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Bad Press: subjectivity liberated from the imperatives of purposive activity!
Poems, 4 Poets: Marianne Morris, Luke Roberts, Sophie Robinson, Josh Stanley.
£2.50 + £1 p&p / / $7.
Four poems/poets in one cultural transmission. All poems feature identifiable subjects, thereby furnishing the reader with that distinctly cozy-by-the-fire hint of the middle-brow, whilst maintaining all the feigned legitimacy of dialogue with poetic history that one would expect from a Bad Press publication. What the hell more do you want. CALL THE DOCTOR!
Visit the Bad Press site for more information.
Epiphanies: Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith talks music and file sharing for The Wire, here.
Maintenant #58: Nikola Madzirov
The birth of a major European poet is often heralded long after the fact by his or her emergence into the American poetic consciousness. The rapturous reception that has awaited Nikola Madzirov as he has travelled the US has only served to confirm what many already knew – Macedonia has produced a poet whose significance is undeniable, and whose gift is indelible. Nikola Madzirov is a poet who can look eye to eye with the great figures of the 20th century, he is one of our generations luminaries. His poetry is deft, sure and canny, he wields a wry and wise and often elusive aesthetic and while Peter Boyle has rightly traced his line back to Vasko Popa, Milosz, Herbert & Zagajewski, his voice is absolutely his own, absolutely of this generation. It is apt to leave the final words on Madzirov to Adam Zagajewski himself – “Madzirov’s poems are like Expressionist paintings: filled with thick, energetic streaks they seem to emerge from the imagination and to return to it right away, like night animals caught in the headlights of a car. “We are the remnants of another age” — Nikola Madzirov succeeds in convincing us.” For the 58th edition of Maintenant, we are very pleased to welcome our first Macedonian poet.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-58-nikola-madzirov/
Accompanying the interview are five of Nikola’s poems, translated translated by Peggy and Graham W. Reid, Magdalena Horvat and Adam Reed taken from the book
Remnants of Another Age published by BOA Editions
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-nikola-madzirov/
Some more of Nikola’s poems have recently appeared in the latest issues of “American Poetry Review” and “The Wolf” poetry magazine, and the poem “After Us” was just announced as a poem of a day in US by the Academy of American Poets – poets.org:
Travis MacDonald Bar/Koans
Erg, the publisher of Cricket Online Review, is pleased to announce the release of Travis Macdonald’s BAR/koans—a clever, modern homage to the Buddhist intellect. In BAR/koans, Macdonald’s thoughtful musings (i.e., modern koans) are equaled by the brilliantly kinetic design of John Moore Williams. BAR/koans is available in PDF for free from Erg’s website.
Derek Henderson Reading
Live via Ustream on April 6th 2011
Maintenant #57: Tomas S. Butkus
The impression left on the audience attending the Maintenant Lithuania events held over the weekend of April 8th only served to confirm Tomas S. Butkus’ reputation as one of the most complex and creative poets currently at work in the unusually healthy Lithuanian poetry scene. Sometimes seen as an irreverent and idiosyncratic poet, due perhaps his use of many mediums (text, video, sonic art, collage), his membership in an experimental art performance collective or his distinctive use of surrealist imagery – his work in fact continues the revolutionary underground spirit of creativity that underpinned some of the greatest poetry Europe produced while Lithuania was under Soviet occupation. Perhaps rather Butkus’ work stands out from a certain contemporary style (reformed, controlled and meditative) by virtue of its energy and individuality. And without doubt, as the people attending Europe House and the Rich Mix arts centre discovered, the man is equal to his work. Celebrating the Maintenant Lithuania project and our 57th edition, we welcome Tomas S. Butkus,
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-57-%e2%80%93-tomas-s-butkus/
Accompanying the interview are five of Tomas’ poems, translated by Kerry Shawn Keys, Edgaras Platelis, Becka Mara Mckay, Gerrie Fellows & Jake MB Levine
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-tomas-s-butkus/
Huge thanks to everyone who attended and performed at Europe House in Westminster and the Rich mix arts centre in Brick Lane for the Maintenant Lithuania events last weekend. Both nights were fantastic, memorable for the quality of the work on display and the atmosphere generated by those who were kind enough to attend. Pictures and sound recordings of both events will be online soon, and the Rich mix event was filmed by the BBC for an upcoming cultural arts feature program. Special thanks to Gabriele Labanauskaite, Tomas Butkus, Donatas Petrosius and Daiva Parulskiene. Our next event looks to be in June, most likely Maintenant Slovakia.
The Ground Aslant
“Over the past 40 years or so, British poets have been remaking the pastoral. It has been a violent business. What Raymond Williams once severely called the old “enamelled world” of pastoral poetry has been worked over, its certainties cracked and shattered. Long gone are those shepherds and shepherdesses idly enacting class hierarchies. Toxins have seeped into Arcadia; “nature” is a mess of our own manufacture. Out of the static conservatisms of an ancient form has come a series of countervailing modes: the anti-pastoral, the counter-pastoral, the radical pastoral, the post-pastoral.”
