Saturday
May122007
Entries from May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007
Friday
May112007
11th Of May: Note
Friday 11 May, 2007 As a short contextual note: "if you were to have a poetry festival in London" Link To mark Openned's involvement in this "if you were" project, and the inception of a committee of fantabulous proportions:-- {[ "Yt" / "Crossing the Line" / "Bad Press" / "Openned" / "etc.." ]} we will be creating a new open access festival blog to run off Openned's main site this will be set up and running by Monday, we will be sending out emails with pass words and stuff. Jow has kicked things off in a great way by splurging and intensifying all the secreted words and muttered thought that has been simmering/shimmering --- pushing and splintering off a cliff, coagulating all our goo which was/is building, Openned is/will be one of many, a rotating null point, check out the blog to come, e-mail if you want in, post if thee want to add. Best to be more Steve and Alex
Friday
May112007
Friday
May112007
The Subtle Knife
Friday 11 May, 2007 'US President George W Bush said he would "miss" Mr Blair. "He is a political figure who is capable of thinking over the horizon. He's a long-term thinker," said Mr Bush. "I have found him to be a man who's kept his word which is sometimes rare in the political circles I run in."'
Thursday
May102007
Wednesday
May092007
THE BIG BLUE BUS
Wednesday 9 May, 2007 'Giles Goodland and Jeff Hilson will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Friday 11th May. This is the first in THE BLUE BUS series, and Giles will be launching his book from Salt, 'Capital'.' Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). Nearest tubes: Russell Square; Holborn.
Tuesday
May082007
Chicago Review: British Poetry Issue
Tuesday 8 May, 2007 'The current British poetry issue presents two significant features. The first—co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves—presents 80 pages of poems by: Andrea Brady Chris Goode Peter Manson Keston Sutherland Plus critical commentaries on the four poets by John Wilkinson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sam Ladkin, Simon Jarvis, & Matt Ffytche. * * * The second feature presents fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry and well as some startling bonus material: Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith Leila Wilson on Sarah Law Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark John Lennox on Geraldine Monk Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets: Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, Sean Bonney, and others! Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry 1945–2000"' Familiarity breeds content.
Monday
May072007
Something Happened
Monday 7 May, 2007 'I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.'
Monday
May072007
Cadaeic Cadenza
Monday 7 May, 2007 'The primary constraint, which every word of the story with the exception of Section 12 follows, is quite easy to describe. If each word in the story (including section headings, poem titles, everything) is observed, in order, and the number of letters in each word is counted... these are precisely the digits of that most famous mathematical constant, the irrational number pi (3.1415926535...).' Link This guy writes arrogant.
Sunday
May062007
Shadowtrain
Sunday 6 May, 2007 '[Shadowtrain is] a monthly gathering of poems, translations, articles and other writings, from the lyrical to the innovative, whatever stings and stuns the editor.' Link
