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CHICAGO REVIEW 55:2

Now available. Featuring:

• Matt Briggs
• Durs Grünbein
• Rob Halpern
• Simon Jarvis
• Kristina Jipson
• Pierre Joris
• Gary Lutz
• Stéphane Mallarmé (trans. by Peter Manson)
• Erika Mikkalo
• Jennifer Moxley
• Susan Stewart
• Jean Valentine
• John Wilkinson
• Elizabeth Winer
• Andrew Zawacki

Reminder: Openned Table

The first Openned Table at Café 1001 is today, Saturday 5th June. It begins at midday. Check here for more information.

Desperate for Love

Tuesday 8th June, 8pm

• Rowena Easton
• Sarah Tapscott
• Michael Zand

Admission £4

Komedia, 44 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN

Chlorine Readings

Friday 11th June, 8pm

• Ryan Dobran
• Ed Luker
• Steve McCaffery
• Karen Mac Cormack

With music from Mathew Cunningham.

COACHWERKS, 19 Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN1 7HB

Admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)

The Situation Room

Saturday 5th June, 8pm

• Jonny Liron
• Joseph Luna
• Josh Stanley

7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, Greater London N15 4QL

Admission is free.

Update on Thursday 3 June, 2010 by Openned

New reader:

• Justin Katko

Update on Saturday 5 June, 2010 by Openned

New readers:

• Nat Raha
• Linus Slug

The Lost Swimming Pool

Sunday 6th June

Performances 1, 3 & 4.30pm

Installation 1 - 5pm

A Site-Specific Installation and Performance (for Esther Williams and the Lost Olympics; and for Jane Holloway and Elizabeth Jesser Reid). In part an homage to Esther Williams who would have represented the US as a swimmer in the 1940 Summer Games had they not been cancelled, and an examination of women’s physical education at the moments of the founding of Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges. This site-specific installation and performances will involve translations of archive material into writerly, filmic and choreographic practices. Project conceived and directed by Redell Olsen, Royal Holloway, University of London in collaboration with Libby Worth, Royal Holloway, University of London; Gillian Wylde, Dartington College of Art; Ruth Livesey, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Jane Holloway Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

To book tickets please contact Caroline Mann with the time of which performance you would like to attend. Due to the size of the space there is a limit of 40 audience members for each performance. Those wanting to attend performances should meet at the Windsor Building.

Each performance with the walk down will last around 20 minutes. The walk down is over uneven ground and includes steps etc. The audience will need to stand in the hall or walk around but there is not seating. If anyone is infirm or cannot manage the walk then please contact Libby Worth for alternative arrangements.

Jon Clay - Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze: Transformative Intensities

John Hall:

With wonderfully patient intelligence, and without ever succumbing to polemic, Jon Clay puts to work the lexicon of Deleuze (and Guattari) on a question that has haunted modernist poetics: what is it that poems do when you read them, especially when they are “difficult”? Very carefully, he sets out the terms and, just as carefully, he demonstrates their practicality through reading poems, many of them “recalcitrant”, by contemporary UK-based poets, including Andrea Brady, the late Douglas Oliver, J.H. Prynne and Denise Riley. His close readings confirm the validity both of the method – one that is necessarily self-unsettling – and of the poems thus encountered.

This book is a very welcome contribution to the poetics and pragmatics of reading. It shows how it is possible to say what it is that poems do and how this is not the same as saying what they (seem to) say, all the while arguing that another(’s) reading would be a different reading and thus call, perhaps, for another writing.

£48.96, Continuum, May 2010 (208 pages)

ISBN 978-0826424242

Available via the Bookshelf

Openned Zine #2

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Peter Philpott explaining reasons and motivations behind the Great Works website
• Save Middlesex Philosophy
• Emily Critchley and Carol Watts provide a schedule for the Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival in Greenwich
• Jeff Hilson, Edmund Hardy, Richard Owens and Peter Riley on Mendoza, or, Linus Slug
• Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde and Karen Sandhu on press free press
• Harry Gilonis Edmund Hardy, Tessa Whitehouse and Michael Zand on Klatch 3: Dérive
• Luke Roberts looks back on the Sussex Poetry Festival
• Stephen Mooney on the launch of the new Voiceworks website
• Matt Dalby on a new sound-text-performance series in Manchester, Counting Backwards
• Timothy Thornton close reads Ryan Ormonde's firstdraftofhypertextrespondingtoalicefallingdownrabbithole
• Johanna Linsley on I'm With You, a series of live art events in Clapton, London
• Alex Davies on the Openned Table

Plus a set of regular new features: 

• Bookface
• Bird Puke
• Photography: in this issue, Sharon Borthwick, Marianne Morris, Nat Raha and Malcolm Phillips

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.

J.H. Prynne - SUB SONGS

This is the first book by Prynne since Triodes in 1999 to depart from the sequence of reiterated stanzaic blocks into a suite of more freely shaped individual lyrics. It's the first since Bands Around the Throat in 1987 to give individual lyrics each with its own title. The dimensions of the object point a comparison with Brass, 1971.

£10 + £4 P&P, Barque Press, May 2010 (22 pages)