Possibilities of text
Wonderful conversation between Oulipian Daniel Levin Becker, translator Chris Clarke and editor Michael Barron, on the publication of the new edition of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style. Here’s a snippet: Daniel Levin Becker: Is it possible that language is more fun when used to describe something banal? Chris Clarke: I don’t know if it’s necessarily […]
The Enemies Project: Camarade IV
Held at the Rich Mix Arts Centre on February 9th 2013, the fourth in the Camarade series and the first event of the Enemies project saw thirteen pairings of British and European poets read original avant-garde and literary poetry collaborations for a remarkable evening of contemporary poetic performance: 3:AM‘s S.J. Fowler introduces the evening, dedicating […]
Sound & vision
Test Center are taking advance orders for Chris Petit‘s Museum of Loneliness. From the blurb: Museum of Loneliness is a 12″ LP by Chris Petit composed of specially-recorded readings from his novels Robinson (1993), The Hard Shoulder (2001) and The Passenger (2006), and from his recent project The Museum of Loneliness. Backed by field recordings […]
Three Arctic Relics
Mornings with the light at its best and evenings when it would do, she rolled back and forth on the horizon. The swivel of the telescope her husband left for her entertainment creaked in its housing and stuck when it turned. From its southwestern extreme the brass shaft took a nudge, a firm bump of her palm, to set the device back into motion northwest. She never strayed from that range, never turned the lens skyward to take in the stars or look back toward Europe or closer at hand across the blank slate of Greenland, that near-continent whose raw edge she occupied in her waiting.
Excerpt from Steve Himmer‘s novel Fram.