The Verb

Ken Edwards and Sean Bonney will be talking about Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems on BBC Radio 3's The Verb with Ian McMillan today, Friday 5th February, 9.15pm (GMT). It will also be available on BBC iPlayer to UK residents for one week thereafter.

via Ken Edwards

Goodbye to The Foundry

Last night, Hackney Council confirmed that The Foundry is to be taken down to make way for new developments, according to The Guardian.

Readings Journal 5

Now online. Featuring:

• Gilbert Adair interviewed by Stephen Mooney
• Adrian Clarke on W. Gilbert Adair's 'The American Epic Novel in the Late Twentieth Century'
• Demosthenes Agrafiotis & Michail Palaiologou - Chinese Notebook
• Chus Pato - Here's to the poem (translated by William Rowe)
• Chus Pato - Commentary for Translated Acts (translated by William Rowe)
• Elizabeth Jane Burnett - Cynthia Hogue's The Incognito Body as Ecopoethics
• Edmund Hardy on Cy Twombly's 'Poems to the Sea'
• Lawrence Upton - Non-determinist responses
• Demonthenes Agrafiotis - Cabaret 1
• Demonthenes Agrafiotis - Cabaret 2
• Demonthenes Agrafiotis - Cabaret 3
• Cris Paul on Chris McCabe's 'The Borrowed Notebook'
• Harry Godwin - 4 Experiments in Deconstruction (response to Johan de Wit's Statements)
• Colin Campbell Robinson - NOTES TOWARDS DISILLUSION

via Stephen Mooney

nick-e melville - selections and dissections

First cab off the rank in what is shaping up to be a busy year for the book publishing arm of Otoliths is a large collection from Scottish concrete & visual poet, nick-e melville.

£9.37, Otoliths, December 2009

Purchase from Lulu

ISBN: 978-0-9806025-4-8

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Out now, featuring poetry from:

• James Davies
• Julius Kalamarz
• Holly Pester

£4 (via Paypal)

via The Other Room

Klatch 2

The third Klatch meeting was held on Friday 29th January. At this meeting the second Klatch magazine was put together. Each poet brought 50 copies of their work to the Klatch and we made up 50 copies of a magazine, now called Klatch 2. We also broadcast readings and performances live from the Klatch via Openned TV. Each poet took two copies of the magazine to distribute by hand. There are now only 13 copies of the Klatch magazine left. To request a copy, contact us and leave your request along with your postal address. The magazine is completely free. Poets included in Klatch 2:

• Tim Atkins
• Becky Cremin
• Alex Davies
• Amy De'Ath
• Elizabeth Guthrie
• Edmund Hardy
• Johanna Linsley
• Fransesca Lisette
• Georgi M'Glug
• Nat Raha
• Sophie Robinson
• Karen Sandhu
• Linus Slug
• Tessa Whitehouse
• Steve Willey
• Michael Zand

Update on Monday 1 March, 2010 by Openned

Please note all available copies of Klatch are now gone.

The Arther Shilling Skype Reading Series

Monday 8th February, 8.15pm (GMT)

Stephen Emmerson reads on Skype for half an hour in the first of The Arthur Shilling Skype Reading Series.

If you would like to be part of the audience for the reading you need an internet connection, Skype set up on your computer (Google it, it's easy and free) and a will and a way to e-mail Harry Godwin for further details.

What is Bathos?

Wednesday 3rd February, 5 - 6.30pm

Keston Sutherland, 'What is Bathos?'

Main Building (RHB) 308, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW

Admission is free.

Crater: Amy De'Ath - Andromeda/The World Works for Me

Amy De'Ath - Andromeda/The World Works for Me

Contact Richard Parker for copies (there are a few copies of Harry Gilonis's Acacia Feelings left too).

£4 (UK) / £5 (rest of the world)

Subscriptions: £50 (UK) / £55 (rest of the world).

Paypal / cheques please.

TALKSTALKSTALKS

Wednesday 10th February, 7.30pm

Amy Cutler will speak on 'Poetry and Cartography'.

Room 401, 30 Russell Square, (Dept. of English & Humanities building) Birkbeck College, London

Admission is free.