Text Festival Call for Submissions

Tony Trehy:

The third international Text Festival in Bury, Manchester, UK, will open on Friday 29th April 2011.

Project proposals and submissions are invited - in any artform (sound, media, poetry, visual art, etc) using language in innovative ways. As I have mentioned over the last few months the shape of the next festival has been forming, with some great things in place already. There are more venues and new approaches. In addition to the open call, you can submit ideas in response to 4 projected exhibition themes:

1.Duchamp
2.Sentences
3.Visual Poetry
4.Artists’ Books

E-mail Tony Trehy or write to Text Festival, Bury Art Gallery, Moss St, Bury BL9 ODR

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Sussex Bird Puke

Sussex Bird Puke is a Twitter record of a reading that took place between 1 - 5pm on Friday 16th April 2010 at Sussex University. Thanks to Sara Crangle, Daniel Kane and Keston Sutherland for organising the event.

View the PDF here.

New from Oystercatcher Press

Carol Watts - Where blue light falls 2 (A5, 20 pages)

ISBN 978-1-905885-31-2

Sophie Robinson - Lotion (A5, 16 pages)

ISBN 978-1-905885-34-3

£4 each (inc. UK P&P) Oystercatcher, 2010

Cheques payable to P.Hughes at 4 Coastguard Cottages, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL

or via Paypal on the Oystercatcher website.

Openned Zine #1

The Openned Zine is setting out with one intention: to provide poets, publishers and organisers with a space to publicly present explanations, thoughts, ideas and opinions that may not necessarily be representative of a final response.

The intention is to draw attention to how poetry and the thoughts and activities based on and around it are an ongoing and necessarily ever-changing set of boundaries and equivalent freedoms, which provide a shifting map of communities of poets.

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Alex Davies on eBooks and the Small Press
• Alec Newman & Richard Barrett on Knives, Forks & Spoons Press
• Boris Jardine on Cambridge Literary Review
• Tom Jenks, James Davies & Scott Thurston on The Other Room
• Marcus Slease on Istanbul
• Linus Slug on FREAKLUNG
• Mike Weller on Home'Baked books
• Steve Willey on Writers Forum

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

Cannibal Spices No. 4

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Ken Edwards
• Jeff Hilson
• slmendoza (aka Linus Slug)
• Timothy Thornton 

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

Cleaves Journal Issue 2

Now online, featuring work from 63 contributors from:

• Berlin
• Brighton
• Cambridge
• Cork
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Iceland
• Leeds
• Lithuania
• London
• Moscow
• North West
• Paris
• Poland
• Romania
• Scotland
• South West
• Switzerland

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Reality Poetry

It has been called the 'American Idol of the Middle East' but in this showdown contestants recite poetry.

And while that may not sound like a winning formula for reality TV, it has actually proved an unlikely hit across the Arab world.

The BBC's Ben Thompson was at the final in Abu Dhabi.

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Knives, Forks and Spoons Second Event

Tuesday 13th April, 7pm

• Matt Dalby
• Alec Newman
• Simon Rennie

The Crescent Pub, 20 The Crescent, Salford, Lancashire M5 4PF

The Other Room 2nd Birthday Videos

Available to view here.