THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for October, 2009
5th November – Crossing the Line
WARNING TONGUE NIGHT WARNING TONGUE NIGHT WARNING TONGUE NIGHT
Alan Halsey & Gavin Selerie. Collectively 120 years old. Be very afraid.
Thursday November 5, 7.30. The Leather Exchange, Leathermarket Street, London Bridge. £5, £3.
No fireworks. Bring own toffee apples.
Poetry Library Special Collections and Artists’ Book Open Day
Poetry Library Special Collections and Artists’ Book Open Day
Sunday 15 November 2009
From the first drafts of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake in the magazine Transition (1927) and the beginnings of Philip Larkin’s and Simon Armitage’s careers in pamphlet form, The Poetry Library collection includes the whole range of poetry publications since 1912. The Library invites you to an open display of posters, pamphlets, artists’ books, postcards and magazines from its various collections. With items from early modernism through to the Beat and Concrete movements, take this chance to engage with the underworld of nearly a century of poetry, including works on display from TS Eliot, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Creeley and Sarah Lucas.
Also includes a section ‘mail out poetry’ with Matchbox
Matt Dalby – array
Does the art world have little knowledge of contemporary poetry?
Caroline Bergvall reviews the Poetry Marathon:
I’m writing in from London where I’ve recently been part of a highly ambitious poetry event. The internationally reputed Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park has for the past 4 years been hosting a mad type of event, an annual 36 hours live event, a more or less non-stop art marathon of presentations. This year they decided to create it as a Poetry Marathon. Some 50 poets were slated to take part, each reading for approx. 15 mins—a decent time given the chain of readings and the expected strained attention span.
The event has been summarized in great detail online, complete with program notes, introductory remarks by the curator and high-end cultural entrepreneur Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as pics and comments on many of the readers. Although amazing, I have to admit the event has left me thoughtful…
Tony Trehy
Tony Trehy reads at The Other Room, 25th October 2009. Apologies for the technical difficulties. Tony eventually does emerge gloriously from the mist.
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James Davies
James Davies reads at The Other Room, 25th October 2009. Apologies for the technical difficulties.
Stuart Calton
Stuart Calton reads for The Other Room, 25th October 2009.
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Lucy Harvest Clarke – cotton book and what am i to write
Tasters from Lucy Harvest Clarke’s collection Silveronda, which is at the printers, can be found at if p then q at THIS LINK
Openned presents ‘basemeta’
In the basement of the Foundry, Old Street, London, from 18:30 to 23:30 on the 25th of March 2009, poets Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde documented the entire Openned poetry reading from before it started to well after it had finished. This reading was the eighteenth in the series. From this they produced a document called basemeta.
In some of the recordings of the 18th Openned night you can catch occasional glimpses of them or hear the gentle tap of typewriter keys as they produced the documentation.
basemeta was performed at the next Openned night and their performance of this document can be viewed here. However, the documentation also stands as a poem in its own right and is an excellent piece of work and is available here for free and will be permanently available from our Nights Documentation page.
Click HERE to link to blog entry for free downloadable pdf and links to visual material
The Other Room 12 – Tomorrow
Sunday 25thOctober, 1.45 pm. Part of the Oxjam festival.
Apotheca, 75-77 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1FS.
Admission is free, but a donation to Oxjam is suggested.
Readers: Stuart Calton, James Davies and Tony Trehy.
Flax
Flax magazine will be launching Mostly Truthful, their first non-fiction anthology, at Lancaster Lit Fest on Saturday 24th October, featuring Kate Feld, Jane Routh, Adrian Slatcher and Katherine Woodfine.
Two more Matthew Welton dates
One at MMU with Jeremy Over and Richard Price
And one at Bolton Octagon with Paul Griffiths
With Jeremy Over and Richard Price
MMU and Carcanet invite you to the Manchester launch for
‘We needed coffee but…’
by Matthew Welton
&
Deceiving Wild Creatures
by Jeremy Over
Free entry
on Thursday 29th October at 6.30pm
in Lecture Theatre 6, Geoffrey Manton building
With Paul Griffiths
Monday 2 November 2009
8pm
Bolton Octagon
£4
Cleaves
Cleaves is a new journal collecting poetry from the United Kingdom and Europe. Each area will have an editor, who selects another editor after their issue is complete.
