The Secret of Good Posture: A Physical Therapist’s Perspective on Freedom is a 16-page altered pamphlet that depicts the relationship between twenty first century freedom and personal postures. Several processes have been employed in the making, such as détournement and Oulipian constraints. Available in 2 versions. Recommended to be used in stereo (both pamphlets) for best results. Includes easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions. Buy a copy here. Published by Manchester based Team Trident Press (publishers of NOUS Magazine, amongst others). There will be various launch events in Porto, Manchester & Bristol.

The first date to be announced is:

November 19th 7:30pm

at Gullivers NQ, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester

with Paul Hawkins reading from The Secret of Good Posture

supported by The Other Room & NOUS magazine
suggested donation £3

there’s a Facebook event page here

The Other Room is a Manchester based reading series presenting experimental writers at The Castle Hotel in Manchester, organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston.

Team Trident Press will be selling their publications, including copies of The Secret of Good Posture. You can browse their shop here.

As bruno was unable to travel to Bristol last Friday, Paul and poet Sarer Scotthorne read nearly all of Servant Drone, Sarer reading bruno’s text. We read at the Bloom & Curll Bookshop to a lively crowd, well supported by Bristol/Porto Association members. Liz Gamlin, the BPA chairwoman introduced the readings, and the event was filmed by Jason (Bloom & Curll).

It was an intimate, improvised reading to which Sarer really pushed bruno’s poems into new dimensions. The Buddha Box made another successful appearance.

Many thanks to all who attended and improvised with us. Cheers to Jason for letting us loose in the Bloom & Curll Bookshop. There will be film footage to follow.

bruno and I had a fantastic launch and improvised collaborative reading for Servant Drone night at Gato Vadio on Saturday 19th March. The event was filmed and will be available in the near future. We read the whole of the experimental text book with a break in the middle and took questions afterwards.

The audience were receptive, engaging and generous in their feedback, and took part in the performance with gusto!

It was one of the best poetry readings I’ve ever taken part in and both bruno and I were very happy with the evening and with Bristol Porto Association for their support.

Paul, bruno & Rui

Gato Vadio is renown in Portugal as being an important cultural landmark for its promotion and support of experimental and radical arts, including cinema, poetry, writing and art. Xerox/experimental poet/artist Cesar Figueiredo and lsabel, who run the bookshop/gallery/performance space were gracious and generous hosts and this was the first time they had had a launch and reading of experimental work given in English. The shop is a well-known stockist of experimental literature and art, much of which is rare and hard to get hold of in Portugal.We were given a stirring introduction by Rui Torres, who is Associate Professor at University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal. He is the Director of the academic journal Cibertextualidades, and member of several editorial boards and scientific committees of other Journals in the field of electronic literature. He is an author of digital poetry, having his poems published in several Anthologies (ELC2, ELMCIP) and CD-ROMs. He was the Principal Investigator of the project PO.EX’70-80 (funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation and the European Union), and is the coordinator of the resulting Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Poetry (www.po-ex.net), a member of CELL-Consortium on Electronic Literature. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. It was an honour to meet him and the three of us talked up plans for collaborative work. bruno had work on exhibition at Gato Vadio as well …

There is another Servant Drone launch on Friday March 25th in the UK at Bloom and Curll Bookshop, 72 Colston Street, Bristol BS1 5BB. Paul will be reading and poet Sarer Scotthorne will be reading bruno’s poems (in his abscence). It starts at 6.30 pm and is free.

Over at Stride Magazine, Servant Drone was reviewed by Steve Spence;

‘There is humour, political suggestion, fragmentary  sequencing and splicing to create strange juxtapositions. These are ‘naked’  texts in the sense that the texture of the writing is foregrounded and any  'aboutness’ is as much supplied by the reader as the author.’

Read it in full here