Myung Mi Kim’s Penury

Two reviews in two days. I'm still on course-work mode, and need to relax. This one is Myung Mi Kim's Penury, a fantastic title by an amazing poet, published by the company with the best name ever: Omnidawn.

review of Bruce Russell's Left Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009

I've just posted my (incredibly late) review of Bruce Russell's Left Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009 over at Tarpaulin Sky. You should read the review, buy the book, then read it. It's very good.

Reviewers wanted!

Interested in reviewing for Tarpaulin Sky? In NZ, preferably Auckland? (I don't have much money for postage, so would rather deliver books by hand - though rest of the country would be good to, if you've got the right stuff....) Then give me an email!

Also, if you're looking for a flat, a couple of rooms becoming availible soon...

Steven Karl has good taste.

He's got my chapbook on his recomended summer reading list over at No Tell. Furthermore, he is not just a man of impeccable taste, but furiously great words as well. Both State(s) of Flux and (Ir)rational Animals are wonderful - and the former is one of my favorite book-objects as well.

This is not praise out of obligation! Buy his work!

LOUNGE 14

Just a reminder to all that I'm reading at LOUNGE 14 on Wednesay evening - 5:30, Old Government house , University of Auckland City Campus off Waterloo Quadrant. Come down!

particularly unconventional

I just got mentioned on Canadian Radio. Emma Healey, editor-in-chief of the Incongruous Quarterly, was asked on "Here and Now" on CBS's Radio One, about any "particularly unconventional" submission that they'd recieved - their mission is to "publish the unpublishible". She just emailed me saying that my submission, all 150 of Shakespeare's sonnets run through a bank or randomisers and algorythms, was "one of the first that sprang to mind." I'm very happy to have that dubious honour. Go Inconguous Quarterly!

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Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn: the "joy" of living, of experiencing, of already foreseeing dismembers it, this entire body explodes, neurons rush toward what attracts them, zones of sensation break off almost in blocks that come to rest at the four corners of the landscape, at the four corners of Creation.
—from Coma

Upcoming Readings

I will be reading at LOUNGE #14 Wed 26 May at 5.30 pm, at the Old Government House UOA City campus, on Waterloo Quadrant. Full details of that still to come.

I'm also reading on Friday July 30th at Lopdell House in Titirangi for National Poetry Day. the details of that too are to come.

I'm working on doing something interesting for both of them, so stay tuned.

Urs Alleman Interview!

The author of Babyfucker (translation recently published by Les Figues) interviewed by Elizabeth Hall over at the TSky blog.

It's a fantastic interview too, well worth reading. More than that, even.