Month: July 2011

Better Than Language Anthology Launch

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Better Than Language brings together the work of thirteen young poets engaging with the broadest conceivable range of late modernist modes and strategies. Sometimes difficult but always enticing, the restlessly smart poems collected here offer a wide-open invitation to adventurous readers.

The poets represented are:
SARAH KELLY | JONNY LIRON | FRANCESCA LISETTE | JOE LUNA | NAT RAHA | LINUS SLUG | JOSH STANLEY | TIMOTHY THORNTON | ANNA TICEHURST | JONTY TIPLADY | MIKE WALLACE-HADRILL | TOMAS WEBER | and STEVE WILLEY

Paperback 234x156mm: 253pp
Publication date: 25 July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9563706-1-7

Launch events:

Thursday 28th July:
Stoke Newington International Airport
London N16 7NJ
7.30pm
£5, or free entry with book purchase (£10 on the night)

Monday 8th August:
Hi Zero
Brighton
details to follow – http://hizeroreadings.tumb​lr.com/

» Maintenant #68: Ulf Stolterfoht

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Concepts that may link poets from one nation are as fraught as the idea of nationhood itself. The poet who truly understands the nature of his own beginnings, most often by acquiescing to a conceived misunderstanding, perhaps offers the finest representation of his language and his country. Often only in the trace, the fragments, the shadows and the bunkered leftovers of language and expression can the truly analytical, intellectual and philosophically rigorous poet find safe ground. Thus we come to Ulf Stolterfoht , simply one of the most sophisticated and brilliant poetic minds of our generation, conceivably of any generation. Utterly unique, wise, witty and thoroughly considered, Stolterfoht’s work has been a beacon in European poetry for some time, and his standing has been a lightning rod for many poets he might call his peers. In one of the finest interviews given for the series, we present one of the finest German poets of his generation.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-68-ulf-stolterfoht/

Accompanying the interview are four of Ulf’s poems.

Infinite Editions e-poetry postcards

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Editor Andrew Spragg has been amassing an impressive list of poets for his e-postcard series, so far including Tom Raworth and Emily Critchley and more. You can even print them as postcards and send to your loved ones. After opening the file in Google reader choose ‘file’ to open as a pdf. From there select ‘print’. In print choose ‘multiple pages’ where it reads page scaling and tick ‘page borders’

LINK

zimZalla object 010: # – Richard Barrett

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#: Richard Barrett

# is a treatment of selected text output from the @_M_I_A_ Twitter feed. Using instinctive interventions, the original text has been transformed to create a new artefact. Echoes, repetitions and ghost-motifs occur and re-occur throughout #, laying trails true and false, with the # symbol doubling as medical shorthand for “fracture”. For distribution, the complete work has been split into fifty micro-texts of which only a single version exists, each presented in a labelled vial and accompanied by a bespoke extraction tool. # can be owned individually only in part and totally only in common. Each micro-text object is available in exchange for a gift, which can be in a physical, digital, verbal, gestural, symbolic or any other form. Use and exchange value are entirely irrelevant. As gifts are received, they will be listed on the Twitter feed #zimzalla. This list will be collated for presentation as a future object. Contact mail@zimzalla.co.uk or encounter a relevant individual in logical space. Visit the zimZalla site for more #.

@tweetfromengels Manchester, UK

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Snapshots in text of homeless lives. Engels wrote about the harshness of 19 Century Manchester; people today who live a comparable existence are the homeless.

This project with homeless people in Manchester, UK is run by arthur+martha arts organisation in partnership with the Text Festival. Other partners were The Big Issue in the North, The Red Door (Bury Housing Concern),
Brighter Futures, The Booth Centre, The Lowry, LOVE Creative, the BBC. Poets and writers who’ve been involved include Steve Giasson, Geof Huth, copland smith, Anna MacGowan. Editors Philip Davenport and Rebecca Guest. The resulting long poem will be tweeted over the coming weeks.

Follow here.

Robert Sheppard – The Innovative Sonnet

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Robert Shepard’s The Innovative Sonnet Sequence was delivered at the Hay Poetry
Jamboree 2011 at the Oriel Contemporary Art Gallery, Salem Chapel, Bell
Bank, Hay on Wye on June 4th 2011.

You can read it on Pages at www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com

It is in 14 parts, in deference to the sonnet. Posts will be one a day for the next fortnight. It therefore formally encodes the ambivalence towards the form found in the sonnet-like and sonnet-asperant
and sonnet-deviant productions of its most recent avant-garde practitioners and pasticheurs (many of them collected in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, which appeared in 2008). Focussing on the sonnet sequences of Ted Berrigan, Tom Raworth, Jeff Hilson, Philip Terry, Geraldine Monk, Sophie Robinson, and Sheppard’s own sonnets

Pugilistica

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a literary celebration of boxing
Thursday July 28th 7pm ~ entrance free
Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

poetry book launch – SJ Fowler’s “Fights” cycles I-XV published by Veer books
“A dazzling, visceral, proficient, kinetic work. fights runs its combinations in formal excitement and trenchgut force.” Maggie O’Sullivan

Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair Of History Of Art at Birkbeck college presents ‘Stilling the Punch’ a talk & presentation on boxing imagery

Kasia Boddy, author of Boxing:a Cultural History & Senior lecturer at UCL presents ‘Save the Public’s Soul by Punching Its Face’: Modernist Poetry and Pugilism

Tim Atkins celebrates the legendary heavyweight bout between Jack Johnson v. Arthur Cravan in the Monumental bullring, Barcelona, April 1916

Michael Zand reads “The Klitova-Klinchko Kuntador”

Patrick Coyle reads ‘The first painting i ever sold was of Muhammad Ali’.

James Davies and Carol Watts on The Verb

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“James Davies’ new book, Plants, contains ‘unmade poems’ – poems that he has written in the past and deleted. Like the poem ‘Apples’.

Apples

Written, typed, altered, deleted.

15.07.05

Poet Carol Watts joins Ian (MacMillan) and James to give a history of the unmade poem.”

BBC Radio 3, Friday 15th July, 22:00 and on BBC i-player for the following week. More at the BBC page.

New Halfcircle site

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Halfcircle is a poetry journal dedicated to innovative and experimental work. The latest issue features original poetry by Richard Barrett, John Wilkinson, James Cummins, Rosa van Hensbergen, Laura Kilbride, Tom Graham, Amy De’Ath, Andy Spragg, Tomas Weber, Emily Critchley, Lisa Jeschke, Charles Bernstein, Jonty Tiplady and Keston Sutherland, as well as a poetry postcard by Emily Critchley, Tom Graham, Gerry Loose or Tom Raworth, courtesy of Andy Spragg’s ‘infinite editions’.  See the new website for more details.

Call for Submissions: Handmade/Homemade

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Drunken Boat, the online journal of arts and literature, seeks work for a Handmade/Homemade Folio. This folio will include handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions and broadsides. We envision a marriage of the visual and textual, as a complement to Drunken Boat’s mission of reinventing the printed page. Work might include collage work, film, photography, scans of text objects and applicable forms of visual poetry. The folio is slated for Issue 16 (Winter 2012) and will likely be linked with the annual Handmade/Homemade exhibit at Pace University, Westchester Country (March, 2012). More at the Drunken Boat site.