MATCHBOX VIDEOS

7/2/09 - Now I know how to embed video here they are.

First comes Alex Middleton's fantastic reading at The Manchester Literature Festival 2007

ALEX MIDDLETON READS SELECTIONS FROM THE TWELVE MATCHBOX POETS

AT THE LOWRY CENTRE, MANCHESTER.

NINE VIDEOS STARTING WITH THE FIRST AT THE TOP

DiPalma & Muzanenhamo

Jarnot

Inman

Atkins and Fisher

Dworkin, Thurston & McCabe

Welton and Jenks

Bill Griffiths in three videos

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 -



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.

24/11/06 -- P.Inman's m'event hits the shelves. Covers by Stephen Raw below. This box contains a yellow line, as a gift, for you.

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1/10/06 - Matchbox is seeking one or two volunteers to be involved in production of issue 5 (P. Inman) in the first instance and possibly more issues thereafter. This would involve making the boxes and being involved in marketing. This position is suitable to those interested in poetry and the small press market. The project is based in Manchester and would require about 6 hours work every two months. Food will be provided. Anyone interested should contact James Davies email matchbox@matchbox.org.uk for further details.

30/09/06 - Lisa Jarnot issue out now

6/09/06 - Lisa Jarnot issue coming soon with drawing by Manchester artist Andy Leyland and cover by Paul Jenkins

1-2/09/06 - Matchbox does stall at Literature Festival Northwest

1/07/06 - Ray DiPalma 5 poems out now - 5 new poems for Matchbox