Paul Holman

Paul Holman has been engaged for some twenty years upon The Memory of the Drift, a shifting but ultimately circular work which is both a record of operations and a process in itself. Four previously issued sections were gathered in paperback by Shearsman Books in 2007. Tara Morgana is Book Five, but stands alone as a work.

He co-edited the Invisible Books imprint with Bridget Penney through the 1990s, publishing work by Bill Griffiths, Stewart Home, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and others. He has read in the SubVoicive, Blue Bus and Xing the Line series, at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, and Scarlet Imprint’s Pleasuredome. A setting of his writing has also been performed by the loop-based vocal group Askew and Avis.

He has been working intermittently on a side project based around contemporary expressions of the oracular: while some of this material has been separately published, rather more than he intended has been absorbed into the mainstream of his writing. He is a long-standing member of the Field Study mail art group. Much of the material contained in The Memory of the Drift has its origin in Field Study manifestations, which have both supplied an occasion for his work and offered it a testing ground. His website can be found at: http://taramorgana.com