The first publications from The Bleed went live in 2010. At the time, we focused on a blog publication model, posting new work as and when it smacked us in the face with its name-taking, mind-breaking bravado. This year, 2011, marks a change in our publishing model and format: Now, we will collect whole issues to be published in both online and print magazines. Still chock full of the same take-no-prisoners experimental quality, just in batches now.

And here it is folks, the bleed 0.1, featuring:

• Selections from Eric Goddard-Scovel’s LINES
• Televispo, by Nico Vassilakis
• Five from Mike Cannell
• Five Pieces from Staunch by Sean Burn
• Five from Carlyle Baker
• Some Speartips, by Zachary Bos
• sınır yine sınır: border again border, by Aysegül Tözeren
• Three lexical works from John M. Bennett
• Four from Bernd Reichert
• Three from Andrew Topel
• How the Poem Is Born, by Peter Ciccariello
• Anchor What, by Vernon Frazer
• Two from Márton Koppány
• The Shape of Poems, by Rosaire Appel
• Plus On a Letter Sufficient for Visual Poetry,
  an essay by Iain Macdonald Matheson