Chris Goode & Tomas Weber Reading

Friday 31st October, 7.30pm

• Chris Goode
• Tomas Weber

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, West Road, Cambridge Free admission via Harry Gilonis

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Google Buys Knowledge

More from the BBC. As well as shaping how we interact with the internet, Google now seems to be making a more general attempt to mould how we assimilate any and all information, starting with this:

Google's reach into the world's libraries looks more assured following a deal struck today. The agreement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers will resolve a number of lawsuits from the last three years. Google will establish a non-profit Book Rights Registry to ensure copyrighted works receive compensation via subscription services or ad revenue. The registry and settlements will cost Google $125m (£80m). ... Web users will be able to establish an "online bookshelf" with the opportunity to buy lifetime rights to read and print scanned books searched through Google.

Google might well be one of the most influential distributors of poetry within the next decade. So make sure you send Sergey Brin and Larry Page your finished drafts.

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All Your Livelihoods Are Belong To Us

A woman has been arrested in Japan after she allegedly killed her virtual husband in a popular video game.

The 43-year-old was reportedly furious at finding herself suddenly divorced in the online game Maplestory. Police say she illegally accessed log-in details of the man playing her husband, and killed off his character. The woman, a piano teacher, is in jail in Sapporo waiting to learn if she faces charges of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating data.

Full story from the BBC. Clicking the link will mug you, online, for free.

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Openned Issues (2006 & 2007)

edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Oct 08 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF (6.5MB)

The Openned issue is a digital magazine series based on your work interacting with a concept, theme, object - anything we feel will inspire dialogue amongst poets. Every issue will last for three months in a state of flux, constantly added to and modified, accommodating work that falls under the brief, or work written in response to other poets.

Between 2006 and 2007, we created three of these issues for Openned.com. With revisions to the site and limitations of space and time, they were temporarily removed. Now the poetry has been collected and is sited in this publication. Poets featured in this publication:

• Brooklyn Copeland
• Alex Davies
• James Davies
• Trini Decombe
• Nikki Dudley
• Amy Evans
• Kai Fierle-Hedrick
• Allen Fisher
• Hacked By Krishna
• James Harvey
• Morton Hurley
• Tom Jenks
• Ross Kern
• Jow Lindsay
• Marianne Morris
• Andrew Nightingale
• Chris Paul
• Spencer Selby
• Hannah Silva
• Anna Ticehurst
• Michael Weller
• James Wilkes

The Openned Issues is completely free, in PDF format.

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'Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.'

A common complaint of poetry pundits is that experimental poetry tends to entail a humourless flaunting of critical theory. Yet within this field, there are a number of poets that make use of humour as a literary tactic. How exactly is humour used in experimental poetry and what are its effects? In what ways could we theorize humour in terms of poetry and language in general? Is humour useful as a destabilizing device, or is it politically benign? Can humour make difficult poetry more accessible to a general readership, or does it provide an excuse to dismiss this work? We are seeking submissions of essays for a special issue of Open Letter regarding these issues.

Details at Crg Hill. Tom Jenks would be near the top of my list.

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DIGRESSIONS AND HICCUPS

At the Small Press Book Fair at the weekend I was lucky enough to take a trip to the Royal Holloway Poetic Practice table and pick up some books. Especially good (although I have not worked my way through all the pamphlets I received) was Karen Sandhu's work Voyaging Innocents, a run of 10 hand made books (I got number 5). I direct you to her interesting blog digressions and hiccups where documentation and some reproductions of content can be found - though the physical thing is very much part of it. I very much enjoyed being told I could not have copy number one. The digital projects are worth checking out too.

is in the ruts -  Every stump stares up in its path. I think of maybe hanging up on my parents cos they lurch out of sight as aroused watch-dogs give wings to their feet.

Good stuff.

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Intercapillary Editions

A series of books edited by Edmund Hardy. The list features critical essays, poetry and new editions of classic texts. The formats include free downloads, stitched pamphlets and hardback books.

I go to Intercapillary Space whenever there is new material but for some reason the Editions section never caught my eye until today. Looks like I've been missing out. This is just in case you have too.

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Catfish Press & past simple

Catfish Press & past simple Catfish Press past simple Simple really.

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Occupied London

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Xing the Line

Thursday 6th November, 7.30 pm

• Charles Alexander
• Stephen Rodefer

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN £5 / £3 conc.

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