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It sounds great Elizabeth. Thanks for posting. I hope you'll be able to post more, i.e., EVERY DAY!!! Mairead On 9/28/05, Elizabeth James <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Wasn't 'No Direction Home' great? (and yesterday I finally bought > Chronicles, 2 quid off at Waterstone's, fascinating as writing and (more > surprisingly) as plausible memoir). The rest of this week is another > epoch: EPOETRY 2005 LONDON. > Here's the programme > http://homepage.mac.com/shadoof/epoetry05/epoetry05prog.html > Here's the other info > http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2005/Information.html > > Just back from the first night, presentations by John Cayley, Loss > Glazier and the prodigious Talan Memmott (of whom one project contains > matter enough for several different careers); high calibre stuff. It's > not *all sitting in the dark staring at blinking screens -- Loss's piece > included live dancing, and further presentations will likewise be > exploring the edgy interface between virtual and real performance > elements, notably I imagine London Under Construction on Saturday > morning. The next few days anyway see a mixture of work showings and > papers, interspersed with discussion; lots of people have travelled to > England from America and Europe for this because the work and the talk > in the air, noise and weather of London will be different from how they > are in other climates and landscapes, on and offline ... For those based > 'here' who practise or are critically engaged with advanced poetry / > poetics, and/or digital writing, it is a concentrated chance to move > thinking on (free of 56K & the phone bill) ... If you don't come, you > won't be able to remember it. > > e > "words that meant something ten years ago don't mean that anymore -- > they mean something else now" (Bob Dylan) >