Edmund
Ogawa
Hardy
Ogawa
Hardy
Edmund Ogawa Hardy
Books
Desire for Tears (Earthbound Press, 2023)
Every Cruel Thing (Monitor Books, 2021)
Complex Crosses (Contraband, 2014)
Viersomes 000, with Danny Hayward, SL Mendoza, Samuel Solomon (Veer, 2007)
Selected Screenings
‘Delinking Genesis’ (6min short) at Avalon Cafe, London, 2025; Cittipunkt, Berlin, 2025; Genesis Cinema, London, 2025.
Negative Worlds (88min feature) screened at Flatline City Festival, Tokyo 2024; EBB, Bristol, 2025; Runnymede Festival at Senate House, University of London, 2025; Peckhamplex, London, 2025; Carlton Club, Manchester, 2025.
‘Entering the Data Sea’ (3min short) at Bonnington Film Club, London, 2023.
‘Red Moon Journey’ (4min short) at Four Corners Gallery, London (as part of F(r)ictions at London Short Film Festival), 2022.
‘Nine Poems’ (11min short) at Camden Arts Centre (as part of the87Press residency), 2022.
Selected Journalism
I write about politics and poetry for various magazines.
On Jackie Wang’s Dreaming Is Free (Tribune, 2022)
Review of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dread Dialectics (Jacobin, 2021)
On Russian Formalism and the language of Lenin (Tribune, 2021)
Academic Essays and Talks
It Could Be Otherwise – John Seed’s Poetry. Social History Journal 50.4, 2025.
Writing Race Under Capital: Nisha Ramayya, Nat Raha, and Daljit Nagra’s ‘Ramayana’. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 2020. Read here.
Art’s Emancipatory Promise Commodified But Also Recast seminar talk at Cambridge English Faculty. 2019. Listen to a recording.
The Cover That Uncovers: mixed-race poetics at the RAPAPUK: Legacies of Colonialism conference in Cambridge in 2018.
Workshops and Education
Previously run or co-organised various walks and workshops on topography and writing, including 'The Economics of Global Turbulence' workshop at Anti-University (June, 2018) and 'Mapping the Elephant', a day-long workshop with The Architecture Foundation (2014). I led a walk at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival (2017) on fantasy and urban detail around Stoke Newington Church Street. With Nisha Ramayya, devised and led a performance/ walk/ poetry workshop at Churchill College, Cambridge (2024).
As Publisher
With James Wilkes I edited Capsule Editions, publishing essays by Denise Riley among others. I created and edited Intercapillary Editions, publishing a zine, book series of contemporary poetry and hosting events at Parasol Unit gallery.
Other Projects
Podcasts and recordings
Miscellaneous projects
Contact
edmundhardy@hotmail.com / Instagram