THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for June, 2010
Reality Street Summer Sale
Reality Street announces its SUMMER SALE of selected titles from the back catalogue. This unique opportunity to acquire some of the most interesting innovative poetry texts of recent years at knock-down prices is available exclusively to visitors to http://www.realitystreet.co.uk during July and August. Buy the books with your debit/credit card via our PayPal site.
Kelvin Corcoran; Lyric Lyric (was £5.99) £2
Allen Fisher: Dispossession & Cure (was £6.50) £2
Fanny Howe: O’Clock (was £6.50) £2
Tony Lopez: Data Shadow (was £6.50) £2
Denise Riley: Selected Poems (was £9) £5
Lisa Robertson: Debbie: An Epic (was £7.50) £2
Lisa Robertson: The Weather (was £7.50) £2
John Seed: Interior in the Open Air (was £5.99) £1
Maurice Scully: Steps (was £6.50) £2
Robert Sheppard: The Lores (was £7.50) £2
Lawrence Upton: Wire Sculptures (was £5) £2
John Welch: Blood & Dreams (was £6.99) £1
Five From Finland: translated & edited by Anselm Hollo (was £7.50) £2
Out of Everywhere: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (was £12.50) £5
Reality Street 4Pack #2: Vital Movement (Andy Brown, Jennifer Chalmers, Mike Higgins, Ira Lightman) (was £5) £1
Reality Street 4Pack #3: New Tonal Language (Patricia Farrell, Shelby Matthews, Simon Perril, Keston Sutherland) (was £5) £1
Reality Street 4Pack #4: Renga+ (Guy Barker, Elizabeth James, Peter Manson) (was £5) £1
Offer is valid while stocks remain or until 31 August 2010. Direct internet orders accepted from individual retail customers only via http://www.realitystreet.co.uk, and limited to one copy of each title – offer not available elsewhere. Postage & packing will be added at the following rates (valid anywhere in the world): £2.50 (orders totalling up to £5); £3.50 (£5.01-£14.99); £5 (£15-£24.99); £6.50 (£25 upward).
Ken Edwards
Reality Street
63 All Saints Street
Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3BN
United Kingdom
http://www.realitystreet.co.uk
Preview of Other Room reader 7th July – Keston Sutherland
Some links to Keston Sutherland who reads with Nathan Thompson, Derek Beaulieu & Jeff Hilson next week.
Editing
Part one of Hot White Andy on Youtube
Poem
Nojagtig Pamplemousse
Nojagtig Pamplemousse was shown at the recent if p then q book launches. It is part of the book Absolute Elsewhere by Joy as Tiresome Vandalism published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. The video below is to be played on a loop. It’ll be archived at if p then q in the next few days.
LINK to Knives Forks and Spoons Press
LINK to video
Geof Huth reading live and not in person
Geof Huth’s superb live reading from his house in New York transmitted to The Odder Bar in Manchester and the internet for if p then q is available at this link and later it should be on the if p then q website.
if p then q launches TONIGHT with Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, Tom Jenks. Lucy Harvest Clarke and Geof Huth
if p then q readings & book launches
@ Odder Bar
14 Oxford Road (opposite The BBC), Manchester, UK
23rd June 2010
6.30 pm [1:30 pm Eastern Time in the US]
Free admission
Performers:
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism
Geof Huth
Tom Jenks
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Programme:
6.30: Joy as Tiresome Vandalism present Nøjagtig Pamplemousse
7.00: Geof Huth (live stream – watch at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geof-huth)
7.45: Lucy Harvest Clarke (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
8.15: Tom Jenks: (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
If you can’t be there in person use the above URLs to watch on the internet. Please be aware that all times are approximate.
Preview of The Other Room reader 7th July – Derek Beaulieu
Some links to the work of Derek Beaulieu who reads at The Other Room 7th July with Keston Sutherland, Jeff Hilson and Nathan Thompson. Next week Keston Sutherland:
Interview
Youtube reading of How to Write
Some works
Sudo Poetry
From Michael Egan:
Dear Poets,
I am inviting you all to take part in a poetic experiment. If you don’t like experiments then stop reading now. I am putting together a blog called Sudo Poetry. This is a new poetic form and I hope to use the blog to present ‘sudo’ (as in judo) poems – purely the poems, no social commentary or critical chit chat.
