Openned Blog Entries (Spring - New Year 2007)
AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Welcome to Version 2
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DATE: 04/05/2007 12:00:01 AM
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Welcome to Openned. Version 2.
Version 1 of Openned was a good site, but with the increasing diversity in both the form and format of the poetry submitted to us, we soon outgrew its capabilities. Now, with Version 2, and the incalculable help of web maestro Joe Davidian, we have created a website that allows us to focus on your writing.
We have divided the site into five main sections:
Blog: the home page will be the new home of the Openned blog.
Nights: details of our upcoming readings, along with promotional materials.
Press: we will be publishing work for purchase under the Openned press name, with the occasional free download thrown in for your delectation.
Issue: we will be publishing Openned 'issues', a series of digital magazines in flux. There are more details on the issue page.
Submit work / About / Links / RSS feed: find out how to submit work, more about us, links to websites, and information about the site's RSS feeds.
We can now also accept any text or image file, video and audio files (in any format that can be played in Quicktime) and pdf files. See the submit work page for more information. If you have any information about readings, interesting websites, or poetry, please send them along for the Openned blog, with full credit to you.
We hope you enjoy getting to know the new site, and look forward to receiving your work.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Openned 8
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DATE: 04/05/2007 12:00:10 AM
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Don't forget, it's Openned 8 tonight at 7.30pm in The Foundry, London. We look forward to seeing you there.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: XING.TH/LINE
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DATE: 04/05/2007 12:28:36 PM
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HARY GILONIS & SOPHIE ROBINSON
FRIDAY 6TH APRIL
THE PLOUGH - MUSEUM STREET
7.30PM £5/£3
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Langoustine: April reading
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DATE: 04/06/2007 09:00:00 PM
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Hosts: Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph
Time: 7:30
Venue: The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX
Admission; 4.00 / 5.00
'Continuing in the Langoustine tradition of multi-medium, genre straddling work, this month we feature:
Sophie Woolley – writer and performer who specialises in razored monologues Alex Walker – surrealist/Dadaist actor/poet/performance artist Adrian Owusu/Son Blues - primal 21st century London Delta blues Aime Hansen - Experimental performance poet from Estonia Josie Collins – abstract and experimental prose stylist'
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
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DATE: 04/07/2007 12:00:00 PM
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'To mark the tenth anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's death (April 5, 1997), UbuWeb is featuring this remarkable video diary of Ginsberg in the days immediately before and after his death. Streaming and downloadable versions available.'
Quite by coincidence, we launched Version 2 on April 5th. If you need reminding of his brilliance, here is Howl, Parts I & II.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Lipsynch
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DATE: 04/08/2007 12:00:00 PM
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'"Chaos," says theatre director Robert Lepage with a zen-like smile that makes him look like a small, round Buddha, "is a good thing. People think that it is negative, but in fact chaos can be very fertile." Which is just as well because it is already Wednesday afternoon and his show, Lipsynch, opens tonight with a script nowhere near finished and a couple of characters not yet created. What script there is appears to be on crumpled bits of paper in people's pockets. You might expect cast, crew and director to be running around in a frenzy, but everyone looks remarkably relaxed. That's because Lipsynch, at Northern Stage in Newcastle, is no ordinary show.'
Sounds, great, but £28? Cheeky.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: George Orwell's five rules for effective writing
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DATE: 04/09/2007 12:00:00 PM
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Should be compulsory reading for anyone with a blog.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Sean Bonney reads Bauderlaire
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DATE: 04/10/2007 02:21:49 AM
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Bonney! Keep it down in there!
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Salt Margins: May reading
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DATE: 04/10/2007 12:00:00 PM
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SALT MARGINS
The Whitechapel Gallery
80-82 Whitechapel Road
London E1 7QX
Tube: Aldgate East
www.whitechapel.org
Thursday 3 May 2007
7pm; FREE ENTRY
'The second in our brand new series of arts events at The Whitechapel Gallery, produced in association with Salt Publishing.
In May poet and former professional snooker player Jane Holland reads from Boudicca & Co (Salt) and Stuart Taylor premieres his poetic exploration of the city, Metropol. Cult author Amy Prior fuses words and visuals with her latest book I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel, featuring live drawing from Sarah Doyle. Plus, bright young thing Joe Dunthorne reads a selection of poems and stories.'
Choices, choices.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: John Cayley: 'Writing on Complex Surfaces'
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DATE: 04/10/2007 12:32:29 PM
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John Cayley will speak on 'Writing on Complex Surfaces'
Thursday 3rd May at 8.00pm in room 101, 30 Russell Square WC1 with drinks at 7.30pm
Sponsored jointly by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre and the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College
The day after the next Openned by the way.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Openned 9 update
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DATE: 04/11/2007 11:52:20 AM
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We have Elizabeth Jane-Burnett, Jow Lindsay, Albert Pellicer and James Harvey confirmed for the next reading. Keep checking the nights page for updates.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Very Short Stories
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DATE: 04/11/2007 12:00:00 PM
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'Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.'
Great stuff, too much David Brin.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: 50 years of Helvetica
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DATE: 04/12/2007 09:30:23 AM
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'Helvetica plays such an important part in our lives that the Museum of Modern Art in New York is celebrating its 50th anniversary by acquiring a set of the original lead type, making it the first typeface to become part of the museum's collection. MoMA is also opening a "50 Years of Helvetica" exhibition on Friday. And Helvetica is the subject of a feature documentary, which premiered last month at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Why make such a fuss about a typeface? In short, because it does its job so well.'
Formal constraint is still a concern. Free play on the page is straitjacketed on the web, tied by countless non-breaking spaces and limited knowledge of coding practices. We are pawning our work by not considering basics such as font type, size, background colours, download times and browser compatibility. We should be uncompromising and pragmatic, considerate and challenging. If in doubt, pdf it. Screen and page should twin. If this is not the aim, such considerations become even more important.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Notes.
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DATE: 04/12/2007 09:31:01 AM
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1. View a night as event - your audience as community.
2. Take a holistic approach, consider: pace, texture, politics.
3. Build an event for a community - organiser as community member.
4. The room is space.
5. Walk into an open space, each time imagine the space is new/situated.
6. Imagine events as separate entities, encroached in space, talking over time.
7. Walk into an event - build an approach.
8. Create an obstacle, forget it, find it later.
9. Work from found material – space as found material.
10. Talk as a method of excretion, a narrowing. Convergence.
11. Simultaneously create yourself as stranger and member.
12. Community member as event.
13. Event and talk in dialectic - synthesis of found material.
14. Re-read previous events as a tactic of current construction.
15. Create a non-linear network of pattern and fibre tracing.
16. Re-write network out of fibre-optic into tactility; bonding.
17. Constraint: isolate units of event, propelled over by talk, expelled over by time.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: RIP Kurt Vonnegut
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DATE: 04/12/2007 09:34:29 AM
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'Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five", "Cat’s Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan.'
One of the few worth the hype.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Digitise or die: what is the future of the book?
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DATE: 04/12/2007 10:52:14 AM
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Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London
Margaret Atwood, Andrew O'Hagan, Stephen Page & Erica Wagner
Digitise or Die: What is the Future of the Book?
Tuesday 17 April 2007, 7:30 P.M.
'What is the future of the book? Authors Margaret Atwood, Andrew O'Hagan and Erica Wagner and publisher Stephen Page, Chief Executive of Faber & Faber, discuss the brave new world of authors, readers and publishers in the age of new technology.'
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AUTHOR: Stephen Willey
EMAIL: s.p.willey@rhul.ac.uk
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DATE: 04/12/2007 11:20:21 AM
I don't know about you, but whenever I get offered the choice between digitalization or death, death seems a tempting option. Not because digitalization is so alien to me that death is the only option I can envisage, but that the choice is actually so inane I do actually want to kill myself.
Poets since the oulipo have been considering the digital in relation to their work, JODI, MEZ, and London poets John Cayley and John Sparrow use code in a variety of ways, as aesthetic collage, as linguistic system, as executable as the language of poetry itself. I mean who is the command digitalize or die addressed to? And does the question have to be couched in such extreme terms?
