Tuesday
Apr142009
Poetry Reading at Queens'
Tuesday 14 April, 2009 Friday 24th April, 8 - 9.30pm
- Ian Patterson
- Tom Raworth
Tuesday 14 April, 2009 Tuesday
Apr142009
Scribd
Tuesday 14 April, 2009 I came away from Scribd a couple of years ago and now I'm coming back. Think of it as Bit Torrent for books, YouTube for books, iTunes for books. Here I've found works by Adorno and Zizěk which have no right to be free, even though by rights they should be free. A quick search in the box will enhance your reading life.
Tuesday
Apr142009
Difficult Poetry
Tuesday 14 April, 2009 Simon Turner on Geraldine Monk and Tim Atkins:
I often imagine that the word difficult has the same effect on readers as the white rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail has upon King Arthur and his gaggle of knights, and can picture hordes of poetry enthusiasts hurtling through the rain-slopped streets of Covent Garden whenever Caroline Bergvall drops by for a session, screaming ‘Run away!’ and hunting for the safety of the nearest John Hegley gig. But reading habits are never innate — there’s no reason schoolkids shouldn’t be reading Tom Raworth alongside Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy (it might even do them some good) — and difficult poetry is only difficult if you conceive of it as such (or if you’re constantly told the same). I’m glad I managed to discover Lee Harwood’s poetry — or Barry MacSweeney’s or Tom Raworth’s or Chris Torrance’s — before anyone had the chance to tell me it was difficult and not worth the effort, because I haven’t looked back since.Read the rest. via Ron Silliman
Tuesday
Apr142009
X-Rated Amazon
Tuesday 14 April, 2009 via The GuardianThe internet retailer Amazon has found itself at the centre of a censorship row after it decided to remove a number of so-called adult books from its online charts.
Over the weekend, thousands of books have lost their sales rank – the number that Amazon uses to show how well one title sells compared with another – as the company apparently seeks to make its bestseller lists more family friendly.
But thousands of users have voiced concern after the seemingly random application of the new rules not only affected a number of high-profile authors, including Annie Proulx, EM Forster and Jeanette Winterson, but also led to thousands of gay and lesbian titles being stripped of their sales rank, regardless of their sexual content.
After being bombarded with angry emails from authors and readers, Amazon blamed a 'glitch' in its system, which it said last night was being fixed.
The ranking removal seemed to depend on how Amazon filed each book. The 2003 paperback edition of Fry's autobiography Moab Is My Washpot, which Amazon tags as 'gay', is unranked, whereas the original hardback, filed under 'memoir', has a ranking.
Saturday
Apr112009
Shout
Saturday 11 April, 2009 Johanna Linsley:
I presented some work at Klatch, a poetry thing organized by Openned. I thought it would be funny if I used the opportunity to advertise this blog. I passed around a picture of many entries lined up on my laptop, like a look behind the scenes. And I explained how I write the entries many weeks before I post them. Then I read on entry, like a preview of coming attractions.Listen.
Friday
Apr102009
Remembering Openned 3 or What happened when Steve Changed Tapes During Sean Bonney’s Reading - hJgodwin
Friday 10 April, 2009 in Harry Godwin Read it on T H E D A I L Y F I L T H.
Friday
Apr102009
Hot Gun!
Friday 10 April, 2009 Josh Stanley:
The first issue of Hot Gun! is now out. It includes POEMS by Kyle Storm Beste-Chetwynde, Ryan Dobran, Luke Roberts, Justin Katko+Jow Lindsay, and Marianne Morris + the following PIECES: Trying to Look Correctly at the “Subjects” of Andrea Brady’s ‘Saw Fit’ – Amica Dall ‘[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions’: Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry – Emily Critchley Guy Debord’s _Hurlements En Faveur De Sade_ [Headnote, Translation and Footnotes] – Justin Katko Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries : Presentation review – Kate Riley Keston Sutherland: _Hot White Andy_ – J.H. Prynne Lyric Purity in Keston Sutherland’s _Hot White Andy_ – Neil Pattison It is 96 pages for the desperate day+night. Please email hotgunjournal@gmail.com with questions + please read Hot Gun! with and without with questions. Dear tremors in the present part juicer, what else can we now do. All this for 7 dollars plus postage: 2 dollars for the USA and 6 dollars for the UK and the rest of the world. I will have a website setup in the next couple of days where you will be able to buy it through paypal.Josh includes his address in the original correspondence but for the sake of sakeness it has not been included here. An e-mail to the above address should be sufficient to retrieve the needed information.
Friday
Apr102009
Gnoetry Daily
Friday 10 April, 2009 Computational poetics. Created and maintained by Beard of Bees. Read their manifesto for more explanatory explanatorination.
Thursday
Apr092009
Beckett / O'Hara
Thursday 9 April, 2009 John Latta:
(Strangely Beckettian, that pus, that Godot “reproachful tree”—I check dates, curious—oddly enough, En attendant Godot premier’d 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone, while O’Hara’s “Second Avenue”’s composed in March and April of that year—f. w. i. w.) What jumps up my sleeve “more”: some of the remarks O’Hara made in “[Notes on Second Avenue].” Immediately after the lines quoted here, he writes—with prior disclaimer “the remarks are explanatory of what I now feel my attitude was toward the material, not explanatory of the meaning which I don’t think can be paraphrased (or at lest I hope it can’t)”: “To put it very gently, I have a feeling that the philosophical reduction of reality to a dealable-with system so distorts life that one’s “reward” for this endeavor (a minor one, at that) is illness both from the inside and outside.” (And—irritable aside—one need only look to the self-appoint’d precinct-captains of Blogland, to witness that particular disease, ah, the petty glory-hounds with they dealable-with systems!)Read the rest.
Thursday
Apr092009
The Invention of Culture
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Lisa Samuels gave an excellent reading at The Other Room a couple of weeks back. Michael Peverett has reviewed her book The Invention of Culture for Intercapillary Space.