#Popshot meaning how to#
We learn how to appreciate rhythm and meter as children with the plethora of nonsense poetry and hand-me-down children's rhymes. TC: Why poetry in particular? JD: I think it came from a deep-rooted love of children's books. As I saw it, poetry was busy burying itself in a cloud of mystery and exclusivity whilst every other art form was effortlessly making itself more and more accessible. TC: And how did you come to be the editor and founder of an (infamous) poetry magazine? JD: From a standpoint of naivety, primarily. Jacob Demo: I'm 23 years old, currently residing between Oxford and London and the editor and founder of the infamous Popshot magazine. Almost by accident, I also ended up agreeing to contribute an interview with the poet Paul Farley to the current issue… Tom Chatfield: Tell me a little about yourself. A few months before the fourth issue of Popshot appeared, I met with Denno to talk about his perspective on poetry, why and how Popshot came into being, and what written poetry might mean in a digital age.
Started on a shoestring budget from the kitchen of an Oxford flat, within four issues Popshot has become the first UK poetry magazine ever to gain worldwide distribution, combining poetry and illustration, and putting some of the best voices of the performance generation on paper-where, it seems, there's a vigorous demand for their wares on paper as well as in person. And yet-founded in October 2008 and edited by 23-year-old Jacob Denno- Popshot Magazine has almost by accident begun to challenge this orthodoxy. Both poetry's written and its spoken words tend to be, in their respective ways, introverted and distant from the mainstream of literary culture. Very few poets sell more than a few hundred books more poetry is written and taught in universities, on courses and for competitions than exists outside of them and the burgeoning performance scene is usually seen as more an offshoot of the music scene than a new phase in the literary canon. The future of poetry is a quietly boring question that's been hanging around British letters for the last few decades.
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