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Wednesday
Feb112009

MIDNIGHT: SHRAPNEL: DEBRIS

This is something I did ages ago. It was published by London Poetry Systems  but I wanted it to be available from Openned as well so here is the link to the poem:  MIDNIGHT: SHRAPNEL: DEBRIS There is an audio file of me reading the work at the bottom of the image.

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Wednesday
Feb112009

J.H Prynne Reads... In Paris

Double Change et les Revues parlées du Centre Pompidou vous invitent à une lecture de J.H. Prynne et Pierre Alferi le mercredi 11 février à 19h30 (précises) au Centre Pompidou, Petite salle, niveau. Entrée libre.

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Wednesday
Feb112009

Reminder: Alan Halsey - Lives of the Poets

Wednesday 11th February 2009, 7 - 9pm (reading from 7.30 - 8) The Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1 Wine will be served. Lives of the Poets is published by Five Seasons Press, February 2009 (£25)

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Wednesday
Feb112009

From Grasp Press: 5 New Titles

You should check this out.... seriously: Three books rumoured lost, hand cut and stitched:

  • Josh Stanley's GLOGY
  • Timothy Thornton's NOW VULGATE
  • Luke Roberts' RIPCORD WORSHIP
And two brand new books, photocopied and stapled:
  • Timothy Thornton's PESTREGIMENT
  • Josh Stanley's RAD GLUCOSE IN YR MEMBRANE BABYDOLL!
Are now available from Grasp Press with more to come over the next few weeks. Keep your ears and eyes peeled to the ground.

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Wednesday
Feb112009

Medulla

A new issue of Medulla, a vispo magazine, is now out. View online free. via Crg Hill

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Wednesday
Feb112009

Recent highlights from the feneon collective

Ignoring her protests, laughing uproariously, M. Grenier tossed Mme DuPlessis back and forth on a swing a bit too vigorously. Off and up she went, landing, some twenty feet away, atop a nesting duck. Mme is fine; the duck, like Language poetry, is dead. Ah, l’ amour fou. Professors of the “Hate Socialist Collective” have published, in Poetry Magazine, a passionate manifesto against Poetry Magazine... As Bourdieu said of Cultural Courtship: Sometimes suitors come offering roses, and sometimes they bend over, offering their postérieurs. Having announced they would not “play with Harriet,” the Flarf poets also decided to not play with Possum. The hilarious meaning of such reluctance is perfectly obscure, understood but by those few who study such matters, in Chatelus-Saint-Marcellin.
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Wednesday
Feb112009

You're Going to Die

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOY-jJeOeBk&eurl=http://arts.pallimed.org/2009/01/youre-going-to-die.html&feature=player_embedded] Original post. via Silliman

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Tuesday
Feb102009

What Shall We Do With the Inebriated Sailor

"Drunken sailors" have been removed from the lyrics of a nursery rhyme in a government-funded books project.

But the Bookstart charity says the re-writing of What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor? has "absolutely nothing to do with political correctness". The charity says that the shift from drunken sailor to "grumpy pirate" was to make the rhyme fit a pirate theme, rather than censorship.
You're fooling no one. Buy your own damn fries.

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Tuesday
Feb102009

Sundays at the Oto

Sunday 15th February, 3 - 5pm

  • Sarah Jacobs with Imogen Smith and Alex Walker
  • Richard Makin
  • Dawn Scarfe & Mel Gough
Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL £4

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Tuesday
Feb102009

BLUE BUS

Tuesday 17th February, 7.30pm

  • Allen Fisher
  • Johan de Wit
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room) £5 / £3 conc.

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