Critical Documents Sale

Justin Katko:

Critical Documents is moving! And before everything gets transported across the North Atlantic, I'm offering a buy one get one free offer. Buy any book in stock and get another book free. The offer is good from now until August 20 (i.e. ONE week). Here is the current stock:

• Plantarchy 2 (restocked!)
• cris cheek. The Church—The School—The Beer
• cris cheek. part: short life housing (a box of them just arrived from the The Gig)
• Plantarchy 4 (restocked!)
• Keith Tuma. The Paris Hilton
• Tom Raworth. Let Baby Fall
• Sara Crangle. wild ascending lisp

Just note in your paypal message which other book wish to receive. Note that you can't purchase cheek's Part: Short Life Housing from the site, so that one only works as your free one.

Go to the site and order one book, then include your free book in the Paypal message for your puchase.

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Toxic Poetry

Toxic Poetry presents a multimedia magazine via its website (direct link to the first 'exhibition'). Make sure you have a decent spec PC/Mac before clicking the link as the flash player is quite demanding. via Jade Daniel Hudson

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Grasp Sale

In anticipation of new publications from Grasp Press:

Buy Grasp Press' first three pamphlets — Luke Roberts' Ripcord Worship, Josh Stanley's Glogy, and Timothy Thornton's Now Vulgate — for ten pounds. Postage, packing, shipping, handling, shipping, packing, and postage are, as usual, free.

Visit the site.

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Stem Recordings

Rob Holloway has put together a collection of excellent CDs which is well worth checking out. It's called Stem Recordings. via The Other Room

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Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk at The Other Room

The aforementioned last Other Room night featuring Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk is now available for viewing on the Other Room website.

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Where to Start

Contemporary poetry can be a slippery beast, so Openned has put together a Where to Start page for newcomers which we hope you find useful. The list is not intended to be comprehensive, merely indicative.

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A Voice Box

PennSound:

We're finishing off the week with a massively exciting new series page, which will give you plenty of listening for the weekend and beyond. Actually, calling A Voice Box a series is a bit of a misnomer, as this website — compiled and edited by Andrew Kenower — collects, in his words, "recordings of the recent past," taken from a variety of reading series and venues throughout the Bay Area. In much the same way that many of the classic recordings housed on PennSound exist solely because someone had the presence of mind to bring their reel-to-reel deck or Walkman to the reading, Kenower's archive fever has created a wide-ranging document of San Francisco's lively literary scene as it continually develops through events taking place in bookstores, libraries, galleries and poets' homes.

Visit the site.

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Angel Exhaust 20

News from Jow Lindsay reveals one of two things. This is the second, being Angel Exhaust 20, featuring:

• John Kinsella
• Kelvin Corcoran
• Jeff Hilson
• DS Marriott
• John Goodby
• David Chaloner
• Jesse Glass
• Rita Dahl
• Jason Wilkinson
• Michael Haslam
• Charles Bainbridge
• Chris Brownsword
• Colin Simms
• Out To Lunch
• Carrie Etter

Purchase details are available on Carrie Etter's blog.

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Würm issue 2

View issue 2 of Würm magazine, available now, free, online, featuring:

• Reed Altemus
• Richard Barrett
• Gary Barwin
• Derek Beaulieu
• John M. Bennett
• Matt Dalby
• Mara Patricia Hernandez
• Geof Huth
• Nico Vasilakis

via Matt Dalby

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The Other Room: Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk Recording

The Other Room, 05/08/09 (AAC, 35min, 8MB) The Other Room, the Manchester reading series run by Tom Jenks, James Davies and Scott Thurston, took place last night, featuring Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk. You can listen and/or download a recording of the entire first half above. Please note the actual reading starts about five minutes into the recording. You can also read a review of the evening by Matt Dalby, and see some photos by Tony Trehy and Richard Barrett (Richard also has some words coming soon). Sean and Frances were excellent, as expected.

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