THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterMichel Delville’s CROSSROADS POETICS
This collection of essays on twentieth-century poetry and poetics is written from a wide-ranging perspective, working analytically and comparatively with literature, music, video, film, architecture and performance art.
Bringing together readings of Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Louis Feuillade, Rosmarie Waldrop, Frank Zappa, Bill Viola and Pierre Alechinsky, this book attempts to delineate the possibility of a truly transversal poetics, one which creates a space for a reconsideration of contemporary poetics while navigating the complex interactions between the theory and practice.
Now available from Litteraria Pragensia.
Sean Bonney – Letters on Harmony
Seven blistering polemics contained in a small pamphlet. Out now on iodine.
Whitehall Jackals: Chris McCabe and Jeremy Reed
London in the dark end-times of the late noughties; escaped war criminals and their hired thugs scavenge like hyenas amid the city’s smut and glitter, the system appears in nonchalant free-fall and words drop cheaply as grimy metropolitan rain. With this dystopian backdrop, where language is spun, redacted and renditioned, McCabe and Reed’s gritty riposte performs an angry and elegant resistance.
The result of this psychogeographic collaboration between two of modern poetry’s most distinct voices is this – a poetry chain-letter that seeks to interrogate the city at one of the most peculiar and sinister points in contemporary history and to map the capital on foot, under their own light; poems as foundlings; the weight of language and place obsessively and voraciously explored. Beneath flagstones, in river silt and on the top decks of buses, the strange, dark energies of the city find their way into this electrifying exchange of poems. More at Inpress.
e.ratio 17
Poetry by:
- Julie Waugh
- Francesco Levato
- Jérôme Poirier
- R. Kolewe
- Roger Sedarat
- Scott Thurston
- Mark Cunningham
- Parker Tettleton
- Bernd Sauermann
- Sean Howard
- MJ Gette
and much more of interest at the e.ratio site.
Galatea Resurrects 20
New issue of the splendid reviews website.
Inlcudes reviews of:
Tom Jenks – Items
Derek Beauieu – Fractal Economies
Charles Bernstein – Recalculating
And lots more.
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Holly Pester on The Verb
Holly will be reading for The Other Room tomorrow, 18th May at 5pm, The Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA. In the meantime, listen to her on BBC Radio 3′s The Verb tonight at 10pm and on BBC iPlayer for a week thereafter.
