sites

Topic:	sites (1 of 16), Read 160 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Bernard Cohen (bernard.cohen@ntu.ac.uk)
Date:	05 July 1999 10:26 AM

This is for the posting of reviews and discussion of sites relevant to writing and online culture. Please include URLs. Postings should be limited to around 200 words. If you'd like to post longer articles, post summaries here and a link to the full article on your site.
Bernard Cohen
writer in residence
trAce online writing community
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/cohen
http://www.hermes.net.au/bernard

Topic:	sites (2 of 16), Read 116 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Bernard Cohen (bernard.cohen@ntu.ac.uk)
Date:	13 July 1999 05:14 PM

Jacket 7

Australian poet John Tranter’s Jacket is one of the best poetry e-zines I've seen, well organised with clear unobtrusive design and always interesting content -- essays, reviews, comment and poetry. Issue 7 is up now (as against "out now", of course) at http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket07/index.html .

This issue features Jack Spicer (1925-1965), reproducing the 1965 lecture "Poetry in Process and Book of Magazine Verse" (actually a lively staged conversation). Peter Gizzi, in his introduction to the lecture (also in Jacket), calls it one of Spicer’s "many ways the most contrary and least accessible of Spicer's lectures". (Gizzi recently published a compilation of Spicer’s lectures.)

Elaine Equi in her comment piece "Unspeakable Ambitions" writes: "In poetry trying to determine who should be allowed to have ambition is a bit like trying to determine who should be allowed to have privilege and money. Only those who are already successful are allowed the luxury of it--or the possibility of transcending it."

Jacket 7 includes Hazel Smith’s long prose poem "Returning the Angles", fall of dream images, ironic praise of Imperialism, email gossip and textbook history of the journey across Europe of the Angles, all framed by the relationship of an Australian to England: "A few days after I came back to Sydney I met an angel… I could tell he was an angel from his florescent halo… He said, although I can travel it's a damn nuisance always having to go back to heaven. It's so British."

(Sorry: as a newly arrived Orstrayan in Nottingham, I had to put that bit in.)

Bernard Cohen
writer in residence
trAce online writing community
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/cohen
http://www.hermes.net.au/bernard

Topic:	sites (3 of 16), Read 115 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Helen Whitehead (h.whitehead@dial.pipex.com)
Date:	15 July 1999 12:16 PM

I would like to recommend Inkspot as one of my favourite writing sites. Not an ezine this, but a site of advice and articles and market information for writers. They have a weekly email newsletter called Inklings to which it is well worth subscribing. Inkspot may seem more aimed at amateur writers than professionals but there's lots of useful information here on style and new markets and so on which is easy to find and read, and you can always ignore the bits you don't want!

http://www.inkspot.com

Topic:	sites Jacket sighs (4 of 16), Read 101 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Christy Sanford (christys@gnv.fdt.net)
Date:	20 July 1999 04:51 AM

I look at Jacket with nostalgia, a world I left. They look like relatives in my family photo album. Rose petals fall from the sky. Goodbye, Alice.

Follow me.

I love you.

Good night, experimental print poets.

Topic:	sites Jacket sighs (5 of 16), Read 96 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Bernard Cohen (bernard.cohen@ntu.ac.uk)
Date:	22 July 1999 12:10 PM

I guess I could have mentioned the sepia tonings, but to me the site has more of a quiet irony than pure sentiment. The world you left? Please say more.
Bernard Cohen

Topic:	sites (6 of 16), Read 103 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Kirsten Krauth (digit@dot.net.au)
Date:	24 July 1999 09:54 AM

I have just been referred to an intriguing site called Tulse Luper 92 Suitcases . Rumoured to be mainly the work of Peter Greenaway, it crosses many genre boundaries including detective fiction and covers subjects as diverse as unlabelled portraits, statistical obsessions, Kevin Bacon, fly collecting and the difference between maps and pictures. It is mainly text based but keeps you guessing as to its boundaries. It is also cleverly (and frustratingly) designed.

Kirsten

Topic:	sites (7 of 16), Read 115 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Kirsten Krauth (digit@dot.net.au)
Date:	24 July 1999 10:13 AM

For some reason the URL didn't work: http://www.zen.co.uk/home/page/paul.m/tlhome.html

Topic:	sites (8 of 16), Read 120 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Sue Thomas (sue.thomas@dial.pipex.com)
Date:	24 July 1999 10:52 AM

I came across this too, about a year ago - same Greenaway rumour. Intriguing site. Does anyone know if the rumour is correct? Is any body out there really Peter Greenaway in disguise?!

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/

Topic:	Peter Greenaway (9 of 16), Read 137 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Mez/mary-anne Breeze (mb23@uow.edu.au)
Date:	25 July 1999 09:03 AM

sue, i wish i *waz* P G :)

Topic:	Peter Greenaway (10 of 16), Read 127 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Bernard Cohen (bernard.cohen@ntu.ac.uk)
Date:	27 July 1999 10:09 AM

Or "david hockney"? http://www.zen.co.uk/home/page/paul.m/11.html
Bernard Cohen

Topic:	Peter Greenaway (11 of 16), Read 127 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Helen Whitehead (h.whitehead@dial.pipex.com)
Date:	02 August 1999 08:03 PM

An aside:

How do you get those effects with your text, Bernard? I think we'd all like to know....

Is it in the HTML?

or is it some other trick?
Or course I've probably answered my own question....

Helen (experimenting)

Topic:	Peter Greenaway (12 of 16), Read 123 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Bernard Cohen (bernard.cohen@ntu.ac.uk)
Date:	03 August 1999 11:40 AM

Helen, you have answered your own question, but I've posted some details of my ad hoc way of formatting under General:formatting text on webboard, so that people better at it can add their suggestions too.
Bernard Cohen
writer in residence
trAce online writing community
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/cohen
http://www.hermes.net.au/bernard

Topic:	Stationary (13 of 16), Read 98 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Margaret Penfold (margaret@webleicester.co.uk)
Date:	08 August 1999 03:38 PM

Most of you are too creative for this but if you want some quick ready made stationary for Outlook Express, animated with sound, try a look at

http://thundercloud.net/stationery/help.htm

A lot of itI found rather yuk but I really liked the space dolphins.
When I have time I am going to try studying the source code

Regards,Margaret

Topic:	sites (14 of 16), Read 39 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Carrie McMillan (carrie@estardegala.com)
Date:	29 August 1999 07:38 PM

Hello everyone,

Thanks to Kirsten for the link to the 'Peter Greenaway' site. I really enjoyed it, especially the visual simplicity. A friend and I have been working on our first hypertext fiction site, and I can't help but think we've gotten too caught up with the visuals.

Carrie

Topic:	sites (15 of 16), Read 47 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Sue Thomas (sue.thomas@dial.pipex.com)
Date:	29 August 1999 10:16 PM

Carrie

feel free to post the url in the writing workshop and get some feedback on it.

best

sue

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/

Topic:	sites (16 of 16), Read 40 times
Conf:	Writing Workshop
From:	Kirsten Krauth (digit@dot.net.au)
Date:	22 August 1999 06:27 AM

Hi folks

I wanted to know what people think of the trAce hypertext competition winners, The Unknown, Rice, kokura etc. I thought they were a really interesting cultural mix, The Unknown in particular a massive, witty look at the American dream.

Kirsten