Xing the Line

Thursday 4th June, 7.30pm

• Cris Cheek
• Peter Jaeger

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

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David Grundy

PDF (28KB) Audio (MP3, 48 sec, 752KB) Copies of the poems sound is material is and Ian Tomlinson by David Grundy were originally made available at the Openned Night, Wednesday 27th May 2009. Here is a PDF copy of both poems and a performance of sound is material is in audio format.

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Rift Designs

by Richard Makin Published: May 09 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF (60KB)

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American Poetry After 1975

This issue offers a wide-ranging survey of poetic practice in the United States since the mid-1970s. Comprising scholarship, essays, and poems, “American Poetry after 1975” brings together notable senior critics such as Al Filreis, Marjorie Perloff, and Herman Rapaport, as well as younger critics who are redefining the field. The issue looks at new directions in American poetry as well as contemporary trends such as conceptual poetry; multilingual poetry; ecopoetics, in which writing reaches environmental concerns; and Flarf, subversive poetry that uses search-engine results, grammatical inaccuracies, and intentionally bad taste.

Edited by Charles Bernstein, available from November 2009. Order here. via Al Filreis

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ICA: Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.

Wednesday 17th June - Sunday 23rd August

Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. is an exhibition that takes an imaginative and expansive look at text-based art practices from the 1960s to the present day. In particular the exhibition is inspired by the example of Concrete Poetry, a movement that flowered in the 60s but which is now largely forgotten. Concrete Poetry explored the graphic potential of language alongside its poetic and literary possibilities, and so too do the works in this exhibition, which includes works by figures who emerged in the 60s alongside those of younger, contemporary artists.

See here.

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Steve McCaffery reads Carnival

Seven-minute video on Charles Bernstein's blog from a 40 minute reading of Carnival Panel 2 by McCaffery in Glasgow back in March.

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Galatea Resurrects #12

Now online, featuring reviews of Steve McCaffery, Christian Bök, Susana Gardner, Jerome Rothenberg, Geoffrey Gatza, Geof Huth and others I am less familiary with. via Bill Allegrezza

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Other Cl/utter

Other Clutter is an online gallery space designed to explore “text as art”.  Taking inspiration from the visual poetry of bpNichol and Steve McCaffrey the site has set out to examine text (words, letters, phrases, sentences, found text, pictures etc.) as an inherently visual space.  Contributors are often artists and poets who view language and its component parts as visual objects that lend themselves to shifting meanings and therefore recognize that words visually contain multiple entryways into understanding. Other Clutter is a space for both writers and artists to dismantle and reconstruct the political and representational overtones of text and art.

Visit the site. via The Other Room

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Salt: Buy One Book

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Divergence

Kevin Doran:

You are invited to submit to the first issue of Divergence, a biannual electronic publication. We are interested in receiving poetry, articles, essays, text-art, animated text, as well as hybrids and paratexts (sketches, works-in-progress, rewritings) -- anything you think appropriate to send us. Divergence aims to be a critical and creative platform/forum for work that is variously referred to as, and encompasses, '(linguistically) innovative', 'experimental', 'avant-garde', 'post-avant', etc. We encourage debate, manifestos, commentary, notes, reactions. Divergence will be international in scope, with an editorial board composed of significant practitioners and academics in the field. It is edited by Keith Jebb and Kevin Doran out of the University of Bedfordshire, and supported by the Research Institute for Media, Art and Design. Submissions will be sent for peer review. Peer reviewers include Robert Sheppard, John Hall, David Miller, Jeff Hilson, with others to follow. All correspondence and submissions should be sent to divergence[at]beds[dot]ac[dot]uk. Deadline for all submissions is 15 September, 2009. Enquire at this address if hardcopy submissions are necessary.

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