"Frog-o-Mighty" by Edward Picot

"You understand nothing of my schemes, Penguin..."

A mighty tale in three chapters, featuring a megalomaniac frog, a hypnotist penguin, two quarrelling chicks, a

bemused goose, a plan so fiendish that it's completely incomprehensible, a pot full of shutting-up phrases and an

insatiable lust for mints!

The perfect antidote to that just-after-Christmas feeling.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/frog-o-mighty/

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

A touch of the Verbals - The Hyperliterature Exchange, Nov 2006

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for November 2006: a review of 'The Chicken Coup', 'Chopper Drop Out' and 'Underground Station' - three CDs of comedy, poetry and music from Mac Dunlop.

"One respect in which Dunlop differs from earlier performance poets, of course, is his use of new media... His interest in experimentation is apparent on these CDs, where he is constantly playing with sound-effects rather than just presenting us with straightforward recordings of his readings..."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewmacdunlop.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
 
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

"Some Fragments of my Mum" by Edward Picot

My mother was eighty earlier this year, which prompted me to create an animated Flash portrait, incorporating three different pictures of her, twenty-one of her most characteristic phrases, and a clacketing noise which is a bit like a typewriter, knitting needles, or out-of-control false teeth.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/mum/

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

Saints be Praised? - The Hyperliterature Exchange, August 2006

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for August 2006: a review of 'Broken Saints', an epic 24-part 12-hour-long Flash-animated comic book, which has been visited on the Web by more than five million people, and has sold almost 10,000 copies on DVD. A new DVD version, distributed by Fox, is published this month.

"Senecan tragedy is a useful point of reference for Broken Saints because it shares the same preoccupation with bloody violence, particularly violence within the family. At the end of Broken Saints a deranged father pulls out one of his daughter's eyes, wires up her brain to the Internet and hangs her on a crucifix made out of computer monitors as part of his attempt to achieve world-domination: a climax so lurid and grotesque that even Seneca might have found it hard to outdo."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewbrokensaints.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
 
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

"A Short History of Everything" by Edward Picot

A montage of text and images, remixed in Flash from Myron Turner's new media application/poem 'Timeline' ( http://www.mturner.org/Timeline/ ).

The entire history of everything, encompassed in eleven double-page spreads!

http://edwardpicot.com/shorthistoryindex.html

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

"An Unimportant Story" by Edward Picot

My latest nonlinear story is about four people early one morning.

A father and his daughter make up a story together about a dragon and a goose. The father remembers a trip he has just made to London, to see an exhibition of Chinese art. Upstairs, the mother fantasises about men finding her attractive, but simultaneously worries that she may be seriously ill. The mother and the little girl go outside to catch the bus to school. An old professor who lives by the bus stop is remembering a curious incident from between the wars, but interrupts his reminiscences long enough to look out of his window and notice the mother and daughter waiting for the bus.

Nothing important happens. The four sections of the story can be read in any order.

http://edwardpicot.com/unimportantindex.html

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

From zine to screen - The Hyperliterature Exchange, May 2006

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for May 2006: a discussion of the digital revolution's impact on the UK's small literary magazines, including Aesthetica, Birmingham Words, Incwriters and Route.

"What makes the digital revolution different from earlier technological advances is that it offers not just a handful of new possibilities - like the new font-faces and graphics which came in with electric typewriters and photocopying - but a bewildering array of them..."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewezines.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
 
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

Words of One Syllable - The Hyperliterature Exchange, Feb 2006
 
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for February 2006: my review of "The Syllabary", a work-in-progress by Peter McCarey, which maps all the monosyllabic words in the English/Scottish language onto a huge grid, and will eventually include a short poem for every one of them.

"Whatever its merits or demerits as a piece of new media, The Syllabary undoubtedly succeeds as a piece of writing. The originality of its concept and the 'sound poem' of monosyllables would make it worth a visit by themselves: but what makes it worth going back to time after time is the unfailingly high quality of the little poems it contains..."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewsyllabary.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
 
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

"Banana Story", by Edward Picot

A banana sets out to discover the truth about monkeys... with predictable results. A short Flash animation, based on a story made up by my seven-year-old daughter Rachel, available for 25c via BitPass (or free for the poor and stingy) at www.edwardpicot.com .

"Highly recommended!" - Millie Niss (http://www.sporkworld.org//index.php)

- Edward Picot
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Edited by author 11-16-2005 01:03 PM
Unanswered Questions - The Hyperliterature Exchange, November 2005

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for November 2005: Edward Picot reviews "Inanimate Alice", a new media fiction from Kate Pullinger and Babel, and "Aftershocks", a new media murder documentary from Martha Deed.

"Both 'Inanimate Alice' and 'Aftershocks' use unanswered questions as a technique for capturing our attention. They exploit the fact that when things are left unresolved, we feel more obliged to read on, in search of a resolution. But both stories go further than simply arousing our curiosity..."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewafteralice.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
 
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

Edited by author 11-08-2005 01:22 PM
"Rilke and the Archaic Torso", by Edward Picot

"How does Rilke get from his admiration of the statue to his closing phrase - 'Du mußt dein Leben ändern' ('You must change your life')? Why should a marble torso, however magnificent, seem to be sending him (and us) such a powerful challenge?"

Taking Rilke's famous poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" as his starting-point, Edward Picot's new work of hyperliterature provides first a commentary on the poem, then an undercommentary, and finally a poetic response of his own, animated in Flash, with hurtling fragments of Greek statuary.

The New Media artist and writer Millie Niss has just opened up her website (http://sporkworld.org) to work from guest artists, and Edward Picot is the first to appear there. "Rilke and the Archaic Torso" can be seen at http://sporkworld.org/guestartists/picot/index.html .

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

Edited by author 10-24-2005 02:23 PM
I have published a novel!!! It's called 'Beyond the Dragon Sea' by Melissa Lumley and its available from www.lulu.com or from my personal webpage http://www.freewebs.com/melissalumley/ I am donating ten percent of the royalties to the charity International Animal Rescue http:/www.iar.org.uk to help their sanctuary for rescued dancing bears in India. Reading everything on bloc regularly helped give me the confidence to publish this novel, so thanks. And someone please buy a copy!!!!
Melissa

Rogue Mail - The Hyperliterature Exchange, September 2005 - correction of URL

Oops! Dropped a bollock in my last announcement, I'm afraid. If anyone tried to reach my latest review and got an error message, it's because the link should have been http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewintimacies.php, not http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewtintimacies.php .

Believe me, heads will roll in the admin department.

- Edward Picot, his handsome features aglow with embarrassment
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website

Edited by author 09-14-2005 01:51 PM
Rogue Mail - The Hyperliterature Exchange, September 2005

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for September 2005: Edward Picot reviews "Intimacies", an email novel by the USA writer Eric Brown.

"For a work of hyperliterature, Intimacies was heavily publicised and widely written-about when it first came out at the beginning of 2004. Articles about it appeared in the New York Times and (in the UK) the Guardian. According to Eric Brown it was downloaded about 5,000 times in its first four months online, and the figure is now up to about 8,000... So what, if anything, is the fuss all about?"

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewtintimacies.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
 
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

I've got my articles published in three Magazines in USA & UK.

Recently, there's no response from Editors. I've written as many as 1000 emails to various editors.

I follow strictly the guidelines for writing articles. Can I know how to get my articles published regularly?