Amy De'Ath's Blog

Poet Amy De'Ath has started a blog:

I was just reading an article on ‘The New British School’ by Kent Johnson, here: http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/07/the-new-british-school/

Geraldine Monk , on the UK Poets Listserv, pointed out that women poets have largely been left out of the mix. Having long ago noticed that boys are more often making themselves and their opinions heard on the internet – I thought I’d start a blog. So there!

Go visit, there is already some good stuff up on it.

basemeta

In the basement of the Foundry, Old Street, London, from 6.30pm to 11:30pm on the 25th of March 2009, poets Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde documented the entire Openned poetry reading from before it started to well after it had finished. This reading was the eighteenth in the series. From this they produced a document called basemeta.

In some of the recordings of the 18th Openned night you can catch occasional glimpses of them or hear the gentle tap of typewriter keys as they produced the documentation.

basemeta was performed at the next Openned night and their performance of this document can be viewed here. However, the documentation also stands as a poem in its own right and is an excellent piece of work and is available here for free and will be permanently available from our Nights > Documentation page.

Published: October 2009

View free: PDF (18.4MB)

textsound Issue 4

Issue 4 of textsound is now available for listening on the textsound website.

_Praxis_Etudes_

The latest title from Grasp Press is now available:

_Praxis_Etudes_
by Justin Katko

Justin Katko is nay one afraid to build multiple bunkers and is, well, quite luckily, one of the most threatening poets writing today. In arche and future and tender curve to present, the notion of persona does no righteousness of fire to Katko's affectivity and nerved up prosodic methods. Reader of this, read this book and admire.

£3.00 (50 copies available)

Hear Justin read the last poem, Abstinence The Symbol, from his book _Praxis_Etudes_ at the 22nd Openned night (28 mins 18 seconds into the video)

Purchase: Grasp Press website

Land for Lajee: Supporting Children's Rights in Palestine

This is the video we attempted to show at the last Openned night, the Land for Lajee Fundraiser. If you would like more information about the Land for Lajee project visit the Lajee Centre's website. You can also e-mail them to make a donation.

Secure online donations can also be made via Lajee’s fiscal sponsors. Follow this link and scroll down the list of Fiscal Sponsors to the box marked ‘Other’. Type ‘Lajee Center’, then add the amount you wish to donate and click ‘Continue’.

Video documentation from the Land For Lajee Openned night can be viewed on our Nights > Video page.

The Everyday of Irma Kite

The latest title from the Arthur Shilling Press is now available:

The Everyday of Irma Kite
by Neil Addison

£2.50 (+ p&p)

Purchase: Arthur Shilling Press blog

Craig Dworkin Reading at The Other Room

Footage of Craig Dworkin reading at The Other Room is now available to view. I suggest going via their website so you can check out the other excellence and things.

Marianne Morris - Iran Documents

Iran: imagine 30 years of Bush.

But with Cheney as a holy man who says he’s been appointed by God.  Imagine 30 years of Bush saying his own name into the microphone, of Bush saying you weren’t allowed to read Freud (although first you’d have to try and imagine that Bush knew about Freud, which may be asking too much).  Imagine Bush stealing the election from Obama, and then throwing Obama in prison and having him tortured.  Worse yet - it’s all Kennedy’s fault!  Ha ha hmmm.

You can read more musings from Marianne Morris's recent trip to Iran here.

CLEAVES

Cleaves is a new journal collecting poetry from the United Kingdom and Europe. Each area will have an editor, who selects another editor after their issue is complete.

Areas and Editors identified so far include:

London – Sean Bonney
Brighton
Liverpool/Manchester – Richard Barrett
Midlands
North East
South-West (Bristol, Dartington & Plymouth)
Cork, Ireland – David Toms
Denmark, Poland and Turkey – Marcus Slease

If you would like to suggest/discuss an area or volunteer to be an editor, please go to Cleaves and email poet and webmaster Harry Godwin using the link provided on the site.

Here is the guidance for editors that is posted on the website:

3 to 4 pages (this is not strict) of 3 poets (2 + your work, though you don’t have to include your work), from your local area and/or scene of poets.

You may create/commission your own cover of the issue for your area – all covers will be displayed online in a separate document. You may just choose to use the online cover. Anything goes.

Once you have edited your selection together send it to the webmaster (me for the time being: h j g o d w i n @ g m a i l . c o m).

When I have received all of the expected collections I will collate them and send them out to all editors.

You can print the journal any way you see fit – in booklet form (by using Adobe Reader – print as booklet, then you’ll have to print half of it, turn it over manually and print the other half – I have a good method of doing this, e-mail me for help), or as an A4 document or…

Distribute the journal – either through the associated reading series, or at any reading series you attend. You can charge for it to cover your printing costs and the cost may vary depending on how large it is. If there is any profiteering, I would love to see some.

Choose the next editor wisely, and ask them to e-mail or call me.

Thank you for donating your editing time to Cleaves!

Chlorine: Augmenting the Dram

Sunday 25th October, 7.30pm (8pm start)

Chlorine Readings presents the Egg Box Showcase, featuring:

• Vahni Capildeo
• Joel Duncan
• Daniel Kane
• Agnes Lehoczy

Egg Box books by Daniel Kane, Agnes Lehoczky and Vahni Capildeo will be available to buy at the reading.

The Hope, Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3WA

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)