The first rule of Sudo poetry is that poets use pseudonyms. Obviously when poems are submitted a note will be made and stored of the poet’s true name alongside the ‘sudo’ name but only the ‘sudo’ name will be displayed on the blog.
You may at this point say, ‘nah, what’s the point’ and wander away. That’s fine, I am merely inviting submissions and may get zero submissions whereby there will be no blog (maybe the few sudo poems I have written) and no ‘sudo’ poetry.
And so ‘sudo’ poetry requires rules for me to call it a poetic form. Here are those rules which I hope you may be moved to try out:
Sudo poems are 7 lines long.
Lines 1, 2 and 3 consist of the following syllable count: 7/10/7.
The last syllables of line 1 and 2 rhyme.
That rhyme is loosely carried over into the first syllable of line 3.
These first 3 lines are called the ‘su’ and must have some reference to either an animal or a bodily function or a wildflower.
The second section of 4 lines is called the ‘do’ and each line has six syllables. There is no rhyming structure here but you can always impose one if you like.
The first syllable of the first 3 lines should begin with the same vowel. So line 4,5 and 6 might each begin with an ‘a’ say or maybe an ‘e’.
The last syllable of lines 4, 5 and 6 should also end with the same consonant. Each might stop with a t. Or even a v.
And for line 7. The last line of the ‘do’. This should be nothing to do with anything you’ve written about in the rest of the poem. If the poem is about the world cup then make the last line about Harald Hardrada. The vowel and consonant rules do not apply here.
And by following these rules you should have written a sudo.
I will use the blog as a tool to express only Sudo poetry and as I said, I would like poets to write under pseudonyms…sudonyms…sudo-nyms. Hammer that point in.
This is a purely poetic experiment but may become an academic one. I would also ask if anyone is bored enough to write a sudo poem and submit one, might they then pass the email on to other poets they know. It would be good to do this for say a year and see how many sudo poems I can get on the blog.
Here is an example of a sudo poem I have written.
daschund of our separation
when last I saw that daschund
our night was paid for by the christmas fund
round after round of schnapps downed
it slept right through our songs
ignorant of our sins
inebriated bliss
how quickly maize crops fail.
Yours sincerely
Michael Egan….I will be presenting poems on the blog as Ian McMichael.
Also can all submissions be sent to sudopoetry@yahoo.co.uk
Hearing Voices
Crystal Clear Creators, an arts organisation devoted to developing, producing, publishing and promoting new writing, is pleased to announce Hearing Voices, a new literary magazine. The magazine is now open to submissions (see below).
Description
Hearing Voices is a triannual magazine of poetry and prose by new, up-and-coming and established writers. The magazine will initially run for a year, and hence include three issues. Each issue will be edited by a guest editor, who will provide feedback on ALL submissions, whether or not they are accepted. Each edition of the magazine will have an ISBN and be professionally designed and printed.
The project will also include redesigning our website (currently out of action) in order to promote the magazine, and to include some of the submissions as a kind of showcase.
We hope to run a launch event sometime in 2011 (venue and date t.b.a.).
Timetable and Editors
This is a provisional timetable for publication, and will be subject to change:
15 October 2010 1st issue published, edited by Maria Taylor
15 January 2011 2nd issue published, edited by Sue Mackrell and David McCormack
15 April 2011 3rd issue published, edited by Mellissa Flowerdew-Clarke and Alex
Plasatis
Deadlines for submissions for each issue are as follows:
20 July 2010 deadline for submissions for 1st issue
15 November 2010 deadline for submissions for 2nd issue
1 March 2011 deadline for submissions for 3rd issue
Email submissions received after the deadline will be held over to the next issue. Some accepted works may, where necessary, also be held over to the next issue, depending on space and theme.
The overall coordinator and general editor of the magazine is Jonathan Taylor (crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk).
Submission Guidelines
Hearing Voices is a magazine of poetry and prose (short fiction and creative non-fiction). If you would like to submit poetry or prose to Hearing Voices, please send your work as an email attachment (MS-Word document or similar) to cccsubmissions@hotmail.co.uk. Please:
• include a short (three-line) biography about yourself in the email or on the document.
• send no more than three poems for each issue of the magazine. Poems should be no longer than 60 lines each.
• send no more than one piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) for each issue, of no more than 1,000 words.
• do not send review or feature articles, which we cannot publish.
