THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for March, 2010
Preview of TOR April reader Matthew Welton
Links to April reader Matthew Welton. Next week of course is The Other Room 15:
Read Poppy – LINK
Carcanet page with audio interview and readings – LINK
Review of We Needed Coffee by James Davies – LINK
Review of The Book of Matthew by Charles Bainbridge – LINK
Robert Grenier poem-talks WCW
SJ Fowler – Yurriokis Gamboa
Part of Steve Fowler’s cycle based around the life of boxers, now available as an ebook on Red Ceilings press. Read it here.
New issue of Anything Anymore Anywhere
The Spring 2010 issue of ‘anything anymore anywhere’, a literary journal published from Edinburgh, Scotland. Edited by Colin Herd and Reuben Sutton.
This issue features Marcia Arrieta, Claire Askew, Royce Borgeson, Joel Chace, Doru Culiac, Catherine Daly, James Davies, Adam Fieled, Peter Hughes, Geof Huth, Devin Johnston, Mary Kasimor, Scott Keeney, Margaret Konkol, Tony Leuzzi, Cathleen Miller, Adam Perry, Sam Scild, Alex Willie Singerman, Marcus Slease, Nancy Stohlman, Jayne Thickett, Rhys Trimble, Marcus Whale, Jessica Wickens, Justin Wolfers.
The Sound Of Writers Forum
The documentary features eleven poets that have been published by Writers forum over a period of 50 years. The film had no budget and was made over the course of one week and was first screened at the Off The Shelf event held at the Slade/UCl on the 22nd March 2010.
A documentary made by Openned’s Steve Willey. See the video at this LINK
Preview of TOR April reader Zoe Skoulding
Links to April reader Zoe Skoulding. Next week Matthew Welton:
British Council bio – LINK
Review of Remains of a Future City by Ian Seed - LINK
Becoming Post Avant
The thoughts of Steve Waling:
“It was a pressure in my head that made me finally admit that I was whatever kind of poet it is I think I’ve become. I had a failing poem that annoyed me so much, as a last resort, I cut it up. Lo! A light came down from heaven illuminating the path I must follow… or something… Rather, I discovered that I didn’t have to do the whole thing straight, that going the crooked route was just as interesting.”
More here. See Steve’s reading for The Other Room in February here.
Knives Forks and Spoons – new website
Alec Newman’s estimable imprint leaves Facebook behind and launches its own domain. Take a look here.
Absolute Elsewhere
The collaborative text and image project between James Davies and Simon Taylor – collectively Joy As Tiresome Vandalism – concludes with a poem by James. An edited version of Absolute Elsewhere will come out in free pdf format and possibly some other form later in the summer on if p then q. See the complete project here.
Tom Jenks interviewed by 3 AM magazine
An indepth interview in 3 AM magazine conducted by Stephen Fowler. Excerpt below, link to article and extract from * Tom’s next collection which’ll be published in the next few months by if p then q
‘it quickly struck me how almost everybody was ploughing the same few acres. I became more and more interested in doing things in a different way. I started to experiment with form and with space, using the page as a canvas rather than simply a frame. I began to incorporate images and found text and moved beyond using the computer as a typewriter, exploring the potential information technology offers for the production of texts. I wouldn’t say that I had done any more than scratch the surface in this regard so far, but it is something I remain committed to.’
LINK to read more
LINK to extract from *
The Other Room Anthology 2009/10
A wonderful thing which is now going to press after finding the bugs in the proof.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Features readers from April 2009-Feb 2010: Tim Atktins, Phil Davenport, Lisa Samuels, Allen Fisher, Alex Davies, Matt Dalby, P. Inman, Tina Darragh, Sean Bonney, Frances Kruk, Craig Dworkin, Michael Haslam, James Davies, Tony Trehy, Nick Thurston, Sophie Robinson, Steve Waling, Rob Holloway, Holly Pester.
More details soon when it’s printed.
Preview of TOR April reader Ian Davidson
Links to Ian Davidson on the web. Next week Zoe Skoulding:
Author Page at Shearsman – LINK
Poems at Intercapillary Space – LINK
Bob Grumman reviews ntst
Bob Grumann reviews ntst.
