THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for May, 2009
The Other Room 7 in pictures
The April 1st 2009 evening marked the first year of The Other Room. You can’t have a birthday without cake and we didn’t. Click on the picture of Mr. Richard Barrett’s bespoke artefact as elegantly gripped by the man himself to see more.
Silveronda
The title of Lucy Harvest Clarke’s first collection due out in September from if p then q.
See selections of her work at:
Richard Makin – Rift Designs
Published: May 09 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF.
Read an extract from this evolving and engaging sequence, coursesy of Openned.
Fact-Simile
FACT-SIMILE is a literary journal published twice annually and publisher of books. Their latest book is The O Mission Repo by Travis MacDonald (see reading below); a retranscribing and rescoring of the 9/11 governmental report.
Matt Dalby
Two tasters for Matt’s performance at The Other Room on 3rd June: watch the clip below of Matt recorded at Poets and… in April 2009 or click here to listen to Matt at Freed Up Poets in July 2008.
Silliman on Quietude
“The surprise is not that the School of Quietude is ruthless in its practice of power politics. That has been its hallmark forever – beginning with a century-long pretense that it represents the whole of poetry, rather than just an anti-modernist / premodernist sliver within a far larger spectrum. No, the surprise is that the SoQ is so very bad at it.”
Ron Silliman on the School of Quietude and the Oxford University Professor of Poetry controversy.
Alex Davies – LONDONSTONE
Alex will be reading at the next Other Room on 3rd June. Click below to access an extract from his ongoing project LONDONSTONE.
Streetcake issue 5
Online now, featuring work by:
- Sean Burn
- Stephanie Codsi
- Trini Decombe
- Nikki Dudley
- Kyle Hemmings
- P.A. Levy
- Anna Mckerrow
- Angela Readman
- Sarah Shaheen
- Lora Stimson
Allen Fisher reading Quietly Random at Matchbox
Allen will be performing at the next Other Room on 3rd June. As a taster, try this clip recorded at James Davies’ Matchbox event in 2007.
The Arthur Shilling Press
The Arthur Shilling Press is intended to be a small press for the emerging innovative poets of England, creating chap books and pamphlets for non-profit distribution. It is run by the poet Harry Godwin.
Parameter VIII
The latest issue of Parameter Magazine is out now, featuring poetry from Jaime Birch, Steven Fowler, Dylan Harris, Francis Kirstein, Richard Makin and Alec Newman, plus reviews from Michael Murray. Click HERE to buy a copy for £3.50 including postage.
Matt Dalby – Whisper
Other Room performer Matt Dalby is releasing a CD-R of sound poetry every month throughout 2009. June’s release, Whisper, will be on sale at Matt’s Other Room performance on 3rd June. Get your hands on this and the previous five to keep you in your old age.
Other Cl/utter – call for submissions
“Other Cl/utter is an online gallery space designed to explore “text as art”. Taking inspiration from the visual poetry of bpNichol and Steve McCaffrey the site has set out to examine text (words, letters, phrases, sentences, found text, pictures etc.) as an inherently visual space. Contributors are often artists and poets who view language and its component parts as visual objects that lend themselves to shifting meanings and therefore recognize that words visually contain multiple entryways into understanding. Other Clutter is a space for both writers and artists to dismantle and reconstruct the political and representational overtones of text and art.
Language is inherantly visual, it is already art. Many of you are already using text in your art or art in your text. Other Clutter asks WHY and gives you a space to contextualize the work.”
Robin Blaser
Robin Blaser, one of the last major figures among those who came to public notice via Don Allen’s New American Poetry, died on May 7th at the age of 83. This week’s edition of Jefferson Davis’ Wordplay features three recordings. The first finds Blaser reading in Vancouver in 1965; the second, discussing his work, and that of his fellows, in a BBC interview with Iain Sinclair in 1994; the third, reading at the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee in 2004.
Via British-Irish Poets and Marcus Slease.
Saving Salt Publishing
From Chris Hamilton-Emery:
“As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we’ve £4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot apply through Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt’s operations. Spring sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and despite April’s much improved trading, the past twelve months has left us with a budget deficit of over £55,000. It’s proving to be a very big hole and we’re having to take some drastic measures to save our business. Here’s how you can help us to save Salt and all our work with hundreds of authors around the world.
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Cutting Room Experiment
“Come along to the Bay Horse on Thursday to find out more about the Cutting Room Experiment. This is the event which could see hundreds of people bouncing around in the biggest Space Hopper race ever, a huge silent disco and a mass dance routine to Michael Jackson’s Thriller just to name a few. Until votes close on Friday, May 29 anything could happen!
With an interactive website, this event wants the audience to get involved, come up with their own ideas and also vote for their favourites in each stream.
And this is where you come in – bloggers are the new influencers and we want you to get involved. Have a look at the website – www.cuttingroomexperiment.com – there are 12 streams on everything from architecture and design, dance, pop music, art and craft, literature and loads more to make sure there is absolutely something for everyone to enjoy. Get voting or if you have a better idea, then put it down.
Please join us at the Bay Horse on Thursday, May 21 at 6.30pm for a free pint and a chat. It would be great to meet you.
Bay Horse, 35-37 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1NA.
T: 0161 661 1041