Presumably one of the thoughts behind such a provocative statement is that spiraling publishing costs, a lack of readership, and blah blah blah, have made the printing poetry books economically unviable.
Well. 1) The book is not about to die. 2) Playing between the boundary of book and screen is extremely rich ground to be working on. 3) Poets who imagine such a sharp binary between page and screen, and who can only see death as an alternative to digitalization are probably dead already (Its like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson never happened).
Digitalization is not just the Internet; it is phone lines, city, faces, speech patterns, and bar codes. Books are not separate from the digital but operate inside it, are part of it.
Death only stares you in the face if you insist on imposing poetry and poets no one has heard of from the top down. Create your own community of readers from poets and friends you admire, publish chapbooks, and write.
Poetry does have a responsibility to address the digital simply because interesting poetry explores how language functions at the borders of linguistic sense, this most certainly happens in the shift between high and low level coding languages to the language which we read on a screen. However, these explorations can take place across a variety of different media, to make the binary digitalization or death seems slightly banal, though I’m sure it will fill the seats.
Anyway, one angry man signing off.
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AUTHOR: Alex Davies
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DATE: 04/12/2007 01:41:07 PM
I agree with your principles, especially the notion of moving away from top-down distribution and hierarchy. I think more than anything, the web will radically alter how poetry is distributed.
However, it's a worthwhile discussion. I think the title refers as much to the idea of embracing the digital as it does to making a choice between digital and print. Like you said, it is not a binary distinction, and to approach it as such would be as damaging as neglecting the digital altogether. Publishing is an industry, and as such it needs to be treated like a business. I think that the notion of "mainstream" publishing is one that will soon need to be reconsidered, but it's important for now that it establishes itself in the digital domain. Whilst it's all well and good to imagine communities of poets outside of the machine, it's an idea that is also in a similar period of transition, and in order to keep it vital and fresh, the mainstream publishing industry is a portal for the more adventurous writer to these communities. For most of us, like it or not, Waterstone's and Amazon are the kinds of places we begin our literary education, and I think it will remain that way for a long time. The publishing industry needs to make sure that it's embracing these new methods and forms of literature and its distribution so that future poets can use it as a stepping stone to more challenging work that really does interact with the digital in terms of language, form and concept.
In an ideal world, such mechanisms would not be in place, communities would be based around ideas instead of profit, and the notion of publishing conglomerates would be a thing of the past. Unfortunately this is not the case, so from a pragmatic viewpoint, I think it's a good thing that the publishing industry is attempting to think about the future, regardless of how prosaic, crass or misguided those attempts might be. It's better than ignorance.
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AUTHOR: John
EMAIL: sparrow.electrix@gmail.com
IP: 68.3.54.141
URL: http://itchaway.net
DATE: 04/13/2007 05:32:33 AM
Hey guys
I too find it fascinating and a little simplistic to dichotomize 'books vs digital'. As Stephen has already said, books are code too, and this really is the basis for any interesting discussion on what might be regard 'e-poetry'. Glazier's now classic but still important Digital Poetics book has managed to avoid the perils of becoming dated simply because its arguments recognize that computer code has its bases in language, as part of many post-structuralist paradigms.
I have Coupons≠Coupons on the brain right now as I just picked up BEAR$BAREBEAR$. As Jow Lindsey has noted in his introduction to their performance of this work (a video of the performance, including Jow's intro will feature in the forthcoming HOW2 issue) it is code work. And it is in more ways than one.
Firstly, it seems to have employed a computer algorithm or two to 'remix' itself and spew out language into a semi-sensical realm which promotes a rad improvisation with the textual material. Secondly, its general engagements with lists addresses a form, a structure, a code of interpretation which can be exploited. In the case of the former, I'd argue that the small booklet is an ideal way of housing something apparently opposite in nature to the 'organic bound book' whose separation is possibly bound by nostalgia more than anything else.
Then there's the fascinating work of Johanna Drucker, whose recognition of form as integral to meaning sees her using letterpress and book forms as constraints and direct conduits for meaning - codes again.
Cayley's work, as well as that of Brian Kim Stefans (although the two poets produce very distinct work) are so interesting to me because they too engage with digital media without needing to separate the digital from the page. I.e. I feel like, with both of these poets, there is no sense of ownership to one medium or another, but an essential balance of innovation from media old and new.
But back to the book debate, and I'm not sure whether this is a straightforward either/or debate or not. The title, which seems to paraphrase "Demo or Die" implies that without digitization, there's no way you'll stay afloat. From the perspective of many budding authors and publishers, this is true due to the costs and time strains of paper publishing. I think, however, that with new media, increasingly advanced internet technology, etc. the possibilities for chapbook / journal production on the page is being given new life. Make a PDF, give it to the world, let them print it themselves. I think it's interesting that as well as technology providing genuinely new and exciting modes of poetic enquiry, it can also project such enquiries back onto how we interact with 'older' media. Perhaps the book has new life after all?
Pip pip
J
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AUTHOR: Alex
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DATE: 04/13/2007 08:53:27 AM
John,
I think you're totally right when you say technology gives us the ability to direct modes of enquiry back at the book form itself - widespread self-publishing is a definite possibility in the near future. The challenge will be to get heard in the morass of constant change and rearrangement technology is packaged with. A publisher's role is not only to publish a work but to get it read, and publicity is a necessary evil. As our interaction with poetry alters as much as the modes of poetry itself, getting your work read will become more than half the battle.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: ITCH AWAY
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DATE: 04/13/2007 12:00:58 AM
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Link
John Sparrow's new site, still under construction, but as of April 10th he seemed happy enough to post a little thing saying things were nearly ready, and there's plenty to see already so go see it. The homepage header image is a work of art.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Openned 9 update
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DATE: 04/13/2007 12:01:00 AM
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John Cayley confirmed as a second half reader.
E-flyer now available on nights page.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Allen Fisher reading at Openned 8 (video)
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DATE: 04/13/2007 12:01:20 AM
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Allen's brilliant reading filmed at the last Openned night. Well worth 15 minutes of your time. Click here to watch it in the issue section of the site.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: 'Openned last night (at the Foundry)' by Jow Lindsay
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Looksee on the issue page.
Also, to call Jow's blog prolific is something of an understatement. Ya'wee smasha.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: How 2: London Calling
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DATE: 04/14/2007 12:42:07 PM
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'This section brings together new and emerging work from writers based in and around London who have not yet had a major collection of poetry published. For some of these writers the page-based book will not be the final destination of this work and so it seems all the more reason to gather them together here in a temporary snap-shot-gathering of various textualities which seem poised to continue in lines of allegiance both towards and away from the book.'
Co-ordinated by:
Redell Olsen
Featuring:
Rosheen Brennan
Emily Critchley
Kai Fierle-Hedrick
Kristen Kreider
Frances Kruk
Marianne Morris
Sophie Robinson
Lydia White
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AUTHOR: John
EMAIL: sparrow.electrix@gmail.com
IP: 68.3.54.141
URL: http://itchaway.net
DATE: 04/15/2007 05:20:35 AM
With all due respect to other co-ordinators and editors of HOW2 - and not to put their sections down in any way, I was particularly excited when I received this section in my capacity as webmaster for HOW2. Awesome work by awesome artists, and a real crossing of poetic / media genres. It's an education.
This section, fascinating in its own right, offers a glimpse of what Dell's abilities are like in overseeing an entire issue. The new issue, tantalizingly close to completion, will be a force to be reckoned with. It makes me tremble with fear just to think about it.
If you are reading this and you still haven't checked out this section (and the rest of the issue, and the rest of HOW2) you are being silly. Go there now.
J
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AUTHOR: Alex
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DATE: 04/15/2007 10:50:11 AM
'The new issue, tantalizingly close to completion, will be a force to be reckoned with. It makes me tremble with fear just to think about it.'
What's the ETA? And have you ever considered being a ringmaster? Looking forward to it already.
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TITLE: Eclipse
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'Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity.'
