Flyer with full line-up now available from openned.com.
Advanced notice of a new publication from Openned Press:
Sean Bonney – the commons
The book will be launched on Wednesday 21st September at Carnivale, east London. Further details will appear on openned.com.
Plus regular features:
Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version, here.
Openned Eyes is a visual poetry project curated by David-Baptiste Chirot, assembled from 2009 – 2010. Click here to see it.
Details of the October Openned reading including confirmed readers and a
flyer are now available at:
Openned has posted some photos from their relaunch:
■Peter Philpott explaining reasons and motivations behind the Great Works website
■Save Middlesex Philosophy
■Emily Critchley and Carol Watts provide a schedule for the Women’s Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival in Greenwich
■Jeff Hilson, Edmund Hardy, Richard Owens and Peter Riley on Mendoza, or, Linus Slug
■Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde and Karen Sandhu on press free press
■Harry Gilonis Edmund Hardy, Tessa Whitehouse and Michael Zand on Klatch 3: Dérive
■Luke Roberts looks back on the Sussex Poetry Festival
■Stephen Mooney on the launch of the new Voiceworks website
■Matt Dalby on a new sound-text-performance series in Manchester, Counting Backwards
■Timothy Thornton close reads Ryan Ormonde’s firstdraftofhypertextrespondingtoalicefallingdownrabbithole
■Johanna Linsley on I’m With You, a series of live art events in Clapton, London
■Alex Davies on the Openned Table
Plus a set of regular new features:
■Bookface
■Birk Puke
■Photography: in this issue, Sharon Borthwick, Marianne Morris, Nat Raha and Malcolm Phillips
Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.
More here.
*Klatch 2* is now available as a PDF download from Openned. The magazine was assembled on Friday 29th January 2010. It features work by: Alex Davies, Amy De’Ath, Edmund Hardy,Elizabeth Guthrie, Francesca Lisette, Georgie M’Glug, Johanna Linsley, Karen Sandhu,Linus Slug, Michael Zand, Nat Raha, Rebecca Cremin, Sophie Robinson, Steve Willey,Tessa Whitehouse, Tim Atkins.
*Klatch 3 *is now available in page based format. 15 copies are being made available to those on this list-serv. Klatch 3 was assembled on Friday 14th May 2010. It features maps and poems by: Harry Gilonis, Richard Parker, Edmund Hardy, Michael Zand, Jeff Hilson, Tessa Whitehouse, Andrea Brady, slmendoza, Nat Raha, Steve Willey.
More here.
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.
Events this week from The Other Room calendar. The calendar is open access. If you have an experimental poetry, art or music event you want to publicise, feel free to post. If you would prefer us to post for you, email us at otherroomeditors@gmail.com
Wednesday 25th November
Openned – the final reading: Andrea Brady; Ian Heames; Antony John; Geraldine Monk; Linus Slug; Timothy Thornton. The Foundry, London. 7.30 PM start. Free. More here.
Thursday 26th November
Alec Newman at Manchester Central Library: Reading from Alec Newman, poet and editor of Knives, Forks and Spoons press, with John G. Hall and Simon Rennie. 6 PM start.
Lemke/Gwilliam CD launch: Castlefield Art Gallery, Manchester 6-8pm. fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.More here.
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
You need this in your life:
“Maggie O’Sullivan’s new book presents work from the 1970s & ’80s: these powerfully constructed poems offer a place from which it becomes possible to exercise vital thought … rather than just to suffer life; to ride in sound and syntax the sinewy entanglement of material existence.
This publication, and all other Veer Books, will be available at the Small Publishers Fair 2009, as well as at various upcoming CPRC Birkbeck events, or by post directly from Veer. Contact Veer Books at veerbooks[at]gmail[dot]com for more information.
ISBN: 978-0-9558763-7-0
£7.50”
Via Openned. Watch Maggie’s reading for The Other Room in August 2008 here.
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
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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.
The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:
More TBA.
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.
via Openned
Sean Bonney has started to post the next series of The Commons on his website. For those of you yet to check out this work, you can download set 2 free of charge off the Openned website.
Via Openned.
Sean will be reading at The Other Room this Wednesday at 7PM, with Frances Kruk.
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