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.

Ryan Ormonde - protect/borrow/mask

£3.50 (50p P&P), Grasp Press, April 2011 (30 copies)

Department #3

£3, Department, Feb 2011

The poetry of Department is poetry that is not content to inhabit “the poetic” (aesthetically elevated spiritualised leisure activity): that with the force of its own intensities & in-densities moves ‘out’ on to the street, moves among political spaces (complicating – & analysing complicities – all distinctions between public & private worlds), & lives in the overlap between sound & discourse, music & information. Department poetry is non-departmental poetry. It does not refuse formal exactness (though it troubles a certain ideology of forms as Universals), but it does refuse constraint; it troubles order to deny all attempts at a control order for poetry (know your place). These principles underlie the practice of Department issue #3. & will underlie the practice of future issues.

Featuring:

Marie-Angelique Bueler

Wayne Clements

Matt Dalby

David Grundy

Catherine Hales

Ryan Ormonde

Posie Rider

Marcus Slease

Tom Watts

Veer About

Veer About 2010-2011 has been specifically designed as an online publication with fully clickable contents page, while also utilising the pdf format to embed video, audio and visual work, in addition to text.

Available as a free download from Intercapillary Space.

Edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe.

Featuring:

• Gilbert Adair
• Pansy Maurer-Alvarez
• Sean Bonney
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• David Caddy
• John Cayley
• Wayne Clements
• Jennifer Pike Cobbing
• Becky Cremin
• Jimmy Cummins
• Allen Fisher
• Gregorio Fontén
• Steven Fowler
• Edmund Hardy
• Harry Gilonis
• Martin Gubbins
• James Harvey
• Rosa van Hensbergen
• Rob Holloway
• Keith Jebb
• Antony John
• Doug Jones
• Justin Katko
• Matthew Martin
• Steve McCaffery
• Aodán McCardle
• Karen McCormack
• Mendoza
• Rod Mengham
• David Miller
• Stephen Mooney
• Niamh O’Mahony
• Maggie O’Sullivan
• Ryan Ormonde
• Richard Owens
• Chris Paul
• Peter Philpott
• Frances Presley
• Nat Raha
• John Seed
• Gavin Selerie
• Phillip Terry
• Greg Thomas
• Scott Thurston
• Juha Virtanen
• Carol Watts
• Mike Weller
• Tom White
• Steve Willey
• Johan de Wit

Update on Thursday 24 February, 2011 by Openned

Corrected spelling of Rosa van Hensbergen.

blart 1

Stephen Emmerson's blart 1 is now online, featuring work from:

• Richard Barrett
• Sean Burn
• Zachary Chartkoff
• David Clarke
• Becky Cremin
• James Davies
• Michael Dean
• Gareth Durasow
• Alison Faulds
• Allen Fisher
• SJ Fowler
• Colin Herd
• Geof Huth
• Tom Jenks
• Andy Jordan
• David Marriott
• Matthew Martin
• Hazel Mcadin
• Ariel Moon
• Tom Oliver Graham
• Ryan Ormonde
• Nat Raha
• Posie Rider
• Jasmine Rosenbloom
• Nicolas Spicer
• Chris Stephenson
• Yolanda Tudor-Bloch
• Steve Waling
• Michael Zand

POLYply 5

Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde Book Launch

Tuesday 20th July, 7pm

A performance collaboration to launch: BECKY CREMIN's 'CUTTING MOVEMENT' and RYAN ORMONDE's 'Y CHROMOSOMES' published by KNIVES FORKS AND SPOONS PRESS.

Curzon Soho Mezzanine Bar, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY

FREAKLUNG | ODES & A Reading in Memory of Barry MacSweeney

 

FREAKLUNG | ODES is out, featuring:

• Alan Hay
• Andy Jordan
• Antony John
• Chris Stephenson
• Dave Lordan
• Gareth Durasow
• James Harvey
• Jeff Hilson
• Jonny Liron
• Jordan Antonucci
• Luke Roberts
• Mark Leahy
• Michael Zand
• Neil Addison
• Posie Rider
• Richie Parker
• Robert Hampson
• Ryan Ormonde
• Sean Bonney
• Simon Howard
• SJ Fowler
• Stephen Emmerson
• Steve Willey
• Tessa Whitehouse
• Tim Atkins

£8. To order a copy, contact Linus Slug.

 

Sunday 27th June, 6 - 11pm

FREAKLUNG zine / ninerrors poetry series / XING THE TYNE present a reading in memory of Barry MacSweeney. Featuring, among others:

• Antony John
• Chris Stephenson
• Gareth Durasow
• James Harvey
• Jeff Hilson
• Jonny Liron
• Michael Zand
• Neil Addison
• Posie Rider
• Richie Parker
• Sean Bonney
• SJ Fowler
• Stephen Emmerson
• Steve Willey
• Tessa Whitehouse
• Tim Atkins

Morden Tower, Back Stowell Street, West Walls, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4XG

Admission is free.

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.

New from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press

2010 (28 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9565418-02-6

2010 (37 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9565418-02-6

2010 (42 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9565418-0-2

All publications: £5, Knives, Forks & Spoons Press.