Alex Davies

Openned book launch: The Commons

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  • Wednesday 21st September, 7.30pm;
  • Admission is FREE;
  • Carnivale, 2 White Church Ln., London E1 7QR (opposite Aldgate East Tube station (Whitechapel Gallery exit);
  • Readings from Sean Bonney, Ulli Freer, Nat Raha, Steve Willey;
  • A special edition run of The Commons will be available, featuring a couple of extra goodies.

Flyer with full line-up now available from openned.com.

Alex Davies – How Vivid the Claret

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Other Room founding member Alex Davies has a pamphlet out with Arthur Shilling press. Check it out:

£1.80 (UK & EU only), Arthur Shilling Press, 2011 (24 pages, A6, first 20 copies have unique cover images taken from “Stories for Boys”, the remaining 10 copies are reproduced prints)

To purchase from outside the UK/EU, please contact the editor Harry Godwin

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The Openned Book Table

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Openned is setting up a book table in conjunction with Café 1001 in London’s East End.

Openned will have a presence at Café 1001 on the first Saturday of every month. The first event is on Saturday 5th June and runs from 12 – 6 pm.

Attendance is free as long as you bring one book to donate to Café 1001’s Book Orphanage. The book orphanage is a large bookshelf in the main bar space where anyone can wander in and read a book, for free, and then put it back on the shelf for the next person to read.

Alongside the selling of books on the Openned Table (which is in fact two tables, and more if we need it) there will also be some very short three-minute Openned Readings throughout the day.

More here.

Openned Zine #1

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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.

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The Other Room Anthology 2009/10

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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.

Advanced warning: Final Openned

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If you’ve planned on getting to Openned but never have now’s your last chance. Farewell (for now) to a great night and venue.

Readers:

Andrea Brady
Ian Heames
Antony John
Geraldine Monk
Linus Slug
Timothy Thornton

Date: Wednesday 25th November
Time: 7.30pm
Location: The Foundry, London
Admission: Free

Into the Openned

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We were recently interviewed by Oliver Fay for Resonance FM. The show is being broadcast on Tuesday 29th September at 11pm. You can stream the show online here at that time, or alternatively if you live in central London you can tune in to 104.4fm. We are working on archiving the recording too, so keep an eye out on the blog if you miss the show and want to listen to it.

Next Openned

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The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:

  • Sean Bonney
  • Sophie Robinson
  • Harry Gilonis
  • Josh Stanley
  • Tim Atkins
  • Nat Raha
  • Posie Rider
  • Peter Philpott
  • Alan Hay
  • Michael Zand
  • Amy De’Ath
  • Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
  • Frances Kruk
  • Raz
  • Andrea Brady
  • Justin Katko

More TBA.

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Palestine

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The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on the 6th of October. Confirmed poets so far are:

Sean Bonney, Sophie Robinson, Harry Gilonis, Josh Stanley, Jow Lindsay, Tim Atkins, Nat Raha, Michael Zand, with more T.B.A

A flyer is in production at the moment but in the mean time for more information check the Openned Poetry Facebook Event.

The poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.

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The Other Room 10 – aftermath

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Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk gave us a magnificent evening on 5th August.  Tony Trehy‘s photograph of Sean and Frances above.

Richard Barrett has posted more photographs here.

Matt Dalby has reviewed the evening  and you can read it here. 

Alex Davies recorded the first half and you can listen to that here.

Thanks to all for these resources and thank you again to Sean, Frances and everyone who came along.