Extract and link below:
I was feeling too lousy to post anything here for two or three days, and wouldn’t today, either, although I feel a lot better. However, today I got a copy of Geof Huth’s NTST, the subtitle of which is the collected pwoermds of geof huth. It’s perfect for a blog entry because I can quote whole poems from it quickly, and because I found some pwoermds I can be quickly insightful about.
Sarah Sanders – The act of writing LIVE NOW
Sarah Sanders live writing piece for Ekleksographia is going on now at the LINK until sunrise Tuesday. Go there now.
Schematic Differences between Modernism and Postmodernism
| Modernism | Postmodernism |
| romanticism/symbolism | paraphysics/Dadaism |
| purpose | play |
| design | chance |
| hierarchy | anarchy |
| matery, logos | exhaustion, silence |
| art object, finished word | process, performance |
| distance | participation |
| creation, totalization | deconstruction |
| synthesis | antithesis |
| presence | absence |
| centering | dispersal |
| genre, boundary | text, intertext |
| semantics | rhetoric |
| paradigm | syntagm |
| hypotaxis | parataxis |
| metaphor | metonymy |
| selection | combination |
| depth | surface |
| interpretation | against interpretation |
| reading | misreading |
| signified | signifier |
| lisible (readerly) | scriptible |
| narrative | anti-narrative |
| grande histoire | petite histoire |
| master code | idiolect |
| symptom | desire |
| type | mutant |
| genital, phallic | polymorphous |
| paranoia | schizophrenia |
| origin, cause | difference-difference |
| God the Father | The Holy Ghost |
| Metaphysics | irony |
| determinacy | indeterminacy |
| transcendence | immanence |
Hassan “The Culture of Postmodernism” Theory, Culture, and Society, V 2 1985, 123-4.
Knives, Forks and Spoons book launch
Tuesday March 16, 7pm at The Crescent, 20 The Crescent, Salford, Manchester, M5 4PF.
- Neil Campbell
- Alex Davies
- Dermot Glennon
- John G. Hall
- Steven Waling
Click here for a flyer or here to visit the Knives, Forks and Spoons site.
William Blake and the Naked Teaparty
The new issue of Ekleksographia online magazine ‘William Blake and the Naked Teaparty’ guest edited by Philip Davenport features textworks that emphasise the touch – handwrit and haptic – particularly pieces that consider emotional engagements, human space – that weird trace and corporate/military erasure of the handmade, the human touch, the not-digital. These qualities link into the alternative tradition of poetics – and to ‘outsider’ artists who are owed a debt by the experimenters (an IOU all the way back to Will Blake, he and the Mrs sitting on the lawn in London afternoons, naked, drinking tea).
Contributors: Alan Halsey, Anna MacGowan, The Atlas Group, Ben Gwilliam, Carol Watts, Carolyn Thompson, Darren Marsh, Dave Griffiths, David Tibet, Geof Huth, George Widener, Geraldine Monk, The Gingerbread Tree, Hainer Wormann, Harald Stoffers, Helmut Lemke, Holly Pester, James Davies, Jesse Glass, Jonathan Penton, Julia Grime, Kerry Morrison, Kirstie Gregory, Laurence Lane, Lee Patterson, Li E Chen, Liz Collini, Matt Dalby, Michael Wilson, Morry Carlin, Nick Blinko, Nico Vassilakis, Patricia Farrell, Rachael Elwell, Robert Grenier, Robert Sheppard, Sarah Sanders, Sean Bonney, Stephen Vincent, Steve Waling, Sue Arrowsmith, Todd Thorpe, Tony Lopez and Tony Trehy
The issue goes online 15th March 2010 and will be launched with a 24 hour ‘live’ online writing event by Sarah Sanders
Series Editor Jesse Glass; this issue designed by Jonathan Penton.
Salford Concert series
*SCS 10 :: Ryu Hankil, T.H.F. Drenching, Ben Gwilliam.*
Tuesday 16th March 8.00pm
Islington Mill, James Street, Salford, M3 5HW
Entry: £5 on the door
More info at LINK
Philip Davenport
More from the April 2009 reading with this film of Philip Davenport.
Thanks to Ed Moore for filming and transferring this video.
Click here to open the film in a bigger screen.
