F-ISH Tales Site Specific Spoken Word Presents Sean Bonney

Saturday 18th September, 6 - 9pm

A solo reading by Sean Bonney.

F-ISH Gallery, 45 Robertson Street, Hastings TN34 1HL

esque

Amy King & Ana Bozicevic:

esque is an online journal. Our first issue features work by poets loosely grouped under the categories of oetry and ifesto.

oetry is the kitchen sink, ifesto is everything but.

oetry includes the texts of poets' native turf: poems, prose poems, verse-fragments, visual po-work. We are interested especially in the work considered too strange, too out-there or in-here, a/typical, (not-)you, overly bold or bald -- just too-something to submit elsewhere. That work "editors wouldn't understand," the esque oems.

ifesto is a field for poets to lucidly engage beyond their poetry. It may include: manifestos, rants, theoretical or personal essays, half-formed statements of poetics, travelogues, music or literary or art critiques, a recurring dream. Or poets might write a piece especially for us: define or fracture the -etics, -eerness, -ility, -onality, -ism they write from or despite of. Lovingly describe their perimeters, or dream off the map. We're not invested in our poets' credentials: we promise to always revel, never judge.

Too many poets to mention. Just visit the site (requires Flash).

It's Nice That

It’s Nice That curate, publish and direct the finest work and practitioners from across the creative industry.

Steven Fowler has just finished a residency, recommending contemporary concrete poetry for a week. See his page here.

WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION: VerySmallKitchen at the Pigeon Wing

For their residency at The Pigeon Wing, VerySmallKitchen presents a month long exploration of how writing moves (or not) between the locations of WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION. Throughout September The Pigeon Wing will be both work space and exhibition, with a program of exhibitions, readings, performances, research projects, libraries, and screenings, exploring an abundance of forms and practices at the interface of writing and art practices.

More details here.

via Becky Cremin

A Tribute to Leslie Scalapino

Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant & Cathy Wagner:

Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We invited those who knew her and/or her work to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her/her writing as tribute. What follows here and over the course of the week is what came. We are grateful to know that her writing will live on in the world, in us, and will continue to be written and spoken about.

You can see Day 1 of 4, and more to come, at delirious hem.

Tom Jenks Interviews Richard Barrett

Politics is something I can’t get away from. Nor want to get away from. It is, nevertheless, a subject which disappoints me intensely. Thinking specifically of ‘The Rushes’ - and this has never been a secret - that was a deliberate attempt to try and do something like Sean Bonney did with The Commons. When I first read The Commons (when will that have been? Late 2008?) I was just absolutely blown away by it. I felt as though I’d found the direction I wanted to go in. It was just a matter of finding my own subject and trying to work out the best way of writing about that subject. Gradually ‘The Rushes’ began to take shape. Since ‘The Rushes’, however, I’d say I’ve begun to think my primary interest, now, as far as poetry goes, isn’t politics but rather culture in a broader sense. Of course, politics is part of that, but it’s a part I just happen to be less focused on at the moment.

Read more here.

Openned Zine #3

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Joe Luna and Steve Willey on SoundEye
• Susana Gardner on the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival
• Harry Godwin explaining the Cleaves editorial process
• Linus Slug curating recollections of the Morden Tower reading with contributions from Chris Stephenson, S J Fowler, Stephen Emmerson, Nat Raha, Michael Zand, Gareth Durasow and Antony John
• Jonny Liron exploring The Situation Room
• David-Baptiste Chirot's editorial for the forthcoming Openned Eyes online gallery
• James Davies' thoughts on live streaming readings following his if p then q broadcast
• Lara Buckerton tackling The eBook Nova
• Adrian Clarke's primer on And
• Stephen Emmerson's introduction to blart

Plus regular features:

• Bookface
• Bird Puke
• Logbay
• Photography: in this issue, Amy De'Ath, Sharon Borthwick, Georgie M'Glug, Nat Raha and Tommy Peeps

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.

New Publication by Bob Cobbing

Writers Forum blog:

Bob Cobbing’s 8 image poem “Wire and Fork” from September 1992, which has apparently never been published, will be published in a small / limited edition by No Press of Calgary during 2010 and then republished by Writers Forum in an unlimited edition later in the year or in 2011. More information when it becomes available

Update on Tuesday 7 September, 2010 by Openned

More details emerging over at the blog.

Desperate for Love

Tuesday 14th September, 8 - 11pm

• Holly Pester
• Francesca Lisette

More TBA, Steph G playing records.

Komedia Studio Bar, Gardner St, Brighton

Admission £4

Paradigm of the Tinctures

Paradigm of the Tinctures by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey is now available as a free PDF download.

This revised and expanded edition of “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey revisits the classic humanist idea of the Sister Arts where poetry is understood to be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem. The revisitation, however, is bluntly revisionary and the result is a fresh text-graphic dialogue.

via Christian Bök via Derek Beaulieu