Becfest

Alongside the festival there will be two events organised by Mike Weller at Beckenham Library.

Writers Unlimited Beckenham Bubble One - 'The next hundred years'

Wednesday 29th June, 7 - 8pm

Members and former members of Writers Unlimited, The Beckenham Scribblers, and Shortlands Poetry Circle read poetry and prose and discuss local writers groups and their place in the literature of the next hundred years.

Writers Unlimited Beckenham Bubble Two - 'Independence day self-publish and be blessed'

Monday 4th July, 6.30 - 8pm

• Natalie d'Arbeloff
• Alex Davies & Steve Willey (Openned)
• Leila Dewji
• Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, Karen Sandhu (press free press)

Beckenham Library, 22 Beckenham Rd, Beckenham, Greater London BR3 4PE

Admission £1 per event (available in advance by telephoning Beckenham Library's enquiry desk: 020 8650 7292)

Update on Tuesday 14 June, 2011 by Openned

You can also get your tickets by e-mailing beckenham.library@bromley.gov.uk or visiting Beckenham Library.

The £1 admission fee also gets you refreshments.

Eighteens

£9, Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2011 (107 pages)

ISBN 978-1-907812-42-2

Eighteen poets writing eighteen poems of eighteen words each. Featuring:

• Richard Barrett
• Mark Cobley
• Emily Critchley
• Alex Davies
• Stephen Emmerson
• Alison Faulds
• S J Fowler
• Susana Gardner
• Harry Godwin
• Christine Hamm
• Jeff Hilson
• Emily Howard
• Simon Howard
• Peter Hughes
• Tom Jenks
• Linus Slug
• Maria Teutsch
• Tom Watts

Arthur Shilling Press: Alex Davies - How Vivid the Claret

£1.80 (UK & EU only), Arthur Shilling Press, 2011 (24 pages, A6, first 20 copies have unique cover images taken from "Stories for Boys", the remaining 10 copies are reproduced prints)

To purchase from outside the UK/EU, please contact the editor, Harry Godwin.

The Arthur Shilling Press site has also had a redesign. Be sure to check it out even if you don't plan to buy the book.

DEPT #1

A new poetry journal edited by Richard Barrett. Work from:

• Lucy Harvest Clarke
• Becky Cremin
• Alex Davies
• James Davies
• Bill Drennan
• Stephen Emmerson
• Gary Fisher
• Simon Howard
• Nat Raha
• Karen Sandhu
• Timothy Thornton

£3 (exchanges welcome). Contact Richard Barrett if you want one. Please send submissions of poetry/essays/reviews/photographs for DEPT #2 to the same address.

visit Richard Barrett's blog

The Situation Room

Following the Openned Table.

Saturday 7th August, 7.30pm (8pm sharp start)

• Alex Davies
• Stephen Emmerson
• Elizabeth Guthrie
• Antony John
• Jonny Liron
• Joe Luna
• Sammy Solomon
• Timothy Thornton
• Steve Willey
• Yol

7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, Greater London N15 4

Admission is free.

Website

Openned Zine #2

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Peter Philpott explaining reasons and motivations behind the Great Works website
• Save Middlesex Philosophy
• Emily Critchley and Carol Watts provide a schedule for the Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival in Greenwich
• Jeff Hilson, Edmund Hardy, Richard Owens and Peter Riley on Mendoza, or, Linus Slug
• Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde and Karen Sandhu on press free press
• Harry Gilonis Edmund Hardy, Tessa Whitehouse and Michael Zand on Klatch 3: Dérive
• Luke Roberts looks back on the Sussex Poetry Festival
• Stephen Mooney on the launch of the new Voiceworks website
• Matt Dalby on a new sound-text-performance series in Manchester, Counting Backwards
• Timothy Thornton close reads Ryan Ormonde's firstdraftofhypertextrespondingtoalicefallingdownrabbithole
• Johanna Linsley on I'm With You, a series of live art events in Clapton, London
• Alex Davies on the Openned Table

Plus a set of regular new features: 

• Bookface
• Bird Puke
• Photography: in this issue, Sharon Borthwick, Marianne Morris, Nat Raha and Malcolm Phillips

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.

Klatch 2

Klatch 2 is now available to view in Online > ePubs. The magazine was assembled on Friday 29th January 2010. Thanks to everyone who was involved.

Photos from Klatch 3 are also now available to view in the Nights > Photos section, and a copy of the magazine produced during this Klatch will be available in the coming weeks.

Sussex Bird Puke

Sussex Bird Puke is a Twitter record of a reading that took place between 1 - 5pm on Friday 16th April 2010 at Sussex University. Thanks to Sara Crangle, Daniel Kane and Keston Sutherland for organising the event.

View the PDF here.

Openned Zine #1

The Openned Zine is setting out with one intention: to provide poets, publishers and organisers with a space to publicly present explanations, thoughts, ideas and opinions that may not necessarily be representative of a final response.

The intention is to draw attention to how poetry and the thoughts and activities based on and around it are an ongoing and necessarily ever-changing set of boundaries and equivalent freedoms, which provide a shifting map of communities of poets.

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Alex Davies on eBooks and the Small Press
• Alec Newman & Richard Barrett on Knives, Forks & Spoons Press
• Boris Jardine on Cambridge Literary Review
• Tom Jenks, James Davies & Scott Thurston on The Other Room
• Marcus Slease on Istanbul
• Linus Slug on FREAKLUNG
• Mike Weller on Home'Baked books
• Steve Willey on Writers Forum

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.

The Other Room Anthology II

£5 + £0.75 P&P (via PayPal), The Other Room, 2010

View free sample.

Featuring:

• Tim Atkins
• Sean Bonney
• Matt Dalby
• Tina Darragh
• Philip Davenport
• Alex Davies
• James Davies
• Craig Dworkin
• Allen Fisher
• Michael Haslam
• Rob Holloway
• P.Inman
• Frances Kruk
• Holly Pester
• Sophie Robinson
• Nick Thurston
• Tony Trehy
• Steven Waling

via The Other Room