Superb collection of work by established, you-know-they're-good writers.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Parasol Unit: poetry reading series
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The Parasol Unit poetry series is pleased to announce that a third reader has been added to our previously announced reading on Tuesday, 5 June, at 6:30 PM. In addition to the English poet Michael Glover and the Mexican poet Ernesto Priego, this reading will also feature the distinguished American poet Bill Berkson.
Bill Berkson, poet, critic, and teacher, was born in New York City in 1939. A longtime resident of California, he has for many years taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the author of sixteen books and pamplets of poetry, most recently Our Friends Will Pass Silently Among You (The Owl Press, 2007) and Gloria (Arion Press, 2005, with etchings by Alex Katz). Other recent books include Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 (Cuneiform Press, 2007), What’s Your Idea of a Good Time: Letters & Interviews 1977-1985 with Bernadette Mayer (Tuumba Press, 2006), and The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings (Qua Books, 2004). As Ron Padgett says: "Bill Berkson's writing is witty, musical, daily, and deep, underpinned by a bracing integrity and shot through with gorgeous abstraction and other brilliant hookups between eye, ear, mind, and heart."
Michael Glover has written art criticism for The Times, The Economist, The Independent, and The Financial Times, among others. He is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including Amidst All This Debris (2001) and The Bead-Eyed Man (2000), both from Dagger Press, and Impossible Horizons (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995). Of his new book, For the Sheer Hell of Living, to be published this year by San Marco Press, John Ashbery writes, "Michael Glover’s lines unspool gravely and efficiently with few commas like waves that know they are on the way to someplace but without making much fuss about it. They can be piercingly sad and hilariously wry, sometimes at the same time, as: ‘Someone loses the midge swat./ Many glasses are raised.’—this from a poem called ‘Few things happen.’ Few things happen here, true, but those that do are tremendously important even when tiny."
Ernesto Priego is a Mexican poet, essayist, and translator presently living in London. He is the author of Not Even Dogs (Meritage Press, 2006) as well as the blogs "Never Neutral" (http://neverneutral.wordpress.com/) and "The Jainakú Project" (http://thejainakuproject.blogspot.com/). A recent interview with him can be found on Tom Beckett’s blog "e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e -s" (willtoexchange.blogspot.com).
The readings at Parasol Unit are organized and introduced by Barry Schwabsky. Previous readers have been Tim Atkins, Guy Bennett, Peter Cole, Kelvin Corcoran, Linh Dinh, Carrie Etter, Allen Fisher, Mark Ford, Lee Harwood, Lyn Hejinian, Sue Hubbard, Vincent Katz, Tony Lopez, Drew Milne, Redell Olsen, Anthony Rudolf, Leslie Scalapino, Barry Schwabsky, John Seed, Simon Smith, Carol Szymanski, Catherine Wagner, and Barrett Watten.
Readings begin at 6:30 PM and are free to the public. Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1, near the Old Street and Angel tube stations.
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
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'Rumsfeld's poetry is paradoxical: It uses playful language to address the most somber subjects: war, terrorism, mortality. Much of it is about indirection and evasion: He never faces his subjects head on but weaves away, letting inversions and repetitions confuse and beguile. His work, with its dedication to the fractured rhythms of the plainspoken vernacular, is reminiscent of William Carlos Williams'. Some readers may find that Rumsfeld's gift for offhand, quotidian pronouncements is as entrancing as Frank O'Hara's.'
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AUTHOR: openned
TITLE: Openned 9 update
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Michael Weller will be reading at Openned 9.
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'A hyperparasite project by 6billionghosts. It is parasitic because I am posting sections of a story only in the comments of other people's blogs. It's hyper because we are in the world of hypertext.'
Check it out. He left a comment on Sophie Robinson's blog under her post for the Openned 8 reading.
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.141.86
URL: http://aghostflower.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/03/2007 02:30:50 PM
when she was around a corner near a memorial there was a man standing there, an older man but not too old
"help me please, my arm's bleeding" he pulled up his sleeve. the wound wasn't bleeding but a green goo was coming from it. it was completely infected.
"i can't play my guitar. that's my food, right there. my guitar" he pointed to a fucked-up case on the ground next to him.
"i'm sorry, i-"
"anything. please. i'm bleeding. somebody gotta get me to a hospital. please." he reached out to her. she turned away.
"i'm sorry." she started walking briskly down the street.
"please. i'm bleeding" he said after her.
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'Great Works is a site for innovative writing: modernist, postmodernist, archaic. It proclaims the need to let a thousand flowers bloom, and rejects any single definition of what writing is. It welcomes alternative poetries and other writing. It proudly offers no retrieval of coherence at a higher interpretative level.'
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New poem by Hannah Silva for the Poetics of The Foundry issue. You can view it here.
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'We hope that this issue will engage with the architecture of the Foundry, the artwork hanging on the walls, the work that is installed, the psychogeography of the site, the community, the city that surrounds it, or perhaps even previous Openned readings and events.'
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'i believe that a blog is a new methodological tool to understand networks: from an insider point of view, involved in networked practice.'
Camille Paloque-Bergès' blog, main skills: Codeworks, computer aesthetics, experimentalism, net.art, network plays, poetics, politics, sociology of appropriation, sociology of art, software art, tactics.
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'The work in Click Poetry has been written expressly for performance on a computer. Many of the poems include sound or animated text. As a poem reveals itself, the reader may be called upon to click a mouse button or to drag a cursor while holding the mouse button down. Have no fear; hints will be supplied when the required action is not obvious.'
We've removed this from our Links section because it's a static site, but we thought it warranted another mention.
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TITLE: A Weekend with Alfred Leslie: Whitechapel Gallery, 21/22 April 2007
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Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A celebrated contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the extraordinary social milieu of downtown New York from the 1950s and 60s to the present, his own canvases were amongst the most revered of his peers. In 1964 he made Pull My Daisy with the photographer Robert Frank and in 1966 collaborated with the inimitable poet Frank O’Hara on The Last Clean Shirt. In 1960 he edited and published the amazing collection of texts and drawings that form the “one shot review” The Hasty Papers – in and of itself a summation of cultural activity with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery and Fidel Castro amongst may others.
Leslie dramatically moved away from abstraction to make giant almost hyper-real portraits, the majority of which were destroyed in the now infamous fire that ripped through his studio and its neighbouring blocks on October 17 1966. This utterly devastating event, that completely destroyed paintings, films and manuscripts, continues to inform his practice today. Invariably articulated by an initial process of reconstruction Leslie’s recent work makes memory new through its radical re-imagining. He lives and works in New York.
This weekend-long season is the first major presentation of Alfred Leslie’s films in the UK. It is introduced and discussed by Leslie who is an extraordinary orator and includes two exclusive screenings of works in progress.
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Sat 21 Apr
3pm
The Cedar Bar, Alfred Leslie, US 2001, video, 84mins
Originally written as a play in 1952 based on actual conversations between abstract expressionists Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, April Yabolonsky, gallerist John Myers and critic Clement Greenberg in their eponymous hangout, The Cedar Bar this video a work of such magnitude that it mocks description in its self-declared "WAR BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ART AND THOSE WHO WRITE ABOUT IT". Spectacularly elusive, The Cedar Bar, genuinely yokes the push-and-pull of a once 'new' painting style with the enormity of expressionist opera into an uncontainable psycho-tornado!
5pm
USA Poetry: Frank O'Hara, US 1966, 35mins
Frank O'Hara discusses with Al Leslie, a filmmaker and artist, his work and the relationship between poets, playwrights, and artists. O'Hara also reads some of his poetry and talks about some of his friendships with other artists. Filmed off-air by NET on March 5, 1966 at the home of Frank O'Hara and the studio of Alfred Leslie in New York City.
