Now online, featuring:
- Shane Allison
- Devreaux Baker
- Ashley Bovan
- James Burt
- Sarah Kelly
- Sergio Ortiz
- Bobby Parker
- Daniel Rooke
More here.
Publications
Reality Street: new titles and book launches
REALITY STREET
announces the launch of
Emergence
by Fanny Howe
on Tuesday 22 June at 7:30pm
at The Blue Bus,The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1
Fanny Howe will be reading with Tom Raworth
(admission £5 / £3 concessions)
Also launching on this day will be
Seoul Bus Poems
by Jim Goar
Unfortunately, Jim can’t be here to read in person on this occasion.
You can buy these books at the launch, or via the Reality Street website, or here:
FANNY HOWE: LINK
JIM GOAR: LINK
If you would like to review either of these books, please reply to this email to request a copy: ken@realitystreet.co.uk
via Ken Edwards
Klatch 2
*Klatch 2* is now available as a PDF download from Openned. The magazine was assembled on Friday 29th January 2010. It features work by: Alex Davies, Amy De’Ath, Edmund Hardy,Elizabeth Guthrie, Francesca Lisette, Georgie M’Glug, Johanna Linsley, Karen Sandhu,Linus Slug, Michael Zand, Nat Raha, Rebecca Cremin, Sophie Robinson, Steve Willey,Tessa Whitehouse, Tim Atkins.
*Klatch 3 *is now available in page based format. 15 copies are being made available to those on this list-serv. Klatch 3 was assembled on Friday 14th May 2010. It features maps and poems by: Harry Gilonis, Richard Parker, Edmund Hardy, Michael Zand, Jeff Hilson, Tessa Whitehouse, Andrea Brady, slmendoza, Nat Raha, Steve Willey.
More here.
Avant poetry and politics
“Of course poetry helps in its tiny way to change consciousness, just like many other things do. But British Petroleum does what it does with equal disregard for iambs and disjunctions.”
More from Robert Archambeau here.
Tom Jenks * now published
Tom Jenks’ second collection is out now:
Tom Jenks’ second collection is an open system interaction with the world and all its contingencies. Using fragments from mass media, signage, management doublethink and myriad other sources, the work slips between inner and outer worlds as they suggest themselves, with the * symbol acting as a wildcard to select everything that is the case.
The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Practice
“The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Practice” by Libbie Rifkin at The Argotist Online, here. Excerpt:
“Enzensberger traces the military roots of the term “avant-garde,” breaking it down into its component parts and pushing each to its aporetic limit. The first aporia emerges when the avant-garde moves from the synchrony of the battle field to the diachrony of historical progress. Confronting the enemy up ahead, the “en avant of the avant-garde would, as it were, realize the future in the present, anticipate the course of history”. In spite of tremendous advances in prognostication by the “consciousness industry,” this is, of course, impossible. And yet the whole system depends on this impossibility; the avant-garde is the engine of advancement for the main body of artistic works, but the scene of its reception is, by definition, always just out of reach. The avant-garde’s value, in fact its very identity, can only be determined by the future generations for whom it is already passé.”
Via Jeffrey Side
BlazeVOX 2kX Spring 2010 now online
The new issue of the ever-interesting BlazeVOX is now online here, featuring work from Aaron Lowinger; David Tomaloff; Abbie J. Bergdale; Adrian Stumpp; Andre Zucker; April A.; Ariel Lynn Butters; Arkava Das; Ather Zia; B.C. Havens ; Bree Katz; Brian Anthony Hardie; Brian Spaeth; Bryanna Licciardi; Chris Chambers; Christopher Khadem; Colin Dardis; Constance Stadler; Daniel Godston; Daniel Romo; Dario Mohr; David Patterson; David Koehn; david smith; Dennis Etzel Jr.; Desiree Santos; Edward William Cousins; Edwin Wilson Rivera; Elizabeth Kerlikowske; Emma Ramos; Erik B. Olson; Evan Schnair; Joseph Farley; M. ; Geoffrey Gatza; Geoffrey Babbitt; Gloria ; Harmony Button; Jim Bennett; Isaac James Baker; Jacob Russell; Jaime Birch; Jill Jones; Jan LaPerle; John McKernan; Katie Jean Shinkle; Keith Moul; Kyllikki Brock Persson; Lance Newman; Lucy Hunt; Linda Ravenswood; Travis Macdonald; Leonard Gontarek; Lara K. Dolphin; Leon Whyte; Julie Kovacs; Mark Cunningham; Mark Moore; Marc Paltrineri; Melanie Sevcenko; Michael Rerick; Mick Raubenheimer; Mitch Corber; Natascha Tallowin; Peter Vullo; Valentine Pakis; Parker Tettleton; Peter Golub ; Philip Byron Oakes; Peter Brown Hoffmeister; Yemi Oyefuwa; Walter William Safar; Ken Kesner; R Pang; Rachael Stanford; Ramya Kumar; Raymond Farr; Rebecca Chadwick; Rebecca Lindenberg; Richard Barrett; Rich Follett; Robert Stoddard; Robert Wexelblatt; Sam Silva; Sankar Roy; Santiago del Dardano Turann; Tyson Bley; Scott Sweeney; Serena M Tome; Steve Gilmartin ; Shimmy Boyle; Bart Sonck; Sophie Sills; Stacy Kidd; Stephen Baraban ; Steven Fowler; Steve Roggenbuck; Tim Tomlinson; Travis Cebula; Richard Owens; Peter Fernbach.
