This site was set up in April 2007 to replace an earlier site which had accumulated, over many years, on the British Library server.

It largely consists of links to web publication + poems and other writing which has been published on the web and elsewhere but is no longer available.

Poems and other writing which have appeared in print is included although at least a year is allowed to elapse first because, where possible, readers should purchase the magazines and anthologies concerned. Also included are writings which, for whatever reason, have not found favour with editors.

Thus, this website will nearly always refer to writing that is to a varying extent in the past; nor is the web ideal for all kinds of writing. Some visual poetry is designed for the page; and its appearance here is, effectively, that of a new version.

It is now somewhat out of date, something I am working on. You may also be interested in my artslant pages

All material on this website and on the links within it is copyright. All copyright is owned by Lawrence Upton except where otherwise stated. All rights are reserved. Material may be downloaded and printed out only in the form in which it appears on the website. Aside from purposes of individual reading or study as recognised under international copyright law, no part of this website may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Serious enquiries are welcome.

"Visually-emphatic poetry" is an awkward term which has not found favour. Upton made it up in the 1990s out of the dislike of the more sayable but less informative "visual poetry". An indicative term is needed; but there is no firm divison between between "visual poetry" and "linear poetry"; a fact which is not altered by changing terminology!

The term "linear poetry" is ridiculous; but, short of saying "non-visually-emphatic poetry", there seems little choice but to use it.