Saturday 27 June, 2009 tagged Publications Richard Barrett's Pig Fervour is now available from Harry Godwin's The Arthur Shilling Press. This publication and others from TASP will be available at the Openned Night on Thursday 2nd July.
Saturday 27 June, 2009 tagged Calls for Work The Centre for Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex) is hosting a one-day conference on the 6th August 2009 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the death of Theodor W. Adorno. ... The deadline for receiving abstracts or paper proposals has been extended until the 30th June 2009. Time allocations for presentations will be 45 minutes (25-30mins for the paper, with an additional 15-20mins for questions). We have four keynote speakers confirmed for the conference. They are Prof. Max Paddison (University of Durham), Prof. Alexander Duettmann (Goldsmiths), Drew Milne (University of Cambridge), and Nicholas Joll (Open University). As before, please send abstracts/proposals via email to either Simon Mussell s.p.mussell[at]sussex.ac.uk or Chris O'Kane co41[at]sussex.ac.uk
Thursday 25 June, 2009 Chris Hamilton-Emery's summation of Salt's crazy couple of months:
Thank heavens there’s no consensus on how one runs a literary press, the diversity of approaches can be quite staggering. However, I’ll make one distinction at the start of this note, I’m going to talk about those publishers who live off their literature publishing and are dependent on its sales. It’s an important distinction, because the trajectory of one's work as a marketer, publicist, sales representative, editor, all change with respect to whether one earns one’s living from publishing and selling books; whether you pay your mortgage and car loan with those sales. It changes your entire experience of literature and especially of what it is possible for you to publish: your view of what constitutes great literature lies within the boundaries of what you can effectively sell and profit, or make a surplus, from.Read the rest.
Thursday 25 June, 2009 Tony Trehy on measuring the Bury Text Festival's 'relevance':
The root of this is the cancer of State-control and audit validation of art. Public money is spent so art must be accountable (primarily in the financial meaning of the word); as the bureaucracy can’t actually compute ‘art’, it has to count the audience. As often mentioned here, the Government Performance Indicators for the arts are all audience counters. In this context, poetry is a form that is doomed. Poetry has either a solitary audience (the reader) or tiny audiences (the reading). Almost by definition then, Poetry is irrelevant (although the Text isn’t just poetry). The logic of relevance is that poetry shouldn’t be programmed.Read the rest.
Thursday 25 June, 2009 Ian Friend and Richard Humphries in dialogue on J.H. Prynne:
Important yet again to note Ulman's distinction between the initial, immediate readings of Prynne's poetry and the gradual power that builds as you descend through the layers. There is a sense of more going on, but you don't have to tunnel deeper than you wish to go.Read the rest.
Monday 22 June, 2009 Peter Philpott:
I am not suggesting a replacement of the academic environment, in which indeed so many thrive – I am demanding the diversification of the conditions under which British Innovative Poetry is encouraged, encountered and allowed to flourish. We maintain hold of what we have, as it were, and venture further abroad. We must be grey squirrels, adaptable, robust, unspecialised and rapidly reproducing; not red squirrels, stuck with requirements for very specific habitats, ending up, yet again, merely with relict populations, too small to be viable. Diversification, that’s what I’m after. It’s an evolutionary winner.Read the rest of the article for context.
Sunday 21 June, 2009 Click here to listen:
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Saturday 20 June, 2009 Francesca Lisette:
Chlorine has decided to extend its nodules of documentation & is colonising the print medium. SO we need essays, thoughts, poems, visual art, soldered shoelaces, that kind of thing, to be collected imminently. It's your mesmeric survey of the Brighton topos, be part of it! Please send work for consideration to francesca[dot]lisette[at]gmail.com Submissions by 3rd August please. The first issue will contain only Brighton/Sussex based work. Send things for inclusion in future issues ANYWAY!!!Visit the site.
