Palestine

The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:

• Sean Bonney
• Sophie Robinson
• Harry Gilonis
• Josh Stanley
• Tim Atkins
• Nat Raha
• Posie Rider
• Peter Philpott
• Alan Hay
• Michael Zand
• Amy De'Ath
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Frances Kruk
• Raz
• Andrea Brady
• Justin Katko

More TBA. Publishers donating to the book table include:

• Barque Press
• Reality Street
• Bad Press
• West End Lane Books
• Critical Documents
• Grasp Press
• Hot Gun!
• Veer

More TBA. If there are any other small presses, publishers, who would like to donate books to the book table (all profits going to the Lajee Center) please contact us on our Openned G-mail account.   Also if there are any individuals that would like to donate books to the night that would be much appreciated both by myself and the people at Lajee.  Download the Openned October E-Flyer or for more information go to the Openned Poetry Facebook Event. Or download the Lajee Project Fact Sheet. Please do feel free to distribute these images. Also of note is that the Tuesday reading will be held inside a photography exhibition entitled  Jerusalem Dispossessed.   JERUSALEM DISPOSED is an exhibition from the photographic collective ActiveStills. It documents different aspects of the on-going expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their native Jerusalem.  A powerful and eerie series of 42 photographs moves between images of Israeli settlements, armed settler youths, uprooted Palestinian olive trees, and the Separation Wall. On a related but different topic, recently the poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.

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Blue Bus

Tuesday 15th September, 7.30pm

• Vahni Capildeo
• Lesley McKenna
• David Miller

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room) Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.)

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Wallace Stevens on Scribd

[scribd id=18925540 key=key-2juq52ddsmccyabelnx3] via Ron Silliman

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sporangiophores

A yt communication pamphlet. Work by:

• Harry Godwin
• Nat Raha
• slmendoza
• Michael Zand

Harry Godwin says:

Available free, just pay postage. I have 6 of them. Email me to either arrange a pick-up at a reading or I'll send you info to pay the postage.

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A Model of Order: Selected Letters on Poetry and Making

Ian Hamilton Finlay A Model of Order: Selected Letters on Poetry and Making ed. Thomas A. Clark £9.99 Post a cheque payable to David Bellingham, WAX366, 119 Wilton Street 2/1, Glasgow G20 6RD via Peter Manson

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Diverse Deeds

Thursday 24th September, 7.30pm

• Sean Bonney
• Grapefruits
• John James

Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL Admission £6 / £4 (conc.) Out of the ashes of Sundays at the Oto rises Diverse Deeds, Peter Philpott's new London reading series. There is a Facebook group to join, and Peter describes Diverse Deeds thus:

Diverse Deeds is a new series of poetry in music events, each featuring two or three poets and a musician or two. The emphasis is on contemporary innovative poetry and music at least inflected by improvisation. Diverse Deeds succeeds last year’s successful afternoon Sundays at the Oto events, but now with an evening scheduling. No more cake for tea, unfortunately, but there will be information available beforehand and on the night on all the performers.

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Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry is now available to order. Robert Shepherd provides the details:

Annual print subscriptions placed before 31 December 2009 will include the first issue (September, 2009) and the two subsequent issues (March and September, 2010). After which each annual subscription will include the two issues published within the calendar year of payment. Libraries and Institutions can order direct or through their usual journal vendor (e.g. EBSCO, Harrassowitz and Swets)

Gylphi Limited, PO Box 993, Canterbury CT1 9EP 01227 807997 sales@gylphi.co.uk Visit the site.

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Matchbox Digital

The excellent poetrymagazines site has digitally archived James Davies's Matchbox series of publications. Well worth a look. via The Other Room

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Tony Trehy - The Language Moment

Tony Trehy has made the shortlist of project organisers for Artists taking the lead, an Arts Council project in conjunction with the 2012 Olympics which will grant £500,000 to the final 12 selected. Here is Tony's proposal for his project, The Language Moment:

Building on the ideas behind the international Text Festival in Bury, Tony Trehy proposes to develop an international language festival featuring many of the world's leading poets, sound and media artists. Held in Manchester in 2012, The Language Moment would be the largest ever celebration and dialogue of language in the arts. The festival would establish the North West of England as a global centre for linguistic art and poetry practice supported by an enhanced capacity to publish, produce and drive the continuing international dialogue.

You can see his page here and find out more information at his blog.

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AAAARG.ORG

Luke Roberts:

Some of you may be interested in this website - a.aaaarg.org - which offers lots of essays free of charge for your reading pleasure. It seems like a pretty useful resource. You have to register, but it doesn't cost anything, and you get access to pdfs of all the favourites - Adorno! Arendt! Deleuze! Vertov! Etc! And all sorts of people I've never heard of.

Register here.

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