Online now, with poetry, prose and word art by Hoa Nguyen, David Bartone, Carla Harryman, Charles Bernstein, j/j hastain, Ben Hersey, Robert Roley, Suzanne Mercury, Jennifer Pilch, Patrick Pritchett, Audrey Mardavich, Iona Watson, Travis Macdonald, Linh Dinh, Jessica Rogers, Heather Sweeney, as well as collaborations between Yasamin Ghiasi & Michelle Naka Pierce, and Erica Anzalone & Ashley Siegels.
Summer stock, lit journal for humanimals:
Poetry / Film / Sad Disco
Friday, November 30, 2012, 7:00pm until 9:00pm.
Room 632, Birkbeck, University of London, Main campus: Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX
Veer Books / Xing the Line / Writers Forum Workshop (New Series) and The Blue Bus have come together to celebrate the life and poetry of James Harvey, who died last month. This memorial reading will take place at Birkbeck College on Thursday 19th July, from 18.00-21.00. The address is Keynes Library, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. (When you come in to the foyer, ask the person on the front desk who will give directions – it’s a room on the first floor overlooking the square.) Readers/performers will include Carol Watts, Will Rowe, James Wilkes, matt martin, Jeff Hilson, Holly Pester, Michael Zand, Stephen Emmerson, Juliet Troy, John Gibbens, Keith Jebb, David Miller, Antony John, Edward Carey, Peter Philpott, S J Fowler, Elizabeth Guthrie, and The Children (Armorel Weston and John Gibbens).
The new Crater, the 13th, is Elizabeth Guthrie’s X Portraits; 10 odd and unsettling lyrical non-lyric realizations of portraits of America and Britain. Accurate representations of modern life! Each copy includes an individual painted iteration by E.G. reminiscent of 3 stoppages etalon‘s dropped string measure; they all include a wood block by Dirk E. Lee and are letterpressed, handbound &c. Requires paperknife. £7 + p&p. Tim Atkins on Guthrie: ‘Elizabeth Guthrie’s poems – thoughtful, unusual, tender & (of course) tough – do far more interesting acrobatics than so so many of the more – shall we say? – pumped up ones. It is a joy to see her appearing in this latest Crater. Who can say no to it?’
Also: in honour of the impending London Ezra Pound conference, Tim Atkins offers 3 Ezra Pound themed Pet Soundz, available on a poetry-poster with a nice blue rendition of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska on the other side. £3 + p&p, available in unfolded or (cheaper) folded format. Guthrie on Atkins: ‘With Tim Atkins’ poetry, it is all where you find (you have found) he has found and placed the voice. It is all vivid joy and sorrow, distinct again and again in its rolling locale, within its expansive palate contemporary and timeless, completely unleashed and discerning as it turns its attention into forms of each and any place of our worlds.’
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