THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for July, 2009
Diverse Deeds
Peter Philpott’s renowned Sundays at the Oto reading series has been reborn as Diverse Deeds. This from Peter via the Brit-Irish poets list:
“I am pleased to announce that the poetry and music reading and performance series Sundays at the Oto will be reborn from autumn onwards as Diverse Deeds, held still at Cafe Oto (18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL), but on evenings, mainly it is hoped Thursday or Wednesday, approximately once a month. The first event will have as poets John James and Sean Bonney, on September 24th. Music is yet to be arranged, but will be an element.
The programme for the rest of the year is now being set up. The specific dates will need to be negotiated with Cafe Oto, and balanced against other events in London, but the event is not tied to a repeated day in the month. If anyone from outside London, indeed from outside UK, who might wish to read or perform, suggests dates when they will be In London, I can see what can be arranged. Similarly I would be interested in considering any suggestions by List Members as to performers (poetry read or performed, music, multimedia etc), especially where poets and musicians are working together.
A MySpace page is being set up, and a Facebook group. Details will be given on www.asifyourlife.blogspot.com. It is planned to increase the level of publicity from that of Sundays at the O, to attract not just the cognoscenti (who I hope will carry on flocking to sunny Dalston), but a wide range of interested people.”
The real business of poetry, meanwhile, goes on under the radar
“Just as one thinks that poetry is on the rise, one reads the list of Forward Prize nominations and starts to despair again.” Steven Waling.
Streetcake 6
The latest issue of the excellent Streetcake magazine is now online, featuring:
- John Patrick Ayson
- Jennifer Edgecombe
- Harry Godwin
- Colin Herd
- Heller Levinson
- Ryan Ormonde
- Wayne Wolfson
- Michael Zand
October and December Other Room readings
Readers announced for the final two 2009 readings:
October 7th: Michael Haslam / Craig Dworkin (video link)
December 2nd: Sophie Robinson / Nick Thurston
Not at This Address
New exhibition opens August 1st featuring text artist Anne Charnock and others at Bury Art Gallery. (Preview 31st July)
Sean Bonney – Document
Sean Bonney will read (along with Frances Kruk) at The Other Room on 5th August. His latest book is available from Barque Press. Read about it on his own Abandoned Building blog. site.
Whatever happened to the avant garde?
Blast, counterblast and rumblings. Catch up with the debate surrounding Robert McCrum’s recent Guardian article via the Openned site.
Next Openned
The next Openned event is Tuesday 11th August, 7 o’clock, Free at the wonderful Foundry as ever.
Readers:
- Harry Gilonis
- Chris Goode
- Dominic Lash
- Josh Robinson
- Tom Jenks
- Francesca Lisette
- Luke Roberts
Early Bernstein at Penn Sound
“In the mid-70s, I made a number of audiotape works, some of which were collected and published as Class. Working with Danny Snelson, and in collaboration with Ubu, I have now made a PennSound page of these works. The PennSound page also includes the restored stereo cuts from Class, which I haven’t listed here. All of the works listed here are being released for the first time.”
Via the Charles Bernstein weblog.
Absolute Elsewhere
The latest instalment of this unfolding collaborative project between James Davies and Simon Taylor (together known as Joy As Tiresome Vandalism) is now online.
Publications received
The following publications have been added to The Other Room library and are available for loan:
- [ lapsed insel weary ]; Susana Gardner; the tangentpress, 2008.
- ab ovo :; Jenn McCreary; Dusie Press; 2009.
- the butterflies and the burnings; Anne Blonstein; Dusie Press; 2009.
- in the bird museum; Kristy Bowen; Dusie Press; 2009.
Thanks to Susana Gardner of Dusie Press for donating these books.
Click here to browse the other books in the library.
Matt Dalby – Tragic Body
The seventh of Matt Dalby’s 12 CD-R releases for 2009 is now complete and will be available shortly. Read more about Matt’s project to produce a CD of sound poetry every month throughout 2009 on his site.
ekleksographia #2
“Ekleksographia is an exercise in asymmetrical publishing, and is a shoe (or even two!) thrown at the spotlit shrug and yawn.” Issue 2 out now, featuring:
- Diana Adams
- Anny Ballardini
- Dan Boehl
- Linh Dinh
- Erica Miriam Fabri
- Adam Fieled
- Ossian Foley
- Maya Funaro
- Niels Hav, trans. by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen
- Dan Hoy
- Amy King
- Nicholas Manning
- Gina Myers
- Obododimma Oha
- Maya Pindyck
- Tomaž Šalamun, trans. with Michael Thomas Taren
- Evie Shockley
- Sampson Starkweather
- Chris Vitiello
- Cynthia Arrieu-King with Hillary Gravendyk
- Jeanne Marie Beaumont
- Alexander Dickow
- Tomas Ekström
- Farrah Field
- Annie Finch
- Jennifer H. Fortin
- Heather Green
- Scott Hightower
- Dorta Jagić, trans. by Ana Božičević
- Tony Mancus
- Miguel Murphy
- Keith Newton
- Daniela Olszewska
- Matthew Rotando
- Barry Schwabsky
- Lytton Smith
- Rohith Sundararaman
- David Wolach
LONDON§TONE – Alex Davies
Alex’s fantastic reading at The Other Room in June featured extracts from the ever-evolving behemoth LONDON§TONE. Download it now from the Openned site.
More Knives, Forks and Spoons news
The third title to appear on Richard Barrett’s Knives, Forks and Spoons press wil be Earthworks by Alec Newman.
Since 2006 Alec has been experimenting with adapting Old-English and Welsh poetic forms so that they will accommodate the modern English Language. His work has previously been featured in Parameter magazine and Blazevox.
More details including author biography can be found here.
Corridor8/Iain Sinclair
“Join us in Manchester on 16 July as we launch Corridor8 with an exclusive talk by the British author, essayist and psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair.
To accompany the launch, Sinclair has conducted a walk through Manchester — a meandering, poetic journey designed to shed new light on a city at once ancient and contemporary. Taking a route from Urbis to the edge of the city, Sinclair saw ghosts and alchemists, geographers and ‘discreet medics’, a road that turned into ‘a river of human traffic’ and pockets of green where wildlife flourished in a way it never could in the ‘toxic run-off from Olympic piracy’ in London.
On 16 July, Sinclair relives this walk in a talk given at its starting point: Urbis. This is an opportunity to meet one of Britain’s leading psychogeographers, and to find out why he has been tempted to write about the North of England for the first time. This part of the launch is strictly limited to 100 places and is now almost sold out.”
The Last Temptation of Thurston
Photographs from Treading Water, an al fresco performance by Elizabeth Willow and The Other Room’s Scott Thurston at Otterspool Park, Liverpool.
