THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for July, 2009
Tina Darragh and P. Inman videos
Readings of Tina Darragh and P. Inman on 1st July. These were consecutive sets but are broken into ‘parts’: Tina’s is 4 parts and Pete’s is 3. Enjoy again or for the first time.
TINA DARRAGH
P. INMAN
The Other Room 10 update
Steve Willey has had to pull out of The August Other Room reading but will be scheduled again in the near future.
Caroline Bergvall, Cash for Questions – Final Call
Any last questions for Caroline Bergvall who will answer your questions in issue 4 of if p then q due out in September 2009. If you have anything to ask her please email James Davies at ifpthenq@fsmail.net . The sublime is encouraged. The format is taken from a regular Q magazine feature of which there are many examples on the web.
Thanks, James
Steve Willey – Openned
Steve Willey is reading at the next The Other Room on August 5th. Read all about him and follow the links to his work on the Openned site.
Frances Kruk – Dark Mucus
Frances Kruk will be reading at the August 5th The Other Room. Explore her work here on her blog Dark Mucus.
Patricia Farrell – Whose Signature
Patricia Farrell gave a wonderful reading at The Other Room 6. Unfortunately this was a night of technical meltdown and recording came to a halt. She has very kindly recorded a sample, being a section of her cycle Whose Signature.
Sean Bonney – Abandoned Buildings
Sean Bonney will be reading at the next The Other Room on 5th August. You can get acquainted with his work on his own Abandoned Buildings blog.
Halsey and Monk at Ledbury
4.15pm – 5.15pm, 10 July. Burgage Hall. £8
“Alan Halsey will talk about his latest work, the Lives of the Poets, which he has been working on for the past eight years. As the typical literary biography gets heavier and denser, Halsey’s 191 lives take the opposite approach: each Life is a poem distilled in a few highly-concentrated lines. The famous (Chaucer, Wyatt, Milton, Pope) appear alongside the lesser known and many forgotten poets, including a large number of women, are saluted. Geraldine Monk is an electrifying performer of her poetry, which has appeared in many anthologies and maps the places she has lived with a visceral intensity, as if places possess her. This will be an event full of discoveries and contrasts.”
Shadowtrain
Issue 29 of Shadowtrain is now online featuring:
- Rupert M Loydell
- Angeline Farrow
- Martin Stannard
- Peter Hughes
- Keith Hilling
- Carole Coates
- Lia Brooks
- Libby Hart
- Nathan Thompson
- Rufo Quintavalle
- Ian McMillan on Gavin Selerie
Jeremy Deller – Procession
“Celebrate the launch weekend of MIF by lining the Deansgate mile to witness a free and uniquely Mancunian procession, created by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller.”
The Commons II
The second instalment of The Commons by Sean Bonney (who will be reading at The Other Room in August) is available now in pdf form on Openned Press. Highly recommended.
The Other Room 9 – review
Thanks to Matt Dalby for this review of the Tina Darragh and P.Inman reading on 1st July.
Other Room 9 photos
Photos from the fantastic July reading by Tina Darragh and p.inman are now online. Click here to visit the photos page.
Antifreeze 2009
Contents May Vary are hosting ANTIFREEZE Manchester’s very first art car boot fair as part of Trade City. ANTIFREEZE is an exhibition about the high-end art market delivered within the format of low-end trade. It is the grass-roots answer to hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and non-commercial practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and independence with artists and artist-led organisations responding to the physical, social, economical, geographical and literal situation.
Saturday 4th July 2009. 12-7pm. Free entry. MAP
CHIPS Building, Upper Kirby Street, off Old Mill Street, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6EB
