OPML Den

John Sparrow seeks your feeds. Link

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THE BIG BLUE BUS

'Giles Goodland and Jeff Hilson will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Friday 11th May. This is the first in THE BLUE BUS series, and Giles will be launching his book from Salt, 'Capital'.' Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). Nearest tubes: Russell Square; Holborn.

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Chicago Review: British Poetry Issue

'The current British poetry issue presents two significant features. The first—co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves—presents 80 pages of poems by: Andrea Brady Chris Goode Peter Manson Keston Sutherland Plus critical commentaries on the four poets by John Wilkinson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sam Ladkin, Simon Jarvis, & Matt Ffytche. * * * The second feature presents fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry and well as some startling bonus material: Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith Leila Wilson on Sarah Law Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark John Lennox on Geraldine Monk Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets: Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, Sean Bonney, and others! Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry 1945–2000"' Familiarity breeds content.

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Something Happened

'I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.'

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Cadaeic Cadenza

'The primary constraint, which every word of the story with the exception of Section 12 follows, is quite easy to describe. If each word in the story (including section headings, poem titles, everything) is observed, in order, and the number of letters in each word is counted... these are precisely the digits of that most famous mathematical constant, the irrational number pi (3.1415926535...).' Link This guy writes arrogant.

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Shadowtrain

'[Shadowtrain is] a monthly gathering of poems, translations, articles and other writings, from the lyrical to the innovative, whatever stings and stuns the editor.' Link

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Langoustine reminder

Don't forget, Steve will be reading at Langoustine tonight. Click here for details.

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Stuckism

'International art movement for new figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting).' Link Also check this stuckist manifesto. These people worship at the altar of Jeremy Clarkson. Being unrevolutionary isn't revolutionary, it's boring. Give pieces a chance. Stuckism. Get rid of the 't' and you're closer. Why does everything have to be so extreme all the time? It's wearing, that's what it is. If I make things less extreme for everyone it will do us all the world of good. Maybe soon. Click more for some of my favourite-stupid Stuckist quotes. Stupid: Salmon Rushdie is the epitome of contemporary turgidity and defies anyone of sensibility to read more than one paragraph, wherever that paragraph may happen to be. His writing achieves all the characteristics that defeat anything worth saying, a position guaranteed in todays self preening philistinism to win all the prizes. His style is artificial and insulting to even avarage intilligence, the story lines are a random assemblage and the language false. We advise people not to read him. Stupider: The writer can only write what he knows about him/her self. To develop as a writer you must develop as a person. Stupidest: The probable reason that writers have to communicate in a more accessible manner is because, unlike the visual artist who only needs to pander to a self deceiving elite, the writer is reliant on the general public to buy his or her work. This is one of the most convincing proofs of democracy in action ever encountered. Off-the-scale: In any period that the writer lives he/she has to say the wrong thing to get it right.

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Review of Openned 9

'Lucy, is an artist. Lucy paints pictures of Barbara Streisand.'

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The Infinite Mind in Second Life with Kurt Vonnegut

'n August 2006, the national, weekly public radio program The Infinite Mind made broadcast history as it aired a four-part special taped inside the three-dimensional virtual on-line community Second Life. Among those interviewed in front of a live virtual audience were author Kurt Vonnegut. This is a machinema video of Vonnegut's interview taped inside Second Life, on the 16-acre virtual broadcast center built by Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produces the program. The host is John Hockenberry.' Link As not seen at Openned 9.

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