Website of the week #7

IDEALOG



'idealog is an international site for new journalism, fiction, photography and art'


This well written, good looking internet zine always has a broad range of essays, interviews, articles and fiction, and aims to tackled aspects of the arts largely ignored by more mainstream media. The November Issue # 6 features articles on Kraftwerk, the 50th anniversary of the detonation of the first nuclear bomb, plus TWO articles in the booklog section concerning performance poetry. The first, Poetry Rebranded: Spokenword in London, outlines some of the issues of how performance poetry is perceived both by the pubic and poets themselves. The second article is an extended interview with SHORTFUSE co-organiser and host Nathan Penlington about the trials and tribulations of hosting and organising YOUR FAVOURITE weekly spokenword venue...


www.idealog.uk.net


 


 
3.11.03 17:41


Walking The Dog MC's SPECIAL - Friday 7th November



Walking the Dog  MC's SPECIAL - Friday 7th November


Presenting a Night of MCees . . .Featuring some of the Leading Lights who front the best poetry, performance, spoken word, cabaret & comedy events in London...performers include resident hosts from all of your favourite poetry nights: New Blood, The Poetry Cafe, Speakeasy, Taking the Mike, Express Excess and SHORTFUSE...upstairs at The Yorkshire Grey Pub, WC1


On the corner of Grays Inn Road & Theobald's Road (click HERE for map), just a five minute walk from Chancery Lane Tube station; 8/10 minutes from Kings Cross, Farringdon Road & Russell Square stations


Doors Open at 7pm…performance starts at 7.45pm


Admission:  FREE!


For more details contact: Robbie robbiechops@yahoo.com or Jel adogbucket@hotmail.com
6.11.03 15:02


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 13th November


This Thursday 13th November SHORTFUSE brings you four of the best poets currently on the scene:


CHARLOTTE ANSELL - acutely observed poetry performed with an honest that cuts deep to the literary bone/ reading from her latest collection 'You were for the poem'

CRAIG SMITH - wonderfully weird and sordidly skewed intelligent leaps of the poetic imagination

JOHN ANSTISS - the author of the celebrated 'Butch Boy'.  'Ranges from anger to passion and offers sex and politics in deceptively charming form' - Time Out

HEATHER TAYLOR- warm and inventive spokenword/ barbed with shrewdly constructed observations

hosted by the ever svelte NATHAN PENLINGTON/ discs of darkness spun by DAVID BUSH


Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5/£3 concs 

see you there, or if you require further information just CONTACT US
10.11.03 11:14


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 20th November

SIMON MUNNURY: The True Confessions of Sherlock Holmes



A rare chance to see the man behind Alan Parker - Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium perform 1/3 of his hit Edinburgh Fringe trilogy, 'The True Confessions of Sherlock Holmes' in its entirity.


'the most important and exciting comedian of the moment' - The Times


'One of the most original and talented comics in the country' - The Observer


PLUS


VIC LAMBRUSCO -



 football terrace meets Plato, the toughest and funniest stand up poetry you'll ever hear. 'Not for softies' - The Observer.


Hosted by the ever svelte NATHAN PENLINGTON/ discs of darkness spun by DAVID BUSH


Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5/£3 concs 

see you there, or if you require further information just CONTACT US


 


 
14.11.03 16:33


Website of the Week #8

ANPORT



Welcome to The Gate of Anport. A web space that has been active since 1994, overseen by Jacob Orsted Nielsen, with the aim of generating 'some poetic motion in a world where language is getting more and more efficient towards selling the 'word''.


Anport now comprises three sections:


soren mosdal's avant-pop comics and illustration.


Jacob Nielsen's cut+paste cultural remixing of text, image and sound.


V-Tracks - a virtual recording label offering you a taste of underground music from Copenhagen, London and LA


plus a special mini-site www.anport.com/np containing some of Nathan Penlington's latest poetry.


  
19.11.03 17:55


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 27th November

This week at SHORTFUSE we bring you four of London's finest poets that blur the line between page and stage:  


TIM WELLS - the oblique bleak bloke that is the editor of 'Rising'
magazine spins tales that combine social history with a healthy
interest in smut.

SARAH KOBRINSKY - a full set from the winner of our POETRY IDOL 2
contest, sultry soulful spokenword that bristles with insight.

SALLY SMITHSON - warm and comic performance poetry sparkling with
imagery.

IMOGEN SALT - acutely observed poetry performed with an honesty that
cuts to the literary bone.


Hosted by the ever svelte NATHAN PENLINGTON/ discs of darkness spun by DAVID BUSH


Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5/£3 concs 

see you there, or if you require further information just CONTACT US
21.11.03 15:55


Website of the week #9

UbuWeb


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The single largest, and by extension, the most important online resource for contemporary poetic theory, experimental writing and conceptual art. It is an enormous and continually expanding archive with content ranging from Futurist and Dada manifestos; Fluxus Anniversary, James Joyce and Dial-A-Poem MP3s; a digital version of all issues of the much sort after Aspen Magzine; Flash and concrete poetry; found poems; essays; and full length books of hard to find creative literature.


The UbuWeb Manifesto is something we should all take serious note of:    


"Essentially a gift economy, poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics. Freed from profit-making constraints or cumbersome fabrication considerations, information can literally "be free": on UbuWeb, we give it away and have been doing so since 1996. We publish in full color for pennies. We receive submissions Monday morning and publish them Monday afternoon. UbuWeb's work never goes 'out of print'."


www.ubu.com
26.11.03 14:31