CRITICAL DOCUMENTS - Back in Stock

For those who missed out, Sara Crangle's wild ascending lisp, Keith Tuma's The Paris Hilton and Tom Raworth's Let Baby Fall are now back in stock over at CRITICAL DOCUMENTS.

via Justin Katko

S J Fowler Launch Reading

Wednesday 6th October, 7pm

A launch of five SJ Fowler publications by four presses:

• Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Antonio Margarito, by Arthur Shilling Press
• Animal Husbandry, by Kitt Press
• Arthur Abraham, by Knives Forks & Spoons Press
• Klitschko, by zimZalla

The event will feature a 40 minute reading from S J Fowler and a sales table with work from the list of each of the presses.

Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY

Admission is free.

Update on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 by Openned

Saint Augustine of Hippo is being published by Kitt Press, not Arthur Shilling Press. Thanks to Harry Godwin for the heads-up.

Piccadilly Self Publishing Fair and Exhibition

Sunday 3rd - Saturday 9th October

Piccadilly Self Publishing Fair and Exhibition is a new self-publishing event.

Piccadilly Place, Manchester M1 3BN

Website

Knives, Forks and Spoons Book Launch

Thursday 30th September, 7pm

Readings from their Knives Forks and Spoons pamphlets by:

• Antony Rowland
• Robert Sheppard
• Scott Thurston

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY (near Oxford St. station)

Admission is free

Tim Atkins - 1000 Sonnets

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.

£9 (UK) £12 (ROW), if p then q, September 2010

Sean Bonney - 5 poems after Rimbaud (Second Run)

A second run of Sean Bonney's 5 poems after Rimbaud is now available from Grasp Press. 10 of the 30 copies have already been sold, so be quick.

Crater 1

Richard Parker:

Crater Press announces Crater 1 - it's an unusual articulated broadside item featuring 6 poems by (young lion of the avant-garde) Michael Kindellan, and a reversible cover MK poster doodab for your wall when you're done reading.

Available via the lovely new Crater Press website.

Full Metal Poem

FMP is an irreverent new Magazine edited from Amsterdam and Hamburg and filled with Poetry Art Photography. It's a beautiful numbered edition of 250 - around 100 pages with stencil-printing and a wrap-around handbound jacket.

Website

via Crg Hill

Two New Books from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press and Three New Chapbooks from No Press

The Other Room has details of two new chapbooks from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, by Heller Levinson and Harry Ross, and three new chapbooks from No Press, by Stephane Mallarme, Lawrence Upton and Paul William Zits.

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.