Saturday 11 April, 2009 Johanna Linsley:
I presented some work at Klatch, a poetry thing organized by Openned. I thought it would be funny if I used the opportunity to advertise this blog. I passed around a picture of many entries lined up on my laptop, like a look behind the scenes. And I explained how I write the entries many weeks before I post them. Then I read on entry, like a preview of coming attractions.Listen.
Friday 10 April, 2009 in Harry Godwin Read it on T H E D A I L Y F I L T H.
Friday 10 April, 2009 Josh Stanley:
The first issue of Hot Gun! is now out. It includes POEMS by Kyle Storm Beste-Chetwynde, Ryan Dobran, Luke Roberts, Justin Katko+Jow Lindsay, and Marianne Morris + the following PIECES: Trying to Look Correctly at the “Subjects” of Andrea Brady’s ‘Saw Fit’ – Amica Dall ‘[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions’: Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry – Emily Critchley Guy Debord’s _Hurlements En Faveur De Sade_ [Headnote, Translation and Footnotes] – Justin Katko Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries : Presentation review – Kate Riley Keston Sutherland: _Hot White Andy_ – J.H. Prynne Lyric Purity in Keston Sutherland’s _Hot White Andy_ – Neil Pattison It is 96 pages for the desperate day+night. Please email hotgunjournal@gmail.com with questions + please read Hot Gun! with and without with questions. Dear tremors in the present part juicer, what else can we now do. All this for 7 dollars plus postage: 2 dollars for the USA and 6 dollars for the UK and the rest of the world. I will have a website setup in the next couple of days where you will be able to buy it through paypal.Josh includes his address in the original correspondence but for the sake of sakeness it has not been included here. An e-mail to the above address should be sufficient to retrieve the needed information.
Friday 10 April, 2009 Computational poetics. Created and maintained by Beard of Bees. Read their manifesto for more explanatory explanatorination.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 John Latta:
(Strangely Beckettian, that pus, that Godot “reproachful tree”—I check dates, curious—oddly enough, En attendant Godot premier’d 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone, while O’Hara’s “Second Avenue”’s composed in March and April of that year—f. w. i. w.) What jumps up my sleeve “more”: some of the remarks O’Hara made in “[Notes on Second Avenue].” Immediately after the lines quoted here, he writes—with prior disclaimer “the remarks are explanatory of what I now feel my attitude was toward the material, not explanatory of the meaning which I don’t think can be paraphrased (or at lest I hope it can’t)”: “To put it very gently, I have a feeling that the philosophical reduction of reality to a dealable-with system so distorts life that one’s “reward” for this endeavor (a minor one, at that) is illness both from the inside and outside.” (And—irritable aside—one need only look to the self-appoint’d precinct-captains of Blogland, to witness that particular disease, ah, the petty glory-hounds with they dealable-with systems!)Read the rest.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Lisa Samuels gave an excellent reading at The Other Room a couple of weeks back. Michael Peverett has reviewed her book The Invention of Culture for Intercapillary Space.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Jeff Hilson:
A few years ago in the preface to my book stretchers (oh yes) I talked about Iain Sinclair's complaint that the Isle of Dogs contained no graffiti and suggested he look at the smears of dogshit there as a kind of script, one that Bob Cobbing would certainly have been happy to perform.Read (and see) the rest.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Wednesday 15th April, 7.30pm
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Teachers have attacked politicians' meddling in the national curriculum and the censorship of English literature, warning against the schools secretary, Ed Balls, winning the power to dictate what pupils read and learn. Delegates at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) voted to raise the issue of censorship with Balls following the banning of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure, which refers to knife crime, from an AQA exam board anthology last year after "extreme pressure" from a group of MPs.Pfft.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Almost four years in the making, the World Digital Library will launch on 21 April, functioning in seven languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish – and including content in additional languages. A prototype of what will be on offer includes a voice recording of the 101-year-old grandson of an American slave, a 17th-century map of the world and 19th-century Brazilian photographs.Read the rest.