Areas and Editors identified so far include:
London – Sean Bonney
Brighton
Liverpool/Manchester – Richard Barrett
Midlands
North East
South-West (Bristol, Dartington & Plymouth)
Cork, Ireland – David Toms
Denmark, Poland and Turkey – Marcus Slease
If you would like to suggest/discuss an area or volunteer to be an editor, please go to http://cleavesjournal.wordpress.com/ and email poet and webmaster Harry Godwin using the link provided on the site.
Here is the guidance for editors that is posted on the website:
3 to 4 pages (this is not strict) of 3 poets (2 + your work, though you don’t have to include your work), from your local area and/or scene of poets.
You may create/commission your own cover of the issue for your area – all covers will be displayed online in a separate document. You may just choose to use the online cover. Anything goes.
Once you have edited your selection together send it to the webmaster (me for the time being: h j g o d w i n @ g m a i l . c o m).
When I have received all of the expected collections I will collate them and send them out to all editors.
You can print the journal any way you see fit – in booklet form (by using Adobe Reader – print as booklet, then you’ll have to print half of it, turn it over manually and print the other half – I have a good method of doing this, e-mail me for help), or as an A4 document or…
Distribute the journal – either through the associated reading series, or at any reading series you attend. You can charge for it to cover your printing costs and the cost may vary depending on how large it is. If there is any profiteering, I would love to see some.
Choose the next editor wisely, and ask them to e-mail or call me.
Thank you for donating your editing time to Cleaves!
Knives, Forks and Spoons – relaunched
Alec Newman has picked up the torch from Richard Barrett and is now managing Knives, Forks and Spoons press. His publication schedule is as follows:
October 2009:
‘Earthworks’, poetry by Alec Newman and illustrations by Stacey Dunkinson. £5.00.
‘Londonstone’, a long poem by Alex Davies. £3.50.
‘Little Machines’, poetry by Simon Rennie. £5.00.
‘Captured Yes’, poetry by Steven Walling. Price to be confirmed.
Later in 2009:
‘North’, poetry by Matt Dalby, and graphic interpretations of sound waves by Stacey Dunkinson.
A collection of poetry by Scott Thurston.
Another one by Antony Rowland.
And a collection of art prints by Stacey Dunkinson.
More here.
Praxis Etudes – Justin Katko
“Justin Katko is nay one afraid to build multiple bunkers and is, well, quite luckily, one of the most threatening poets writing today. In arche and future and tender curve to present, the notion of persona does no righteousness of fire to Katko’s affectivity and nerved up prosodic methods. Reader of this, read this book and admire.”
Via Josh Stanley. More here.
Poetry Marathon
Get down to London if you can with short notice would be well worth it…
Park Nights
Poetry Marathon
Saturday and Sunday
17–18 October
Poetry Marathon is a two-day poetry event featuring performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. It is the fourth in the innovative series of Marathons staged in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion each year, conceived by Serpentine Gallery Co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist. The first Marathon, Interview Marathon, 2006, involved interviews with leading figures in contemporary culture over 24-hours, conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas. This was followed by Experiment Marathon, 2007, which included 50 experiments by speakers across arts and science, and Manifesto Marathon, 2008.
Participants include Vito Acconci, Etel Adnan, Caroline Bergvall, Kenneth Bostock, Nathan Cash Davidson, Jimmie Durham, Dominic Eichler, Gilbert & George, Olivier Garbay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tim Griffin, Eugen Gomringer, Karl Holmqvist, Ranjit Hoskote, Nick Laird, Sean Landers, Maria Mirabal, Eileen Myles, Gerhard Rühm, Mladen Stilinovic, UbuWeb, Franz West and Cerith Wyn Evans
Tickets
£25/£20 (two day)
£15/£10 (one day)
Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or
Ticketweb: 08444 77 1000
www.ticketweb.co.uk
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su.html
Via Caroline Bergvall
Michael Haslam at The Other Room
Michael Haslam at The Other Room, 7th October 2009.
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Latest release from The Arthur Shilling Press
The latest title from The Arthur Shilling Press, ‘The Everyday of Irma Kite’ by Neil Addison (poet of the blog ‘Flying Pig, Folding Chair’), is now available for the paltry sum of £2.50. It’s accessible from here, including a postage cost of £2.
From Harry Godwin
Matthew Welton and others at No Point in Being Friends…
At The Manchester Literature Festival
No Point Not Being Friends
| Date | Monday 19 October 2009 |
|---|---|
| Time | 7:30 PM (19:30 hrs) |
| Venue | Matt & Phred’s Jazz Club |
| Ticket Price | £3 |
