Sean Bonney

Together with other UK-based poets, Bonney's work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival, combining with his abiding interest in left-wing radical movements such as British punk, the Angry Brigade, the Red Army Faktion, the American Black Power movement, Surrealism and revolutionary art in general.[7] Living at various points in Hackney, Hastings and Walthamstow, he was a regular attendee at the Bob Cobbing-led Writers Forum workshop, co-founding the reading series Xing the Line with Jeff Hilson, and co-editing the press Yt Communication with Frances Kruk.[8] A sequence of 14 line poems, The Commons, originally subtitled "A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle' combined contemporary uprisings with the voices of the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the english Civil War and "the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs".[9]

Following the completion of his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, from 2015 to 2019 Bonney was a postdoctoral researcher at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, conducting a project examining the work of Diane di Prima.[10]

Bonney died in a tragic accident on 13 November 2019 in Berlin.[11]

• London Review Bookshop Samplers, No. 2, Face Press, 2019.
• Our Death, Commune Editions, 2019.
• Ghosts, Materials, 2017.
• Cancer: Poems After Katerina Gogou, A Firm Nigh Holistic Press, 2016.
• All This Burning Earth: Selected Writing, Ill Will Editions (online), 2016.
• Letters Against the Firmament, Enitharmon Press, 2015
• Letters: on Harmony, Iodine Press, 2013
• Four Letters, Four Comments, Punch Press, 2012
• Happiness (Poems After Rimbaud), Unkant Publishing, 2011
• The Commons, Openned, 2011
• For the Administration, Crater Press, 2010
• 5 After Rimbaud, Grasp Press, 2010
• Document: Poems, Diagrams, Manifestos: July 7th 2005 - June 27th 2007, Barque Press, 2008
• Baudelaire in English, Veer Books, 2007
• 'from Tracts and Commentaries: A Lecture' (in Pilot: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, 2007)
• Black Water, Yt Communication, October 2006
• Document: hexprogress, Yt Communication, May 2006
• Blade Pitch Control Unit, Salt Publishing, 2005
• Poisons, Their Antidotes, West House Books, 2003
• Notes on Heresy, Writers Forum, 2002
• The domestic poem, Canary Woof, 2001
• From the book of living or dying, Writers Forum, 1999.
• Astrophil and Stella, Writers Forum, 1999.
• now that all the popstars are dead, damnation publications, 1996
• Marijuana in the breadbin, Doktor Hypno publications, 1992

• British Poetry Revival