Those good folks in Lapland give you The Arthur Shilling Christmas Anthology, which is a pdf, which is a gift of all the current chapbooks published to date.
Via Harry Godwin
Publications
Selected papers from BIJIP now available for download
Papers by Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady & Robert Hampson
Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be published in January by Reality Street.
This is the first time this great, innovative poet’s work has been properly collected. The poetry included here was originally written and published in the 1960s and 70s, and immediately predates the work included in The Mud Fort. It includes the complete “Cycles”, War W/ Windsor”, “A History of the Solar System” and other sequences, as well as a multitude of other poems and and sets of poems, previously published in fugitive editions or not at all, presented in roughly chronological order. The volume is rounded off with Alan Halsey’s meticulous endnotes, detailing the original publishing history and variant texts.
You can obtain this book by:
You can also pre-order it at http://www.amazon.co.uk at £18 post free.
Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
Edited & introduced by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards
368pp
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
29 January 2010
Give your loved one something special for Christmas
Can’t face the crowds of the Arndale or that trip down to Thurrock? Then why not try giving these free wonders to your loved ones? Click the links below:
Characters in their Thousands by Ceri Buck
This Window makes me feel by Rob Fitterman
The Commons II by Sean Bonney
Opposable Dumbs by Tina Darragh
New How2
Featuring tonnes of goodies including papers on Caroline Bergvall curated and coordinated Other Room reader Sophie Robinson):
Strictly Speaking on Caroline Bergvall
Featuring papers from:
Caroline Bergvall
Sophie Robinson
Nathan Brown
cris cheek
Laura Goldstein
Majene Mafe
LINK TO COMPLETE CONTENTS AND ISSUE
Salford launch of The British and Irish Journal of Innovative Poetry
A reminder that the launch of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative
Poetry (eds Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston) is at the University of
Salford on Wednesday 9 December at 4 pm.
There will be speeches and discussion of the journal, as well as an
opportunity for readers and contributors to the journal to meet with
editorial board members.
Guest Speakers:
Christine Kennedy, Leeds Trinity & All Saints
Allen Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ian Davidson, University of Wales at Bangor
Followed by discussion and drinks.
All Welcome. Free entry.
Address: Room 103, Crescent House, University of Salford, Greater
Manchester, M5 4WT
Directions here: http://www.salford.ac.uk/travel
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169385893578&ref=share
More about the journal: http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry
Binturong Review – call for submissions
Binturong Review is accepting submissions. Anything will be considered in any medium. Send submissions to river_swam@yahoo.co.uk. More here.
New issue of Greatworks
An all male isssue of Greatworks featuring:
- Niall Quinn
- Mark Goodwin & Nikki Clayton
- Andrew Taylor
- Daniel Andersson
- Nick Wayte
- Mark Cobley
- Simon Howard
- Aidan Semmens
- Michael Egan
- A A Walker
- Richard Parker
- Antony John
- Adam Fieled
- Mark Cunningham
- James Mc Laughlin
- Ross Leese
- Christopher Barnes
- Les Wicks
- Alex Houen
- Nicolas Spicer
- Graham Burchell
- Chris Brownsword
- Stuart Kenyon
- Iain Britton
- Thomas Mulhall
- Cliff Yates
- Nathan Thompson
- Jon Clay
- Alasdair Paterson
- Tony Cullen
- Steven Ruel
- William Garvin
- James Price
- Simon J Charlton
- James Davies
- Gareth Durasow
- Paul A Green
- Mike Ruddick
- Johan de Wit
- Mark Hall
- Connie Beauchamp
Geof Huth previews f[lintst)eel
Geof Huth writes about the progress of his up and coming if p then q collection on his blog:
I have spent the night trying to organize my collected pwoermds in some logical and reasonably consistent manner. Now, at the end of the night, I’ve got them in reasonable order and am looking at 100 pages of pwoermds, and about 669 pwoermds total. (Counting them all is made difficult by the fact that I’ve intentionally left in duplicates of some pwoermds, for esthetic reasons.
Sunfish
Sunfish is a new quarterly poetry magazine edited by Nigel Wood and published in Manchester. Issue 1 contains work by Scott Thurston (UK), Jed Rasula (USA), John Seed (UK), Kristy Odelius (USA), Jonathan Greene (USA), rob mclennan (Canada), Geof Huth (USA), Paul A. Green (UK), Meredith Quartermain (Canada), Amy King (USA), Gil McElroy (Canada) and Alec Finlay (UK). It’s just in from the printer and costs £3 (+50p postage). A Sunfish website is in the pipeline; in the meantime, you can get hold of a copy by sending a cheque for £3.50 (made out to Nigel Wood) to: Flat 405, 41 Old Birley Street, Hulme, Manchester M15 5RE. If you’re in Manchester you can save yourself the postage by picking up a copy at the next Other Room reading on December 2nd. For more information, email sunfishmag@googlemail.com.
Give thanks to BlazeVox
Thanksgiving 2009. Thanksgiving Menu Poem : guest of honor C. D. Wright.
The ninth installment of Geoffrey Gatza’s Thanksgiving Menu Poem is now online at BlazeVox.
