Harry Godwin, The Daily Filth, Openned 25th March, 2009

I think these two poems could be usefully classified under the heading of a poetics of social space. Or more accurately, the existence of these poems on The Daily Filth and the fact that Godwin's poem now fluxes between the Openned website, the reading series (now documented on website) and Sophie Robinson's project The Daily Filth, and the articulation of these connections on Openned (in this present post) and how this articulation corresponds to the semantic content of Harry's poem, is what I mean by naming the work part of a poetics of social space.  Two Openned documentation poems by Harry J Godwin “A tree just grew…” or Remembering Openned A tree just grew Out of my sorry Jim’s penis A tree just grew out of Jim’s penis and a bird visited Then some other stuff happened and I think the bird left But Jim still had a tree growing out of his penis a whole tree Out of his penis Two: Remembering Openned 2 - hJgodwin My stool fell down a hole My stool fell down a hole my stool fell down a h le and Johan made a face To see the poems in their original context, plus a poem regarding the recent Crossing The Line reading, go to The Daily Filth a filthy website set up by the poet Sophie Robinson.

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Gilbert Adair & Tom White Reading

Saturday 18th April, 6pm

• Gilbert Adair
• Tom White

Plus the launch of Tom White's Old Sense from Veer Books. Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, London WC1E 7HX (tube: Russell Square) Admission is free, refreshments provided.

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Benjamin Péret

A chicken paces back and forth in a snuff box which is a very fitting burial place for a polishing brush toothless like the minister of agriculture and so feeble you would want to hang it like a sack of onions from the edge of the roof to drive away the swallows that without that would come to nip at our heels to make us long for the doubledecker bus

Read more about him on Colin Herd's blog.

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D&G

via John Sparrow

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Recording The Other Room, Wednesday 1st April 2009

The Other Room, 01/04/09 (AAC, 17min, 7MB) A recording of the latter part of the second half of The Other Room reading featuring Phil Davenport and Lisa Samuels, which took place in the Old Abbey Inn, Manchester on Wednesday 1st April 2009. Unfortunately I was unable to catch any of Tim Atkins' reading due to the lacklustre recording equipment available to me at the time. The Other Room is organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston.

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Sundays at the Oto

Sunday 19th April, 3 - 5pm

• Abigail Oborne + Gagarin
• Holly Pester
• James Wilkes

18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL Admission £4

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Notes on Recurring Poetry

John Sparrow:

Of particular interest in the subsequent discussions (which are here), the comment that blog posts outside of the ‘poems proper’ actually form part of the wider reading of these poems — something which will surely be lost when finally published in its own context in a bound book.  For sure, in the blog context, the composite texts arrive in a chronology which invites digressions, interruptions, as part of an ongoing reading process.

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Torque Press

Piers Hugill:

I am very happy to be able to announce the re-launch of Torque Press, a small press dedicated to publishing contemporary poetry, which is supported by the University of Southampton. It has been a long time coming, but together with the news about the press we are also very pleased to announce the launch of a new book by Caroline Bergvall, Cropper, beautifully designed and constructed by Marit Münzburg, which in two articulating sections considers the experience of multilingualism, and the way bodies and language(s) interact across their many borders. We are also now making available for purchase (while stocks last) the backlist of Torque Press, which published ten titles between 1984 and 1997.

• Allen Fisher (1, 1984), Boogie Break, pp. 12.
• Wendy Mulford (2, 1985), The A.B.C. of Writing, and other poems, pp. 32. (sold out)
• Alan Halsey (3, 1987), The Capitalist Twilight Revisited, pp. 18 (sold out)
• Michael Carlson (4, 1988), By the Sound, pp. 22.
• Robert Sheppard (5, 1988), Internal Exile, pp. 15. (sold out)
• Johan de Wit (6, 1989), Spread Eagle, pp. 20.
• David Miller (7, 1989), Messages, pp. 12.
• David Marriott (8, 1991), Clouds & Forges, pp. 20.
• Ken Edwards (9, no date), Lyrical Ballets, pp. 17.
• Allen Fisher (10, 1997), Fish Jet, pp. 52.

I have listed the whole backlist, although, as indicated, some of the titles are no longer available. You can get copies of Caroline Bergvall's book (Cropper, ISBN: 978-1-906851-01-9, pp. 15) for £7, plus 50p P&P, and any of the titles still available from the previous series of Torque Press at the price of £5 for each title, with a further 50p for P&P, from: Jane Glenn, 65/2063, English, School of Humanities, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ (J.Glenn@soton.ac.uk). Please make cheques payable to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

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Heidegger vs. Kindle

Dan Piepenbring:

The Kindle may feel, at present, isolated and bereft of context, but this is because its readiness-to-hand is concealed by a lack. Something is missing, or, to use Heidegger's jargon, "obtruding." Birkerts maintains that the issue is one of context, but this is perhaps irrelevant. What matters is not the nature of what's missing but that something is missing at all. In Heidegger's philosophy, people will resist imperfect equipment, especially when its faults obtrude upon their interactions with the world.

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