Thanks to everyone who made it down to the incredible Peckham Hotel on Saturday night and special thanks to B.C., cmdldn and 14_19. We drank too many hot toddies, ate too many cocktail sausages, sang through multiple powercuts and fell asleep next to fire. In case you didn’t get round to picking up our free folder of goodies, here…
This one-off night will be revolving around the Internet and its direct effects on contemporary poetry. The night will feature live readings from Rachael Allen, Harry Burke and Sam Riviere and an open discussion regarding the future of poetry in relation to the internet. There will also be specially commissioned projection work from Harry Burke,…
Some very scuzzy photos from what very quickly became a blurry night celebrating the launch of our second book…
Monday The tide creaked to a halt on Tuesday. Fishermen’s boats sailed to its end and watched the drop (twenty metres). Wednesday, children walked to the wall: threw ropes, pitched their hands like hooks to rouse the weevers. Men lay ladders against the salty-hedge and dived. Saturday, the sea turned brown, shutters clattered closed to…
WORD PROCESSING MINIMAL MINECRAFT US Click to enlarge. Harry is a contributor to the sites cmd and henry waste.
An incredibly belated, but nonetheless very important mention of Sam Riviere’s prodigious and wildly exciting recent writing project, 81 Austerites – a sequence of of 81 poems, nine groups of nine, each group with a heading (Girlfriend Heaven, Graveberries, Spooky Dust, American Hardcore et al) that aim to apply notions of austerity measures and the ‘cuts’…
We are curating a small reading event at the exciting Beacons Festival, running from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th August. In its inaugural year, highlights of the line-up include Tom Vek, Mazes, Echo Lake, That Fucking Tank and D/R/U/G/S (signed to the promising Moshi Moshi feeder label Tender Age). Tickets are only £30…
The Early Severn An autumn morning at the river. The dogs are pushed in to bathe, to duck for undermice, ease love’s evil craft, and oh they can, bedded on the ‘L’, turning for comfort and biting at their inside knees. Excitment warms the river’s cold as hatted masters point through the water, the early…
Homework is happening again. A whole new season of events, ergo a whole new bunch of Wednesday literary cabaret parties to get really flipping crazy about. A personal highlight for last season has to be Luke Kennard’s live tutorial, workshopping Tom Cruise’s poetic endeavor, ‘The Last Barman Poet’ from the tragic film Cocktail, in ‘The…
