BETTER THAN LANGUAGE

an announcement from Chris Goode:

BETTER THAN LANGUAGE:
An anthology of new modernist poetries
edited and introduced by Chris Goode

Better Than Language brings together the work of thirteen young poets engaging with the broadest conceivable range of late modernist modes and strategies. Sometimes difficult but always enticing, the restlessly smart poems collected here offer a wide-open invitation to adventurous readers.

The poets represented are: SARAH KELLY | JONNY LIRON | FRANCESCA LISETTE | JOE LUNA | NAT RAHA | LINUS SLUG | JOSH STANLEY | TIMOTHY THORNTON | ANNA TICEHURST | JONTY TIPLADY | MIKE WALLACE-HADRILL | TOMAS WEBER | and STEVE WILLEY

Paperback 234x156mm: 253pp
Publication date: 25 July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9563706-1-7

Launch events:

Thursday 28th July:
Stoke Newington International Airport
London N16 7NJ
7.30pm
£5, or free entry with book purchase (£10 on the night)

Monday 8th August:
Hi Zero
Brighton
details to follow - http://hizeroreadings.tumblr.com/

for more information & pre-orders, see http://www.ganzfeldpress.com/

sj fowler: red museum

Published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2011 (also available via Amazon - click image for more info)

'A tremendous and persuasive surge of the red and the black: conflicted doctrines, scorched paper. Gothic scripts and plague-year screenplays for an apocalyptic cinema. Death chess. Heretical crusades. Hurt flesh. Fire angels. Madness. A grimoire for a haunted river-city. The poetry lies in the interpretation of malfated woodcuts. It is sinewy, knotted, persistent. And true.' (Iain Sinclair)

Openned Press Book Launch

Openned Book Table @ Cafe 1001

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photo: Joe Pop

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Off The Shelf

event and accompanying Small Press exhibition of 1960s and 70s avant-garde visual art and experimental poetry from the UCL Library Services Small Press Collections: 22nd March at UCL

SLADE WORD/IMAGE FORUM presents OFF THE SHELF:
PERFORMANCE, FILM,VIDEO, POETRY, MUSIC: an evening of live-events staged by the UCL Slade School of Fine Art at Wilkins North and South Cloisters plus the Old Refectory, March 22nd 2010, 6.00-10.30pm.

Taking as its theme a re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL Library Services Special Collections, this event will give you the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry - including artists and writers Vito Acconci, Sol Le Witt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Derek Jarman and Bob Cobbing.


These texts will be explored through various forms of performance and accompanied by film, video and documentation of the period. The evening will also stage new creative works by contemporary visual artists, writers and musicians, and students, and a 'speaker's corner' with short talks by members of the Slade Word/Image Research Forum. This is one of a series of public events planned by the forum for 2009-2011.

As well as the event, there is an exhibition in the North Cloisters until 5th April of material from the UCL Small Press Collections. Elizabeth Lawes

Beatrice Allegranti

Forthcoming Book

Beatrice Allegranti’s forthcoming book Embodied Performances: Sexuality, Gender and the Body will present an innovative blend of practice and research and will be accompanied by 90 mins of film. It will published early 2011 through Palgrave Macmillan.

sold as seen / no returns

performance disgust; with banal sentimental device
spewing is formality.

In thuh egg
flesh / lark spit
sits talent speculation, now obsolete.

Consequently many resist, stultified, no news of
acceptance.

Approximate value can
be omitted. [or B. a copy
of your form, as cultural mistake.

Admission---------my rant:
please refer to
the official Language
Act and
I will be on my way.

Universal reserves handwritten orthography -
suspend the call - Oh Yeah, what
is the relationship
to reality?

solitude gestures
marked the gaze
we failed to suppress

Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives

FREE EXHIBITION: WELLCOME COLLECTION
26 November 2009-6 April 2010

"Nine individual stories introduce eight distinct rooms. One room begins with the story of scientist Alec Jeffreys' invention of DNA fingerprinting 25 years ago. The diaries of Samuel Pepys introduce another. While self-portraiture is explored through the work of the Jewish artist Claude Cahun, who despite being sentenced to death for acts of resistance, survived the Nazi occupation of Jersey." [Wellcome Collection]

tommy peeps at la langoustine est morte

"showcasing some genre busting scene-sters... we are thrilled to have Mr. Gerard Rudolf's intense vibe all the way from South Africa by way of Newcastle launching his debut collection, and none other than Marquis Andreas Von Grant promoter of GlitterBeast, and other stellar nights in London, renegade, painter and man of words and Mr. Tommy Peeps whose political views are: Sto je muskarac bez brkova? (What is a man without a moustache?)" LLEM

November 7th, 2009

The Camden Eye
2 Kentish Town Road
London NW1 9NX

A feeling of effort.
Remember this. A sensation of arm telling the word.
Remember this. Two figures. One stands illuminated in the open doorway.
Obscured by shadow he writes the other supposing the self.
Remember this. An awareness of self contingent on memory
rapidly
forgetting
becoming

hypochondriacs | #3

A MISTRESS
To counteract an errant condition by another condition which is itself errant assumes

hypochondriacs | #2

AN INSTALLATION
As yet to be given a species or sub species or genus or classification of mammals which is no longer apparent supposing bats and birds and humans represent a completely distinct group.

hypochondriacs | #1

CLEFT
The purest monument to the nullity of art had shifted reality which at once had the sense to reproduce itself. A coal or chalk first imitated man in a yard or more of muslin. A yard or more of muslin.

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