THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterMatt Dalby: Chevassut/Waking
Other Room performer Matt Dalby has two recent free net label sound releases. The first, Chevassut, is available on osg and the second, Waking, is available on electronic musik. Lots more can be found on Matt’s own site, Santiago’s Dead Wasp.
Craig Dworkin’s Motes reviewed by Vanessa Place at The Constant Critic
‘Motes is a perfect little book of poetry. “Little” book, not by way of diminution, but as large praise, for Dworkin’s work here is of a piece, and each small piece is prism-pure in its exactitude. ‘
DAMN THE CAESARS
A special volume of DAMN THE CAESARS with attention to the work of Rob Halpern and Keston Sutherland.
Handmade at Futuresonic
As part of the annual Manchester smorgasbord arts and technology festival that is Future Everything innovative poetry publishers if p then q and zimZalla will have stalls at the event Handmade which includes a fanzine and small press fair.
Handmade is FutureEverything’s interactive craft fair exploring the intersection between craft and digital technology – a forum for crafters, hackers and innovators to share ideas and practice with the maker community and the public.
Handmade brings the dialogue around the intersection of craft and digital culture to life, in one of Manchester’s prime heritage locations. Artists working in the areas of craft and digital technology display their work in an interactive craft fair designed to encourage visitors to create their own DIY artworks.
Saturday 19 May 2012, 10am-5pm Victoria Baths, Hathersage Rd, Manchester £2. Free to conference ticket holders.
Re-Word – mostly from the mainland
Performances of poetry and drama in translation, together with other local and European poets and translators.
Tuesday 22 May, 7.30-9.30 pm, Lloyds Upstairs, Lloyds Hotel, 617 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, Manchester.
Provisional programme:
Issa haiku (Japanese) – Wilhelm Wetterhoff
Four contemporary Romanian poets – Daniel Puia-Dumitrescu (with Judy Kendall)
Poetry in Polish – Scott Thurston
Anna Szabo poems (Hungarian) – Szilvi Naray-Davey (with Judy Kendall)
INTERVAL 8.15-8.40
Hungarian drama – Szilvi Naray-Davey (with Judy Kendall)
Poetry in German – Daniele Pantano
Walloon poems from ‘A Translated Man’ (Belgian poet Rene Van Valckenborch) – Robert Sheppard
Contemporary English haiku and tanka by Sheila Butterworth, Martin Lucas, Stuart Quine, Fred Schofield, Ian Storr translated into Swedish, Finnish and Romanian – Daniel P-D, Wilhelm W, Martin Lucas/Judy Kendall
Like This Press: JT Welsch
Nikolai Duffy’s Like This Press launches with Waterloo, by JT Welsch. More details, including how to buy a limited hand bound and stamped edition, can be found at the Like This site.
Maintenant Croatia: films online
Films of Maintenant Croatia, where five Croatian poets read alongside an assortment of British writers at Europe House, in Westminster, are now online. They include this performance by Other Room reader Jeff Hilson.
Eléna Rivera reading and interview at The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Eléna Rivera reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Jennifer Cooke: Scenes of Intimacy
Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature, edited by Other Room reader Jennifer Cooke.
Scholars from a range of critical perspectives explore representations of intimacy in contemporary writing, from fiction to autobiography.
Out May 16th on Continuum.
You can watch Jennifer’s October 2011 reading at The Other Room below.
Poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack
Part of the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre readings series. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD. 7:30-9:00pm – all welcome.
Chris McCabe: The Restructure
“THE RESTRUCTURE tells the story, through a series of poems, of the circumstances leading to the conception of a boy and his delivery into a difficult world. Born with a condition that requires long stretches in hospital the author attempts to view the world through the senses of the boy who is yet to learn language. This play of words presents the challenges of the world in a new light. The backdrop of the book is social unrest, but the author and boy – who has 40 different pseudonyms – push back against the monotone order of THE RESTRUCTURE (the all-controlling voice that appears throughout as a public service announcement) through the surreal inventions of words and games. This is a gripping book of contrasts, conjuring a life of extreme polarities that is always striving for a resolution, towards a restructured world.”
