Allen Fisher proposes

Ken Edwards' thoughts on Allen Fisher's Proposals.

Department #3

£3, Department, Feb 2011

The poetry of Department is poetry that is not content to inhabit “the poetic” (aesthetically elevated spiritualised leisure activity): that with the force of its own intensities & in-densities moves ‘out’ on to the street, moves among political spaces (complicating – & analysing complicities – all distinctions between public & private worlds), & lives in the overlap between sound & discourse, music & information. Department poetry is non-departmental poetry. It does not refuse formal exactness (though it troubles a certain ideology of forms as Universals), but it does refuse constraint; it troubles order to deny all attempts at a control order for poetry (know your place). These principles underlie the practice of Department issue #3. & will underlie the practice of future issues.

Featuring:

Marie-Angelique Bueler

Wayne Clements

Matt Dalby

David Grundy

Catherine Hales

Ryan Ormonde

Posie Rider

Marcus Slease

Tom Watts

Howl

Contact Steven Fowler for more information.

Veer About

Veer About 2010-2011 has been specifically designed as an online publication with fully clickable contents page, while also utilising the pdf format to embed video, audio and visual work, in addition to text.

Available as a free download from Intercapillary Space.

Edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe.

Featuring:

• Gilbert Adair
• Pansy Maurer-Alvarez
• Sean Bonney
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• David Caddy
• John Cayley
• Wayne Clements
• Jennifer Pike Cobbing
• Becky Cremin
• Jimmy Cummins
• Allen Fisher
• Gregorio Fontén
• Steven Fowler
• Edmund Hardy
• Harry Gilonis
• Martin Gubbins
• James Harvey
• Rosa van Hensbergen
• Rob Holloway
• Keith Jebb
• Antony John
• Doug Jones
• Justin Katko
• Matthew Martin
• Steve McCaffery
• Aodán McCardle
• Karen McCormack
• Mendoza
• Rod Mengham
• David Miller
• Stephen Mooney
• Niamh O’Mahony
• Maggie O’Sullivan
• Ryan Ormonde
• Richard Owens
• Chris Paul
• Peter Philpott
• Frances Presley
• Nat Raha
• John Seed
• Gavin Selerie
• Phillip Terry
• Greg Thomas
• Scott Thurston
• Juha Virtanen
• Carol Watts
• Mike Weller
• Tom White
• Steve Willey
• Johan de Wit

Update on Thursday 24 February, 2011 by Openned

Corrected spelling of Rosa van Hensbergen.

"To Open Eyes": Black Mountain College Into the 21st Century

Friday 3rd - Saturday 4th June, 2011

Founded in 1933 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, Black Mountain College was not your garden variety college compared to other institutions of higher learning in the United States at the time. Indeed, Black Mountain was as much a vortex of avant-garde art performances, experimental lifestyles, political radicalism, macho theatrics, utopian architectural dreaming, and collective manual labor as it was a college of liberal arts. Black Mountain College was where people gathered “to open eyes” as Josef Albers, teacher at BMC, put it.

Following up the 75th anniversary of the founding of BMC, we seek to gather a small group of scholars, artists, philosophers, musicians, architects and others interested in Black Mountain College to explore the ways the legacy of Black Mountain College continues to resonate across contemporary postmodern culture. Papers are to cover a wide range of subjects, including Black Mountain's relationship to:

• The Bauhaus (Josef and Anni Albers)
• Painting (Dan Rice, Robert Motherwell, Elaine and Willem de Kooning)
• Music (John Cage)
• Dance (Merce Cunningham)
• Architecture (Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius)
• Poetry (Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov)
• Visiting Speakers (Albert Einstein, Thornton Wilder, Norbert Wiener)
• Publishing (*Black Mountain Review*)
• Pedagogy (John Andrew Rice, John Dewey, Theodor Dreier)

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted to Daniel Kane and Paul Betts, by Friday 15th April.

Notification will be made by Tuesday 3rd May.

3rd June - University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH (keynote)

4th June - Landsdowne Hotel, Lansdowne Place, Brighton BN3 1HQ

via Keston Sutherland

halfcircle two

Now out, featuring original poetry from:

• Alexander Booth
• Ryan Dobran
• Ian Heames
• John Z. Komurki
• Steve McCaffery
• Peter McDonald
• Samuel Meister
• Drew Milne
• Richard O'Brien
• Don Paterson
• Vidyan Ravinthiran
• Peter Riley
• Yolanda Tudor-Bloch
• Rebecca Voelcker
• Heathcote Williams

£3, from:

• Brighton Rainbow bookshop
• Cambridge Amnesty Bookshop, G. David Bookseller, Heffers
• Falmouth JAM bookshop
• Oxford Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Blackwells
• Paris Shakespeare & Company
• Sussex Sussex campus bookshop

You can also purchase halfcircle two via post by sending £3 and a stamped addressed envelope big enough to fit the slim, A5 journal to halfcircle poetry, 107 Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BT

For those in London we are still waiting to hear from England's Lane Books and the bookartbookshop. If you would be interested in having a bunch to distribute in London, or you would like to contribute to the next issue please get in touch.

Website

Crater XI: Rob Holloway - FLESH RAYS

Crater XI samples from the early stages of Rob Holloway’s new prose sequence ‘FLESH RAYS’ that one day will stretch to 107 such sections. One sentence reads ‘All sun’s got inside breath, soft as a head without a ghost.’ Another, ‘Shift left red sun, I’m cutting out a girl of paper.’, so perhaps it’s all about the sun. Then again, we’re instructed to ‘Rinse roads as if bricks were still wrapped in their towels’ so best we head for the hills. The ‘two Asian women soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie’ mentioned in the section ‘Moulded Books’ are real. ‘Reassembling the central crabapple’ is the ultimate purpose of the sequence.

£5 UK / £6 ROW, Crater Press, Dec 2010

The Literateur Interviews Sean Bonney

An interview with Sean Bonney by The Literateur:

But it’s true there is a very real resistance to complex poetry, and it’s strange because people don’t have the same problems with music, or the visual arts, or film or whatever... Poetry, or at least the areas of it that I’m interested in, is always going to [be] difficult because it’s consciously focussing on language as the medium people exist within and understand the world through – a medium that’s usually only used for information, instructions, commands and so on. It’s probably the most alienating of the artforms. Great. I’m happy with that.

Writers at Warwick

A treasure trove of recordings at the Writers at Warwick Audio Archive.

via Luke Roberts

Albion Beatnik Reading

Thursday 24th February, 8 - 11pm

• Amy De'Ath
• Sean Bonney
• Dominic Lash
• David Stent

Albion Beatnik Bookshop, 34 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AA

Admission £5