Jonty Tiplady

Jonty Tiplady is a British born poet, filmmaker, cultural critic, and editor. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, an academic work with the writer Sarah Wood, and various essays. His book Zam Bonk Dip won the 2009 Crashaw Prize. Between 2011 and 2015 he was the creator of the Trillionaires multi-media project on Tumblr.
Biography and work
Tiplady was born in Wakefield, UK, in the north of England in 1976 and grew up in nearby Doncaster. He currently lives in Totnes, in Devon, on the south coast of England. In his early 20s he lived in Versailles and Paris and was taught by Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous. He gained a PhD from the University of Sussex in 2004, with a thesis entitled ‘Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Literature’.
Between 2007 and 2009, Tiplady edited Fly-by-Night Press out of Brighton, UK, publishing Marianne Morris' Tutu Muse, among other works of contemporary poetry. In 2015, he founded the publishing imprint TITLE, under which he also edits the experimental critical climate change journal of the same name. The creative/critical journal Confuse Your Hunger, edited by Tiplady, also appeared from TITLE in 2015.
Tiplady’s own poetry has been noted for its humour and for its ability to operate across and synthesize a range of cultural registers, as well as its closeness to 'pop music'. The poet Tim Atkins has written that Tiplady’s "engagement with 21st century culture (high, middlebrow, and low) exhibits a playfulness and clarity of language that has not been seen in Britain since the mid-70s volumes of Tom Raworth."
Tiplady has read his work in London, Brighton, Paris, New York, Manchester, and Doncaster. He has collaborated on various projects with the poet Ian Heames. His first extended collection of poems was published by Salt Publishing in 2009 as Zam Bonk Dip.
Tiplady is currently editing with philosopher Claire Colebrook a volume for Open Humanities Press (OHP) entitled The Semiotics of Isis. Also from OHP, his theoretical book 2014, will appear in the Critical Climate Change series (due 2016). He is also working on a book on the cinema of Isiah Medina and void theory called Parmenides Cinema, and has just finished the twenty first century epic FKA-DERRIDA.pdf. An earlier critical book co-authored with Sarah Wood, The Blue Guitar, was published by Artwords Press in 2007. The work concerned Pablo Picasso, Michael Tippett, Derek Bailey, Jacques Derrida, and the Wallace Stevens’ poem The Man with the Blue Guitar.
Books
*The Blue Guitar (with Sarah Wood, Artwords Press, London, 2007).
*Zam Bonk Dip (Barque Press, 2007).
*At the School of Metaphysics (Fly-by-Night Press, 2008).
*Above Shoes by Some Margin (Crater, 2008).
*Lol (Fly-by-Night Press, 2008).
*Lovesexxy (Fly-by-Night Press, 2008).
*Recovery (Happiness Texts, 2009).
*Zam Bonk Dip (Salt Publishing, 2009).
*Marine Snow (with Ian Heames, Face Press, 2014).
*The Undersong (Face Press, 2014).
* Sonnets 1 (with Ian Heames, Face Press, 2014).
*MS (TITLE, 2015).
*For Warmth (with Ian Heames, TITLE, 2015).
*Hidden Lake (TITLE, 2015).
*Unbeknownst (TITLE, 2015).
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