The Art of Posthumous Publication: Emily Skillings on John Ashbery

In this episode, the Burgess Foundation&Andrew Biswell talks to Emily Skillings, editor of a posthumous collection of poems by the seminal American poet John Ashbery, titled Parallel Movement of the Hands. John Ashbery was one of the most celebrated American poets of the twentieth century. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 collection Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which won three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The earlier book, Some Trees, published in 1956, was selected by WH Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Over the course of his career, he was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a MacArthur Fellow from 1985 to 1990. In 2012, he was presented with a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Ashbery died in 2017 at the age of ninety. Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery, is available now from Carcanet. For more information visit: bit.ly/AshberyAtCarcanet For more information about Anthony Burgess, and to find out how you can support the Burgess Foundation, visit www.anthonyburgess.org If you have enjoyed this podcast, don’t forget to leave us a review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.