Arthur Shilling Press Overload

Harry Godwin is doing too much over at Arthur Shilling, so just go there.

Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

£12.95 / $20, ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman, 2010 (Paperback, 211 pages)

ISBN 9781848610996

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm

The launch of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, featuring:

• Sascha Akhtar
• Isobel Armstrong
• Caroline Bergvall
• Andrea Brady
• Emily Critchley
• Claire Crowther
• Catherine Hales
• Frances Kruk
• Rachel Lehrman
• Wendy Mulford
• Redell Olsen
• Frances Presley
• Sophie Robinson
• Zoë Skoulding
• Harriet Tarlo

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Admission is free.

Geof Huth - ntst

ntst collects 750 of Geof Huth’s pwoemrds; one word poems, visual plays, portmanteaus, abbreviations and cuts of regular words. In the lineage of Aram Saroyan’s classic 60s minimalist works these poems show the great maximalism of minimalism and are always both inside and outside.

£8, if p then q, 2010 (120 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9558641-5-5

You can view a sample of Geof Huth's forthcoming publication from if p then q, ntst, by clicking here.

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Michael Zand - Lion

"I always seem to begin with the photographs". The photos in questions were taken in Iran and date from the 1930s to the 1960s. They chronicle the rise and fall of an Iranian patriarch, the lion of the title, and they haunt the imagination of his son, the narrator. We take a poetic and spiritual journey with the photographs, each of which yields a sequence of texts in poetry and prose. Lion is a narrative of sorts, but it is necessarily disruptive and disjunctive: ideas and literary structures are questioned, even the fixed boundaries of language itself are challenged. Lion is a meditation on the role of kinship in the development of cultural identity and the importance of rites of passage as cultural artifacts in the modern world. Ultimately, Lion is about the impact of the loss of identity amongst the Iranian diaspora, and the creation of myths of origin. The photographs create an imagined hinterland on the edge of reality, which is every bit as vivid as any material place. It is from this created world that narrator draws his energy, the Iran of disaporic memory, the Iran of the photographs, the Iran of the Mind.

£8.95 / $15, Shearsman, 2010 (1st ed., Paperback, 80 pages)

ISBN 9781848611153

To pre-order lion at the special price of £6, please email lion.iranpoems@me.com with your name and postal address. Please not that this significantly reduced price is available for a short time only.

Available via the Bookshelf.

Raul Zurita - INRI Launch

Raul Zurita - INRI (trans. William Rowe)

$14.95 USD + shipping, Marick Press, 2009 (Paperback, 120 pages)

ISBN 10 1-934851-04-3
ISBN 13 978-1-934851-04-3

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 3rd March, 8pm

A reading by Raul Zurita, with translation by William Rowe.

The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX.

Admission is free, all welcome (refreshments provided).

2nd Hay Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th June, 2010

Thursday 3rd:

• 6.30 - 7.30pm Festival launch and reception
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Robert Minhinnick, Childe Roland (aka Peter Meilleur)

Friday 4th:

• 2 - 4pm Keri Finlayson, Scott Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Claudia Azzola, Samantha Rhydderch, John Goodby
• 5 - 6pm Zoe Brigley lecture, 'Surrealism and Welsh Poetry'
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey

Saturday 5th:

• 11am -12pm Phil Maillard, Ric Hool, Richard Gwyn
• 2 - 6pm Randolph Healy, Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding and other readers from the anthology Infinite Difference; launches of special Welsh issue of Angel Exhaust and of new Poetry Wales; Performance by Kathryn Ashill, other art events
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Elisabeth Bletsoe, Caroline Bergvall

Oriel Gallery, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay-on-Wye

Admission to 7.30pm events: £5 / £3 conc.

All other events free (voluntary £2 contribution welcome).

For further details and bookings, contact Lyndon Davies.

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New From Knives, Forks and Spoons Press

£5 each, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010

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Joe Stohlman - I love you

£2 (£1.10 p&p), The Arthur Shilling Press, 2010

Monday 22nd February, 8.15pm

Joe will be reading from 'I love you' and other things on the next installment of the Arthur Shilling Skype Reading Series.

Online reading via Skype, e-mail Harry Godwin for details.

Cambridge Literary Review Issue 2

Out now. Featuring:

Poetry:

• Andrea Brady
• Sara Crangle
• Ray Crump
• David Grundy
• Geoffrey Hartman
• Ian Heames
• Peter Hughes
• Laura Kilbride
• Angela Leighton
• Francesca Lisette
• Rod Mengham
• Drew Milne
• Marianne Morris
• Alexander Nemser
• Alice Notley
• Nick Potamitis
• Posie Rider
• Stephen Rodefer

Fiction and Prose:

• Lorqi Blinx
• Ray Crump
• Chris Hardy
• Helen Macdonald
• Rosie Šnajdr
• Keith Wells

Essays:

• Gerald L. Bruns, 'Obscurum Per Obscurius'
• Marina Frasca-Spada, ‘David Hume, the Caliph Omar and the burning issue of metaphysics'
• Emma Gilby, 'Commentary and Impact: Longinus on the Sublime'
• Simon Jarvis, 'Spirit Medium: On Hegel’s Phenomenology'
• Justin Katko, 'On "Song of the Wanking Iraqi"'
• George Reynolds, 'Pound’s Letters: Towards a Poetics Including the 'EZpistolary'
• Keston Sutherland, 'Song of the Wanking Iraqi'

Letters:

• Robert Archambeau
• Andrea Brady
• Daniel Elstein

Website

£8 / £20/€30/$50 subscription (3 issues)

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Sunfish

Sunfish is a new poetry magazine edited by Nigel Wood and published in Manchester. Issue 1 contains work by:

• Alec Finlay
• Paul A. Green
• Jonathan Greene
• Geof Huth
• Amy King
• Gil McElroy
• Rob McLennan
• Kristy Odelius
• Meredith Quartermain
• Jed Rasula
• John Seed
• Scott Thurston

£3 (50p p&p) A4, 40 pages

Send a cheque for £3.50 made out to Nigel Wood at Flat 405, 41 Old Birley Street, Hulme, Manchester M15 5RE

E-mail Sunfish for more information.

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