Thursday 19 July, 2007 The Openned home page may stall leading to the 1st August reading as we prepare to let the Anthology out of the house to take a leak on the lawn for the first time. Trust for sparse reportage. Such concerns will evaporate completely come 2nd August, when normal service resumes.
Thursday 19 July, 2007 in Aaron Wells, Albert Pellicer, Alex Davies, Alex MacDonald, Allen Fisher, Andrea Brady, Annabel Emson, Ben Olin, Ceri Buckmaster, Drew Milne, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Emily Critchley, Fiona Templeton, Graeme Estry, Hannah Silva, Ian Hunt, James Byrne, James Harvey, Jeff Hilson, John Cayley, John Sparrow, John Stiles, Jow Lindsay, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Keston Sutherland, Lydia White, Marianne Morris, Mike Weller, Nick Potamitis, Piers Hugill, Redell Olsen, Robert Hampson, Rosheen Brennan, Rotten Elements, Sean Bonney, Sophie Robinson, Steve Willey, Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer 
edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies
Published: Jul 07
Publisher: Openned Press
Format: PDF
Price: £free
View free: Home Page (PDF, 1.9MB)
Six months in the making, the Openned anthology is an electronic publication of poets that have read at the first nine Openned nights.
The anthology is completely free, available in PDF format in parts or as a full document. It is best to download the anthology in parts as it is a big file and it takes a long time to download. Save the file to your hard drive once you have downloaded it so you don't have to download it again every time you want to look at it.
Poets featured in this publication:
Wednesday 18 July, 2007 'Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London is the first and only journal to provide a common forum for scholars and students engaged specifically in the study of London and literature. It is dedicated to fostering an intellectual community that will facilitate interdisciplinary exchange. While the editorial focus of the journal will be on representations of London in literature, articles in cognate disciplines that will contribute to readings of London are very much encouraged. These subject areas might include readings of London in history, drama, film, geography, art history, architecture, urban sociology, painting and engraving, etc. The Journal is mutually supportive of the annual conference of the same name with which is shares a common web address: www.literarylondon.org.' Literary London the journal is published twice a year in March and September and is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography. Link
Tuesday 17 July, 2007 Drew Milne Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Sophie Robinson Graeme Estry Elisabeth James Sean Bonney More info on the nights page.
Monday 16 July, 2007 'We are seeking stories of an absurdist and surrealist nature for the next issue, which will be an online flash fiction edition. Stories should be 1000 words or less. They should not fit comfortably within any genre. We have peculiar tastes and recommend that you read an issue before sending in your work (issue 2 is a free PDF). No multiple submissions or previously published material. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know the moment that your story is accepted elsewhere. Please use ONE space between sentences. Please burn the second space as an offering to the memory of your high school typing teacher. Use line spaces spaces for paragraph breaks rather than indents. Underline all italicized words. Specify the word count. Include a bio and mailing address with your submission. We ask for First North American Serial Rights and the copyright reverts back to you upon publication. Send an email if you don't get a confirmation in a week. Payment is a three issue subscription to the print issue. We reserve the right to make minor editorial changes.' 'We prefer humorous stories where impossible things happen. It must be able to grab our attention from the very first line. And make every word count. Our favorite authors include Steve Aylett, D. Harlan Wilson, Steve Erickson, and Mark Leyner. WHAT WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR We are unlikely to accept horror stories. But if you do send one, make sure it's unconventional. The stories of Thomas Ligotti would be a good example of the sort of horror that we enjoy. No stories with overused concepts that are central to the plot - such as zombies, vampires, ghosts, demons, werewolves, space aliens, God(s), or any Dungeon and Dragons-type of characters. No stories that would be a good fit for any existing genre magazine. No extreme horror/splatterpunk. Although there are no restrictions regarding content, we find wall-to-wall sex and violence extremely boring. But it's ok to use elements from this sub-genre. No accounts of all the zany things that a character does after getting drunk and/or stoned. No stories with endings that MAKE the story. In other words, when the story is mediocre up until the ending and the ending is so good that it enhances the quality of what has come before it. Also, no stories that are setups for jokes, with the ending being the punch line. We would prefer a joke in every sentence. No stories that feature a protagonist who is a writer. No passive protagonists. The protagonist must do something rather than have something done to them. No stories that are mostly exposition. We prefer stories that are composed of scenes. Response time is six weeks or less. Send submission as a Microsoft Word or Rich Text document.' from Absurdist Journal
Sunday 15 July, 2007 From the about page: 'Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it is none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience 'A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game.' Jacques Derrida, Plato's Pharmacy Link
Saturday 14 July, 2007 Link to iTunes store iTunes is pulling some U malarkey elasticating round the old intellectual guard. Fank the lordy for a Marjorie Perloff audio file.
Friday 13 July, 2007 'Ken Edwards and Vehni Capildeo will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Friday 20th July. This is the third in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). Nearest tubes: Russell Square; Holborn.'
Thursday 12 July, 2007 Perhaps, at face value a little unfocused but may be of some inerest: "We think walls are good for keeping out the cold and rain. And for displaying some art. They're useless in the creation and propagation of art. We don't care if Language poetry appears next to sonnets, or haiku next to spoken word and workshop poetry beside agit-smut. Our tastes are catholic—even though we're Jews and pagans and Buddhists and libertines and run-of-the-mill Christians. We don't care how art is shaped—round like moon, flat like roadkill, angular like love, twisted like political promises. We hear many voices (even when we're taking our meds) and are guided by whimsy and passion and urgency. We want more." Editor: Michael Rothenberg Contributing Editor: Wanda Phipps Art Directors: Nancy Victoria Davis and Hal Bohner Webmaster: Mary Sands Link
Thursday 12 July, 2007 "Pedika Editions present origional and translated works by contemporary poets. The distinctiveness of each collection is complemented by a common commitment to scrupulous innovation, a refashioning of language of and for its time" Link Nicholas Potamits gave me a copy of his collection "N." last year and I am still finding things out about it; worth a read.
