Openned Zine #3

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Joe Luna and Steve Willey on SoundEye
• Susana Gardner on the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival
• Harry Godwin explaining the Cleaves editorial process
• Linus Slug curating recollections of the Morden Tower reading with contributions from Chris Stephenson, S J Fowler, Stephen Emmerson, Nat Raha, Michael Zand, Gareth Durasow and Antony John
• Jonny Liron exploring The Situation Room
• David-Baptiste Chirot's editorial for the forthcoming Openned Eyes online gallery
• James Davies' thoughts on live streaming readings following his if p then q broadcast
• Lara Buckerton tackling The eBook Nova
• Adrian Clarke's primer on And
• Stephen Emmerson's introduction to blart

Plus regular features:

• Bookface
• Bird Puke
• Logbay
• Photography: in this issue, Amy De'Ath, Sharon Borthwick, Georgie M'Glug, Nat Raha and Tommy Peeps

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

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

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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

Ekleksographia

A new issue of Ekleksographia online magazine, ‘William Blake and the Naked Teaparty,’ guest edited by Philip Davenport.

This issue features textworks that emphasise the touch - handwrit and haptic – particularly pieces that consider emotional engagements, human space - that weird trace and corporate/military erasure of the handmade, the human touch, the not-digital. These qualities link into the alternative tradition of poetics - and to 'outsider' artists who are owed a debt by the experimenters (an IOU all the way back to Will Blake, he and the Mrs sitting on the lawn in London afternoons, naked, drinking tea).

Contributors:

• Alan Halsey
• Anna MacGowan
• The Atlas Group
• Ben Gwilliam
• Carol Watts
• Carolyn Thompson
• Darren Marsh
• Dave Griffiths
• David Tibet
• Geof Huth
• George Widener
• Geraldine Monk
• The Gingerbread Tree
• Hainer Wormann
• Harald Stoffers
• Helmut Lemke
• Holly Pester
• James Davies
• Jesse Glass
• Jonathan Penton
• Julia Grime
• Kerry Morrison
• Kirstie Gregory
• Laurence Lane
• Lee Patterson
• Li E Chen
• Liz Collini
• Matt Dalby
• Michael Wilson
• Morry Carlin
• Nick Blinko
• Nico Vassilakis
• Patricia Farrell
• Rachael Elwell
• Robert Grenier
• Robert Sheppard
• Sarah Sanders
• Sean Bonney
• Stephen Vincent
• Steve Waling
• Sue Arrowsmith
• Todd Thorpe
• Tony Lopez
• Tony Trehy

The issue goes online 15th March 2010 and will be launched with a 24 ‘live’ online writing event by Sarah Saunders.

The Series Editor is Jesse Glass.

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Out now, featuring poetry from:

• James Davies
• Julius Kalamarz
• Holly Pester

£4 (via Paypal)

via The Other Room

The Other Room

Wednesday 2nd December, 7pm

• Sophie Robinson
• Nick Thurston

The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester M15 6AY

Admission free.

The Other Room - Oxjam Videos

Videos of readings by Stuart Calton, James Davies and Tony Trehy at The Other Room's Oxjam event are now available to view on The Other Room website.

The Other Room: Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk Recording

The Other Room, 05/08/09 (AAC, 35min, 8MB) The Other Room, the Manchester reading series run by Tom Jenks, James Davies and Scott Thurston, took place last night, featuring Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk. You can listen and/or download a recording of the entire first half above. Please note the actual reading starts about five minutes into the recording. You can also read a review of the evening by Matt Dalby, and see some photos by Tony Trehy and Richard Barrett (Richard also has some words coming soon). Sean and Frances were excellent, as expected.

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Recording The Other Room, Wednesday 1st April 2009

The Other Room, 01/04/09 (AAC, 17min, 7MB) A recording of the latter part of the second half of The Other Room reading featuring Phil Davenport and Lisa Samuels, which took place in the Old Abbey Inn, Manchester on Wednesday 1st April 2009. Unfortunately I was unable to catch any of Tim Atkins' reading due to the lacklustre recording equipment available to me at the time. The Other Room is organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston.

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Openned Issues (2006 & 2007)

edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Oct 08 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF (6.5MB)

The Openned issue is a digital magazine series based on your work interacting with a concept, theme, object - anything we feel will inspire dialogue amongst poets. Every issue will last for three months in a state of flux, constantly added to and modified, accommodating work that falls under the brief, or work written in response to other poets.

Between 2006 and 2007, we created three of these issues for Openned.com. With revisions to the site and limitations of space and time, they were temporarily removed. Now the poetry has been collected and is sited in this publication. Poets featured in this publication:

• Brooklyn Copeland
• Alex Davies
• James Davies
• Trini Decombe
• Nikki Dudley
• Amy Evans
• Kai Fierle-Hedrick
• Allen Fisher
• Hacked By Krishna
• James Harvey
• Morton Hurley
• Tom Jenks
• Ross Kern
• Jow Lindsay
• Marianne Morris
• Andrew Nightingale
• Chris Paul
• Spencer Selby
• Hannah Silva
• Anna Ticehurst
• Michael Weller
• James Wilkes

The Openned Issues is completely free, in PDF format.

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