“This is a concept poem structured around the thanksgiving meal I would cook for everyone I could invite to honor a great poet. This year, the guest of honor is C. D. Wright.”
More here.
Lucy Harvest Clarke’s Silveronda now available
Streetcake issue 8 now online
The latest issue of Stretcake magazine is now online here, featuring:
- Edna Romero
- Sean Burn
- Steph Codsi
- John George‐Nicholson,
- Simone Gilson – dynamic cassette
- Ianna Hawkins Owen
- Katarina Johansson
- Kevin Meehan
Reading the Removal of Literature
Alan Halsey’s review of December Other Room reader Nick Thurston’s Reading the Removal of Literature can be read at Stride magazine. Here’s the start:
Reading the Remove of Literature is unlike any book I’ve looked at. I’ve read it too but the looking at it is the first essential. With all but a few books one reads without consciousness of seeing. Nick Thurston’s book demands that one look at it constantly and never detach the seeing from the reading – and yet it is only marginally what we generally describe as a ‘visual text’.
The first words of Craig Dworkin’s introduction set the scene: ‘The book you are holding is an edition of Maurice Blanchot’s L’Espace littéraire, although not a word of Blanchot’s text remains. Every page of this book has been assiduously erased by Nick Thurston.
click the LINK for more
BlazeVOX2k9 Fall now online
Work from:
- Adam Katz and Jackie Stluka
- Alan Botsford Saitoh
- Alan Britt
- April A.
- Aryan Kaganof
- Austin Givens
- Avel Berumen
- bani haykal
- Barrie Mac Clellan
- Bethany Price
- Breonna Krafft
- Brian Anthony Hardie
- C.N. Bean
- Christina Manweller
- Clay Carpenter
- Dan Brady
- David M. Morini
- Dayne Duranti
- Duane Locke
- Ed Makowski
- Emily Brown
- Elizabeth Zuba
- Elaine Kahn
- Even
- Heather Fowler
- Hugh Behm-Steinberg
- Iain Britton
- Ivan Jenson
- James Mc laughlin
- James Cook
More here.
Parameter 9
The ninth and final issue of Parameter magazine is out now, featuring poetry from:
- Richard Barrett
- William Garvin
- Jim Goar
- Steven Waling
More here.
Lucy Harvest Clarke – cotton book and what am i to write
Tasters from Lucy Harvest Clarke’s collection Silveronda, which is at the printers, can be found at if p then q at THIS LINK
Openned presents ‘basemeta’
In the basement of the Foundry, Old Street, London, from 18:30 to 23:30 on the 25th of March 2009, poets Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde documented the entire Openned poetry reading from before it started to well after it had finished. This reading was the eighteenth in the series. From this they produced a document called basemeta.
In some of the recordings of the 18th Openned night you can catch occasional glimpses of them or hear the gentle tap of typewriter keys as they produced the documentation.
basemeta was performed at the next Openned night and their performance of this document can be viewed here. However, the documentation also stands as a poem in its own right and is an excellent piece of work and is available here for free and will be permanently available from our Nights Documentation page.
Click HERE to link to blog entry for free downloadable pdf and links to visual material
Cleaves
Cleaves is a new journal collecting poetry from the United Kingdom and Europe. Each area will have an editor, who selects another editor after their issue is complete.
Areas and Editors identified so far include:
London – Sean Bonney
Brighton
Liverpool/Manchester – Richard Barrett
Midlands
North East
South-West (Bristol, Dartington & Plymouth)
Cork, Ireland – David Toms
Denmark, Poland and Turkey – Marcus Slease
If you would like to suggest/discuss an area or volunteer to be an editor, please go to http://cleavesjournal.wordpress.com/ and email poet and webmaster Harry Godwin using the link provided on the site.
Here is the guidance for editors that is posted on the website:
3 to 4 pages (this is not strict) of 3 poets (2 + your work, though you don’t have to include your work), from your local area and/or scene of poets.
You may create/commission your own cover of the issue for your area – all covers will be displayed online in a separate document. You may just choose to use the online cover. Anything goes.
Once you have edited your selection together send it to the webmaster (me for the time being: h j g o d w i n @ g m a i l . c o m).
When I have received all of the expected collections I will collate them and send them out to all editors.
You can print the journal any way you see fit – in booklet form (by using Adobe Reader – print as booklet, then you’ll have to print half of it, turn it over manually and print the other half – I have a good method of doing this, e-mail me for help), or as an A4 document or…
Distribute the journal – either through the associated reading series, or at any reading series you attend. You can charge for it to cover your printing costs and the cost may vary depending on how large it is. If there is any profiteering, I would love to see some.
Choose the next editor wisely, and ask them to e-mail or call me.
Thank you for donating your editing time to Cleaves!
Praxis Etudes – Justin Katko
“Justin Katko is nay one afraid to build multiple bunkers and is, well, quite luckily, one of the most threatening poets writing today. In arche and future and tender curve to present, the notion of persona does no righteousness of fire to Katko’s affectivity and nerved up prosodic methods. Reader of this, read this book and admire.”
Via Josh Stanley. More here.
otherroom.org 