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Online VLAK

January 11, 2012
Issue 2 of VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts (May, 2011) is now available online.


 
VLAK is published by the enterprising Litteraria Pragensia and this issue is edited by Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan, Carol Watts, Stephan Delbos, David Vichnar, Jane Lewty & Ali Alizadeh. The original print edition was a handsomely designed square block of a book. The online version is complete and free to read.

I have a vested interest in that my dialogue "Nothing Doing" (from the work in progress Down With Beauty - more about this soon) is included. Along with work by David Hayman, Vincent Katz, Philippe Sollers, Niall Lucy, Alice Notley, Emmanuelle Pireyre, Jeroen Nieuwland, Holly Tavel, John Kinsella, Urs Jaeggi, Adam Trachtman, Leila Sebbar, Dorra Chammam, Ali Daghman, Mehdi Mahfoudh and ... well, loads and loads of others (I could perhaps add Reality Street authors Redell Olsen, Johan de Wit and Robert Sheppard).

Really worth checking out if you missed out on the print edition.
 

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Reality Street 2012

January 3, 2012
Reality Street's publication programme for 2012 has been announced. The books are:

• Paul Brown: A Cabin in the Mountains - a long overdue collection of the 1980s poetry of one of the significant players in the British Poetry Revival
• David Miller (ed.): The Alchemist's Mind - anthology of prose narrative writing by British & North American poets
• Maggie O'Sullivan: Waterfalls - paperback reprint of a beautiful work previously only available in a very limited edition
• Sean Pemberton: W...

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Seasonal

December 24, 2011


A happy Xmas and a productive and peaceful new year to everybody from Reality Street.

(the photo was taken on the Stade, Hastings last year - this Xmas has not been like this at all)
 

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Bardo complete

December 12, 2011
Those who have followed the progress of my "Bardo" project (the sixth of its seven sequences was serialised on this blog the summer before last) may be interested to know that it is now out as a book from Knives Forks & Spoons Press in a handsome edition with seven colour plates. 



You can order it from their website for £8. (Also I think it's available as part of a three-for-£10 deal.)

Essentially the book is an irreverent/serious rewrite of the devotional work known in the West as the Tibeta...
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Dwelling and Head of a Man

November 28, 2011
John Gilmore launched Head of a Man and Richard Makin launched Dwelling with readings at Stone Squid experimental art space, Hastings, East Sussex, UK on 5 November 2011.

A video of part of John Gilmore's reading can be accessed here.

A video of part of Richard Makin's reading can be accessed here.
 
 

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Three or four radical approaches to narrative

November 5, 2011
This week Reality Street launches three titles in its Narrative series: Dwelling by Richard Makin, The Raft by Leopold Haas and Gero Nimo by Johan de Wit. We're also giving a belated launch to Head of a Man by John Gilmore, which was published earlier in the year.

  

The Narrative series does not represent a retreat from poetry for the press - rather the contrary, it's a bold venture, an opening out of poetry, by which I mean the art of language, into the realm of imaginative prose. 

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Bruised Rationals

October 19, 2011
A text-music piece of mine from 1996, Bruised Rationals, is being revived next Tuesday (25 October) in a performance by the CoMA London Ensemble in their first concert of the autumn 2011 season.

As most composers will attest (and I am only a very part-time composer – writing the occasional song for The Moors being as much as I can manage right now), if getting a performance is hard, getting a second or third is almost impossible. I was fortunate enough at the time to be a member of the CoMA ...
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Carol in The Guardian

October 2, 2011
Well, I never - a review in The Guardian at last. Carol Watts' Occasionals is favourably reviewed by Carrie Etter this weekend. Thanks, Carrie.


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nine days

September 25, 2011
That was the hardest week I can remember for a long time, including the time I had a day job too.

It started on the weekend of 17/18 September with two Moors gigs - one a wedding in the heart of the Sussex countryside on the Saturday night and the other a Sunday afternoon performance in the open air at the Hastings Seafood & Wine Festival on a tiny uncovered stage where I feared we would have been both electrocuted and swept away had the rain and wind persisted (but fortunately the sun came o...
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Free verse

September 16, 2011


On Saturday week - 24 September - Reality Street will take part in a poetry book fair at Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell, London. The remarkable thing about this is the range of presses and organisations taking part - see above. From Anvil to zimZalla, from Enitharmon to Penned in the Margins to, well, Reality Street. And Mike Horovitz is opening it.

Those reading this from outside the UK without first-hand experience of the stratification of British poetry may have little idea how unusual this is...
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