If you're visiting Tate Modern soon

Skip the Duchamp exhibition and go to Floor 2. It's free.

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Sick (Incomplete)

Sick or condiments, please pass the Butter Mountain Rickets six dissonant passenger viruses raise eyes one more occasional gasp of sight, a deep green bile a poem drains mossy fields into thick hedgerows, health corpuscular hedge funds fulfil haemophilic urges phototropic, he ejaculates, illness in heads distend shiver, breath tears build veins leafed & cancerous hash & clump the green wood inks out tilts of pelt cilia's lilt unapparent, white milk corners, copses Munchausen's minus sympathetic thrash sores, there's no feigning shitting the bed and that's not real scent of pine your spraying this headache treatment shows a discrete trend to kill cats dead gather in the slender crop avaricious abattoir sure garlic will cure it & his dutiful drip was putrid his medical clamp bore lead on my trill finger & tongue after all its cheaper && there's a stone in my core & I'm love sick all over you again but blood pressure reads negative, pallets so you better accept it for there's certainty in maths submersions and sewers commit slow nitrogen narcosis under baths 'O' its good for both of us, get ill with me, I'll slide in behind so there's an absence romance in sixty watt mirrors tiled &wrong to use a family members funeral six times as certified excuse? 'O' come gorge on the condiments and make sick.

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Temp (In Progress)

by Steve Willey

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Rue (In Progress)

by Steve Willey

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Stimulus Respond

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Welcome

To Openned version 3.

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XING THE LINE

LONDON SE1: XING THE LINE | 07-Mar-08 8pm, Friday, March 7th, 2008 Rob Holloway and Jow Lindsay will read. You guys got to dig for venue info, i can't find any, someone post it up yeah?

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14 Hour

14 Hour Spoken Word and 60s Sounds. Free Entry. Coming up: The Ides of March Not-to-be-missed, all-star cast featuring: Dockers MC, Clare Pollard, Hannah Silva and Kelly Marie. Saturday 15th March 7pm - Upstairs at The Griffin 93 Leonard Street EC2A - off Great Eastern Street by The Old Blue Last Tubes Old Street/Liverpool Street London FREE entry Dockers MC: "has performed with the likes of Kate Nash and Luke Wright, and her sassy, streetwise monologues are a hit at leftfield music festivals such as Latitude. Dockers acknowledges a wide range of influences from Roald Dahl to Steven Berkoff and even Little Britain." - Times Online Clare Pollard: "born in 1978. She survived a Bolton comprehensive and three years at Cambridge to end up in London, where she is now working on a novel. She published her first collection, The Heavy Petting Zoo with Bloodaxe in 1998; won an Eric Gregory Award in 2000; and took to the road in the First Lines young poets tour in 2001. She has presented two TV documentaries, one for Channel Four with a verse commentary on the break-ups and piss-ups of Bolton's 16-year-olds." - Bloodaxe Hannah Silva: "a multi-talented poet, performer and choreographer from Devon. Her physical performances, fast-talking delivery and innovative use of cut-up text make her one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country." - Times Online Kelly Marie: "I read my first book when I was an infant and quite liked it. I loved poetry when I was a kid; I had this lovely little book at home, it was blue and it had poems and pictures about pies and skies and messy bedrooms, but my favourite one was about Chocolate Cake, and I loved it. Probably because it was about chocolate cake, but still, it got me into writing, and so it began." - MySpace An eclectic set from DJ Meter Maid Guest compere is Tom Cubbin: "multi-lingual, dashing, well-travelled accordian player to the kings." - Jody Porter

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TALKSTALKSTALKS

Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney and Will Rowe: '1968 was lost or not: Beginning, Cycles, Bill Griffiths' Wednesday 5th March 7.30-9pm Rm 407 Birkbeck College Main Building

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Reading announcement

Unfortunately Anna Ticehurst has had to pull out of the forthcoming Openned night. Luckily we have Nick Potamitis and Michael Wallace-Hadrill stepping into the fold. Turned out nice again.

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