The Ground Aslant, a new Shearsman anthology edited by Other Room reader Harriet Tarlo and featuring Other Room readers Zoë Skoulding and Carol Watts, reviewed in The Guardian, here.
AVENIR
The next zimZalla object will be AVENIR by Julius Kalamarz.
AVENIR is a series of synesthetic (grapheme → color) interpretations of color fields. The interpretations, and their corresponding colors, are presented on 24 cards housed within a box. The monochromes of Yves Klein inspired the concept, while the Event Scores of George Brecht inspired its presentation.
The anticipated release time for this object is May 2011. Click here to visit the zimZalla site and view a sample.
Galatea Resurrects
The vital reviews journal continues to give us such goodies.
Of immediate note are reviews of P. Inman, Derek Henderson, Jeff Hilson and Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism.
Sunfish no.4
Nigel Wood’s Manchester based Sunfish continues in fine form:
Rob McLennan
Ken Edwards
Anthony Rowland
Steven Waling
Gareth Twose
James Davies
Mark Cobley
£4
email to purchase – sunfish@googlemail.com
18s edited by Mark Cobley review
Colin Herd reviews at 3 am magazine:
From Raymond Queneau’s audacious sequence Hundred Thousand Billion Poems to Jerome Rothenberg’s radical reimagining of the Hebrew Mystic number system in Vienna Blood, Ronald Johnson’s 99-section long poem ARK, Ron Silliman and Inger Christensen’s use of the Fibonacci sequence and Jackson Mac Low’s systematic ‘diastic’ poems, numbers and counting have been an important structural element in the work of many of the Twentieth Century’s most radical and experimental poetics. With potential for chance procedures, and taking the poem’s structural locus away from the subjective perspective, numerical systems and constraints have often slicked the engines of what William Carlos Williams famously called ‘machines made of words.’
The Other Room Anthology 3
Out now, featuring work from Neil Addison, Richard Barrett, derek beaulieu, Adrian Clarke, Emily Critchley, Ian Davidson, Stephen Emmerson, Allen Fisher, Susana Gardner, Ben Gwilliam, Jeff Hilson, Peter Manson, Craig Marchington, Nicole Mauro, Chris McCabe, Maggie O’Sullivan, Posie Rider, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg, Zoe Skoulding, Linus Slug, Nathan Thompson, Joseph Walton and Justin Katko, and Louise Woodcock.
Click HERE to buy a copy for £6 including postage within the UK or HERE to buy a copy for £7 including postage anywhere else.
SJ Fowler book launch at the Blue Bus
Red Museum with Knives, Forks & Spoons press
www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
April Tuesday 19th 7.30pm
at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1N 3LZ<
'A tremendous and persuasive surge of the red and the black: conflicted doctrines, scorched paper. Gothic scripts and plague-year screenplays for an apocalyptic cinema. Death chess. Heretical crusades. Hurt flesh. Fire angels. Madness. A grimoire for a haunted river-city. The poetry lies in the interpretation of malfated woodcuts. It is sinewy, knotted, persistent. And true.'
Iain Sinclair
also to be released, the chapbooks:
Fights XIX: Johnny Tapia with Oystercatcher press
www.oystercatcherpress.com
Fights XX: the Songs of Salvador Sánchez with the Red Ceilings press
www.theredceilingspress.co.uk
Maintenant #55: Scott Thurston
Just as the radical continental poetic methodologies of the 20th century have left an indelible impact on contemporary British poetry, so, it seems, has the model of the poet as a thinker and teacher. Scott Thurston is a central facet in the recent resurgent brilliance of North Western British poetry in and around Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. His is an innovative poetic defined by its care, intricacy and sophistication, and his reputation as a seminal and urbane poet over the last few decades has established him as a vital part of the UK’s poetry scene. In a comprehensive and generous interview he discusses his role as a poet, a teacher, his experience of European poetics and his beginnings in innovative poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-55-scott-thurston
Accompanying the interview are four of Scott’s poems from the work, Sustainability.
Rewriting Freud iOS app
Rewriting Freud has just been made as an iOS Universal app and is now for sale on the iTunes App Store.
This is the next incarnation of the conceptual artwork Re-Writing Freud by Simon Morris.
ABOUT THE WORK
For the book work, Re-Writing Freud the artist Simon Morris has re-written Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. A computer programme (designed by Christine Morris) randomly selects words, one at a time from Freud’s 222,704 word text and begins to reconstruct the entire book, word by word, making a new book with the same words, every time the programme is re-started. This book is one instantiation of that process, scrupulously typeset according to the dimensions, fonts, chapter divisions and paragraph lengths of the 1976 Penguin paperback edition of Freud’s work, and printed on equivalent paper stocks.
