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Reillumination #5 – Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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The fifth of the bi-monthly article series with Nthposition.com focused on unjustly overlooked European poets.
This edition is focused on the German Dadaist icon Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Also featured, three poems by Freytag-Loringhoven


Reillumination #1 – Gunnar Ekelöf http://www.nthposition.com/amiracleworkingicon.php
Reillumination #2 – Daniil Kharms  http://www.nthposition.com/reilluminationii.php
Reillumination #3 – Kostas Ouranis  http://www.nthposition.com/reilluminationiiikostas.php
Reillumination #4 – Lucian Blaga  http://www.nthposition.com/reilluminationsiv.php

Openned Zine #4

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  • Mackenzie Carignan & Marthe Reed on The Dusie Kollektiv
  • Tony Trehy exploring the possibilities for Text Festival 2011
  • Will Montgomery describing POLYply
  • Posie Rider’s guide to poetry in Edinburgh
  • Arabella Currie & Thomas Graham explaining halfcircle
  • Sara Wintz outlining poetry in New York
  • Tom Jenks telling us what zimZalla is
  • Steven Fowler describing the Maintenant series and outlining The Workshop, a new new project on Writers Forum in conjunction with Openned
  • Edmund Hardy reading four lines of poetry
  • Simon Howard describing Department
  • Part 2 of Lara Buckerton’s essay on The eBook Nova

Plus regular features:

  • Bird Puke
  • Bookface
  • Logbay
  • @sinclairinruins* (new)
  • Photography: in this issue, Georgie M’Glug, Nat Raha and Sharon Borthwick

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version, here.

Ken Edwards – Millions of Colours

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Crater Press announces Crater 10, Ken Edwards’s Millions of colours:

Millions of colours is the final part of Bardo: forty-nine prose pieces over seven days, a modern rewrite of theBardo Thodol, the devotional work known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. “Bardo” means an interval or a transitional period. The setting here is the port and old town of Hastings, on the south coast of England. Previous parts of the work in various versions have appeared as Red & green, a pamphlet from Oystercatcher Press (2009), and also in the journals and e-journals Cannibal Spices, Pages, 10th Muse and Veer Away. It is hoped that the whole work will be published before too long.

Ken Edwards is the editor and publisher of Reality Street. His most recent book is Songbook (Shearsman, 2009).

It’s £5; available from www.craterpress.co.uk

Maintenant #43 – Christodoulos Makris

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A scrupulous and gifted writer, Christodoulos Makris is a poet of language over territory, a poet of semblance over culture. Twenty years removed from his home nation of Cyprus, he has developed a reputation in both the UK and Ireland, his current place of residence, as a vital and astute poet. In a generous interview he discusses his knowledge of the poetry scene in Cyprus given its political constitution, how his own work is conceived, and how it has grown in the country he has chosen to live. In the very first Maintenant interview of 2011, we present Christodoulos Makris.


Accompanying the interview are five of his poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-christodoulos-makris/

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Final issue of Great Works

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Featuuring:

Paul Holman, THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT: Book Six: A WALKING AGE
Ralph Hawkins, The Poems of Abakan Tartar
Maximilian Hildebrand, Kylix Poems + four poems
Daniele Pantano, Translation from the German of Seventy Eight Early Notes for a Biography of an Unknown Swiss Poet
Julie Sampson, four poems
David Bircumshaw, eight poems
Rupert Loydell, four poems
Adam Fieled, from Equations
Miffy Ryan, Dwelling + Death Rattles
Jennifer Cooke, five poems
Catherine Daly, Surplice
Stephanie Jane Robinson, Ballad of the Reading Jail
Mark Smith, five poems
sean burn, from honeysuckled
Angela Gardner, five poems
Susan Adams, five poems
Mark Dickinson, from Shadows of the Sea
Matt Bryden, four poems
Sam Howell, five poems
Chris Hardy, Short of Luck on Short Street
James Price, four poems and a drawing
Martin Stannard, five poems
Gareth Farmer, Rise to Order
Bobby Larsson, Limerick Swing —
S J Fowler, nine poems
Gerard Greenway, three poems
Austin McCarron, seven poems
Sophie Mayer, three poems
Stephen Emmerson, Power Pollution + THUD
Anthony Mellors, from Bent our of Shape
Sarah Ahmad, seven poems
Reeti Roy, five poems
Robert Atherton, six poems
Glenn R Frantz, Bridge / Lawn / Solarium
Arthur Coleman, five poems
Nicholas R Scott, The Prison Series + the Pie Series
Harry Godwin, poem for P. Philpott, read at Xmasing the Line, 3/12/09

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Ekleksographia: Oulipo edition

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Fantastic issue, edited by Philp Terry, featuring:

Timothy Ades
Will Ashon
Tim Atkins
Richard Beard
Christian Bök
Andy Brown
Ken Edwards
Matt Fallaize
Harry Gilonis
Jesse Glass
Paul Griffiths
Alan Halsey
Robert Hampson
Peter Hughes
Leopold Haas
Tony Lopez
Rupert Loydell
Peter Manson
Harry Mathews
David Miller
Ian Monk
Geraldine Monk
Roger Moss
Jeremy Over
Tadeusz Pioro
Robert Sheppard
Simon Smith
Ross Sutherland
Philip Terry
Tony Trehy
Alexei Vernitski
Johan de Wit