The Last Clean Shirt, Alfred Leslie & Frank O’Hara, US 1964, 16mm, 39mins
In a letter to his friend and collaborator, the poet Frank O'Hara, Leslie writes: "We will shoot for two SEPERATE LEVELS on the film. One is the VISUAL, the other the HEARD & the spectator will be in TWO places or more SIMULTANEOUSLY. NOT AS MEMORY BUT AT THE SAME MOMENT. PARALLELISM! MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW!" It is a blueprint for The Last Clean Shirt in which a man and a woman take a car ride through the streets of downtown Manhattan. A clock on the dashboard foregrounds the fact that the film is a single shot. The woman speaks in Finnish jibberish, interpreted by the beautiful and brilliant story told via O’Hara’s subtitles that run throughout.
7pm
Alfred Leslie introduces:
Birth of a Nation (work in progress), Alfred Leslie, c.40mins
Referring to – and revising - DW Griffith’s notorious film of the same name, this work is a reconstruction of a never-completed, mutating essay. Originally shown in a variety of unfinished states, this current version reworks the only remaining 11minute fragment to survive.
And other works
Sun 22 Apr
3pm
Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn LeRoy, US 1933, 16mm, 96mins
Vituosic, geometry-defying choreography from Busby Berkeley combines with Depression-era slapstick wisecracks. This outstandingly delirious film reflects Leslie’s love of the musical – and the influence of a form that combines comedy, spectacle and song on his own practice.
5pm
Alfred Leslie in conversation and:
The Anatomy of Cindy Fink, Richard Leacock, Patricia Jaffe, Paul Leaf, US 1960, 16mm, 12mins
Cinema verité portrait of a teenage girl’s first jazz dance audition in a Greenwich Village studio. With Larry Rivers, Al Leslie, and Louise Lassier.
Pull My Daisy, Alfred Leslie, US 1959,16mm, 27mins
Based around Jack Kerouac's narration from the last section of his unproduced play 'The Beat Generation' (itself based on an incident between Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn), Pull My Daisy as much a document of its own unravelling as it is footage of some of the most acclaimed writers and painters of its generation at play. Caught between the socio-historical cult of itself and its Beatnik players, and the excitement of its discreet yet radical formalism, Pull My Daisy has been pawed over by the watchdogs and self-appointed guardians of avant-garde film since its first double-bill showings with John Cassavete's 'Shadows' in the late 1950's. With its bawdy gags and caustic, iconoclastic humour, the film is actually predicated on the delicacy of a subtly shifting interplay between modes of 'depiction', between record and fiction, self-awareness and dubious, wilfull naivete, debunking the ordinarily stable registers its surface (and our own viewing habits) would otherwise invoke.
7pm
Lost in the Fire (work in progress), Alfred Leslie, c.50mins
An intimate memoir based around the 1966 studio fire that had such a radical and lasting impact on Leslie’s practice.
And other works
Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel High Street
London E1
Nearest tube: Aldgate East
Tickets:
Single screening: £5
Day ticket: £15/£12 concs
Weekend pass: £25/£16 concs
Box office: 020 7522 7888
www.whitechapel.org
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'Each Matchbox is devoted to one poet and contains:
POEMS
A FREE GIFT
Matchbox comes out three or more times a year in known and unknown places -
Herbivores Cafe (Near John Rylands Library, University of Manchester)
Cornerhouse (Oxford Road, Manchester)
The Basement (Lever Street, Manchester)
Subscription (Web, Here)
Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall, London)
UCL (London)'
Matchboxes with poems in them. Allen Fisher got his out for us at Openned 8. Read that how you will. It looked very chilled.
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'"I think more than any other city, London absorbs whatever horrors are enacted upon it," Sinclair insists. “We can swallow Millennium Wheels, Domes, all of these things. Whatever’s put up is absorbed into the story and narrative of London."'
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Rich, enticing website. Flies evade the screen and text implores speech. Bewdeeful.
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Sunday April 29, 7.30pm
Chris Gutkind and Valeria Melchioretto
99 Torriano Ave
Kentish Town tube
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TITLE: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
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'Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.'
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Legendary performer Ron Athey returns to the UK this month and will be performing around the country between April and June 2007.
Starting off at Chelsea Theatre, London, Ron and collaborator Dominic Johnson premiere their newly-commissioned piece Incorruptible Flesh (Perpetual Wound).
Starting with a palate of ideas about sex, death and sparkle, the myth of Philoctetes is transplanted into the California deserts in the heat of August, creating
rituals of transubstantiation in magickal excess. This performance will then travel to the Fierce Festival in Birmingham.
Ron will also appear as part of a round-table discussion during the Sprit + Flesh UK tour with Fakir Musafar, Marisa Carnesky and Kira O’Reilly (Chaired by Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency).
In June, Ron will appear in Bristol at the Arnolfini performing Ecstatic as part of the Manuel Vason Performance Programme.
INCORRUPTIBLE FLESH (PERPETUAL WOUND).
24-27 April and 1-2 May 2007. (Chelsea Theatre, London)
8pm. Tickets £12 (£8).
For more information, and to book tickets
visit: www.chelseatheatre.org.uk/ron.htm
or call the box office: 0207 7352 1967
30 May 2007. (Custard Factory Theatre, Birmingham)
8pm. Tickets £8 (£6)
To book tickets calls: 0121 236 4455
SPIRIT + FLESH UK ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
22 May 2007 (Queen Mary, University of London)
6.30pm. Tickets free, but must be reserved in advance.
To reserve tickets visit: http://www.switchtheatre.com/fakir/schedule_roundtable.html
ECSTATIC
9 June 2007 (Arnolfini, Bristol)
8.30-9.30pm. Tickets: TBC
Visit: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/livedance.php?id=58
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TITLE: Semina - where the novel has a nervous breakdown
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From HOW2:
SEMINA - WHERE THE NOVEL HAS A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
BOOK WORKS NEW OPEN SUBMISSION SERIES
COMMISSIONING EDITOR: STEWART HOME
Theme
Semina takes its inspiration from a series of nine loose-leaf magazines issued by Californian beat artist Wallace Berman in the 1950s and 1960s. We are looking for experimental prose that draws inspiration from art as much as it does from literature; for writing with a radical and extremely selfconscious understanding of itself; work that takes itself both beyond and behind the mid-twentieth century après-garde and is inspired by groups such as Cobra, the Beats, Fluxus, Oulipo, the Letterists, and those involved with the new novel and Black Mountain, as well as the more recognizably post-modern experimentation associated with figures like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper and Lynne Tillman. We aim to publish work that will cross any and all genre boundaries, that is unable to recognise differences between poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, high brow and low brow, art and life; and that continually reforges the passage between formalism and sensuous activity. Themes that interest us include drugs, magic, the art world, life, death and transcendence; but above all we’re looking for unknown artists and writers willing to take risks with their prose and who demonstrate total disregard for the conventions that structure received ideas about fiction.
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Design
Semina will have a series identity and a regular format drawn from Wallace Berman’s Semina magazine and verifax collages. We will commission and work with a designer on this project. The print-run will be up to 1,500 copies. Published works will be between 30,000 & 50,000 words or 72 & 128 pages.
The Commission
Commissioned and edited by artist and writer Stewart Home, the series will publish nine books, six of which will be selected by open submission, a further two commissioned by the editor, and a final title Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie to be produced by Stewart Home. Three books will be published a year. The selection will be by Stewart Home and Book Works staff.
How to apply
Please return the attached form and send a sample of between 3000 & 5000 words of the proposed work, a CV, a registration fee of £10, and a stamped self-addressed envelope for your reply, before the deadline of 31 May 2007. If you want your submission and supporting material returned please include sufficient postage stamps. Submissions must be typed; hand written submissions or electronic files will not be accepted. Proposals should be text based, though this series may include illustrations. We are not looking for works that have already been written, we want to develop the book with you.
Eligibility
Proposals are welcome from all sections of society, including practitioners from different culturally diverse backgrounds.
Selection and schedule
The shortlist and selection from open submission for the first publications is scheduled for Summer 2007. We will write to let you know if your work has been short-listed and selected as soon as we can. If your work is short-listed we may then ring/contact you for further information or ask you to come and talk more about your proposal with us. We would expect the commissions to be underway from August, for publication in Spring 2008.
