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Archive for September, 2009

if p then q issue 4 taster – Allen Fisher’s Proposals 26 & 27

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if p then q 4 is at the printers. As a taster click on THIS LINK to sample Allen Fisher’s Proposals 26 & 27. This will be the final issue of if p then q magazine so I can concentrate solely on full length collections – a bumper, fun packed issue to end of with. More soon.

For more if p then q downloads click thisLINK

The Other Room at Oxjam

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The Other Room will be presenting an extra event on Sunday 25th October as part of the Oxjam festival. The venue is Apotheca in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and the start is scheduled for 1 PM. We will have three readers:

  • Stuart Calton
  • James Davies
  • Tony Trehy
  • Click here to read more about Oxjam and here to go to the website for Apotheca.

    New Joy As Tiresome Vandalism

    The latest installment of Simon Taylor and The Other Room’s James Davies’ collaborative text and visual project Absolute Elsewhere is now online.

    Link

    Next Openned

    The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:

    • Sean Bonney
    • Sophie Robinson
    • Harry Gilonis
    • Josh Stanley
    • Tim Atkins
    • Nat Raha
    • Posie Rider
    • Peter Philpott
    • Alan Hay
    • Michael Zand
    • Amy De’Ath
    • Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
    • Frances Kruk
    • Raz
    • Andrea Brady
    • Justin Katko

    More TBA.

    Link

    Tina Darragh – The Other Room

    Tina Darragh talks to Tom Jenks at Bury Art Gallery, 30th June 2009.

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    Michael Haslam at Penn Sound

    Michael Haslam will be one of the readers at the next Other Room on 7th October. Get a taste of his work at the ever-excellent Penn Sound, which hosts a recording of Continual Song.

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    New in the library

    Red Shifts by Other Room Reader Maggie O’ Sullivan has been added to The Other Room library and is available for postal loan. Click here to browse the complete library stock list.

    Tina Darragh and Doug Lang

    One for those of you who reside stateside.

    September 12th
    Saturday, 8 p.m.
    at LOF/t
    120 W. North Ave.
    Baltimore, MD 21201

    Tina Darragh – Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.

    Doug Lang – Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.

    Link.

    Craig Dworkin, Smokes

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    One of Craig Dworkin’s many excellent books, which is a free pdf on ubu (see link below). Some part of inspiration for the Matchbox project.

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    Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

    The first issue is out now, 112 pages in length and the contents are as follows:

    EDITORIAL: Scott Thurston and Robert Sheppard

    Dragging at the haemorrhage of uns : Maggie
    O’Sullivan’s excavations of Irish history
    Mandy Bloomfield

    Democratic consensus in J. H. Prynne’s Refuse Collection
    Ian Davidson

    Veronica Forrest-Thomson s Cordelia , tradition and
    the Triumph of Artifice
    Gareth Farmer

    Expectant contexts : Corporeal and desiring spaces in
    Denise Riley’s poetry
    Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy

    BOOK REVIEWS
    Tony Lopez, Meaning Performance
    Reviewed by Robert Sheppard

    John Wilkinson, The Lyric Touch
    Reviewed by Scott Thurston

    More here.

    Artists’ Taking the Lead

    To have your say on the five regional projects, including Tony Trehy’s Language Moment, visit the link below:

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    P. Inman – The Other Room

    P. Inman talks to James Davies at Bury Art Gallery, 30th June 2009.

     

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    Ergon/Logos

    When is a game a poem?

    Via Ron Silliman.

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    Palestine

    The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on the 6th of October. Confirmed poets so far are:

    Sean Bonney, Sophie Robinson, Harry Gilonis, Josh Stanley, Jow Lindsay, Tim Atkins, Nat Raha, Michael Zand, with more T.B.A

    A flyer is in production at the moment but in the mean time for more information check the Openned Poetry Facebook Event.

    The poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.

    via Openned

    If Not This – Ben Gwilliam, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Matt Wand

    As part of the Exhibition Not At This Address (1 August – 7 November), Bury Art Gallery presents an evening of new performances from four of Manchester’s most active Sound Artists working today. If not this is a survey of works that explores sound in performance, crossing the terrain where music and sound often meet inside and outside of Contemporary Art.

    Ben Gwilliam performs ‘molto semplice e cantabile’ a new work for ice records and turntables on the relationship between opus 111 and listening descriptions. Helmut Lemke will perform a durational piece specifically for the gallery that utilises live sound and amplification. Lee Patterson will present a new work containing pre-recorded and improvised elements, where the recordings used are sourced from wire fences in Birtle and within bodies of water in the Bury Metropolitan area. Matt Wand will probably perform ‘I owe it to the girls’.

    Bury Art Gallery
    Friday 4 September

    19.00-22.00 FREE
    Refreshments

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