THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for September, 2009
if p then q issue 4 taster – Allen Fisher’s Proposals 26 & 27
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
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Craig Dworkin, Smokes
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.
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
Artists’ Taking the Lead
To have your say on the five regional projects, including Tony Trehy’s Language Moment, visit the link below:
P. Inman – The Other Room
P. Inman talks to James Davies at Bury Art Gallery, 30th June 2009.
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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