Feedback
Due to the volume of applications we receive each year we will not be able to give any specific feedback on individual proposals unless short-listed. However we do run free artists’ surgeries on a monthly basis, and are able to spend time discussing potential projects, offering help and advice on publishing and distribution of artists’ books at these sessions.
Fee
A commissioning fee of £500 will be paid to the selected artists/writers, plus 100 copies of their book. Book Works will be responsible for all production, publishing and marketing costs. The selected artists will be asked to sign an agreement with Book Works that will include a contract and detailed schedule for work.
General information on Book Works
Book Works commissions new work in collaboration with artists, writers, and designers; publishes and produces books, multiples, videos and internet/new media projects. It organizes exhibitions, installations, time based and performance works, discussions and events. It promotes and distributes its own publications and offers a resource about book publishing, production and distribution. It has a studio offering a range of printing and binding facilities and services. For full details about Book Works past/current projects please refer to our website: www.bookworks.org.uk
Book Works
19 Holywell Row
London EC2A 4JB
Telephone: 020 7247 2203
Facsimile: 020 7247 2540
www.bookworks.org.uk
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'The Argotist Online... is devoted entirely to poetry and poetics. It publishes non-mainstream poetry, and features essays and interviews related to it.
By non-mainstream, I mean poetry that is aware of the plasticity of language and which places connotation and ambiguity over denotation and precision of meaning. This sort of poetry invites interpretation and allows for plurality of meaning as opposed to hermeneutic closure.'
Another great repository of accomplished work.
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TITLE: 'Central' by Kai Fierle-Hedrick
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'Central' by Kai Fierle-Hedrick has been added to the Poetics of The Foundry issue. You can view it here.
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From Everyone's Cup Of Tea:
'It's a risk for liars to improvise if people are going to ask them fundamental questions, and situational control gives all sorts of scope for manipulation. You buy a fish or a fruit, you can tell what you're getting: packaging dissembles (and what 'truths' they're forced to tell are data shaped by ludicrous anxieties about diet inculcated by the culture industry and government). Despite the phrase, nothing does what it says on the tin. In the 1980s boom, capitalist lies about profitability became epidemic, it actually ucked up their ability to function as capitalists! In this context, truth and immediacy become explosively subversive. I think the basic weakness in most mainstream middle-class poets is hypocritical sexuality and collusion in class society -- they wouldn't dare write automatically because of what it might reveal. They fear chaous because it'll make them look uncool. My plan was always to live a life I wasn't ashamed of so that everything that comes out is vital. That's why the idea of fiddling about with the words, desperately seeking substitutes and improvements -- 'polishing a poem' -- seems petty. I was pleased when Prynne mentioned he wrote at one blow, I'd thought his poems had that kind of gestural grace and unanswerability.'
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'When you're revolting against everything and wearing a bog chain around your neck and a flasher's mac with OUT TO LUNCH painted on the back and bicycling of te work washing dishes at the Cambridge School of Languages and gobbing at schoolkids on the pavement as a gesture of pop absurdity, as I was in 1978, poetry had better be absolutely mind-blowing or you're not going to sit still for it, are you?'
From Brandoshat:
Don't Start Me Talking ed. Tim Allen & Andrew Duncan (Salt)
'In many ways, this is a historic book and tremendously exhilarating to read. I can't get enough ot it - I keep rereading bits of it. It's a series of interviews with contemporary poets - who are all innovative and able to talk about it. There are so many ideas running through it that it's hard to keep up at times, and it has been of tremendous encouragement to a poet like myself who often feels himself to be rather on the fringe of the innovative community.'
From Salt:
'Main description: Named for a Sonny Boy Williamson song, this is a collection of interviews with 20 modern poets. The subjects are Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Smith, Michael Haslam, David Chaloner, Elisabeth Bletsoe, David Greenslade, Alexander Hutchison, Peter Manson, Harry Gilonis, Andrew Crozier, Tim Allen, Out to Lunch, Tony Lopez, Sean Bonney, David Miller, R.F. Langley, John Hall, Nick Johnson, Robert Sheppard, and Eric Mottram. The stress is on reflexive poets whose thoughts on language and artistic procedures shed new light on modern culture and on the interpretation of poems.'
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.141.86
URL: http://aghostflower.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/04/2007 04:26:41 PM
i live a dual life-
one as an honest man, a fountain of self
the other as a complex irrigation system for lies that i carefully position to point where i'm really at
guess which one's more marketable
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Make sure you have a good couple of hours free.
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AUTHOR: pracical croticism
EMAIL: franciscrot@gmail.com
IP: 195.217.52.130
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DATE: 05/04/2007 03:30:29 PM
keep up Steve x : we meet tenprynne bowling picnic on "yup" Sat
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TITLE: Eliot's The Waste Land hypertext version
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Eliot's The Waste Land configured in hypertext in order to aid comprehension and minimise frustration. It ain't lazy, it's convenient. Like contractions.
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TITLE: 'Sophie Robinson's terrifying web-based projects'
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From dark mucus:
'i would like to direct you to sophie robinson's terrifying web-based projects, gorgeous little films and animations steeped in desire, disgust, squishy things, hot scratchy audio, and ooze and cream and jiggles. "cake" and "slant" are probably my favourites if i was forced to choose only two to bring with me to a deserted island, but they are all delicate and scary and funny and executed with sophie's brilliant flair for provoking the hairy undersides of all things pretty.'
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Don't forget, Openned 9 tonight (2nd May). More info.
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It's alive!!! IT'S ALIVE!!!
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Openned's very own Steve Willey will be reading at the next Langoustine.
La Langoustine est morte, the 7th
Saturday 5 May 2007
7.30pm
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX
Adm. £5/4 cons.
La langoustine est morte , The only night in London dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returns to the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 7th instalment of the series. This month we feature one of our strongest line-ups yet, a thrilling fusion of abstract poetics, risqué fictions, spiritual songs and ambient mischief with:
Amy Prior – fiction/performance
Steve Willey - poetry
Perciphone Petticoat – poetry/performance
Musadiq Sanwal - spirit songs
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I hope Cayley payed insurance premiums for everybody's computers. I wouldn't want to be carting mine back home on the 55 bus thru central hackney in the middle of the nite. wait till we find out just what he was doing for the US military. the guy is a modernist in the way that george bush is.
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Thu 3 May, 7pm
Whitechapel, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1
Salt Margins II
'Poet and former professional snooker player Jane Holland reads from Boudicca & Co (Salt). Cult author Amy Prior presents her latest book I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel with live drawing by Sarah Doyle. Stuart Taylor premieres Metropol, his poetic exploration of the city. Plus up-and-coming poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne.'
Organised by Tom Chivers, Salt in the Margins.
Free, no booking necessary.
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'Coffee Break' by Anna Ticehurst has been added to the Poetics of The Foundry issue. You can view it here.
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'n August 2006, the national, weekly public radio program The Infinite Mind made broadcast history as it aired a four-part special taped inside the three-dimensional virtual on-line community Second Life. Among those interviewed in front of a live virtual audience were author Kurt Vonnegut. This is a machinema video of Vonnegut's interview taped inside Second Life, on the 16-acre virtual broadcast center built by Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produces the program. The host is John Hockenberry.'
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'Lucy, is an artist. Lucy paints pictures of Barbara Streisand.'
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'International art movement for new figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting).'
Also check this stuckist manifesto. These people worship at the altar of Jeremy Clarkson. Being unrevolutionary isn't revolutionary, it's boring. Give pieces a chance. Stuckism. Get rid of the 't' and you're closer. Why does everything have to be so extreme all the time? It's wearing, that's what it is. If I make things less extreme for everyone it will do us all the world of good. Maybe soon. Click more for some of my favourite-stupid Stuckist quotes.
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Stupid: Salmon Rushdie is the epitome of contemporary turgidity and defies anyone of sensibility to read more than one paragraph, wherever that paragraph may happen to be. His writing achieves all the characteristics that defeat anything worth saying, a position guaranteed in todays self preening philistinism to win all the prizes. His style is artificial and insulting to even avarage intilligence, the story lines are a random assemblage and the language false. We advise people not to read him.