3am magazine presents contemporary Romanian poetry
Via Steven Fowler:
3am magazine presents contemporary Romanian poetry – Elena Vladareanu, Ruxandra Novac and Adrian Urmanov.
The Rich Mix arts centre, London (Shoreditch / Brick Lane) – Saturday May 29th – 7pm – Entrance free to all http://www.richmix.org.uk
For the first of the Maintenant interview series readings 3am magazine presents three of the most exciting and acerbic contemporary poets emerging from Romania since the millenium. Challenging, caustic and resolute, their poetry retains the dark humour so prevalent under dictatorship with the utterly modern vernacular of a generation that has come to fruition post-1989. Attacks on misogyny, sexual repression, political idealism and linguistic correctness are interspersed with exactingly crafted free poetry, literary and resounding, distinct for it’s energy and image, and despite a textual tendency to the climactic, this reading will remain very much literary in style. Performing as part of a national tour, this is a chance to see the brightest young talent from a distinct and vivid European poetical tradition.
Selections of their work have recently been published by Cleaves Journal http://www.cleavesjournal.com/issue2/romania/romania2.htm.
Interviews with each poet are available here at 3am, Cadaverine and Pomegranate magazines respectively.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-2-elena-vladareanu/
http://www.pomegranate.me.uk/submission/read/well-sing-for-the-third-millenium-an-interview-with-ruxandra-novac
http://web.mac.com/thecadaverine/Site/Interviews/Entries/2010/2/3_Adrian_Urmanov.html
Cleaves 2
Now online. Globalising and gloacalizing:
Openned Zine #1
The Openned Zine is setting out with one intention: to provide poets, publishers and organisers with a space to publicly present explanations, thoughts, ideas and opinions that may not necessarily be representative of a final response.
The intention is to draw attention to how poetry and the thoughts and activities based on and around it are an ongoing and necessarily ever-changing set of boundaries and equivalent freedoms, which provide a shifting map of communities of poets.
Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:
- Alex Davies on eBooks and the Small Press
- Alec Newman & Richard Barrett on Knives, Forks & Spoons Press
- Boris Jardine on Cambridge Literary Review
- Tom Jenks, James Davies & Scott Thurston on The Other Room
- Marcus Slease on Istanbul
- Linus Slug on FREAKLUNG
- Mike Weller on Home’Baked books
- Steve Willey on Writers Forum
Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.
Via Openned
Scott Thurston – Internal Rhyme
Published today.
BUY from SHEARSMAN
Poems at:
Review at Silliman’s Blog
Silliman’s blog – Internal Rhyme
Videos
Cannibal Spices 4
Openned publish issue 4 with Jeff Hilson, Ken Edwards, Timothy Thornton & Linus Slug:
Maggie O’Sullivan and Bob Cobbing: Poetry as Haptic Allegory
Maggie O’Sullivan and Bob Cobbing: Poetry as Haptic Allegory with “a drawing where but not” by Todd Thorpe and Patricia Farrell is in eklelsographia wave two, March 2010 here.