Morris unleashes a virus. He puts a contagious process to work, intervening in Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, rupturing it and returning it to us in a new order. By subjecting Freud’s words to a random re-distribution, meaning is turned into non-meaning and the spectator is put to work to make sense of the new poetic juxtapositions. The world of dreams is subject to the laws of the irrational and Re-Writing Freud gives the spectator the chance to view Freud’s text in its primal state. This fine production was printed by Imschoot, Ghent, in an edition of 1000, and given their blue stamp of approval. With a conceptualist formalism, Morris’ version of Freud’s text follows the typographic layout found in the edition of Freud’s work owned by his long-term collaborator, the psychoanalyst Dr. Howard Britton, whose worn book cover and ‘Big Daddy’ sticker from a Sugar Puffs cereal packet sets the tone for Morris’ appropriation.
“With Re-Writing Freud, judgments about sense no longer themselves make any sense. The reader who responds to this book by complaining that it is nonsensical is neither right nor wrong, but asking the wrong question, posing an impossible problem in response this book’s insistent imaginary solution.” – Professor Craig Dworkin, University of Utah, from the Introduction to Re-Writing Freud, ‘Grammar Degree Zero’
Read more about the project at the Information as Material site.
Streetcake 16
Out now, featuring:
- Flora Blake
- Richard Barrett
- Sarah Bradsell
- Sophie Clarke
- Sarah Cuquemelle
- Jim Sheehan
Read it here.
Maintentant 53 and 54
A poet of international significance, the remarkable life and poetic career of Yuri Andrukhovych could be the source material for a film, or a good book (as it is, in a manner of speaking). After serving in the Red Army, he was a founding member of arguably the most important experimental literary group in the history of the Ukraine, the Bu-Ba-Bu (the group’s name stands for бурлеск, балаган, буфонада – ‘burlesque, side-show, buffoonery’), before taking his mantle as one of the most important political-literary figures in his home nation and a significant presence during the 2004 /2005 Orange revolution. His is an utterly distinctive idiom, both in his poetry and his widely acclaimed novels – some of the most bombastic, vital and memorable being produced in Europe at large. He stands firmly in the great European tradition of parody, satire and criticism and we are honoured to welcome our 53rd Maintenant subject, winner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, Yuri Andrukhovych.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-53-yuri-andrukhovych/
Accompanying the interview are six of Yuri’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-yuri-andrukhovych/
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It would be a reduction to call Tomica Bajsić a war poet. It is true that his poetry is a voice of record, and undoubtedly, his former profession as a special forces soldier during the most tumultuous days of his nations recent history have shaped him and his work in general. However, Tomica inhabits a wider archetype, of which his war experiences are just one element of a much grander ideal. He is a poet of exploration, of challenge. He is a poet who makes his primary medium a full and unrelenting exaltation of experience, and his poetry follows from this worldview. In a generous interview, Tomica Bajsić, for the 54th edition of Maintenant, discusses his unique life and poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-54-tomica-bajsic/
Accompanying the interview are seven of Tomica’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tomica-bajsic-seven-poems/
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3am magazine & the Maintenant series presents in conjunction with Europe house presents
Nauja Poezija: Young Lithuanian & British poets in collaboration
April Friday 8th – 7pm – Entrance free to all (32 Smith Square, London SW1P)
We welcome three of Lithuania’s finest young poets to London with a reception at Europe House and an exchange of poetry from some of the finest native poets the city has to offer. Alongside Donatas Petrošius, Gabriele Labanauskaite and Tomas S. Butkus, a half dozen resident poets, featuring Agnes Lehoczky, Jeff Hilson, Jon Shaw, Tim Atkins, Kate Kililea and more will read short excerpts from their work.
SOUS LES PAVÉS
Featuring:
- Susan Briante
- Sommer Browning
- Lara Buckerton
- Collective Anon
- Elliot Colla
- Linh Dinh
- David Hadbawnik
- j/j hastain
- Danny Hayward
- Justin Katko
- Frances Kruk
- Francesca Lisette
- Pocahontis Mildew
- Goat Far DT
- Jay James May
- Debrah Morkun
- Richard Owens
- Keston Sutherland
- Tomas Weber
More here.
Blackbox Manifold 6
Including tributes to Edwin Morgan, and poetry by:
Niall Campbell
Joseph Donohue
Howie Good
Chris Hardy
Morgan Harlow
Carla Harryman
Christine Herzer
Ishion Hutchinson
Andy Jackson
Michael Leong
Rod Mengham
Mary Noonan
Frederick Pollack
David Prater
Rufo Quintavalle
Ron Silliman
Matthew Sweeney
Jon Thompson
John Welch
J T Welsch
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