“Other Cl/utter is an online gallery space designed to explore “text as art”. Taking inspiration from the visual poetry of bpNichol and Steve McCaffrey the site has set out to examine text (words, letters, phrases, sentences, found text, pictures etc.) as an inherently visual space. Contributors are often artists and poets who view language and its component parts as visual objects that lend themselves to shifting meanings and therefore recognize that words visually contain multiple entryways into understanding. Other Clutter is a space for both writers and artists to dismantle and reconstruct the political and representational overtones of text and art.
Language is inherantly visual, it is already art. Many of you are already using text in your art or art in your text. Other Clutter asks WHY and gives you a space to contextualize the work.”
Although unfortunately no cash can be involved, Caroline Bergvall will answer your questions in issue 4 of if p then q due out in September 2009. If you have anything to ask her please email me at ifpthenq@fsmail.net . Mundane and pop questions are encouraged. The format is taken from a regular Q magazine feature of which there are many examples on the web.
Thanks, James
On July 1st P. Inman and Tina Darragh will perform The Other Room. To commemorate this fantastic reading we will be making a two films – one for Tina and one for Pete -where they’ll be interviewed. We would like to pose questions set by you. If your question is featured you will be credited at the end of the film. The resulting movies will be hosted here on the site. Please email us: otherroomeditors@googlemail.com
“City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.”
Poets featured include upcoming Other Room readers Alex Davies and Steve Willey. Published 20th May 2009, 192 pages, £9.99. Pre-order from Amazon or visit Openned or Penned In the Margins to find out more. Edited by Tom Chivers
“Poetry readings are good value, for a few quid you get to see three or four poets, often interesting, sometimes excellent. The “sting” of course, is that there’s usually a table of books somewhere near. Whereas a reading by a “name” will see a man from Blackwells or Waterstones hovering with a pile of Fabers or similar – pleasant enough, but nothing you can’t buy from your local branch or the internet – a more obscure group of poets will come with a book table to die for.”
From Adrian Slatcher.
The Spring 2009 issue of BlazeVox is online now, featuring work from mez breeze, Rachael Stanford, Brooks Johnson, Patrick Chapman, Aaron Anstett, Abby Stringer, Scott Abels, Adam Siegel, adam strauss, Alec Newman, Andy Frazee, A.D.Hitchin, Ashley VanDoorn, Dennis Barone, Alex Stolis, Brian Hardie, Christie Ann Reynolds, Constance Stadler, Curt Hopkins, Darren Caffrey, David Tolkacz, David Wolach, Dion Farquhar, Donald Illich, Ed Baker, Felino Soriano, Glenn R. Frantz, John C. Goodman, James Brown, Jan Imgrund, Jay Snodgrass, Jennifer H. Fortin, Joe Hall, John Pursley III, John Moore Williams, Karen Sandhu and Tom Jenks.
Hot Gun! is an occasional journal of poetry + criticism. It is oblatory in mode, committed to whatever it HAS to be each issue. Featuring poems and critical works (on Angela Brady, the role of women in Language poetry, Guy Debord and Keston Sutherland) by:
Includes:
via Peter Philpott
Apple Pie is a lab for poetic artefacts: art objects, billposters, prints, CDs, photographs, as well as books. The list contains work from invited artists, poets, musicians and collaborators.
via Phil Davenport
First issue of Rhys Trimble’s ctrl+alt+del e-sheet. The e-sheet is intended to be distributed by an e-list, download and friendly people printing and droplifting.
Gnoetry is an on-going experiment in human/computer collaborative poetry composition.
Gnoetry synthesizes language randomly based on its analysis of existing texts. Any machine-readable text or texts, in any language, can serve as the basis of the Gnoetic process. Gnoetry generates sentences that mimic the local statistical properties of the source texts. This language is filtered subject to additional constraints (syllable counts, rhyming, etc.) to produce a poem.
For our early work with Gnoetry, we have used classic out-of-copyright texts like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class (obtained from the wonderful Project Gutenberg), as well as other sources such as rap lyrics, the complete lyrics of Bob Dylan and Reuters newswire stories.
A key aspect of the Gnoetry software is the ability of a human operator to intervene in the language generation cycle, helping to “guide” the artistic process and to produce a result that is a true collaboration of equals.
The journal will centre on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations: for example avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing. All of these terms have been variously adopted and contested by anthologies such as Children of Albion (1969), A Various Art (1987), The New British Poetry (1988), Floating Capital (1991), Conductors of Chaos (1996), Out of Everywhere (1996), Foil (2000), Anthology of British and Irish Poetry (2001) and Vanishing Points (2004).
Edited by Scott Thurston & Robert Sheppard
if p then q issue three is a special poster set commissioned by The Text Festival It comprises five colour posters in a postal tube by:
Anne Charnock
Craig Dworkin
Geof Huth
P. Inman
Tom Jenks
Anne Charnock’s Uncertainty Series No. 10 is pictured here.
Price is £5 + postage.
Available to buy HERE or at Bury Art Gallery.
And bloody good it is
Poems by:
David Berrigan
Steph Codsi,
Giles Ford
Tom Jenks
Andrew Rihn
Adam Stone
Marja Hagborg
Peter Philpott and Emma Liukunas
Karen Sandhu
Charlotte Harrison
The new issue of onedit is out. Brilliant as ever.
Features:
Charles Bernstein
Ann Bogle
Adrian Clarke
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
John Gibbens
Holly Pester
Ted Greenwald & Kit Robinson
Jonathan Skinner
Philip Terry
Stephen Vincent
via Tim Atkins
Poems 2005-2008, including the complete ‘Looking-glass for Logoclasts’, the first publication of ‘Unkempt Archive’ and in the title sequence re-readings of texts from the schoolbooks of the ancient Egyptians via Seneca and Stein to The Tennis Court Oath and the codenames of recent military operations, together with translations of newly discovered fragments of Mercurialis and further studies of the lizopard.
100pp. ISBN 978-0-9808873-5-8. £11.95 postfree in UK.
North American distribution by SPD. More information at West House Books.
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