Matchbox Digital

The excellent poetrymagazines site has digitally archived James Davies's Matchbox series of publications. Well worth a look. via The Other Room

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Tony Trehy - The Language Moment

Tony Trehy has made the shortlist of project organisers for Artists taking the lead, an Arts Council project in conjunction with the 2012 Olympics which will grant £500,000 to the final 12 selected. Here is Tony's proposal for his project, The Language Moment:

Building on the ideas behind the international Text Festival in Bury, Tony Trehy proposes to develop an international language festival featuring many of the world's leading poets, sound and media artists. Held in Manchester in 2012, The Language Moment would be the largest ever celebration and dialogue of language in the arts. The festival would establish the North West of England as a global centre for linguistic art and poetry practice supported by an enhanced capacity to publish, produce and drive the continuing international dialogue.

You can see his page here and find out more information at his blog.

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AAAARG.ORG

Luke Roberts:

Some of you may be interested in this website - a.aaaarg.org - which offers lots of essays free of charge for your reading pleasure. It seems like a pretty useful resource. You have to register, but it doesn't cost anything, and you get access to pdfs of all the favourites - Adorno! Arendt! Deleuze! Vertov! Etc! And all sorts of people I've never heard of.

Register here.

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Critical Documents Sale

Justin Katko:

Critical Documents is moving! And before everything gets transported across the North Atlantic, I'm offering a buy one get one free offer. Buy any book in stock and get another book free. The offer is good from now until August 20 (i.e. ONE week). Here is the current stock:

• Plantarchy 2 (restocked!)
• cris cheek. The Church—The School—The Beer
• cris cheek. part: short life housing (a box of them just arrived from the The Gig)
• Plantarchy 4 (restocked!)
• Keith Tuma. The Paris Hilton
• Tom Raworth. Let Baby Fall
• Sara Crangle. wild ascending lisp

Just note in your paypal message which other book wish to receive. Note that you can't purchase cheek's Part: Short Life Housing from the site, so that one only works as your free one.

Go to the site and order one book, then include your free book in the Paypal message for your puchase.

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