Poetry, interviews and other selected writings on-line: - nathanpenlington

Poetry, interviews and other selected writings on-line:

SHORTFUSE home page:

Nathan Penlington co-organises, and is the resident host of, one of London's best performance poetry venues SHORTFUSE. Commited to presenting a weekly fusion of performance comedy, stand up poetry and music. This weblog provides listings, photos, news, reviews, new writing and special offers. www.20six.co.uk/shortfuse

Poems

A special mini-site containing containing some of Nathan Penlington's poetry. www.anport.dk/np -

Hosted as part of a web space that has been active since 1994, overseen by Jacob Orsted Nielsen, with the aim of generating 'some poetic motion in a world where language is getting more and more efficient towards selling the 'word''. www.anport.dk - which also contains some other longer poems by Nathan Penlington in its'word' section: Light Trespass, Zincdust Lovelight, Past Tense.

PLUS new for January 2005 a contribution to the Anport / Comic Project.

Interview

Idealog is a well written, good looking internet zine which always has a broad range of essays, interviews, articles and fiction, and aims to tackled aspects of the arts largely ignored by more mainstream media. Two articles in the booklog section concern performance poetry:

Poetry Rebranded: Spokenword in London, outlines some of the issues of how performance poetry is perceived both by the pubic and poets themselves.

The second article is an extended interview with SHORTFUSE co-organiser and host Nathan Penlington about the trials and tribulations of hosting and organising a weekly spokenword venue. www.idealog.uk.net

Extracts from 'We don't need English lessons to learn our lines':

Featuring edited extracts from Nathan Penlington's MA thesis and forthcoming history of UK performance poetry - 'We don't need English Lessons to learn our lines':

Stand up and be <Dis>Counted - tracing the links between stand up comedy and performance poetry.

Performance V's Print - tracing the relationship between the development of performance poetry and the rise of mass communications media and symbiotic relationship of the two.

Literary Top 10

PULP.NET is a monthly online literary magazine that publishes new short fiction by established and rising new authors, book reviews plus it also has a Live Lit page that details selected highlights of London’s literature events.

This issue also features a Literary Top 10 from NATHAN PENLINGTON laying bare secrets of the live poetry circuit and talking about his impatience with Proust.

For bookings and further information contact Nathan Penlington:

Email: info@shortfuse.co.uk

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