Thursday
Jul302009
Thursday
Jul302009
Sundays at the Oto is dead; long live Diverse Deeds
Thursday 30 July, 2009 tagged London Events Peter Philpott:
I am pleased to announce that the poetry and music reading and performance series Sundays at the Oto will be reborn from autumn onwards as Diverse Deeds, held still at Cafe Oto (18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL), but on evenings, mainly it is hoped Thursday or Wednesday, approximately once a month. The first event will have as poets John James and Sean Bonney, on September 24th. Music is yet to be arranged, but will be an element.Keep an eye on Peter's blog for more information.
Wednesday
Jul292009
SET Magazine
Wednesday 29 July, 2009 Luke Roberts:
Some of you might be interested in this - http://xtina.org/projects/SET.html pdf versions of the complete run of Gerrit Lansing's SET magazine (two issues - '61 & '63) featuring work by Olson, Dorn, Wieners, Leroi.
Wednesday
Jul292009
Charles Olson: Polis is This Screening
Wednesday 29 July, 2009 tagged London Events Wednesday 5th August, 7.30pm A screening of a new documentary on Olson by Henry Ferrini, plus a reading of Olson's work by Niall McDevitt and David Amery. The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton St, Covent Garden, WC2 Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)
Monday
Jul272009
Blue Bus
Monday 27 July, 2009 tagged London Events Tuesday 18th August, 7.30pm
- Laurie Duggan
- Angela Gardner
- Elizabeth James
Sunday
Jul262009
Jacket 37
Sunday 26 July, 2009 Jacket 37 is now online featuring, among others:
- Caroline Bergvall
- John Latta
- Stephen Mooney
- Dale Smith
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
- Jeffrey Side
- Jim Goar
- Fanny Howe
- Lisa Samuels
Saturday
Jul252009
streetcake 6
Saturday 25 July, 2009 streetcake 6 is now online, featuring:
- John Patrick Ayson
- Jennifer Edgecombe,
- Harry Godwin
- Colin Herd
- Heller Levinson
- Ryan Ormonde
- Wayne Wolfson
- Michael Zand
Friday
Jul242009
All Avant-Garde All The Time: The Sounds of The UK
Friday 24 July, 2009 Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu’s hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don’t. With this podcast, we continue our series focusing on the sounds of different regions. Here the focus is on the avant-garde language-based audio coming out of the UK. Beginning with Bob Cobbing and making our way through the the swinging London scene of the 60s, and the political / punk work of the 70s, and ending up with the electronics and samples of today, we cut a path through the London (and beyond) underground. Featured here are works by Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Lily Greenham, Cornelius Cardew, Christopher Logue, Richard Long, Art & Language + The Red Krayloa, Furious Pig, Momus, People Like Us, and Caroline Bergvall.Subscribe to the podcast.
Friday
Jul242009
All the Whiskey in Heaven
Friday 24 July, 2009 tagged Publications 
In March 2010 Charles Bernstein's selected poems will be published (to coincide with his 60th birthday). Farrar, Straus and Giroux March 2010 app. 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6 All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together some of Charles Bernstein’s best work from the past thirty years.
Thursday
Jul232009
Whatever happened to the avant garde?
Thursday 23 July, 2009 In books, the global marketplace seems to have crushed the spirit of innovation, and squeezed the life blood out of literary experimentation. Who are the avant-garde writers today who have retained their integrity as artists to shun the mainstream, but continue to produce new work? It must be a pretty short list, and, with the exception of a few poets, its constituents are almost totally invisible. Nominations, please!This is pretty much the entire clumsy article, more a stub than anything, but it's the comments thread that's worth a read, like this one and this one and this one and this one and this one.