On Infinite Difference

The attention given "innovative" poetries by mainstream press on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years is impressive but I fear this attention may be functioning as a sort of kettling tactic that effectively neutralizes or cordons these poetries off, reducing them to carnival status and displaying them publicly on a sort of vaudeville stage way off Broadway. Rae Armantrout got a Pulitzer. Good times. The TLS addresses British poetries beyond the pale of the larger publishing industry once and again. Grand. But these gestures often come off as a weirdly condescending pat on the head or a strategy engineered to rope in readers located beyond the main.

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Joseph Walton's Message For The General Election

To whom it may concern,

Please note the forthcoming general election message from Joseph Walton to air live on Online > TV on Wednesday 28th April at 10pm GMT (duration: 15min).

Thank you for your attention.

Cambridge Reading Series

Friday 30th April, 7.30pm

• Frances Kruk
• Redell Olsen

Judith E. Studio Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge

Admission is free, all welcome.

Desperate For Love

Tuesday 27th April, 8pm

• Amy De'Ath
• Elizabeth Guthrie
• Frances Kruk
• Tracey Wat

Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN

Admission £4

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The iPad, the Kindle and the future of books

Good overview from the New Yorker of how large-scale publishing is dealing with the rise of the eBook.

First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival Photos

More great photos, this time from Marianne Morris of that thing that goodness thing that happened in Sussex.

post_moot 2010 Liveblogging

Liveblogging from post_moot longly and shortly. Good stuff.

Rahaha's Photostream

Great photos from a diverse range of events, places. Bookmark it, RSS it, follow it.

Counting Backwards

Counting Backwards is a new series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months. Counting Backwards takes place at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. The first event is on Thursday 3 June 2010.

Counting Backwards takes as it’s starting point contemporary text-sound practices that question semantics and received traditions and emphasise performability.

The focus is on the exploration of new or unconventional techniques.

A new blog and event series run by Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher.

Update on Friday 23 April, 2010 by Openned

PW10

Friday 7th (evening) - Sunday 9th May

Programme includes:

Talks

• Redell Olsen
• Ric Allsopp
• Caroline Bergvall
• Jean-Jacques Lecercle
• Lone Twin

Performance

• Aaron Williamson
• Nancy Reilly-McVittie
• Low Profile
• Emma Bennet

Readings

• Tony Lopez
• Drew Milne
• Allen Fisher 

Multi-Channel Audio

• David Prior

Video Installation

• Nisha Dugall

Digital and Visual Text

• John Hall
• Jerome Fletcher
• John Cayley
• Ellen Bell
• Melanie Thompson

A Festival of Performance Writing and Cross-artform textual practice, with the opening of Caroline Bergvall and Ciaran Maher's 'Say Parsley' on the evening of the 7th May.

Arnolfini Gallery, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Day Pass £8 / £7 (conc.) 

Weekend pass £20 / £15 (unwaged) / £10 (students)

Website

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