Giles Goodland & Ron Silliman Reading

Tuesday 3rd May, 7pm

• Giles Goodland
• Ron Silliman

32 Tavistock Square, London WC1

Text Festival

The Text Festival begins on Saturday 30th April in Bury, UK (an advance event is also taking place on Friday 15th April). Curated by Tony Trehy, a variety of events and exhibitions will take place over the coming months. Details of individual events will be posted on the Openned Calendar marked Text Festival. To keep track of event details, head to the Text Festival website.

Attack of the Difficult Poems

Attack of the Difficult Poems, [Charles Bernstein's] latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art.

Applying an array of essayistic styles, Attack of the Difficult Poems ardently engages with the promise of its title. Bernstein introduces his key theme of the difficulty of poems and defends, often in comedic ways, not just difficult poetry but poetry itself.... Along the way, he offers a wide-ranging critique of literature’s place in the academy, taking on the vexed role of innovation and approaching it from the perspective of both teacher and practitioner.

$26 / £16 (approx.) (paper) / $95 / £58 (appox.) (cloth), University of Chicago Press, April/May 2011

ISBN 9780226044767

Sunfish No. 4

£4

• Mark Cobley
• James Davies
• Ken Edwards
• Rob McLennan
• Anthony Rowland
• Gareth Twose
• Steven Waling

E-mail sunfish@googlemail.com to purchase.

Counting Backwards #6 Audio

You can hear audio from Counting Backwards #6 here.

galatea resurrects #16

galatea resurrects #16 is now online featuring contributions too numerous to mention. Check it out.

Jacket 2

Jacket is back.

Albion Beatnik Oxford Reading

LATE NOTICE

Friday 15th April, 8pm

• BUNKER 03 (John Grieve - Sax, David Stent - Electric Gtr, Martin Hackett - Analogue Synth)
• Jeff Hilson
• Luke Roberts

Albion Beatnik Bookshop, 31 Walton Street, Oxford

Admission £4

Knives Forks and Spoons Opening of Office Party

Saturday 23rd April, 12 - 6pm

Readings by over 20 Knives, Forks and Spoons-published poets.

122 Birley Street, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside WA12 9UN

All welcome.

NB Alec Newman now has a blog.

via The Other Room

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