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.

halfcircle two

Now out, featuring original poetry from:

• Alexander Booth
• Ryan Dobran
• Ian Heames
• John Z. Komurki
• Steve McCaffery
• Peter McDonald
• Samuel Meister
• Drew Milne
• Richard O'Brien
• Don Paterson
• Vidyan Ravinthiran
• Peter Riley
• Yolanda Tudor-Bloch
• Rebecca Voelcker
• Heathcote Williams

£3, from:

• Brighton Rainbow bookshop
• Cambridge Amnesty Bookshop, G. David Bookseller, Heffers
• Falmouth JAM bookshop
• Oxford Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Blackwells
• Paris Shakespeare & Company
• Sussex Sussex campus bookshop

You can also purchase halfcircle two via post by sending £3 and a stamped addressed envelope big enough to fit the slim, A5 journal to halfcircle poetry, 107 Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BT

For those in London we are still waiting to hear from England's Lane Books and the bookartbookshop. If you would be interested in having a bunch to distribute in London, or you would like to contribute to the next issue please get in touch.

Website

Crater XI: Rob Holloway - FLESH RAYS

Crater XI samples from the early stages of Rob Holloway’s new prose sequence ‘FLESH RAYS’ that one day will stretch to 107 such sections. One sentence reads ‘All sun’s got inside breath, soft as a head without a ghost.’ Another, ‘Shift left red sun, I’m cutting out a girl of paper.’, so perhaps it’s all about the sun. Then again, we’re instructed to ‘Rinse roads as if bricks were still wrapped in their towels’ so best we head for the hills. The ‘two Asian women soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie’ mentioned in the section ‘Moulded Books’ are real. ‘Reassembling the central crabapple’ is the ultimate purpose of the sequence.

£5 UK / £6 ROW, Crater Press, Dec 2010

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

£38.48 / $42.75, Northwestern University Press, 2011 (608 pages)

ISBN 978-0810127111

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today's writers. Nearly all of the major avant-garde groups of the past century are represented here, including Dada, OuLiPo, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and Flarf to name just a few, but all the writers are united in their imaginative appropriation of found and generated texts and their exploration of nonexpressive language. Against Expression is a timely collection and an invaluable resource for readers and writers alike.

Update on Wednesday 16 February, 2011 by Openned

Introductory essays are available to view online free of charge.

Dancehall #2

Dancehall #2

£2 (print) / free (online)

Featuring:

• Previously unpublished extracts from Peter Manson's Sourdough Mutation
• Mark West on the threat of the disruptive voice
• Some responses to the Evacuation of the Great Learning workshops at Instal 2010
• New work by Malcy Duff, Robert Lye, Ash Reid and Greg Thomas

via Sam Walton

New From Shearsman

Two new books by Robert Sheppard from Shearsman.

Berlin Bursts

£8.95 / $15, Shearsman, 2011 (Paperback, 96 pages)

ISBN 9781848611351

These new poems feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard’s local Capital of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem. Yet a series of metapoems brings agency and wonder to the idea of the poem, always seeing the world as well as itself, in perceptual double-takes that tease away at the meaning of the poetic act. At the centre of the collection is 'Six Poems Against Death' whose lyric imperative hovers before the portals of the unknown to embrace human unfinish as the condition of our survival.

When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry

£13.95 / $22, Shearsman, 2011 (Paperback, 218 pages)

ISBN 9781848611368

This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon its central figures and provisional institutions. Episodes cover the Poetry Wars of the 1970s; the centrality of Bob Cobbing as poetry activist and the SubVoicive poetry scene in 1980s London; he also writes individual chapters on the poetry and poetics of Allen Fisher, Tom Raworth, Iain Sinclair, John Hall, Ken Edwards, and Maggie O'Sullivan.

New From Oystercatcher

Tim Atkins - Honda Ode

£4, Oystercatcher Press, 2011 (A5, 12 pages)

ISBN 978-1-905885-41-1

Philip Terry - Dante’s Inferno

£4, Oystercatcher Press, 2011 (A5, 32 pages)

ISBN 978-1-905885-43-5

Cheques payable to P.Hughes at 4 Coastguard Cottages, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL

or Paypal via Oystercatcher website

New from Arthur Shilling Press

Edmund Hardy - Desertion

£2 (UK & EU only), Arthur Shilling Press, 2011 (A6, 8 pages, 60 copies)

Peter Hughes - Site Guide

£3.50 (UK & EU only), Arthur Shilling Press, 2011 (A5, 20 pages, 30 copies)

If you wish to purchase outside the UK & EU, please contact Harry Godwin.

Poetry Wales: Winter 2010/11 Issue 46.3