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Website of the week #9
UbuWeb
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
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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.
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Website of the week #7
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
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Website of the Week #6
CHERYL B
A website dedicated to one of NYC's finest spokenword performer and writer Cheryl B.
Cheryl regularly (but not as regularly as we'd like) comes over to London to perform her work. We have plans to feature Cheryl at SHORTFUSE again sometime soon, but until then check our the Writing Samples section, which along side a few of her Greatest Hits also includes interviews Cheryl has conducted with UK poets, and SHORTFUSE regulars, Tim Wells and Roddy Lumsden. Plus a comprehensive and varied links section that also includes err hem SHORTFUSE... www.cherylb.com
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Website of the Week #5
Open Poetry Project
What the Web does best (apart from catering to everyone's fetish) is collate information from many sources, never assuming that one source is the most reliable and the most informative.
The Open Poetry Project is an open-to-anyone editable database of information about poetry available on the world wide web. The data contained within are culled from various sources and visitors may add or update information contained in the database at any time. So if you want to know about some aspect of poetry or information about a certain poet, or if you have an area of poetic knowledge that others should know about then check this site out.
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Website of the week #4
The Poetry Kit
It does not matter how good you are as a poet if no one sees or hears your work. And it does not matter if you're performing at one of the 'hippest' venues in town if no one knows where or when it is...
one of the best online weblistings that covers a broad range of poetry events is The Poetry Kit, with comprehensive listings of events and promoters across the UK, and worldwide. This mammoth job is kept up to date with amazing promptness by Ted Slade, so if you have an event you want people to know about just e-mail him at info@poetrykit.org
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Website of the Week #3
Magnetic Poetry online
One of the products to perpetuate the myth that anyone can write a poem, and to bring poetry to the fridge doors of the middle classes, are the infamous Magnetic Poetry™ kits. Their current product range has grown to truly frightening proportions, with 'make your own garden word stone' kits, and 'backpack poet' to name only two. But there is something disturbingly reassuring about arranging little bits of magnetic plastic with printed words on, and now there is an equally compelling version online where you drag and drop words with your mouse.
Ok so you might not produce a very good poem, but writing under constraint does encourage a freer imagination. So check it out, there are 11 different kits to try out online, our favourite, illustrating yet again that poetry is NOT the 'new rock 'n' roll' is…the Rock 'n' Roll kit.
Post your resulting 'work' in the 'comments' section below, and the best will reveive some kind of SHORTFUSE gift. Can't say fairer than that...
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