Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar - Will Rowe

Wednesday 19th January, 6 - 8pm

Professor William Rowe (Birkbeck) will give a paper on Barry MacSweeney.

Room G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, London

Admission is free, all welcome

The Blue Bus

Tuesday 18th January, 7.30pm

• Michael Grant
• Simon Smith

The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Openned Zine #4

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Mackenzie Carignan & Marthe Reed on The Dusie Kollektiv
• Tony Trehy exploring the possibilities for Text Festival 2011
• Will Montgomery describing POLYply
• Posie Rider's guide to poetry in Edinburgh
• Arabella Currie & Thomas Graham explaining halfcircle
• Sara Wintz outlining poetry in New York
• Tom Jenks telling us what zimZalla is
• Steven Fowler describing the Maintenant series and outlining The Workshop, a new new project on Writers Forum in conjunction with Openned
• Edmund Hardy reading four lines of poetry
• Simon Howard describing Department
• Part 2 of Lara Buckerton's essay on The eBook Nova

Plus regular features:

• Bird Puke
• Bookface
• Logbay
• @sinclairinruins* (new)
• Photography: in this issue, Georgie M'Glug, Nat Raha and Sharon Borthwick

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.

*contributed anonymously - thank you to the contributor

Update on Wednesday 19 January, 2011 by Openned

We forgot to mention: the front cover image is by Emily Critchley and was taken at the Sporadic Reading Group, organised by Emily and Jennifer Cooke. Contact Emily or Jennifer to be added to the mailing list.

Jacket 2 on Facebook

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VLAK Magazine Online

The inaugural issue of VLAK Magazine: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts (out of print!) available for free download here, featuring commentary, visual work, interviews and writing from:

• Ali Alizadeh
• Bruce Andrews
• Louis Armand
• Octavio Armand
• Stephanie Barber
• Andrea Brady
• Pam Brown
• Abigail Child
• Joshua Cohen
• John Coletti
• Stephan Delbos
• Brandon Downing
• Veronika Drahotova
• Vadim Erent
• Betsy Fagin
• Vincent Farnsworth
• Mike Farrell
• Jessica Fiorini
• Allen Fisher
• Thor Garcia
• John Godfrey
• Elizabeth Gross
• Catherine Hales
• Matt Hall
• Tim Haze
• Henry Hills
• Jen Hofer
• Amande In
• Keith Jones
• Alexander Jorgensen
• Pierre Joris
• Vincent Katz
• John Kinsella
• Aaron Lowinger
• Karen Mac Cormack
• Steve McCaffery
• Mez
• Bill Mousoulis
• Eileen Myles
• Jess Mynes
• Jena Osman
• Ron Padget
• Marjorie Perloff
• Douglas Piccinnini
• Arlo Quint
• Ales Steger
• Holli Schorno
• Robert Sheppard
• Stephanie Strickland
• Stacey Szymaszek
• Holly Tavel
• Habib Tengour
• Mark Terrill
• Richard Tipping
• Darren Tofts
• Edwin Torres
• Veronique Vassiliou
• Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
• Alli Warren
• Marjorie Welish
• John Wilkinson
• Allyssa Wolf

POLYply 6

Happy New Year

A belated happy new year everyone. Normal posting resumes as of tomorrow. New Openned Zine coming very soon.

Christmas Break

We're taking a couple of weeks off. Will be back on Monday 10th January 2011. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.

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