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Reality Street launches ReScript

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The imprint launches in January 2011 with two titles:

Dracula’s Precursors, a collection of three early vampire tales, including the neglected classic “The Mysterious Stranger” – with an introduction by David Annwn

The Ivory Gate, which includes later poems and fragments by Thomas Lovell Beddoes – edited with an introduction by Alan Halsey

More will appear in 2011. For more details, and to buy, go to

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Maintenant #42 – Aase Berg

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One of the most deft and iconoclastic poets in Northern Europe, over the course of the last 25 years Aase Berg has developed, remarkably, a reputation to match her talent. One of the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group in 1986, it was during the 90’s that she came to the fore as one of the most prominent poets, theorists and critics in Sweden. In the 42nd edition of the Maintenant series she discusses the several collections of poetry she has published, some of which with the Bonnier publishing house, the largest and most prestigious in Sweden, and her thoughts in general on poetic innovation and the state of poetry in contemporary Sweden.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-42-aase-berg/

Accompanying the interview are eight of her poems, spanning four collections. Translations are published with thanks to Johannes Goransson

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/eight-poems-aase-berg/

Maintenant #41 – Jón Örn Loðmfjörð

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The poetry of Jón Örn Loðmfjörð can be quixotic, even caustic, yet he is undoubtedly a poet so utterly without pretension, with such an indelible sense of humour and a violent sense of satire, that we cannot help but feel reassured that poetry as a medium for criticism is alive and well in his hands. Moreover his is a poetry with a voice that is far more sophisticated than mere polemicism. The paradox is that he is hardly an optimistic poet in manner or guise, but yet the feeling we are left with is one of urbane rigour and integrity. The final poet to be featured in the Maintenant series who participated in our exceptional Icelandic reading program in November 2010, the work of Jón Örn Loðmfjörð was a revelation to all who witnessed it read in the Icelandic embassy and the Rich mix centre. In a typically frank interview we are extremely proud to present Jón Örn Loðmfjörð as the 41st edition of Maintenant

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-41-jon-orn-lo%C3%B0mfjor%C3%B0/

Accompanying the interview are five of his poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-jon-orn-lo%C3%B0mfor%C3%B0/

 

Maintenant is a series of interviews with European poets by Steven Fowler, presented with selection of each poet’s work. Catch up with the previous ten below:

The accompanying poetry for each poet can be found at www.maintenant.co.uk

» Maintenant #40 – Sergej Timofejev

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One of the most adventurous and groundbreaking poets in the Baltic, Latvia’s Sergej Timofejev is a fundamental part of the radical reconfiguration of his nation’s poetic culture and landscape in the last few decades. A urbane, grounded, naturalistic stylist, the power of his poetry has allowed him to implement numerous innovations in a region associated with formalism. Experiments with poetry and music / art installations / performance / video & even computer games, have seen his popularity soar in Latvia, though he remains a poet writing in the Russian language. In the 40th edition of Maintenant, Sergej Timofejev discusses the influence of Western culture, the healthy state of Latvian poetry and the reward of poetic collaborative innovation.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-40-sergej-timofejev/

Accompanying the interview are five of his poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-sergej-timofejev/

zimZalla 008

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zimZalla object 008, A Dictionary of Poetic Forms by Tom Watts, is now available. Playfully deconstructing the structures and strictures of formalised verse, the dictionary is a set of rules for non-participants and a guide book to places already visited. Click here for more information.

Maintenant #39 – Efe Duyan

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Via Steven Fowler:

One of the most complex and magisterial poetic traditions in Europe, Turkey continues to produce some of the finest poets writing today, as it has done consistently for centuries. Efe Duyan is one of the most resolute stylists and theorists of his generation, a lauded Nazim Hikmet scholar and an architect by trade, his eloquent and erudite poetry has earned him a reputation across the continent. One of the many brilliant poets participating in Literature Across Frontiers, we are honoured to welcome Efe Duyan as the first Turkish poet to be featured in Maintenant.
Accompanying the interview are six of his poems.

Parameters – Michael Murray

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Parameters is a collection of articles, essays and reviews written by Michael Murray for Parameter Magazine between 2005 and 2009. Michael’s deeply written and elegantly executed pieces cover a wide range of subjects, including the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, the modern dance of Pina Bausch and the music of Alban Berg. The collection comprise 38 pieces and is 208 pages long, perfect bound. Click here to buy a copy for £4.50 including postage via PayPal.

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Featuring:

Johan de Wit, Chris Torrance, Dave Lewis, Damian Sawyer, DAVID CAMERON, Homan Yousofi and Lee Duggan, with open field Vs quantum open field string theory ‘article’ cut-up by Rhys Trimble

Plus new downloadable echapbook The Hard Shoulder from Richard Barrett on the website

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