Stupider: The writer can only write what he knows about him/her self. To develop as a writer you must develop as a person.
Stupidest: The probable reason that writers have to communicate in a more accessible manner is because, unlike the visual artist who only needs to pander to a self deceiving elite, the writer is reliant on the general public to buy his or her work. This is one of the most convincing proofs of democracy in action ever encountered.
Off-the-scale: In any period that the writer lives he/she has to say the wrong thing to get it right.
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AUTHOR: sophie robinson
EMAIL: sophie_amelia_robinson@yahoo.co.uk
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DATE: 05/05/2007 05:54:35 PM
Yeah, these people are morons. I saw coverage of this recent(ish) Stuckist show, and they were all moaning about how everyone pays attention to the YBA crowd and not them because of media hype around conceptual 'postmodern' art, which meant that they got ignored, when in fact they are ignored because they are TERRIBLE! My five-year-old sister is a much more convincing figurative artist than any of these wankers. And the whole 'Victorian Punk' shoreditch thing was a desperate attempt to seem like kitsch artiste underdogs of the art world rather than bland middle-class losers. Better to go into the middle of the Tate modern, stamp their feet and shout 'it's not fair!'
Um yeah, I don't like these people at all.
That said, Billy Childish (Stuckist cult leader) was very good in Thee Headcoats, but not nearly as good as their female counterparts, Thee Headcoatees, a garage punk band who did a fantastic cover of that belgian Plastic Bertrand song Ca Plane Pour Moi.
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DATE: 05/06/2007 09:11:41 AM
They write like a decafinated whyndam lewis. daily mail fascists using avant-garde techniques. kinda like niall mcdevitt without the charm.
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.136.242
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DATE: 05/07/2007 12:19:01 AM
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AUTHOR: John
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IP: 84.66.74.207
URL: http://itchaway.net
DATE: 05/07/2007 12:14:42 PM
Their website is either 'stuck' in 1996 or is terrifically avant-garde.
I'll had it to 'em - anyone able to sift through such a mess deserves to be freed from the dreadful tyranny of conceptual art, what what!
Anyhoo, who's more threatening, those who leave them to it, or those who hand out pages of manifaecal 'anti-avant-garde' drivel at 'avant-garde' events? Bitter? Not us.
They win the hyphens war though. Congratz, kthx!
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DATE: 05/07/2007 12:17:30 PM
P.S.
Clarkson might drone on like a mid-life crisis when he's in a car, but the man has made a firearm out of a potato, so I don't think we should write him off completely.
Sincerely
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DATE: 05/08/2007 12:29:36 AM
I agree, Clarkson needs to be handled like Iraq.
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'[Shadowtrain is] a monthly gathering of poems, translations, articles and other writings, from the lyrical to the innovative, whatever stings and stuns the editor.'
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'The primary constraint, which every word of the story with the exception of Section 12 follows, is quite easy to describe. If each word in the story (including section headings, poem titles, everything) is observed, in order, and the number of letters in each word is counted... these are precisely the digits of that most famous mathematical constant, the irrational number pi (3.1415926535...).'
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'I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.'
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Joseph Heller is your man.
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'The current British poetry issue presents two significant features.
The first—co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves—presents 80 pages of poems by:
Andrea Brady
Chris Goode
Peter Manson
Keston Sutherland
Plus critical commentaries on the four poets by John Wilkinson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sam Ladkin, Simon Jarvis, & Matt Ffytche.
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The second feature presents fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry and well as some startling bonus material:
Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson
Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne
V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood
R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam
Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith
Leila Wilson on Sarah Law
Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch
Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin
Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark
John Lennox on Geraldine Monk
Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall
Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson
Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull
Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney
Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan
A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets: Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, Sean Bonney, and others!
Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner
Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry 1945–2000"'
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'Giles Goodland and Jeff Hilson will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Friday 11th May.
This is the first in THE BLUE BUS series, and Giles will be launching his book from Salt, 'Capital'.'
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John Sparrow seeks your feeds.
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DATE: 05/10/2007 12:52:50 AM
Ha ha! Thanks for the link.
I feel rather like an unpopular dinner host. Somehow I don't think that reflects how comprehensive my blog list is...
Why won't they come to my party??! I'm calling Clarkson in to sort it.
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EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
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DATE: 05/10/2007 08:39:18 PM
i am n o longer hip to this stuff! OPML! markup language? open? what! protocol? what?
don't answer
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'US President George W Bush said he would "miss" Mr Blair.
"He is a political figure who is capable of thinking over the horizon. He's a long-term thinker," said Mr Bush.
"I have found him to be a man who's kept his word which is sometimes rare in the political circles I run in."'
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AUTHOR: Sophie Robinson
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DATE: 05/17/2007 10:56:56 AM
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You know this probably.
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As a short contextual note: "if you were to have a poetry festival in London"
To mark Openned's involvement in this "if you were" project, and the inception of a committee of fantabulous proportions:-- {[ "Yt" / "Crossing the Line" / "Bad Press" / "Openned" / "etc.." ]}
we will be creating a new open access festival blog to run off Openned's main site this will be set up and running by Monday, we will be sending out emails with pass words and stuff.
Jow has kicked things off in a great way by splurging and intensifying all the secreted words and muttered thought that has been simmering/shimmering --- pushing and splintering off a cliff, coagulating all our goo which was/is building, Openned is/will be one of many, a rotating null point, check out the blog to come, e-mail if you want in, post if thee want to add.
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to be more
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'With an ever-changing 'multimedia' dominated world, where are new technological advancements placed in current cultural and arts practices? An exciting collective of arts, social and media specialists will examine and debate social, aesthetic and performance implications of modern technological phenomena that influence cultural communication.'
18 May 2007
Duration: 90 mins
£5 / £4 Concessions / £3 ICA Members
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'In its first WEB presentation in Fe bruary 1998, [the Sackner Archive] comprised about 29,000 citations which was almost half the items then in the Archive. The first revision in January 1999 consisted of about 32,000 citations, the second revision in November 2000 about 35,500 citations, the third revision, about 39,000 citations, the fourth revision, about 41,000 citations, the fifth revision of September 2004, about 43,000 citations, the sixth revision of June 2005 about 44,000 citations and in this seventh revision over 45,500 citations.'
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Openned is broken because we are making new things for it.
It will be fixed by this evening.
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Please notice that the London Poetry Festival blog is now open for business. This is a collaboration. You will be hearing from most of the collaborators, on this blog, over the next several days. We look forward to you looking at it.
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A post by Miss Kate Marshall from Macuser.com. Further proof that soon poetry will once again dominate the mainstream as it did in... well, you get the idea. Bonus points for mentioning the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Master Bunting, write this out 100 times in crayon: 'Mainstream is not a dirty word'.
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DATE: 05/15/2007 10:08:53 AM
F*ck!!! The secret's out. Burn everything!
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.141.86
URL: http://aghostflower.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/16/2007 02:01:36 PM
i'm gonna mainstream your mother.
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AUTHOR: sophie robinson
EMAIL: sophie_amelia_robinson@yahoo.com
IP: 80.0.57.6
URL: http://sophierobinson.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/17/2007 01:38:25 AM
Yo mainstream's so fat, she sat on a Nintendo Gamecube and it turned into a gameboy.
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.141.86
URL: http://aghostflower.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/17/2007 07:54:45 AM
your little brother stroked his "gameboy" as he imagined the mainstream cries of Princess Peach..
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DATE: 05/17/2007 08:59:27 AM
Are you gonna 'ave that Sophie?
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.141.86
URL: http://aghostflower.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/17/2007 09:47:46 AM
if a battle ensues i will surely lose
i tried to tag those macuser folks with some text but they moderate like fools..so much for poetry!
