What is The Continental Review?
Welcome to one of the internet's first video-only forums for contemporary poetry and poetics.
The Continental Review aims to be:
(1) A forum for video readings of new poetry
(2) A forum for diverse poetic/cinematic/multi-media experiences
(3) A forum for video interviews and filmed discussions on poetics
With close to 50 videos featured in its archives, the vision is to provide a haven for original video readings, video poetry and hybrid poetic-imagistic objects.
The Continental Review, in its (re)embodied real-time
, thus aims to become one of the primary stops for new video content related to contemporary poetry and poetics on the web.
Poetry hasn't missed or resisted the New Media boat, so why should poetry journals?
The Continental Review debuted from its Paris base in 2007 with the help of a video editor, a webmaster, and a number of extraordinary poets. There are no monthly or quarterly issues: the site is continuously updated, on a rolling basis, with new video reviews, readings and interviews. This is an evolving project. Evolution needs your support.
So watch the videos, partake in the experience of the
Gesamtkunstwerke of the new century, and please, tell us what you think.
Who said poetry couldn't be more personable? Who said it couldn't span the world?
Nicholas Manning
