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Tuesday
Feb032009

Crossing The Line

I really recommend this poetry reading:

Thursday 5th February, 7.30pm

  • Francesca Beasley
  • Antony John

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN

£5 / £3 conc.

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Tuesday
Feb032009

Celan, Kafka & the Glottal Stop

Landis’ reading may possibly be teased from Celan’s own words, though at least to my ear, the German “laut” and “singt” suggest the transformation of the — silent, withheld — sound of the glottal stop into song over what is a smooth line-“break” that does not flaunt its “breaking” quality here. It may even be read as the rather joyousconstat that even the sound of such a heavy long German word as “Kehlkopfverschlusslaut” does end up as song, while the heavy-handed Popov/McHugh translation foregrounds something that is certainly not explicit in Celan’s own verse, if intended at all.
Concise analysis of the difficulties, pitfalls and challenges of sound inherent in translation by Pierre Joris.

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Monday
Feb022009

Openned Issue - Winter 2009

opennedissuewinter2009 edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Jan 09 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF (176 KB) Poets featured in this publication:

  • Richard Barrett
  • Joe Dargue
  • Christopher Mulrooney
  • Ryan Ormonde

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Sunday
Feb012009

Experimental Geography

MAPPA TAXI.ai

A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.
via The Book Design Review

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Sunday
Feb012009

Rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated...

Statement by the feneon collective [Unified Body], January 30, 2009 The feneon collective [Unified Body], reorganized now, but stronger still, following an attempted internal coup led by manipulative hangers-on, is back.
The movements of the planets often dictate the inner workings.

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Sunday
Feb012009

Otoliths Issue 12

Consistently excellent online publication edited by Mark Young, Issue 12 is out now. Don't forget to check out the contributors' blogs page too. I'm particularly enjoying Mary Kasimor's contradictions of trotsky.

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Saturday
Jan312009

Tate Polish

Polish artist Miroslaw Balka has been commissioned by London's Tate Modern gallery to fill its Turbine Hall.

Balka will be the tenth artist to display their work in the hall when the exhibition opens in October. Comprising installation, sculpture and video, Balka's work explore themes of personal history and experience.
via the BBC

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Saturday
Jan312009

Alistair Noon - Swamp Area

2 Eleven, and the arterial road has tightened with traffic. Vendors stamp feet for the van: they have delivered their papers. All of them hold doctorates in walking and standing.
PDF and downloadable eBook available via Intercapillary Space.

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Saturday
Jan312009

Launch: Alan Halsey - Lives of the Poets

livesofthepoets Wednesday 18th February, 7 - 9pm (reading from 7.30 - 8) The Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1. Wine will be served. All Welcome.

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Friday
Jan302009

PROGNOST PANEL 1. FROM VENUS & OTHER NOISES BY STEVE WILLEY

Prognost Panel 1 A far from definitive reading of this panel is available as part of the Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk Benefit reading project. The social space is significant.

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