THE
DEATH OF MATCHBOX
16/2/08 - Matchbox 12 is released and this
completes the series. And what a cracker it is. OMENS by Tom Jenks
with a cover by Thomas Evans of Tolling Elves fame. And as if that
wasn't enough Tom kindly went to The Isle of Wight to get souvenir
paperweights for all Matchbox readers of this issue. This is the
final installment of Matchbox. I hope you have found it fun. There
are still a few issues of Matchbox 9 and 11 but they will soon run
out. Please check with me before sending cheques willy-nilly.
Please
also think twice about emailing me at the Matchbox address as it's
spammed to hell, I will check it from time to time. However there
is a new email address and website and project coming your way.
Now we move to the next phase, the next level - if p then q.
The website is www.ifpthenq.co.uk.
This is a bigger, permanent publishing house
of books, audio and other artefacts, as well as having a sister
journal all of which are looking for submissions. Events will also
be put on from time to time. The more interest the more reguarly
they'll happen.
18/12/07 - A skewed and twee version of the
small press scene can be heard on BBC Radio 4 (perhaps today only)
at this link Small
Presses, Big Ideas. Matchbox gets a brief
mention but not any chance to speak up for what it is doing and
a number of other magazines on the other side of the fence.
I've recorded it if anyone is desperate to hear it and misses it.
14/11/07 - Next Matchbox shindig, come along
come along; see below
12/11/07 - Matthew Welton's Measure out now
with cover art by Jo Lansley see below
6/10/07 - Alex Middleton reads the 12 Matchbox
poets at the Lowry. Click below to
go to a link to see all 9 parts
11/09/07 - Matchbox No.10 - Chris McCabe's
Tongue (BUGJAR) out now; see below
20/8/07 - Read a review of Scott Thurston's
Internal Rhyme at Ron
Silliman's Blogspot for the 20th August 2007
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
11/7/07 - Scott Thurston's Internal Rhyme
out now with photographic responses by Simon Taylor. Picture below
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6/6/07 - Read Michael Lally's review of Ray
DiPalma's Matchbox No.3 here. Go to 5th June and Poetry.
http://www.lallysalley.blogspot.com/
8/5/07 - Scott Thurston and Allen Fisher reading
for Matchbox on YouTube. Click on the pictures below.
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6/5/07
- Matchbox 8: Craig Dworkin COPYS, out now.
Boxes below designed by Wittgenstein and Matchbox.
12/04/07 - Matchbox has been given an award
as special recommendation by the Poetry Kit. To connect go to the
link below.
1/4/07 - Read Steven Waling's excellent review
of the Scott Thurston/Allen Fisher Matchbox reading at his blogspot
-- http://stevenwaling.blogspot.com/2007/03/scott-thrustaon-allen-fisher-matchbox.html
18/03/07 - Photos below from The
Possibility of Poetry: from Migrant magazine to artists’ books
in which
Matchbox is exhibited
17/03/07 - Sorry but Matchbox is no longer
available at Blackwell's in Manchester; deemed "not shop profile".
Still alive and kicking elsewhere though.
17/03/07
- Allen Fisher's Quietly Random available
27/02/07 - P.Inman's m'event reviewed at Intercapilary
Space http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2007/02/p-inman-mevent.html
27/1/07 - Allen Fisher will take on Scott
Thurston to celebrate one year of Matchbox and his March issue and
maybe to have a sneak preview of Scott's September box. Time, place
and date are the Thirsty Scholar pub (upstairs), Oxford Road, Manchester
at 6.30 on the 21st March 2007. This is a FREE EVENT. Would be great
to see you there for this rip roaring cracking bout.
27/1/07 - See Matchbox as a document of the
small press scene at the British Library's exhibition The Possibility
of Poetry: from Migrant magazine to artists’ books ,
which runs until 26th March. Big shout out to Bill Allen for sorting
this out. See a press release here -
http://www.bl.uk/news/2007/pressrelease20070119.html
27/1/07
- Tim Atkins Translations of Horace out this
week with mini polaroids by Maja Fagerberg Ranten. See photos below.
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