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Website of the Week #16
Cultural Treachery is a badge making service run by Steve Prince, who along with Sue Prince ran the formidable and much-missed Last Chance Saloon in Waterloo: a shop/gallery space dedicated to underground underground culture, art, clothes, music and literature. Badges are still for the cool people - not those 'trendy wristbands' - and trust me, you will not find a better quality, quick turn around, value for money service than Steve is providing.
www.culturaltreachery.com
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Website of the Week #15
zafusy is an experimental poetry ezine and jounal that also publishes visual art and prose - currently gearing up for its first paper issue. It also lists selected poetry and related events in and around London. Its clean, minimal design gives the writing room to breathe - even the Poetry Society likes it (zafusy features in their list of Poetry Landmarks - as do we) - refreshing as sipping from a really cold bottle of water on an overheated overcrowded tube and everyone else eyeing you with envy.
For more information about the magazine and submission guidelines contact the editor Jody Porter at editor@zafusy.com
www.zafusy.com
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Website of the Week #14
While most contemporary poetry concerns itself with the transitory absurdity of the everyday, the overlooked fleeting scribbled moments of life, FOUND magazine IS those moments. Letters, lists, notes to self, diaries, handwritten signs, postcards – discarded to the streets to be FOUND by others – reproduced as found, with little or no background to direct interpretation other than the circumstances and location in which the item was discovered. Reading these testaments to life lived is by turns funny, disturbing, heartwarming, moving and poetic.
The website gives examples of the material reproduced in the magazine, with a FIND OF THE WEEK section for the latest finds, but somehow the direct intervention of the digital causes some kind of loss, maybe it is the frailty of the material that can only be reproduced on paper, or maybe the magazine feels more voyeuristic, but we cannot stress this enough…BUY THE MAGAZINE. You will never have read anything like this before, and once you have it will change the way you read the world around you.
Currently it is a little difficult to get hold of the magazine in London: but try Foyles, Magmaor Rough Trade. Mark Pawson (purveyor of fine zines – his website will feature here very soon) also has copies available via mail order. But your best option is to subscribe and FOUND will ship to your door direct from the USA.
FOUNDMAGAZINE.COM
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Website of the week #13
Drinking & Writing
Our favourite show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2004 was by the Chicago based Drinking & Writing, a show in two parts that explores the relationship of drinking to writing, and the relationship of writing to drinking, drawing on the work of well known writer/drinkers and fusing it to personal stories and historical fact.
The performance collective, an off-shoot of the Neo-Futurists, are dedicated to the brewing of ideas, events and productions that lead to preserving the spirit and tradition of the drinker/writer. Through productions on stage and in bars, radio, internet, and on the page, The Drinking & Writing Brewery exists to preserve the spirit, fury and devotion of the hard drinking writer and to uphold the rituals of creativity through their passion for the written word. Although unfortunately the show is unlikly to be back in the UK until the next Edinburgh Festival their radio programme is broadcast on the internet on the 5th sunday of every month that has one. Just check out their website for details.
www.drinkingandwriting.com
www.neofuturists.org
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Website of the week #12
A beautiful, visually poetic site dedicated to the humble, overlooked, nearly missed, discarded, delicate moments of life. Just check it out, and let yourself be drawn into its own logic.
www.nobodyhere.com
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Website of the Week #11
Spineless Books
Founded 20-02-2002, Spineless Books is an independent publishing house dedicated to the production and distribution of printed and electronic literature, with a strong emphasis on collaborative writing and formal experimentation. The site povides a range of short texts, poetry and essays. But the most interesting aspect of this site is the rejuvination of OuLiPolian methods for writing poetry and prose that is free from the constraints that can hinder imaginative writing. Check out Deep Speed- a combined palindrome search and verification program - for an easier way to write that embedded last line...
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Website of the week #10
Pulp.net
“Cool without being intimidating” The Guardian
“Great site” Douglas Coupland
Pulp Net is a monthly online literary magazine that publishes new short fiction by established and rising new authors, book reviews plus it also has a Live Lit page that details selected highlights of London’s literature events.
This month's issue also features a Literary Top 10 from SHORTFUSE host NATHAN PENLINGTON laying bare secrets of the live poetry circuit and talks about his impatience with Proust.
A great new resource for contemporary writing of quality. Check it out.
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