THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for March, 2009
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
The journal will centre on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations: for example avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing. All of these terms have been variously adopted and contested by anthologies such as Children of Albion (1969), A Various Art (1987), The New British Poetry (1988), Floating Capital (1991), Conductors of Chaos (1996), Out of Everywhere (1996), Foil (2000), Anthology of British and Irish Poetry (2001) and Vanishing Points (2004).
Edited by Scott Thurston & Robert Sheppard
Jeff Hilson at Edge Hill University
Thursday 23rd April 2009, 6.30-8.30 E24 at 6.30-8pm. (upstairs) FREE.
Fresh from his brilliant reading of Bird Bird at the Runnymeade Festival:
Jeff Hilson will be talking about his work.
Jeff Hilson’s works include A Grasses Primer (2000), Stretchers (2007), Bird Bird (2009), and In the Assarts (ongoing). He teaches at Roehampton University, London. With Sean Bonney and David Miller, he co-founded Crossing the Line, a reading series based in London.
Sampled in various small press editions over recent years and aired in live performances in London and elsewhere, Jeff Hilson’s Stretchers comprise three fast moving sequences of (more or less) 33-line poems. “Each stretcher contains a story, and each story contains other stories.” “A stretcher mis-uses that which it stretches into. Reading down the column, which stands immaculate among the ruined vocabularies. The idea of a stretcher works so well that every reading simply multiplies – by dint of new stretcher-ideas – whatever Hilson scraps together. How far can a lie stretch?” Edmund Hardy, Intercapillary Space
He is also the editor of the well-received and controversial Reality Street Book of Sonnets With no fewer than 84 contributors, this is a truly groundbreaking anthology. There are plenty of modern sonnet anthologies around; but none that have delved so thoroughly into the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the venerable form, including visual and concrete sonnets. We take as our time frame 1945 to the 21st century, with poets ranging from Edwin Denby (b. 1903) to those currently in their twenties. Jeff Hilson, the editor, contributes an introductory essay.
Via Robert Sheppard
if p then q issue 3
if p then q issue three is a special poster set commissioned by The Text Festival It comprises five colour posters in a postal tube by:
Anne Charnock
Craig Dworkin
Geof Huth
P. Inman
Tom Jenks
Anne Charnock’s Uncertainty Series No. 10 is pictured here.
Price is £5 + postage.
Available to buy HERE or at Bury Art Gallery.
Streetcake New Issue
And bloody good it is
Poems by:
David Berrigan
Steph Codsi,
Giles Ford
Tom Jenks
Andrew Rihn
Adam Stone
Marja Hagborg
Peter Philpott and Emma Liukunas
Karen Sandhu
Charlotte Harrison
Mutapoem Live
Contact Matt Dalby if you’re interested in getting muta with him.
Click on the flyer for more.
onedit 12
The new issue of onedit is out. Brilliant as ever.
Features:
Charles Bernstein
Ann Bogle
Adrian Clarke
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
John Gibbens
Holly Pester
Ted Greenwald & Kit Robinson
Jonathan Skinner
Philip Terry
Stephen Vincent
via Tim Atkins
Penn Sound Stats
PennSound stats:
PennSound users downloaded 4 million mp3 sound recordings and related media files in the past month.
At this point, we are projecting 50 million downloads for 2009.
Good runnings.
via Charles Bernstein
Alan Halsey: Term as in Aftermath
Poems 2005-2008, including the complete ‘Looking-glass for Logoclasts’, the first publication of ‘Unkempt Archive’ and in the title sequence re-readings of texts from the schoolbooks of the ancient Egyptians via Seneca and Stein to The Tennis Court Oath and the codenames of recent military operations, together with translations of newly discovered fragments of Mercurialis and further studies of the lizopard.
100pp. ISBN 978-0-9808873-5-8. £11.95 postfree in UK.
North American distribution by SPD. More information at West House Books.
Wordle
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Below is Pound’s Canto 1
Sundays at the Oto
March 15: Paul Taylor’s Trombone Poetry + Uru-Ana + Mike Weller
Paul Taylor’s Trombone Poetry is a solo performance project that interweaves music and poetry in a kind of poetry slalom. Uru-Ana are London-based sound artist/musician Alex Thomas and writer/performer Alex Walker. Michael Weller renders name, place, voice, words, stories, pictures, as public performance. All three approach the performance of poetry from difference routes – Paul Taylor from the improv music circuit, Uru-Ana from theatre and Dada cabaret (though Alex Walker has had two texts on Great Works: Offertorium and Termination #3: Quest), Mike Weller from Writers Forum, but also the politics of the punk scene. They are all skilled and thought-provoking performers who have extended the boundaries of performed language.
via Peter Philpott
