Chicago Review issue 55

Chicago Review issue 55: Seven Poets from Berlin is now out. Visit the website for a full list of contents and details of how to order.

Lucy Harvest Clarke - Silveronda

Lucy Harvest Clarke's Silveronda has just been published by if p then q.

Lucy Harvest Clarke’s poems merge the surreal into the common place. Using a blend of sprung rhythm and jacked up line endings a subtle erotic poise bobs up into and then out of sight like a fairground duckshoot; you keep wanting to have another go, you can't help admiring the trick. Silveronda is her debut collection. Work has featured in Parameter, Greatworks, onedit and The Other Room anthology 2009.

ISBN: 978-0-9558641-4-8

£8

Available via the Bookshelf.

Barque Books

Two new publications from Barque:

• Monika Rinck - 16 Poems (translated by Alistair Noon)
• Michael Kindellan - Not Love

Both £5 / $10 (+P&P)

Website

Pierre Joris - Justifying the Margins

In this collection of essays, poet, translator, anthologist and critic Pierre Joris extends his "nomad poetics" to a remarkable zigzagging on the margins of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and poetics. For Justifying the Margins refuses, precisely, to fill out spaces neatly to yield (to) straightened out, pre-set margins, be they cultural, literary, linguistic or political; Joris rather wanders through those spaces, and thereby "justifies" the margins properly speaking.

£11.99, Salt Publishing

Excerpt

Available via the Bookshelf.

Veer Launches at Small Publishers Fair 2009

Further to our recent post on the Small Publishers Fair 2009, Veer Books has details of five, yes five, book launches taking place there, featuring:

• Piers Hugill
• Antony John
• Will Rowe
• Tony Trehy
• Aodán McCardle, Piers Hugill, Stephen Mooney

Parameter 9

The final issue of Tom Jenks's excellent Parameter magazine is now available from the Parameter website, featuring:

• Richard Barrett
• William Garvin
• Jim Goar
• Steven Waling 

£3.50

via The Other Room

Maggie O'Sullivan - ALTO

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

basemeta

In the basement of the Foundry, Old Street, London, from 6.30pm to 11:30pm 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.

Published: October 2009

View free: PDF (18.4MB)

_Praxis_Etudes_

The latest title from Grasp Press is now available:

_Praxis_Etudes_
by Justin Katko

Justin Katko is nay one afraid to build multiple bunkers and is, well, quite luckily, one of the most threatening poets writing today. In arche and future and tender curve to present, the notion of persona does no righteousness of fire to Katko's affectivity and nerved up prosodic methods. Reader of this, read this book and admire.

£3.00 (50 copies available)

Hear Justin read the last poem, Abstinence The Symbol, from his book _Praxis_Etudes_ at the 22nd Openned night (28 mins 18 seconds into the video)

Purchase: Grasp Press website

The Everyday of Irma Kite

The latest title from the Arthur Shilling Press is now available:

The Everyday of Irma Kite
by Neil Addison

£2.50 (+ p&p)

Purchase: Arthur Shilling Press blog