SurVision


SurVision is an international online poetry magazine and book-publishing company. SurVision Magazine was founded in March 2017 in Ireland by poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist poetry in English. The book imprint, SurVision Books, followed in 2018.

SurVision Magazine

SurVision publishes a biannual magazine of the same name, containing Surrealist poetry, including translations from other languages. The magazine has been noted for the range of its contributors, which includes both established and new writers from Ireland and elsewhere. The Dublin Review of Books has remarked that it is "currently the only international magazine devoted exclusively to surrealist poetry."
The Munich-based German-language Signaturen Magazine announced that they will be publishing German translations of the best poems from SurVision. In an interview with Signaturen, Anatoly Kudryavitsky outlined the magazine's editorial policy:
In 2018, the poem titled "The Snails" by John W. Sexton published in SurVision magazine was shortlisted for An Post Irish Poem of the Year.

SurVision Books

In April 2018, SurVision started their publishing project. The first two publications in the New Poetics series were 34-page chapbooks by Noelle Kocot and the Irish surrealist poet Ciaran O'Driscoll. More books followed, including a chapbook by the American Surrealist poet Elin O'Hara Slavick, a full-size collection by the American Surrealist poet George Kalamaras and Selected Poems by the German poet Anton G. Leitner; in early 2019, chapbooks by the English experimental poet Helen Ivory and the Irish poets John W. Sexton, Afric McGlinchey and Tim Murphy; in 2020, chapbooks by Irish poets Matthew Geden and Tony Bailie. According to the publisher's website, anthologies of contemporary Surrealist poetry from Ireland and Russia have been published in 2020.
Quoting the critic Michael S. Begnal, whose article in Poetry Ireland Trumpet is a detailed review of three poetry collections by Irish poets published by SurVision Books, "SurVision is a press that brings energy and excitement to Irish poetry."
According to a MEAS report providing statistics for Irish poetry publications, SurVision Books was the joint-second most prolific poetry press on the Island of Ireland in 2018.

Notable contributors

Collections of poetry