated from German. ISBN 978-1-9995903-8-3

Anthologies[]

• Seeds of Gravity: An Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist Poetry from Ireland (2020) ISBN 978-1-912963-18-8
• MESSAGE-DOOR: An Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist Poetry from Russia, bilingual English/Russian (2020) ISBN 978-1-912963-17-1

Chapbook series (highlights)[]

• Noelle Kocot, Humanity. ISBN 978-1-9995903-0-7
• Ciaran O'Driscoll, The Speaking Trees. ISBN 978-1-9995903-1-4
• Elin O'Hara Slavick, Cameramouth. ISBN 978-1-9995903-4-5
• Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Stowaway. ISBN 978-1-9995903-2-1
• Helen Ivory, Maps of the Abandoned City. ISBN 978-1-912963-04-1
• John W. Sexton, Inverted Night. ISBN 978-1-912963-05-8
• Alison Dunhill, As Pure as Coal Dust. ISBN 978-1-912963-23-2

References[]

External links[]

• Editor's interview in Signaturen Magazine
• SurVision at Poets & Writers Database