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This series recovers important experimental texts from the modern and contemporary period and presents them as premium critical editions. The aim of the series is to shine new light on major figures of historical and contemporary avant-gardes, and issue definitive resources for lesser-known but emergent literary experimentalists of the twenty and twenty-first centuries. Balancing accessibility and scholarly acuity, the books range from queer surrealist poetry from the 1920s to recent work inspired by Black Lives Matter. These unique editions embrace work that defies generic perimeters through exploring new and neglected avenues in the field, such as avant-garde translation, ethnic avant-gardes, and digital avant-gardes.

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2 results in Edinburgh Foundations in Avant-Garde Writing

Her Silver-Tongued Companion
  • Reading Poems
  • Harryette Mullen
  • Edited by Georgina Colby
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    22 May 2026
    Print publication:
    31 July 2024
  • Harryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, collecting Mullen's works from 1981 to the present day. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers a full collection of Mullen's later poetry, with a sampler of poems from her early published work. The volume includes the collections 'Recyclopedia', 'Sleeping with the Dictionary', 'Urban Tumbleweed', 'Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems', a sampler of poems from Blues Baby, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullen's works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullen's works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullen's formal innovation, this Critical Edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullen's poetry, and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullen's extraordinary poetry, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century.

The Proposition
  • Uncollected Early Poems 1963-1983
  • Lyn Hejinian
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    18 March 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2024
  • Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with five poems written from 1963 to 1965, The Proposition collects Hejinian's previously uncollected works from 1963-1983 in one unique volume. The individual early works curated in this volume broaden the existing published collections of Hejinian's works, showing Hejinian's play with form, visual language, and linguistic experiment before the poet's move to project orientated writing practices. With a new Preface by Lyn Hejinian, and five essays by prominent critics in the field, the volume offers both a new collection of Hejinian's poetry and an important scholarly resource for students, scholars, and readers of contemporary avant-garde writing more widely.