Rattle issue iii is now available for preorder, priced £8 + p&p here. Orders will be shipped on or before 28th May.

We are also now accepting submissions for issue iv. The deadline is 30th June 2012.

Submission guidelines can be found here.

To be held on Saturday, 2nd June 2012 at Birkbeck, University of London, WC1.

Organised by the Material Texts Network.

Details here.

A Pigeon, A Kitchen and an Annexe: Sites of Alternative Publishing

Exhibition opening tonight at London’s Five Year gallery, Regent Studios E8 4QN

Featuring seekers of lice (Rattle issue one), Pigeon Magazine, VerySmallKitchen, Annexe Magazine.

Details here.

From Friday 17 February to Friday 16 March 2012, Cubitt Gallery, London N1 will be hosting a project by artist Andy Holden, exploring the library of Dan Cox, to whom the second issue of Rattle was dedicated.

In the months before his death, Dan was working on the concept of ‘Thingly Time’, the third in a tri-partite understanding of temporality.

Details of the exhibition can be found here,

and of the open reading group to accompany the project here.

All are welcome.

Why Do You Publish? Book Fair and events at 98weeks Project Space, including the excellent Ugly Duckling Presse.

More details here.

Eiríkur features in issue 2 of Rattle, and has a new book available.

The book is a collection of essays and columns about poetry, literature, literary politics, called ‘Booby, Be Quiet!’ (a very learnéd reference to Auden’s translation of the Eddas). The essays and columns have been published in various places in the last five years – about half of the book consists of material written for The Reykjavík Grapevine, Iceland’s anglophone magazine, the other half are lectures and longer pieces written for various occasions, but all aimed at a foreign audience.

The book is currently available on the poEsia website:
http://www.poesia.fi/booby-be-quiet/

Submission Guidelines can be found here.

The excellent Dominic Fox in association with Intercapillary Places will be reading from his new book of poetry on Thurs. 15th September nr. City Road, London.

The evening will also feature a paper from Amy Cutler, ’L/andedness ends’: British Coastlines in contemporary poetry.

Most exciting.

A new exhibition, details here.

And this Friday (29th July) at Bloomberg Space, 6-7.30pm Clive Phillpot, El Vonne Brown and Arnaud Desjardin will discuss the past and future of Artist’s publishing.

Free, but booking advised at gallery@bloombergspace.com