Friday 15 February, 2008 'if p then q is a publisher of experimental poetry: books, a magazine, downloads, and other forms, based in Manchester, UK. Established in 2008 it is the re-incarnation of Matchbox.' James Davies delivers goodness in a red box. Look out for the addition of Matchbox to the Openned press in the next few days too. Link
Thursday 14 February, 2008 'International Exchange for Poetic Invention is a multilanguage weblog with links and information on poetic invention – our term for exploratory / investigative / experimental / radical / conceptual poetry. We hope the site will serve as an international point of contact for the exchange of information among those interested. Charles Bernstein & Ton van 't Hof' Link
Wednesday 13 February, 2008 'Ultimately, there would be nothing to show for 50 years of work: the project would leave absolutely no mark on the world. Unfortunately for Bartlebooth, Winkler's puzzles become increasingly difficult and Bartlebooth himself becomes blind. A crazed art fanatic also intervenes in an attempt to stop Bartlebooth from destroying his art. By 1975, Bartlebooth is 16 months behind in his plans, and he dies whilst completing his 439th puzzle.' Wikipedia article
Wednesday 13 February, 2008 
14 Hour
Spoken Word and 60s Sounds. Free Entry.
Coming up: My Bloody Valentine's Day Massacre
Saturday 16th February 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
List of readers after the jump.
This event is brought to you by the letter "J" and the following poets:
Joe Dunthorne: Part of Generation Txt, Joe's debut novel Submarine is published by Penguin. Can write an Oulipo poem just like ringing a bell.
Jow Lindsay: One of the editors of Bad Press and the blogger behind Everyone's Cup of Tea. Fair warning.
John Osborne: Performed at Latitude Festival last year to wide acclaim. He was holidaying in the South of France the day that Jill Dando died.
Jones (Richard Tyrone): Indefatigable host of long-running poetry night UTTER!
Acoustics from Chris Hennessy of Pictures
As well music from guest DJ Phil Istine: Principal mastermind behind the Sweet But Deadly collective. Expect garage punkers and organ grinders.
Monday 11 February, 2008 We posted back in August of last year about a 'new journal [which] will energize poetry and criticism through one another, exploring their intersection in the possibility of a "third genre"'. Well, it's alive. Critiphoria is its name and the journey is below. Link
Saturday 9 February, 2008 '3. How can the delivery of poems from writers to readers be improved? 'We need, I think, to acknowledge that there is no particular “natural” relationship between poetry & print – the best poets are not those most likely to be picked up and promoted by the trade presses, important writers are allowed to go out of print, chapbooks and print-on-demand volumes don’t fit the distribution model of trade books, etc.' Link
Friday 8 February, 2008 Awful title. 'Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete & sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art and all things avant-garde. Featured artists include Patti Smith, Joseph Beuys, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, John Cage, Andy Warhol, Kathy Acker, Dan Graham, Richard Foreman, Guy Debord, Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Morton Feldman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Ashley and Yoko Ono. SCHEDULE: Every Six Weeks' Link *The SUBSCRIBE button does wondrous things.
Thursday 7 February, 2008 'Friday 8 February 2008, Victoria and Albert museum Lecture Theatre, 7pm Known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastic novels and short stories, Will Self talks about his recent book, Psychogeography, with the author Iain Sinclair. Together they discuss the meaning of this term and the significance of this new genre of writing. £7.50, concessions available Supported by University of Westminster' If you can tolerate Will Self for more than 30 second snippets on Grumpy Old Men, you're better than me. But I hear the other guy is quite good.
Thursday 7 February, 2008 'Conceived for PDA's, the Web, cell phones, electronic panels, different-sized papers, and different digital printing methods, Poetrica also explores reading and perception contexts. Re-dimensioned and saved as something new, images are made from the same information, but are not connected to a specific support, emphasizing the cloning logic that permeates digital creation.' Link
