Biography
Before coming to Chicago, James Garwood-Cole lived in London and Brighton, England. James works primarily (though not only) with avant-garde anglophone poetries of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is concerned with the possibilities of poetics as thought: contra the prosaic, the positive, and narrative as such. Their research investigates how these possibilities interact with, diagnose, and undermine logics of valuation, exchange, and received notions of the commensurable in the expanded—that is, the social, cultural, and aesthetic—field.
James is also a poet, particularly interested in small press production and coterie distribution models. For the Brighton-based ‘Hi Zero’ reading series, in collaboration with Face Press and Earthbound Press, Room Sequence was written, printed with Risograph, and circulated, in 2019. New writing is forthcoming