Performance at The Warehouse at the link below on the BBC until Saturday 18th April. Do it now.
James Davies
New Gnoetry by Eric Scovel
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.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
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 3
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.
Streetcake New Issue
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
Mutapoem Live
Contact Matt Dalby if you’re interested in getting muta with him.
Click on the flyer for more.
onedit 12
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
Penn Sound Stats
PennSound stats:
PennSound users downloaded 4 million mp3 sound recordings and related media files in the past month.
At this point, we are projecting 50 million downloads for 2009.
Good runnings.
via Charles Bernstein
Sundays at the Oto
March 15: Paul Taylor’s Trombone Poetry + Uru-Ana + Mike Weller
Paul Taylor’s Trombone Poetry is a solo performance project that interweaves music and poetry in a kind of poetry slalom. Uru-Ana are London-based sound artist/musician Alex Thomas and writer/performer Alex Walker. Michael Weller renders name, place, voice, words, stories, pictures, as public performance. All three approach the performance of poetry from difference routes – Paul Taylor from the improv music circuit, Uru-Ana from theatre and Dada cabaret (though Alex Walker has had two texts on Great Works: Offertorium and Termination #3: Quest), Mike Weller from Writers Forum, but also the politics of the punk scene. They are all skilled and thought-provoking performers who have extended the boundaries of performed language.
via Peter Philpott
Ed Moore’s Escalation
One time professional bookseller Ed Moore, who did a very kind guest performance on the bookstall at The Other Room 5, has a new video out commissioned by The Rogue Element. See here.
Streetcake looks for fiction
Streetcake magazine looking particularly for strong fiction for their next issues. Streetcake accepts excerpts or short stories up to 2500 words. We are also looking for strong imagery for the magazine.
Geof Huth was feeling unwell
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with diarrhea General foods to eat with diarrhea on dining tips in Paris
Father foods with sauce Irish recipes for what to eat before dinner
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No point in not being friends
‘there’s no point in not being friends with someone if you want to be friends with them‘ is a free, Manchester-based monthly night where people can read prose and poetry.
Tom Fletcher
Luke Yates
Catherine Lacey
N.P. Murgatroyd
Si Connor
23rd February, 8pm, FREE, Deaf Institute, just off Oxford Rd, Manchester.
Robert Sheppard, Warrant Error
“This work-four sets of 24 sonnet forms plus four poems, making
100-is highly allusive to the language of the ‘war on terror’ waged
after September 11, 2001.”
Robert Sheppard will read from his new collection along with philip kuhn as part of Shearsman’s reading series
7:30 pm.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
philip kuhn and Robert Sheppard
Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A
2TH.
There is no admission fee.
James Davies meets Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks was born in Sunderland and now lives, works and writes in Manchester. He is the founding editor of Parameter Magazine and has had a mini-series, OMEN, published by Matchbox. His first collection is A Priori.
In two parts below from if p then q downloads
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