Archive for March, 2009


Seamus Heaney and all that… (March 29th, 2009)

There seems to be some debate raging in the pages of Jacket magazine, over the writing and the legacy of Seamus Heaney. Jeffrey Side has written an article somewhat critical of Heaney, in which he takes issue (as a jumping-off point…

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Greg Godwin (Dsic/Aut) Interview Plus Exclusive Tracks (March 29th, 2009)

Three new tracks plus an interview with Bristol based noise musician Greg Godwin – who, under the guises Dsic and Aut, spits out sublime shards of digital abstraction and waves of analog scuzz.

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Interview With Steve Ely (March 22nd, 2009)

Steve Ely is an English poet who writes about America. In doing so, he seems to interest people who wouldn’t ordinarily be all that interested in contemporary English poetry. For the interested reader, Steve’s excellent poem sequence JerUSAlem is a fine…

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Two Heads (March 17th, 2009)

I’ve just been pointed to this new project by Wes White of the excellent and lavishly praised Attack!!! magazine. For Two Heads, Wes teams up with another person each month to produce characteristically visual, inventive writing. The first issue, with…

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Please Say Something (March 2nd, 2009)

I’ve just been pointed to this excellent short animation. I’m not much of a follower of animation – partly just out of not knowing where to look – so David OReilly is a new name to me, but this piece,…

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