Naked Punch

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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

Agrippa Online

Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book; a unique archive of materials dating from the book’s creation and early reception; an emulation of Gibson’s included poem in its original born-and-die-digital form (it ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion); a simulation of what the book’s intended “fading images” might have looked like; a video of the 1992 “transmission” of the work; a “virtual lightbox” for comparing and studying pages; full-text scholarly essays and interviews; an annotated bibliography of scholarship, press coverage, interviews, and other material; a detailed bibliographic description of the book; and a discussion forum.

Agrippa has a disk buried in its last pages. That disk, which contains the 305-line text of Gibson’s memory poem about his father and his own youth (captured for reflection by the “mechanism” of a camera and a 1920 Kodak “Agrippa” brand photo album), scrolls its text up the screen once as an encryption program makes it seem to vanish, locking it up irretrievably in a kind of zen code (actually, RSA-based code) for nothingness.

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Adrian Clarke, Emily Critchley & Steve Willey Videos

Videos of Adrian Clarke, Emily Critchley and Steve Willey reading and being interviewed at The Other Room in October are now available to view on The Other Room website.

New Otoliths

New Otoliths issue now online with too many contributors to mention here. Check it out.

J.H. Prynne - Difficulties in the Translation of Difficult Poems

J.H. Prynne’s essay 'Difficulties in the Translation of "Difficult" Poems' is now online.

Poetry Influence

Stephen Emmerson has started an online discussion group here.

Counting Backwards #3 Audio

Audio goodness from the last Counting Backwards is now available online.

A Parker Sandwich

Cleaves Three

There is a new Cleaves online. Always better than good. Featuring work from 17 different locations worldwide.