Sunday 11 April, 2010 tagged Online It has been called the 'American Idol of the Middle East' but in this showdown contestants recite poetry.
And while that may not sound like a winning formula for reality TV, it has actually proved an unlikely hit across the Arab world.
The BBC's Ben Thompson was at the final in Abu Dhabi.
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Tuesday 6 April, 2010 tagged Online Another string to that Arthur Shilling's bow, featuring HOLES by Chris Stephenson as the first online publication.
Issues 1 - 40 of Tom Raworth's Infolio have been recovered and are now back online on his website.
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Monday 22 March, 2010 tagged Online in Ashley Bovan, Juli Jana, Kerri Buley, Nikki Dudley, Tony Rickaby, Trini Decombe Now online. Featuring:
This issue is dedicated to the victims of the recent earthquake in Chile, as one half of the team is Chilian.
Tuesday 16 March, 2010 tagged Online in Catherine Wagner, Hugh Sheehy, Keith Tuma, Kit Robinson, William R. Howe meshworks has recently added some new videos to its YouTube channel by:
You might remember during the first Openned Podcast that Harry Godwin, he of infinite energy, mentioned he was planning some kind of Small Press Catalogue. Mere weeks later, he has crafted The Small Press Catalogue, documenting all the latest releases from the small presses of the UK:
If anyone running a small press wants to be involved in some way, either by adding your own titles or sending me details of titles you want added, please contact [Harry Godwin].
Monday 15 March, 2010 tagged Calls for Work, Online Online journal from Aventexte press focussing on publishing 'vital, progressive visual, concrete and experimental poetries'. The Bleed is on the lookout for submissions, click here for guidelines.
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Sunday 14 March, 2010 tagged Online in Alan Halsey, Anna MacGowan, Ben Gwilliam, Carol Watts, Carolyn Thompson, Darren Marsh, Dave Griffiths, David Tibet, Geof Huth, George Widener, Geraldine Monk, 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, The Atlas Group, The Gingerbread Tree, Todd Thorpe, Tony Lopez 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:
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.
Thursday 11 March, 2010 tagged Online, Publications