THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for February, 2009
Streetcake looks for fiction
Streetcake magazine looking particularly for strong fiction for their next issues. Streetcake accepts excerpts or short stories up to 2500 words. We are also looking for strong imagery for the magazine.
Geof Huth was feeling unwell
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Father foods with sauce Irish recipes for what to eat before dinner
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startrunning
Based in Manchester UK, startrunning is a non-profit making, independent, artist-led project with a focus on bringing together and developing an array of interdisciplinary arts practice. Created in order to present and experience challenging new work in unique environments, the initiative aims to offer opportunities to both emerging and established practitioners. This project has a limited lifespan and will run for twelve months. One event will take place each month during its existence.
No point in not being friends
‘there’s no point in not being friends with someone if you want to be friends with them‘ is a free, Manchester-based monthly night where people can read prose and poetry.
Tom Fletcher
Luke Yates
Catherine Lacey
N.P. Murgatroyd
Si Connor
23rd February, 8pm, FREE, Deaf Institute, just off Oxford Rd, Manchester.
A Small Eternity: The shape of the sonnet through time
Using sumptuously illuminated books, rare and early printed editions, unique literary manuscripts and writers’ letters, this exhibition traces some of the stories told by the sonnet and explores why poets have felt compelled to write them.It contains examples of the work of a diverse range of sonneteers from Petrarch to Vikram Seth and Wilfred Owen to Lorna Goodison who have employed the form to speak of love-lost, found and forbidden, solace in war, and the nature of being and belonging in a complex world.
Starts February 26th at The John Rylands Library
Robert Sheppard, Warrant Error
“This work-four sets of 24 sonnet forms plus four poems, making
100-is highly allusive to the language of the ‘war on terror’ waged
after September 11, 2001.”
Robert Sheppard will read from his new collection along with philip kuhn as part of Shearsman’s reading series
7:30 pm.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
philip kuhn and Robert Sheppard
Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A
2TH.
There is no admission fee.
Text Festival 2009
The Text Festival occupies the boundaries between art and poetry, examining the response of text artists and poets to the substantial ambiguity of language. A 12 week programme of events held in Bury, Lancashire, featuring exhibitions, public art commissions, publications and performances by internationally recognised practitioners and some of the newest talents in the field.
Poets include Ron Silliman and Geof Huth. Put it in your diary. See link below.
James Davies meets Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks was born in Sunderland and now lives, works and writes in Manchester. He is the founding editor of Parameter Magazine and has had a mini-series, OMEN, published by Matchbox. His first collection is A Priori.
In two parts below from if p then q downloads
TOR in MEN
“Literature should be seen as well as heard of course, and the relaunched website for The Other Room, Manchester’s only (as far as I know!) regular avant garde poetry night held at the Old Abbey Inn, has a great range of video content as well as the other stuff you’d expect, and is a really nice use of one of the more recent WordPress templates.”
By Adrian Slatcher. From The Mancunian Way, part of the Manchester Evening News site.
Link.
If you haven’t already done so, check out Adrian’s Art of Fiction pages via our links in the third column.
Chris McCabe in Liverpool
With grit and humour his new book Zeppelins takes on the speed and
surrealist chaos of the metropolis at the beginning of the 21st century.
A sequence of sonnets oscillates between two very different cities: a
London at the centre of a terrorist scare and a Liverpool enjoying its
renaissance as European City of Culture
The Rose Theatre: Thursday February 26th, 7.30: £3.50
via Robert Sheppard
Alex Middleton reads the Matchbox 12
Each Matchbox is devoted to one poet and contains:
POEMS
A FREE GIFT
Matchbox came out every two months between March 2006-2008
It is archived at:
Buffalo University (Buffalo, USA)
Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall, London)
UCL (London)
Craig Dworkin at The Whitworth
Craig Dworkin produces a poetry rich and strange, a counterpart of French Oulipo but with a characteristically American pragmatic inflection. Dworkin takes seriously Wittgenstein’s axiom that there are no gaps in grammar, that everything is already there if we will only see the connections”–Marjorie Perloff.
17th February, 11am. Be there.
Backyard Poems
The debut collection by Other Room reader Richard Barrett on Knives, Forks and Spoons press. Click on the cover to visit Richard’s site and buy a copy.
Richard Barrett - Backyard Poems
