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UPDATE: This is what happens when you print a stranger in the ass.

The good news first. Glen David Gold, the absolutely brilliant author of Carter Beats the Devil, one of my favourite books of the last 10 years, has finally produced a new novel, Sunnyside. And it sounds great. Now the bad news. In what could be an unprecedented move for such a long-awaited novel, the book's UK publisher has decided to sell the hardback exclusively through Waterstone's for the first few months it is on sale: this means you won't be able to buy it from Amazon, from independents, from Borders - from anywhere except Waterstone's. The Bookseller reports that Hodder decided to work with Waterstone's "because it got so behind Carter - all the booksellers took it to their heart - and had the lion's share of the sales".

via The Guardian

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the rushes. 37-38

Instead: Euston station food-court - train, 2 hours hence. Hold-all / poetry book lined. A bulldog-clip / holding it together.

by Richard Barrett. Read the rest. Also see his work at London Poetry Systems.

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The Tin Book

It is known as The Tin Book and was co-authored by a fascist-sympathising Italian artist who, 100 years ago today, said all libraries should be destroyed. With wonderful irony, the British Library announced yesterday that it had bought an edition of the book, an artefact that is at once rare, unusual and significant. The library has spent £83,000 on this pivotal work in the development of the Italian Futurist art movement. Entitled Parole in Libertá Futuriste Olfattive Tattili Termiche (Words in Futurist, Olfactory, Tactile, Thermal Freedom), it may not have the snappiest of titles, but the 27-page metal book is a thing of considerable beauty and exemplifies the mad dynamism and energy of the Futurists.

Full article. via The Book Bench

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egnep's Dastardly Doings

Mike Weller has been doing some housekeeping on his rather lovely e-book collection.

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Ant Spider Attack

Geof Huth on the aforeposted Spidertangle Anthology:

All in all, however, the quality of the work is quite good, much better than we could even hope to expect. The book design shows all of mIEKAL’s usual skill, along with a few extra treats for the readers. The book comes with special endpapers designed by David Baptiste Chirot, rubBEings (visual poetry frottages) at the front and his clay-stamped visual poems at the back. There’s a joyful, almost anarchic, but still beautiful bit of paragonnage on the title pages—a gallimaufry of typefaces that should not go together but seem somehow at home.

Full post here.

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Desperate For Love: March Reading

Sunday 1st March, 8pm

• Sean Bonney
• Wolfy Jones
• Jon Slade

Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN £3

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mark(s)

New issue of mark(s) online. Featuring:

• Juliet Davis
• Patrick Durgin
• Frank English
• Brad Iverson
• Beth Joselow
• Dustin W. Leavitt
• Jennifer Moxley

via Silliman

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Action, Yes

A new Action, Yes is now online. It features:

• Ellen Baxt
• Dodie Bellamy
• Amy L. Clark
• Tina Darragh
• Kate Dougherty
• Sara Tuss Efrik
• Elizabeth Ellen
• Clayton Eshleman
• FLUXCONCERT
• Jennifer H. Fortin
• Angela Genusa
• Lara Glenum
• Lily Hoang
• P. Inman
• Matt Kirkpatrick
• Rauan Klassnik
• Aaron Kunin
• Mark Leidner
• Jill Magi
• Sabrina Orah Mark
• Alissa Nutting
• James Pate
• Christian Peet
• Claudia Smith / Dan Grissom
• Girija Tropp
• Evan Willner

via Rauan Klassnik

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Otoliths Makes Books

Ghost Dance in 33 Movements by Anny Ballardini

'A schooling in experimental cinema happening before our eyes. A screening. Frame upon frame, the seeing I making her way. In these remarkable poems, Anny Ballardini creates an important new space, a new kind of poem—note, notation, response, criticism, a philosophy of our lives as films responding to films, poems made from & making our new dwelling place. Made of quotation, of citation, of sight, of insight—always the moving site—a dance in many movements. And a fine, inviting, moving dance it is.' - Hank Lazer

the amazing adventures of Gravity & Grace by Ernesto Priego

'Ernesto Priego has written that "G & G was the comic book I was never able to draw." G & G was, indeed, a sort of comic book experience for its earliest readers when it appeared in installments on Never Neutral, Mr. Priego's blog. The poems can be conceptualized as a series of speech balloons and captions formulated as something akin to a dialectical house party in which the characters Gravity and Grace sing in a kind of cozy yet somewhat slippery counterpoint for their Author and ultimately to us all. These are—it must be said—sweet and wistful, notational, allegorical poems. Much is hinted at. Much is left for the reader to fill in. And that is as it should be, no?' - Tom Beckett

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You're Nicked

Predictably, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final work in J.K. Rowling's epic series, turns out to be Britain's most borrowed book. It is not, however, Britain's most stolen book. That accolade belongs to the London A-Z, at least according to a straw poll of more than 50 independent bookshops across Britain (the giants, such as Waterstone's and Borders, say that they don't keep figures). “I've been in bookselling for 20 years and the London A-Z is the most stolen book in the world,” says Patrick Neale, who worked at a Waterstone's in London before setting up Jaffé & Neale bookshop in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. “A-Zs were like porn - you had to keep them under the till.”

Nothing like a bit of hardcore map reading.

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