MIMEO MIMEO: Nov 1, 2009

I'm sorry that I won't be attending the Small Publishers Fair this year. I've been several times in the past, and it's always a blast! Here's the schedule for the readings. Readers of this blog may be particularly interested in the Written, Drawn and Stapled catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of New York mimeograph magazines of the 60s and 70s.

SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR 2009

Friday/Saturday 13th/14th November, 11am to 7pm

Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Poetry presses include Colin Sackett, Coracle, Essence, Leafe/Bamboo, Moschatel, Reality Street, Shearsman, Veer & West House.

Exhibition of vintage NY mimeos curated by Les Coleman & John Janssen

Saturday afternoon readings:

1.30 Royal Holloway Poetic Practice: Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, Karen Sandhu
2.00 Shearsman Books: Linda Black & John Welch
2.30 Kurt Johannesen: Everything & Nothing
3.00 Les Coleman: Written, Drawn & Stapled (NY mimeos)
3.30 Road Books: Judy Kravis
4.00 Loose Teeth Press: Joey Comeau
4.30 Reality Street: Wendy Mulford
5.00 Light-Trap Press: Angela Gardner
5.30 Veer Books & Torque Press: Will Rowe, Piers Hugill, Aodan McCardle, Tony Trehy, Antony John & Carol Watts
Free admission to fair & readings

More details at: http://www.rgap.co.uk/spf.php

This was the location for Gait Froge's English Bookshop in Paris. Today it is a small art gallery. Froge's bookstore, like Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co., dipped its foot in the pool of independent publishing. The English Bookshop financed Minutes to Go, a collection of cut-up texts by William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso and Sinclair Beiles. Froge also footed the bill for Burroughs' first spoken word album, Call Me Burroughs (1965). The album was recorded by Ian Sommerville in the bookshop's basement.

Burroughs scored for heroin at La Palette, a legendary neighborhood cafe founded in 1904, located at 43 Rue de Seine. Books and drugs. Easy access to his two major addictions. What more did Burroughs need?

MIMEO MIMEO #4

MIMEO MIMEO #4: focuses on the poets, artists, printers, and publications of the British Poetry Revival, a particularly rich period of activity that ran roughly parallel to the New American Poetry of the post-WWII era. On both sides of the Atlantic, the dominant modes of poetics, publishing, and media were being thought anew. Featuring: wide-ranging interviews with Tom Raworth, David Meltzer, and Trevor Winkfield; insightful essays by Richard Price, Ken Edwards, and Alan Halsey; a selection of letters from Eric Mottram to Jeff Nuttall providing a British perspective on the Lower East Side Scene; and a long out-of-print statement by Asa Benveniste, poet and publisher of London’s legendary Trigram Press. Buy now for just ten bucks!

MIMEO MIMEO

Mimeo Mimeo is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on artists' books, typography and the mimeograph revolution. This periodical features essays, interviews, artifacts, and reflections on the graphic, material and textual conditions of contemporary poetry and language arts.

Taking our cue from Steve Clay and Rodney Phillips' ground-breaking sourcebook, A Secret Location on the Lower East Side, we see the mimeograph as one among many print technologies (letterpress, offset, silk-screen, photocopies, computers, etc.) that enabled poets, artists and editors to become independent publishers. As editors, we have no allegiance to any particular medium or media (tho Mimeo Mimeo is only available in print at this time). We understand the mimeo revolution as an attitude - a material and immaterial perspective on the politics of print.

Jed Birmingham & Kyle Schlesinger

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