The Continental Review

What is "The Continental Review"?

Welcome to the Web's first Video Forum for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. The Continental Review aims to be:

(1) A forum for video readings of new poetry (2) A forum for video reviews of new poetry (3) A forum for video interviews on poetics

It's early days, but the vision is to provide a haven for original video readings, coupled with a number of regular video-reviewers giving their opinions, in (re)embodied real-time, on recent books and issues relating to contemporary fiction, theory, poetry and poetics. The Continental Review thus aims to become the primary stop for video content related to contemporary poetics on the web.

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Poetry hasn't missed or resisted the New Media boat, so why should poetry journals? The Continental Review is debuting from its Paris base with the help of a video editor, a webmaster, and a number of extraordinary poets. There will be no monthly or quarterly issues: the site will be continuously updated, on a rolling basis, with new video reviews, readings and interviews. This is an evolving project. Evolution needs your support.

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So watch the videos, partake in the experience of the Gesamtkunstwerke of the new century, and please, tell us what you think. (Do note that all videos may also be easily viewed, and in full-screen, by going to The Continental Review's Video Channel). Who said poetry couldn't be more personable? Who said it couldn't span the world?