Publications

British and Irish Journal 2 launch

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In advance of the imminent publication of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Volume 2, Number 1 (see http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry), a launch event will be held at University of Cork in association with SoundEye.

Featuring papers by Alex Davis, Sam Ladkin, Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston.

Venue: University College Cork, O’Rahilly Building, Room 1.23, Cork City, Ireland, 16 March 2010, 6 pm – 7 pm.

Directions: http://www.ucc.ie/en/VisitorstoUCC/Transportmapsandparking/Maps/

Poster (PDF):
http://www.scribd.com/full/27468552?access_key=key-13fj15l8ams7kkokrdyo

Simon Taylor’s responses to Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme

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In 2007, in the space of two weeks, Simon Taylor responded to Scott Thurston’s Matchbox N0. 9, Internal Rhyme, shooting around 12 films. These were then edited down to 150 negatives which became 150 unique gifts in  Matchbox No. 9.  Matchbox No.9 was just a sample of the collection Internal Rhyme which will be available in 2011 from Shearsman. Other parts of the poem have been published over the last couple of years in various magazines. The links below are to:

Matchbox No.9, Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme poems (Poetry Library digital archive)

Simon Taylor’s Photos set 1

Simon Taylor’s Photos set 2

Simon Taylor’s Photos set 3

Leslie Scalapino – Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows

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“Miners, polar bears, insurgents sweeping the desert in Toyota pickups, a detective on the trail of illegal fur traders, Venus Williams’ deconstructed forehand, wild horses, blooming chrysanthemums, tadpoles eating corpses in the Euphrates, and so much more – Leslie Scalapino’s FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE- FLOWS is a startlingly beautiful, politically engaged, poetic novel. Narrative moments arrive out of inchoate states – an alexia where unknown words create a future – and the reader is continually and unexpectedly moved by the buoyancy and breathtaking velocity of Leslie Scalapino’s language.”

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Via Charles Bernstein.

Subscribe to Arthur Shilling

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Harry Godwin’s estimable imprint is now offering an annual subscription for a highly economical £12. For this, you get at least 6 chapbooks, plus the option to buy more books the press publishes at a discount rate. As if this were not enough, you can even have your name listed on the site and a link to your own site or blog – a fine way to burnish your own poetic escutcheon. More details here.

nick-e melville – selections and dissections

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The first release of the year from the book publishing arm of Otoliths is a collection from Scottish concrete & visual poet, nick-e melville.

What nick-e melville creates within selections and dissections is text as experience, presenting us with different ways to look at visual language, different ways to understand the ubiquitous textscapes of daily living. The pages of this book are filled with games, but games of the most serious kind, games about the act of being sentient textual beings. Melville, a textual imagineer, examines the spaces between letters, the negative spaces between lines of text, and even the halftone atoms of printing, always looking for the surprise in the printed text. To read this book is to experience these acts of textual imagination as cinema, as vibrant and moving sequences of thought. — Geof Huth

Check out a sample here and the Otoliths project – a magazine as well as a publisher – here.

ntst: a continuation

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Geof Huth describes the huge overhauls in edits the wonderous book has seen to date –

For the past few days, I’ve been working on the text of my next book. And I have to use the word “text,” because what I’m working on is the layout of the book, but it is also the manuscript of the book. As I work on the book, I remember other poems, tucked here and there in my life, in my memory, in my house. And I pull them out and put them in. The text has grown to 775 words, still not the longest book of pwoermds ever, which honor belongs to the marvelous Finn Karri Kokko.

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BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)

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We’ve already posted about this, but it’s well worth a reminder that Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) is now available. Details of this and the upcoming Birkbeck launch event below, via Alan Halsey:

BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)

Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books

This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths’ poetry up to ‘Building: The New London Hospital’. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards, includes the full ‘Cycles’ and ‘War W/ Windsor’ sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. The works are presented in largely chronological order. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and (Griffiths having been an inveterate reviser) variations in texts and alternative versions.

368pp.
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
Publication date 29 January 2010
Pre-publication price £17.50 post free
(after January, £18 + post)

Orders to reality.street@virgin.net or info@westhousebooks.co.uk

LAUNCH at Birkbeck, Wednesday 17th February, 7.30
in Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O’Sullivan

a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

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a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

with poetry by Laynie Browne, Jill Jones, Jane Adam, Jeff Encke, Joseph F. Keppler, Mark Cunningham, Jadon Rempel, Keith Higginbotham, Anne Fitzgerald, and Halvard Johnson

e·ratio editions e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Carey Scott Wilkerson and featuring The Alan Halsey Interview

edited for real by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

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