The wonderful online reviews magazine Galatea Resurrects comes back with its 15th issue.
Tonnes of reviews and more, inlcuding Tim Atkins 1000 Sonnets.
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Tim Atkins’ 1000 Sonnets published by if p then q
The long awaited full set of Tim Atkins’ minimalist sonnets is finally here. First published by The Figures back in 2000 this if p then q collection contains over 100 extra sonnets to comprise 127. The title alludes to Kenneth Koch’s hilarious sequence of short plays/skits 1000 Avant Garde Plays and as ever Tim Atkins’ magic is in the spirit of that playfulness. You will have clocked some of these delights in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.
What Ron Silliman had to say about Sonnet 91:
“Certainly a sonnet is possible in which these words fall in these places. Yet is not clear if anything, in fact, is missing. As such, the text stands mute, ironic, self-amused all at once.”
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new issue featuring:
Emily Critchley
Gareth Durasow
Gregory Farnum
Alec Finlay
Allen Fisher
Elizabeth Guthrie
Ralph Hawkins
Elffish Jon
Kevin Killian
Richard Parker
Francisco Petrarch
Robert Sheppard
Jonty Tiplady
Tim Atkins
Tim Atkins reads at The Other Room’s first birthday, April 2009.
Thanks to Ed Moore for filming and transferring this video.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Click here to open the film in a bigger screen.
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More wonderfulness from onedit:
Amina Cain
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Ray DiPalma
Tom Leonard
Joe Luna
Tim Atkins
Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’
In its festive merriment, and review of the culture of the decad,e The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.
1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10. Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets
Matchbox Digital Archive at The Poetry Library
For me the whole thing was about how to get good poetry read by people who don’t usually read good poetry, create excitement, be cheap to produce and sell; and yet not be some folded A4 paper. There were about 150 or so of each issue – all sold out now. The limited number of copies made was due completely down to the fact that I was getting sores on my fingers from cutting and folding not due to exclusivity so it’s wonderful that Dean Farrow, Chris McCabe et al have archived the editions for anyone who’s not read the poems or seen what the boxes looked like. So far the first 6 are up with the final six to come.
MESHWORKS
Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance. The site’s title is taken from an essay by cris cheek in Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance, and Site-Specificity: “Each poetry reading is a meshwork, a gathering, of differentially inflected components.”
Writers featured include previous Other Room readers Tim Atkins and Alan Halsey and upcoming readers Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk.
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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
otherroom.org 