Openned Journal

Sussex Bird Puke

Openned — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:02:55 +0000

Naming

Openned — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:59:00 +0000

I think too much critical value is prematurely attached to objects, cultural movements, and indeed styles of poetry that some choose to name too soon, or in extreme cases, label. The clearest problem that arises from this is that contemporary poets of substance are bypassed or ignored because they are not so easily reified into one of these arbitrary categories. The critic with his taxonomies and endless specimen jars becomes the immediate, and in one sense forced, arbiter of artistic worth...

John Sparrow on the Openned Anthology

Openned — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:19:00 +0000

John Sparrow wrote an in-depth review of the Openned Anthology, split over several parts. Here are all the parts, combined.

The original parts are available on John Sparrow's website, Itch Away.

The Openned Anthology is available to view in the Projects section.