Friday
May252007
Langoustine: June reading
Friday 25 May, 2007 La Langoustine est morte Saturday 2 June 2007 7.30pm The Poetry Café 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX Adm. £5/4 cons. Langoustine MySpace page
Friday 25 May, 2007 Thursday
May242007
Stockton extract 1
Thursday 24 May, 2007 'What do you think of the state of political journalism?' 'Very bad. Very lazy and almost cowardly in its obsequiousness.' 'What important questions are they not asking?' 'God damn, man. Who wrote these questions for you?' 'I did.' 'Well, they're all kind of pertinent, but let's take a break and kind of work up to some of these.'
Tuesday
May222007
Monday
May212007
Jabberwocky
Monday 21 May, 2007 'The Jabberwocky perused umpteen quite progressive subways. Two irascible tickets laughed almost quickly. Minnesota grew up, because the partly bourgeois Klingons gossips. Quark annoyingly towed Tokyo. Springfield abused two speedy tickets, however Jupiter gossips cleverly. Umpteen aardvarks perused two cats, then Darin marries one poison. Five lampstands laughed. The quite silly poison untangles Mark, although umpteen purple fountains abused two aardvarks. One obese mat fights two orifices. One dwarf perused the silly chrysanthemum, and one cat grew up noisily. Phil marries purple botulisms. Five tickets untangles umpteen pawnbrokers. One angst-ridden chrysanthemum ran away, even though five botulisms kisses Pluto, but one bourgeois cat abused Jupiter, even though the trailer towed two putrid botulisms. Five purple aardvarks annoyingly abused slightly schizophrenic elephants, however five quite irascible sheep noisily kisses two mats, because five sheep ran away. Two subways gossips. Umpteen Macintoshes grew up slightly lamely, and two progressive cats quite noisily telephoned the Klingons. Springfield perused one subway. The purple ticket laughed.' Available in Quark > Utilities > Jabber
Sunday
May202007
Dusie
Sunday 20 May, 2007 ': Welcome to Dusie! Dusie is a new online poetry journal featuring the work of emerging as well as established poets (or translations of) from around the world. Based in Switzerland, Dusie will continue to feature what can only be loosely defined as modern poetics on a quarterly basis :' Link
Saturday
May192007
M E S H W O R K S
Saturday 19 May, 2007 Many of you are undoubtedly familiar with this site already. For those of you who are not, head there immediately. Link
Friday
May182007
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
Friday 18 May, 2007 'This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.' Link Simple, brutal.
Thursday
May172007
Native Spirit Festival
Thursday 17 May, 2007 Saturday 19th May The Synergy Centre, 220 Farmers Rd, London SE5 2pm - late £5 before 7pm, £10 after, £7 concs. Ticket info: The Synergy Centre website 'A benefit gig to support a film and video festival of the indigenous people of the three americas.' Featuring the poets: Sofia Buchuck Albert Pellicer and the poems of Leonard Peltier There will also be musicians including: Mark Thomas, Grupo Ambaibo, Grupo Kausary, Tradicion Andina, and others.