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'RH: I think there are two separate issues here. In the first place, there is the issue of criticism using various kinds of theoretical language. I am entirely sympathetic to this development in criticism over the last thirty/forty years. I have grown up with this, and I am old enough to remember the former criticism with its unexamined assumptions and unarticulated values. My critical work on Conrad has been influenced by ideas from psychology, feminism, postcolonialism, cultural geography – and these have formed the bases for particular projects. At the same time, I am very concerned that critical work returns to the text and close reading of the text. What I am critical of is where the text is merely fed mechanically through a theoretical model – or where pretences are being made to a reading which hasn’t been undertaken (so that references are made to Hegel and Heidegger, for example, without any effort to engage with the work) – or where the critical work moves from one theorist to another without any sense of possible conflicts between theoretical paradigms. Otherwise, theoretical approaches merely add to (and enrich) models of reading.'
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Saturday 19th May
The Synergy Centre, 220 Farmers Rd, London SE5
2pm - late
£5 before 7pm, £10 after, £7 concs.
Ticket info: The Synergy Centre website
'A benefit gig to support a film and video festival of the indigenous people of the three americas.'
Featuring the poets:
Sofia Buchuck
Albert Pellicer
and the poems of Leonard Peltier
There will also be musicians including: Mark Thomas, Grupo Ambaibo, Grupo Kausary, Tradicion Andina, and others.
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'This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.'
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DATE: 05/18/2007 05:20:57 PM
Go Figure
http://bookstore.ellibs.com/book/962/
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AUTHOR: 6billionghosts
EMAIL: 6billionghosts@gmail.com
IP: 64.69.141.86
URL: http://aghostflower.blogspot.com
DATE: 05/18/2007 07:43:40 PM
the cell phones..wow. i had my cell phone for 5 years; when the antenna broke off, i put my finger on the metal contacts where the antenna used to connect and used my body as an antenna..
but i'm still complicit
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Many of you are undoubtedly familiar with this site already. For those of you who are not, head there immediately.
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': Welcome to Dusie! Dusie is a new online poetry journal featuring the work of emerging as well as established poets (or translations of) from around the world. Based in Switzerland, Dusie will continue to feature what can only be loosely defined as modern poetics on a quarterly basis :'
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'The Jabberwocky perused umpteen quite progressive subways. Two irascible tickets laughed almost quickly.
Minnesota grew up, because the partly bourgeois Klingons gossips. Quark annoyingly towed Tokyo. Springfield abused two speedy tickets, however Jupiter gossips cleverly. Umpteen aardvarks perused two cats, then Darin marries one poison. Five lampstands laughed. The quite silly poison untangles Mark, although umpteen purple fountains abused two aardvarks. One obese mat fights two orifices. One dwarf perused the silly chrysanthemum, and one cat grew up noisily.
Phil marries purple botulisms.
Five tickets untangles umpteen pawnbrokers.
One angst-ridden chrysanthemum ran away, even though five botulisms kisses Pluto, but one bourgeois cat abused Jupiter, even though the trailer towed two putrid botulisms. Five purple aardvarks annoyingly abused slightly schizophrenic elephants, however five quite irascible sheep noisily kisses two mats, because five sheep ran away. Two subways gossips. Umpteen Macintoshes grew up slightly lamely, and two progressive cats quite noisily telephoned the Klingons. Springfield perused one subway. The purple ticket laughed.'
Available in Quark > Utilities > Jabber
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A site as noteworthy for its presentation as the poetry it presents.
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'What do you think of the state of political journalism?'
'Very bad. Very lazy and almost cowardly in its obsequiousness.'
'What important questions are they not asking?'
'God damn, man. Who wrote these questions for you?'
'I did.'
'Well, they're all kind of pertinent, but let's take a break and kind of work up to some of these.'
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La Langoustine est morte
Saturday 2 June 2007
7.30pm
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX
Adm. £5/4 cons.
Langoustine MySpace page
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'Public Pages is an exhibition of Text Art and Visual Poetry bringing together contributions from poets, artists and makers of works which explore the visual and cultural impact of the word, the sign, and the slogan in public space.'
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'Why exactly did you try to deliver an elk's heart to Jack Nicholson's house?'
'I thought it would be fun and it's in the spirit of our relationship. A little humor. I don't know, it just came to me tonight. I had a few bombs, you know. We do that pretty frequently, exchange bizarre presents. I couldn't have foreseen the horrible circumstances around it. He had just gotten in from LA. I didn't know it, but he had a stalker. I saw him the afternoon he got in. I said I'd see him later. I figured, shit, I have some presents for the kids. I was supposed to get there a little earlier. I feel a little queasy looking back on the night. Of course it was all in good humor. It went wrong in so many weird ways. I went out there and sort of did my thing and left, feeling rejected sort of. Bear in mind I was pretty much wanked up, in the mood I frequently get in with Jack. He's pretty fast. He's one of the natural aristocrats of our time.'
'He's fast? '
'Oh, yeah, we have a good time talking. Jack is quick. One of the smartest people I know.'
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N.B. Peter Purves used to be on Blue Peter.
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AUTHOR: Stephen Willey
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DATE: 05/28/2007 06:52:26 PM
Although a larger post on this topic and the topic of a social politics of community will be appearing soon on the openned blog I think this quote bears some relevance to the London/Cambridge debate, if indeed there is, or should be one:
"Each objective is constructed on the trace of that perspective that it puts under erasure; each political object is determined in relation to the other, and displaced in that critical act. Too often these theoretical issues [London/Cambridge] are premtorialy transposed into organisational terms and represented as sectarianism. I am suggesting that such contradictions and conflicts, which often thrawt political intentions and make the question of commitment complex and difficult, are rooted in the process of translation and displacement in which the object of politics are inscribed. The effect is not stasis or a sapping of the will. It is, on the contrary, the spur of the negotiation of socialist democratic politics and policies which demand that questions of organisation are theorized and socialist theory is 'organized', because there is no given community or body of the people whose inherent, radical historicity emits the right signs."
Homi Bhabha, The location of Culture (London,New York: Routledge,1994)p.39
Although of course there is a conceptual leep from Bhabha's notion of 'theoretical issues' to the cultural politics of space wherein London or indeed Cambridge poets are embedded and indeed embodied. But if the argument comes down to which group or set of poets has the most sociocultural hegemony then:
"as I see it, the work of hegemony is itself the process of iteration and differentiation. It depends on the production of alternative or antagonistic images that are always produced side by side and in competition with eachother. It is the side-by-side nature, this partial presence, or metonymy of antagonism, and its effective significations, that give meaning (quite literally) to a politics of struggle as the struggle of identifications and the war of positions".
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"Hegemony requires iteration and alterity to be effective, to be productive of politicized populations: the (non-homogenous) symbolic-social bloc needs to represent itself in a solidary collective will -a modern image of the future - if those populations are to produce a progressive government."
ibid., p.43
So lets enrich the debate by all means, but all poets find some kind of audience anyway, and if they don't surely it is the job of those poets to manufacture their own cultural outlets and social networks (there seems to be too much brooding and not enough doing). Its the differences which are productive, surely. It seems futile to conceptualise politics in relationto the text purely on the basis of 'class', 'gender' or 'race', 'right wing' or 'left wing', 'Cambridge or London', as Matthias Fritsch argues in a wholly different context:
"The call to responsibility in reltaion to a 'tradition of oppressed' is not to be opposed to the history of violence in a binary fashion, but we must precisely be seen as produced and carried along by this history, as if in spite of itself."
p.158
The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida ... Matthias Fritsch
The poetry scene is not a unified totality of oppressor and oppressed, there are however, winners and losers (in terms of cultural hegemony). Well, all things have their time, and their space in time.
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It seems to me from more of an outsider's perspective that the London/Cambridge divide is something that a) people don't know exist, b) believe is outdated and no longer applies, or c) are completely convinced of and consider it something to be fostered.
I agree totally with: 'So lets enrich the debate by all means, but all poets find some kind of audience anyway, and if they don't surely it is the job of those poets to manufacture their own cultural outlets and social networks (there seems to be too much brooding and not enough doing).' It seems that there are some (though this is by no mean all-inclusive as there poets out there doing great openly collaborative work through events and poetry) who would rather blame a pseudo-intellectual divide based purely on geographical location than themselves for things not getting done. I feel that these are the same people who favour collusion over open collaboration, who could bring good things to a socio-political environment if they were more open with their dealings. To a certain extent I include myself in this group, and I think more of an effort needs to be made through a policy of mutual interest and willingness to openly collaborate. It's not so much, for me, about making things happen, as things will happen by themselves if everyone has the right attitude.
