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.

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

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.

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.

post_moot

Thursday 22nd - Sunday 25th April

a convocation of unorthodox poetic and cultural practices

featuring an array of cutting edge diversity in respect of poetry and performances of poetry; papers, live writing, poets theater, sound art, talk-based poetics, extended vocal performance, physical theater and digital text collaboration, polylingualism, lyric meditations, translation, poetry readings, writing interventions, sound poetry, visual poetry, eco-poetics, text-based installation, bookateria, late night readings, multimedia and a lot more besides that.

• Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez
• Stan Apps
• Oana Avasilichioaei
• Mike Basinski
• Holly Bass
• John M. Bennett
• Black Took Collective
• Sean Bonney
• Tammy Brown
• Mairéad Byrne
• Shá Cage
• cris cheek
• Daniel Citro
• A.M.J. Crawford
• Jordan Dalton
• Maria Damon
• Ian Davidson
• Ryan Downey
• Alan Golding
• K. Lorraine Graham
• Duriel Harris
• Carla Harryman
• Jeff Hilson
• Jen Hofer
• Josef Horacek
• William R. Howe
• Jade Hudson
• Christine Hume
• Peter Jaeger
• Mark Jeffery
• Bonnie Jones
• Pierre Joris
• KBD Sound Collective
• Adeena Karasick 
• Brian Kincaid
• A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz
• Jose Luna
• Dawn Lundy-Martin
• Mel Nichols
• Hoa Nguyen
• Chris Mann
• Monica Mody
• K. Silem Mohammad
• Laura Moriarty
• Judd Morrissey
• Erin Mouré
• Jason Nelson
• Mel Nichols
• Tom Orange 
• Jessica Ponto
• Luke Roberts
• Jaime Robles
• Ric Royer
• Linda Russo
• Lisa Samuels
• Standard Schaefer
• Jonathan Skinner
• Danny Snelson
• Todd Seabrook
• Jessica Smith
• Rod Smith
• Kate Sopko
• Rodrigo Toscano
• Lawrence Upton
• Chris Vitiello
• Catherine Wagner
• Mark Wallace
• Dana Ward
• Barrett Watten
• Brian Whitener
• Steve Willey
• Tyrone Williams
• Ronaldo Wilson

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

For further information on registration and accommodation point your browser here.

the post _ moot collective are Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez, Tammy Brown, cris cheek, WIlliam R. Howe, Cathy Wagner

The Sound Of Writers Forum

A 36 min documentary made by Steve Willey.

The documentary features eleven poets that have been published by Writers Forum over a period of 50 years. The film had no budget and was made over the course of one week and was first screened at the Off The Shelf event held at the Slade/UCl on the 22nd March 2010.

The website version of the film has some fairly brutal compression applied to it in order to make it fit online. This means you have to watch it at a fairly low quality. If any publisher wants to help turn this film into, and distribute the film as, a DVD please get in touch.

The film is far from a complete account of the activities of Writers Forum and is meant as an introduction to the topic.

Thanks need to go to all the poets that gave up so much of their time to be interviewed, to the AHRC Beyond Text Program for funding my research, to the British Library for giving me tapes to film with and space to record in, to Paula Claire for allowing me to film in her archive, to the UCL Small Press and Little Magazine Store for allowing me to photograph their archive, to the Slade Word Image Forum (of which I am part) and the organizers of the Off The Shelf Event for affording me the opportunity to screen the film at the Off The Shelf Event on the 22nd March 2010.

There are plans to make a much longer film over the course of the year. If anyone wants to be included in this new film please make contact via Openned.com.

The video will be archived permanently on Openned here.

The Sound Of Writers Forum: A Film

Steve Willey, Ulli Freer and Adrian Clarke will be giving short readings of their own work and work published by Writers Forum. Plus, a 36 min documentary made by Steve Willey, The Sound Of Writers Forum: A Film will be shown. The documentary features eleven poets that have been published by Writers forum over a period of 50 years.

Details about the event can be found here.