Preface -- Introduction: Form, Forms and Forming -- 1. Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic Artifice and Naturalization in Theory and Practice -- 2. Convention and Constraint: Form in the Innovative Sonnet Sequence -- 3. Translation as Transformation: Tim Atkins' and Peter Hughes' Petrarch -- 4. Meddling the Medieval: Caroline Bergvall and Erín Moure -- 5. Translation as Occupation: Simon Perril and Sean Bonney -- 6. Rosmarie Waldrop: Poetics, Wild Forms and Palimpsest Prose -- 7. The Trace of Poetry and the Non-Poetic: Conceptual Writing and Appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place and John Seed -- 8. Stefan Themerson: Iconopoeia and Thought-Experiments in the Theater of Semantic Poetry -- 9. The Making of the Book: Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher -- 10. Geraldine Monk's Poetics and Performance: Catching Form in the Act -- 11. Form and the Antagonisms of Reality: Barry MacSweeney's Sin Signs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.