Out now from Salt Publishing.
Rebecca Cremin reading at The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Rebecca Cremin reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Contemporary Poetry and Source Conference
18th May 2012 – 20th May 2012 at Plymouth University.
“This conference aims to explore the use of source material in contemporary poetry. The term ‘source’ should be given a wide remit, incorporating ‘origin’, ‘subject’ and ‘method’. Contemporary poetry, here, refers to writers working post – 1950, but of course thier sources may well be historical. We invite single author studies as well as papers which speak to the sources which are defining our poetic zeitgeist; we also invite creative practitioners to explore their own sources with a framework or context. Some topics for panels include: visual arts, music, nature, the personal, the impersonal, found material, the documentary, the trans-Atlantic exchange, influence, language, literature, biography, history, politics, philosophy and translations. Papers on or inspired by the work of our plenary speakers are very welcome.”
Includes a paper by Mark Leahy on Opposable Dumbs by Other Room reader Tina Darragh. You can watch part one of Tina’s reading below and find the other parts here.
Holdfire Press Launch
Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, L2 2JH. Thursday, 31 May 2012, 20:00.
Readings by JT Welsch, Steve Van Hagen, Catherine Woodward, Luke Kennard, Richard Watt, Jess Green and Colette Sensier to launch Holdfire‘s first 8 pamphlets by these seven writers, plus Emily Critchley.
Shearsman Reading: Laurie Duggan & Paul A. Green
Laurie Duggan & Paul A. Green will be officially launching their new Shearsman titles: The Pursuit of Happiness and The Gestaltbunker, respectively. Also being launched on the evening is The Complete Poems of César Vallejo, translated by Michael Smith & Valentino Gianuzzi. There will be a short reading by Valentino Gianuzzi and Tony Frazer from the volume. Click on the covers for more information.
The reading venue is:
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Admission free.
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 mins’ walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 mins), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 mins). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, beneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it should be required.
Further details here of the venue:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html
Poems For Many Voices
Thursday 7 June, 1.00-2.00pm
St Michael at the North Gate , Cornmarket, central OXFORD
Join Oxford poet Paula Claire in a communal performance of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Cobbing and herself that she has arranged for groups of interactive voices, part of her Dreaming Spires Online initiative. Free admission, family friendly.
Tony Lopez: Sounds New Poetry Festival
Recent Other Room reader Tony Lopez is reading with Steve Collis at this year’s Sounds New Poetry Festival in Canterbury. Details below:
Wednesday 9th May 6pm, Peter Brown Room, Darwin College, University of Kent.
Reading: Found Text
Working with the idea of the found text, Steve Collis and Tony Lopez present poems that explore borrowing and appropriation in art. Like John Tavener in The Veil of the Temple, Collis and Lopez work with and through mixed sources to open the possibilities of collective expression.
New books from Reality Street
Paul Brown: A CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS
Poet, editor, publisher and translator Paul Brown has been absent from the poetry scene for some years. This complete collection of his poetry from the 1980s, the lost third of a trilogy (the first two books were Meetings & Pursuits (1978) and Masker (1982)), is long overdue.
For more information and to buy, click here.
May 2012, 978-1-874400-56-1, 108pp, price £9
Maggie O’Sullivan: WATERFALLS
At last the paperback version of a book only previously available as a limited edition from Etruscan Books. Five visually rich text sequences originally dating from the 1990s.
For more information and to buy, click here.
May 2012, 978-1-874400-57-8, 82pp, price £9
Establishment
James Mc Laughlin is editing the Knives Forks and Spoons online magazine ‘Establishment’. Submissions of poetry reviews and essays on poets and poetics are invited to establishmentmagazine@hotmail.com.
