Lit & Phil

This looks a dead cool place - as mentioned in our previous post - and I immediately want to visit it.

Sadly I am speaking at a conference in Manchester (oh Manchester, so much to answer for) on Thursday and cannot make it. But I am imagine that on my next pilgrimage to Ponteland and Newcastle this ancient subscription library will be high on my list. Not least because the engraver Thomas Bewick - the poetic subject of Poetry Scotland editor Sally Evans - was once a member.

More on the glorious book matrix here http://www.litandphil.org.uk/index.shtml

poetandgeek.com welcomes the British Library

poetandgeek.com is happy to announce its long-term storage for the benefit of poet and geeks in the future.

The British Library, one of a handful of state deposit libraries in the UK, will have legal backing from today to collect and store every UK site, blogs including this one, online magazines like our very own soon to be published poetandgeek.com Issue 6 (and all the rest) and ebooks, and the ephemera of Facebook and Twitter (to be regarded in the future something like the pamphlet writing of Daniel Defoe).

You can find out more here http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/05/british-library-archive-webpages-tweets