Ken Edwards: Prynne and "Prynne"

Ken Edwards on talk about J.H. Prynne's new work:

To cut a long story short, it's not really published yet: no doubt Barque will have it available for sale soon, and if you're at all interested in new poetry, and in Prynne in particular, you should look out for it. It appears that it was typeset and taken to the printers by the author himself, and mailed out in advance of publication. The point I was trying to make in the discussion was that it seemed, in view of this, a little premature to rush in with heavyweight theoretical frameworking (the original poster was followed by others) for a text few people had actually seen or had the opportunity of seeing.

More at his blog.

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Mutapoem Live

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Olsen and Milne in Devon

Thursday 19th March, 7.30pm The Dartington Campus Readings Series continues with performances by Redell Olsen and Drew Milne. Studio 3, UCF Dartington Campus, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EJ Admission is free.

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Alice Notley Interviewed

3am magazine:

That said, I think the stance that “only the poems matter” has quite a lot to be said for it. It makes demands on the audience perhaps – of attention and concentration — but it demands much more of the poems themselves. I tend to distrust poetry that comes ready-made with commentary or that overtly allies itself with a school of criticism or philosophy. To me that indicates a possible lack of talent, a distrust of poetry itself, and perhaps a careerist desire simply to be heard and noticed.

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New Grasp Press Publications

• Ripcord Worship - Luke Roberts
• Glogy - Josh Stanley
• Now Vulgate - Timothy Thornton
• Tar Orchid - Francesca Lisette
• RAD GLUCOSE IN YR MEMBRANE BABY DOLL! - Josh Stanley
• PESTREGIMENT - Timothy Thornton

Available from the Grasp Press website.

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Steve McCaffery in Glasgow

Saturday 21st March, 6.40 - 7.15pm Steve McCaffery reading Carnival. The Arches, 253 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL +44(0) 141 565 1000

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Excavations

Laurie Duggan:

There is a further kind of excavation however that I want to think about here: the kind that pulls something entirely different from existing texts. If you could say that the kind of writing Reznikoff was interested in doing worked like a précis of the original text, this other kind of writing does no such thing. Instead, it discovers in the text another buried text that, while it might comment on the original material, might also be something the original author may never have intended. In some cases it can be like a repressed text silently waiting inside the original to be liberated by the second author.

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The Gadget

Johannes Göransson:

The real change brought by the Internet is precisely in the new social formations brought on by these e-chapbooks and e-zines etc (what she wants to clean out of "e-literature"). The proliferation of these sites and communities has totally altered literature so that the Poetry Foundation can only pretend that there is a unified "forefront" (the very concept is an antithetical).

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The Newpaper

The Newpaper is a newspaper about the work of artists and writers who use the language, visuals or structure of newspapers in their practice. via Elizabeth James

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Greenspan

by Alex Davies

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