The Other Room Anthology II
Available to order now, featuring work from Tim Atkins, Sean Bonney, Matt Dalby, Tina Darragh, Philip Davenport, Alex Davies, James Davies, Craig Dworkin, Allen Fisher, Michael Haslam, Rob Holloway, P.Inman, Frances Kruk, Holly Pester, Sophie Robinson, Nick Thurston, Tony Trehy and Steven Waling. Click HERE to buy a copy for £5 + £0.75 postage via PayPal. Click HERE to try before you buy and read a sample.
The stamp of approval
Tom Jenks and Phil Davenport caught stamping the Chinese ideogram, which reads SUSPICION, into Phil’s poem MY PAINTINGS ARE INVISIBLE which is part of The Other Room anthology 2009-10. The anthology also contains a CD insert of sound poetry by Matt Dalby and poems by the wonderful poets we’ve been lucky enough to put on this year. Purchase details will be up on the website in the next few days.
SJ Fowler – Yurriokis Gamboa
Part of Steve Fowler’s cycle based around the life of boxers, now available as an ebook on Red Ceilings press. Read it here.
New issue of Anything Anymore Anywhere
The Spring 2010 issue of ‘anything anymore anywhere’, a literary journal published from Edinburgh, Scotland. Edited by Colin Herd and Reuben Sutton.
This issue features Marcia Arrieta, Claire Askew, Royce Borgeson, Joel Chace, Doru Culiac, Catherine Daly, James Davies, Adam Fieled, Peter Hughes, Geof Huth, Devin Johnston, Mary Kasimor, Scott Keeney, Margaret Konkol, Tony Leuzzi, Cathleen Miller, Adam Perry, Sam Scild, Alex Willie Singerman, Marcus Slease, Nancy Stohlman, Jayne Thickett, Rhys Trimble, Marcus Whale, Jessica Wickens, Justin Wolfers.
The Other Room Anthology 2009/10
A wonderful thing which is now going to press after finding the bugs in the proof.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Features readers from April 2009-Feb 2010: Tim Atktins, Phil Davenport, Lisa Samuels, Allen Fisher, Alex Davies, Matt Dalby, P. Inman, Tina Darragh, Sean Bonney, Frances Kruk, Craig Dworkin, Michael Haslam, James Davies, Tony Trehy, Nick Thurston, Sophie Robinson, Steve Waling, Rob Holloway, Holly Pester.
More details soon when it’s printed.
Bob Grumman reviews ntst
Bob Grumann reviews ntst.
Extract and link below:
I was feeling too lousy to post anything here for two or three days, and wouldn’t today, either, although I feel a lot better. However, today I got a copy of Geof Huth’s NTST, the subtitle of which is the collected pwoermds of geof huth. It’s perfect for a blog entry because I can quote whole poems from it quickly, and because I found some pwoermds I can be quickly insightful about.
William Blake and the Naked Teaparty
The new issue of Ekleksographia online magazine ‘William Blake and the Naked Teaparty’ guest edited by Philip Davenport features textworks that emphasise the touch – handwrit and haptic – particularly pieces that consider emotional engagements, human space – that weird trace and corporate/military erasure of the handmade, the human touch, the not-digital. These qualities link into the alternative tradition of poetics – and to ‘outsider’ artists who are owed a debt by the experimenters (an IOU all the way back to Will Blake, he and the Mrs sitting on the lawn in London afternoons, naked, drinking tea).
Contributors: Alan Halsey, Anna MacGowan, The Atlas Group, Ben Gwilliam, Carol Watts, Carolyn Thompson, Darren Marsh, Dave Griffiths, David Tibet, Geof Huth, George Widener, Geraldine Monk, The Gingerbread Tree, Hainer Wormann, Harald Stoffers, Helmut Lemke, Holly Pester, James Davies, Jesse Glass, Jonathan Penton, Julia Grime, Kerry Morrison, Kirstie Gregory, Laurence Lane, Lee Patterson, Li E Chen, Liz Collini, Matt Dalby, Michael Wilson, Morry Carlin, Nick Blinko, Nico Vassilakis, Patricia Farrell, Rachael Elwell, Robert Grenier, Robert Sheppard, Sarah Sanders, Sean Bonney, Stephen Vincent, Steve Waling, Sue Arrowsmith, Todd Thorpe, Tony Lopez and Tony Trehy
The issue goes online 15th March 2010 and will be launched with a 24 hour ‘live’ online writing event by Sarah Sanders
Series Editor Jesse Glass; this issue designed by Jonathan Penton.
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