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Lars Palm has got busy publishing again through his ungovernable press . He's just published three works in pdf format (free, downloadable), including my own Passages: Annotations . This e-chapbook is an extract from something I hope one day might see the light of day in hard copy, and is a collection of writing from this blog and a number of other projects that I was engaged with over the last ten years. It is a poetry and poetics assembly. The cover photo is by Annette Willis . Lars has set up a good reads page so, once you've had a read, you can leave a comment there or here on the blog, if you like. The other two new ungovernable press publications are Amanda Laughtland's Take It and Felino A. Soriano's Intersecting Views of the Possible Interaction . You should check them out as well. And all the other great downloads there. Ungovernable press now has a facebook page , if you want to join up. I'm honoured to be part of ungovernable, and well pleased to have ...

I've had an ongoing interest in all the discussion around e-book readers for some years now. For obvious reasons. And I'm not sure all the current flurry about the new Apple tablet and the like will be a big advance. In other words, I've never been convinced by the slight clunkiness of e-book readers and still am not (quite), though I relented late last year and bought one. No, not a Kindle. I didn't like the idea of that enforced connectivity nor do I have endless cash to pay for it. I bought a decent little device, the Ecoreader , that works offline with all the main formats, including pdf and text files. Mainly, I wanted something that I could use to read poetry books and manuscripts, my own for checking, and works by others. Also for the endless document files I have hanging about. Something lighter and more compact than a computer, that used epaper, that in fact saved endless printing but might also offer some pleasures of reading in a different way. But what act...

THE MATERIAL POEM an e-anthology of text-based art & inter-media writing The Material Poem is a new e-anthology, edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. It features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. This body of work is inter-disciplinary, inter-media and often collaborative, spanning a wide variety of formal contexts – page, screen, canvas, space, book, performance and more. The Material Poem showcases the vibrancy of experimental writing in Australia, demonstrating how writing functions as a practice that is never purely literary. Available now as a free download NOW. CONTRIBUTORS ALEX SELENITSCH | AMANDA STEWART | CHRIS EDWARDS | ELENA KNOX | FRANZ EHMANN | GARETH JENKINS |HAZEL SMITH | JAMES STUART | JILL JONES & ANNETTE WILLIS | JOHANNA FEATHERSTONE | KLARE LANSON | KOMNINOS ZERVOS | KRISTIN HANNAFORD | LINDA CARROLI | LINDA MARIE WALK...