Iain Sinclair at Corridor8

Thursday 16th July, 6.30pm (talk starts at 7pm)

Corridor8, a new international annual contemporary visual art and writing magazine, launches in July. Issue #1 takes as its central theme Will Alsop’s daring vision for the future of the North of England: his SuperCity — the vast urban corridor that proposes to unite cities and towns as disparate as Liverpool and Hull, extending overseas to Ireland in the West and Denmark in the East. Join us in Manchester on 16 July as we launch Corridor8 with an exclusive talk by the British author, essayist and psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair.

Urbis, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester M4 3BG Spaces are limited. To secure your place at the launch, please email si[at]corridor8[dot]co[dot]uk.

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Tina Darragh & P. Inman Reading at The Other Room

You can see video of Tina and Peter reading at the Other Room now. Tina and Peter also gave readings at Openned - video coming soon.

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LONDON§TONE

by Alex Davies Published: July 09 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF (36KB)

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VeRT

From the EPC:

During its 1998 to 2003 run Andrew Felsinger published exciting work by dozens of poets and artists in VeRt poetry magazines attractive and well-crafted online pages. We are proud to announce the return of VeRT to the web, at EPC.

View it here.

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Matt Dalby reads P. Inman

Matt Dalby is mounting a (so far) five-course meal of reading P. Inman:

Be prepared for the possibility that I will get many things horribly, hilariously wrong. The motivation for this post and the others that will follow, although I'm not currently sure how many that will be, is that I'm simultaneously enjoying and finding it hard to come to an understanding of P.Inman's work.

You can also read his review of Richard Barrett's Pig Fervour and what he thought of the most recent Other Room reading.

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modernpoetry.org.uk

Peter Philpott has gone over the entire modernpoetry site yet again, updating links and providing far and away the best overview of contemporary British poetry on the internet. If you are new to this stuff and you're wondering where to start, you need to start here.

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Flarf Attack

So much Flarfy stuff on the net since the publication of That Poetry Magazine. It starts with Kenny Goldsmith stirring the waters, stuff about disjunction and monkeys, typewriters:

Start making sense. Disjunction is dead. The fragment, which ruled poetry for the past one hundred years, has left the building. Subjectivity, emotion, the body, and desire, as expressed in whole units of plain English with normative syntax, has returned. But not in ways you would imagine. This new poetry wears its sincerity on its sleeve . . . yet no one means a word of it. Come to think of it, no one’s really written a word of it. It’s been grabbed, cut, pasted, processed, machined, honed, flattened, repurposed, regurgitated, and reframed from the great mass of free-floating language out there just begging to be turned into poetry. Why atomize, shatter, and splay language into nonsensical shards when you can hoard, store, mold, squeeze, shovel, soil, scrub, package, and cram the stuff into towers of words and castles of language with a stroke of the keyboard? And what fun to wreck it: knock it down, hit delete, and start all over again. There’s a sense of gluttony, of joy, and of fun. Like kids at a touch table, we’re delighted to feel language again, to roll in it, to get our hands dirty. With so much available language, does anyone really need to write more? Instead, let’s just process what exists. Language as matter; language as material. How much did you say that paragraph weighed?

Ron Silliman likey the idea of but something is nagging at him. Dale Smith don't like it not one bit. Kenny even makes it into Wired. Then he responds.

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Spork

tristanundisolde by Posie Rider and * by Tom Jenks, soon to be released on Richard Barrett's rapidly expanding knives, forks and spoons press.

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onedit 13

It's one of them good days. onedit 13 is online and taking names, including:

• Emily Critchley
• Philip Davenport
• Allen Fisher
• Harry Godwin
• Richard Parker
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• seekers of lice
• Jonty Tiplady
• Elizabeth Treadwell

Also, don't forget the onedit launch taking place today.

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Barque Pressing

First in a string of big books from Barque:

• Sean Bonney - Document
• Peter Manson - Adjunct: An Undigest

Eat and be merry. More as and when the list is made longer.

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