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DATE: 05/29/2007 02:53:03 PM
Re-reading the initial comments made on Chris Goode's blog, this comment by Robin Purves does inspire a slight ammount of unease:
"I disagree with you that there is a "massive variety of interesting work being produced in Britain" - unless you are offering up the word "interesting" with all the snooker-loopy weakness that can inhere there. Hardly anyone engages my interest; there's probably about nine of them in total and two of them are over 60."
As I argued in my previous post, it does not really matter who provides a readership for work in London, as long as it does get a readership from somewhere, even if that is self created by the poets themselves, it is however a little sad that only nine poets can be counted as interesting, my number is a lot higher than that, perhaps my critical/appreciative faculties diminish or i am snooker loopy, i'm not so sure.
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And then leaning on your window sill
he'll say one day you caused his will
to weaken with your love and ...
Chloe murmured. "I have been working hard at it all night. It's my warmth"
And then taking from his wallet
"It is time redistribute the warmth," I say.
an old schedule of trains, he'll say
"No!" she said. "The warmth is trickle down."
I told you when I came I was a stranger
"The warmth is concentrate in the breasts of minority
tiny and is reach crisis point."
I told you when I came I was a stranger.
"No," Chloe soon said. "The warmth defines who
Possesses it. It is the warmth which oppresses, seeping
from point to point, not the wielder of the warmth."
And you say ok the bridge or someplace later
"Tell me," I say, "your sexual fantasy."
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'Viewers are confronted with a blinking cursor. As they type, rooms begin to take shape in the form of a two-dimensional plan, similar to a blueprint. The architecture is based on a semantic analysis of the viewer's words, reorganizing them to reflect the underlying themes they express. The apartments are then clustered into buildings and cities according to their linguistic relationships.
Apartment is inspired by the idea of the memory palace. In a mnemonic technique from a pre-Post-It era, Cicero imagined inscribing the themes of a speech on a suite of rooms in a villa, and then reciting that speech by mentally walking from space to space. Establishing an equivalence between language and space, Apartment connects the written word with different forms of spatial configurations.'
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'Right after lunch we very dutifully piled into the car and headed for the Convention Hall. It is exactly like approaching a military installation; barbed-wire, checkpoints, the whole bit; Genet was absolutely appalled, I was afraid he was going to be physically sick; Burroughs, of course, was ecstatic; it was all so grotesque that at one point he actually did a little dance of glee. He has a tape recorder, and he applies his cut-up and fragmentation theory to its use -recording speeches by the delegates and committeemen, then putting blank spaces in them, and filling the blanks with pieces of other speeches, and finally playing back this composite of cliches and inanities in such a way as to sound like live radio coverage, a possibility which was enhanced by the fact that this particular recorder looks exactly like a portable radio. It was Burroughs' belief that if these tapes were played constantly in the Convention Hall, the subliminal effect of the repetitions, the non sequiturs, and the general idiocies would so confound any chance listener as to possibly snap his mind, and thus become a profoundly disruptive factor in the overall "Convention profile."'
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The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate is an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).
"This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries. Our focus has been on those writings and projects too-often excluded from academic Benjamin scholarship."
Edited by Scott J. Thompson & Co-edited by Christopher Rollason
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'And sort of on my way to bed, I saw something on the, heard or saw, something about a plane hitting the World Trade Tower. The first reports were of the "small plane"--like one of those things that sometimes hits buildings around the world. That got my attention just enough not to go straight to bed. I turn around and have a look at the TV set, just in time to see that other one go straight in. Jesus.'
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'Soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government mistook Hasan Elahi for a terrorist. On a return trip from Europe, the Bangladesh-born, New York-raised artist was flagged at the airport and interrogated. To prove his whereabouts, Elahi showed them his Palm PDA, a device that yielded enough information -- from calendar notes of appointments and classes he teaches at Rutgers University -- to placate his interrogators.'
'The artist hatched a plan. If Big Brother wanted proof of his coordinates, why not surveil himself? Recording his own moves could, theoretically, seal his alibi.
[Since 2002] Several times a day, the artist input his location into the phone and his computer recorded the data (he hopes to incorporate a live GPS tracker soon). He then created a Web site that allowed viewers to see where he is at any given time... and he began taking photographs with a digital camera as further proof of his whereabouts.'
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'cause i was a hapsburg dont ya know and i was a hapsburg ya see? but i was this equilibrist aware of the drunks the brutality the racism the cockroaches rats and diseases of poverty when i was a hapsburg see and i was this equilibrist not knowing what to do about what it was i felt so much that was hurting me so much that i never could articulate ya see? there was no one i could really talk to about these things cause everyone was a hapsburg see and didnt want to talk or feel with me cause i was this equilibrist ya see and i felt they all accepted this stuff as god's will but not me'
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Tuesday, June 5
Bill Berkson
Ernesto Prieto
Michael Glover
6:30 p.m.
Parasol Unit
14 Wharf Road,
London N1,
near the Old Street and Angel tube stations.
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Wednesday, June 6
Bill Berkson
Clark Coolidge
Bill Corbett
8 p.m.
The Room
33 Holcombe Road
Tottenham Hale
London N17 9AS
info-theroom@fsmail.net
www.theroom.org.uk
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The Openned anthology reading will take place on Wednesday 1st August at The Foundry. More details soon.
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A new poem by James Harvey can be seen in the Poetics of The Foundry issue.
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'Burden’s most trenchantly significant work was “Doomed,” performed in April, 1975, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He set a clock on a wall at midnight, and lay down on the floor under a leaning sheet of glass. Viewers came and went. Burden didn’t move. Inevitably, he soiled his pants. (“It was awful,” he recalled.) Forty-five hours and ten minutes passed. Then a young museum employee named Dennis O’Shea took it upon himself to place a container of water within Burden’s reach. The artist got up, smashed the clock with a hammer, and left. He never again undertook a public action that imperilled himself. It wouldn’t have made sense. “Doomed” unmasked the absurdity of the conventions by which, through assuming the role of viewers, we are both blocked and immunized from ethical responsibility. In O’Shea’s case, the situation was complicated by his duty to maintain the inviolability of art works.'
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'With radical politics in retreat, what is the best way to conceive of and theorise rebellion? Philosophers Michael Hardt and Simon Critchley offer some original ideas about how to renew radical theory.'
£10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members
7.00pm
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1, United Kingdom, Nash Room
Wednesday 20th June
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Relentless pontificating Kirsty Wark talks to Damien Hirst
I was going to quote this, but the BBC no longer bothers with transcripts, preferring deathly slow-loading abhorrent archive video where everyone looks like they've come straight from the video for Money For Nothing.
There's a moment in this Newsnight Review (recently voted the show most likely to turn you into a steamed ham) interview where, to paraphrase, Hirst says something along the lines of 'maybe "wow" is enough, I think that's one of the best reactions you can have to a piece of art'. Or somesuch like that, only in his elegant cheeky chappie soundbitealover way. For the Love of God is a vanitas work that seems to go for broke with the whole "wow" thing: it's expensive, it's shiny, it's a skull and it's by Damien Hirst.
So, the question is, regardless of what you think of his work, do you reckon "wow" is enough? Can you start with "wow" and work your way to something else? Does "wow" come from that something else you've been working from? Is provoking a visceral reaction enough for poetry, or is its remit an entirely diffident kettle of diamond-encrusted skulls? I'm on the fence with this one, help me out peeps.
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'Welcome to the seventh annual Free Range at The Old Truman Brewery, London. This is Europe's largest graduate art and design show with free admission. Free Range was set up to showcase the works of budding designers and artists to both public and potential employers alike, giving students the best opportunity to promote their work. Each year the sho