• make sure that your name is clearly displayed both on the email and on the attached document.
• only send original, unpublished work by yourself, which has not been simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
There is no payment for accepted work, but all writers included in the magazine will receive a complimentary copy. Uniquely, the editors will provide a short report on ALL submissions, whether or not the work is accepted for the magazine. We would encourage all writers who submit work to the magazine to consider joining Crystal Clear Creators (see below), but this is entirely up to you, and will not influence the editors’ decisions.
Please note that the magazine has an ‘interventionist’ editorial policy. If your work is accepted, the editors reserve the right to alter minor elements of the writing, or to make suggestions to you for further revisions. Submission to the magazine implies you accept this ‘interventionist’ approach. The editors’ decision on all work is final.
Please note
Ideally, the magazine will aim to publish as many different writers as possible. This means that we will normally only accept ONE piece per submission – so, if you submit three poems, we will normally accept one of them. We hope you understand that this is to maximise the number of different writers we can publish each issue. There will, of course, be exceptions made to this rule where deemed necessary by the editors.
Cost and Subscriptions
• Each individual issue of the magazine costs £3, or £2.50 to members of Crystal Clear Creators (see below). This includes postage and packing.
• A subscription to all three issues of the magazine costs £8, or £7 to members of Crystal Clear Creators (see below). This includes postage and packing.
• Membership of Crystal Clear Creators costs £5 per year.
Please send all cheques, with a covering note, to Crystal Clear Creators, c/o Dr. Jonathan Taylor, Department of English and Creative Writing, Faculty of Humanities, Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH.
Call for Work – Gulf Coast Poems
Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound human-made ecological catastrophes in history.
The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects.
Please submit 1-3 poems, a short bio, and credits for any previously published submissions to: poetsforlivingwaters@yahoo.com
More information here. Via Nicole Mauro.
FUTURES by Ken Edwards reissued
FUTURES, Ken Edwards’ 1998 novel, has been reissued by Reality Street with a new cover, after briefly going out of print.
The narrative traces the paths taken on her bicycle by the protagonist, Eye, across and out of an unnamed city in the wake of an event she can’t remember. Her quest is to face her terror and retrieve the fragments of her life, which lie in the future that never quite arrives, until it does.
More here.
Extension to this work i don’t know what is
this work im doin I don’t kno what it is
Philip Davenport’s visual poetry project at Henry Moore Institute library will be exhibited until July. Poems have been written into spreadsheets, presenting moral dilemmas as accountancy – war crimes, celebrity, or the simple act of shopping become a tangle of questions. The spreadsheets are accompanied by 3D objects. So, dozens of broken eggshells become symbols for smashed skulls; a poem inscribed within the fragments. From these broken pieces of information, Davenport rebuilds delicate, intuited meanings…
Images and more details at LINK
(Please note that the exhibition run has been extended for longer than originally advertised.)
Henry Moore Institute
The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AH, UK
Open Monday to Sunday from 10am to 5.30pm, and Wednesday from 10am to 9pm
Richard Makin, Ken Edwards and Lucy Harvest Clarke reading
Sat 26 June 2010 – Richard Makin, Ken Edwards, with Lucy Harvest-Clarke, F-ISH Gallery, 45 Robertson St, Hastings, 6.15, free
Preview of Other Room reader 7th July – Nathan Thompson
Some links to the work of Nathan Thompson who reads at The Other Room 7th July with Keston Sutherland, Jeff Hilson and Derek Beaulieu. Next week Derek Beaulieu:
Reviews
American Poetry With An Accent
Paul Evans, The Door of Taldir, Selected Poems
Lee Harwood
Poems
Tom Jenks A Priori
Tom Jenks’ first collection is now back in print with all new white font on the cover:
4 news KFS pamphlets
Out Now:
Anna McKerrow’s ‘Taropoetics’ £5.00, 59 pages.
S. Kelly’s ‘Locklines’ £5.00, 24 pages.
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism (AKA James Davies & Simon Taylor) ‘Absolute Elsewhere’ £5.00, 32 pages.
Ed Baker’s ‘De:sire Is’ £3.00, 12 pages.
Check them out at www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
SPECIAL OFFER: 3 books for £10
10 books for £30<
New from West House Books
Maintenant – new site
The 3am magazine Maintenant series aims to evidence, through discussion with Europe ’s most exceptional young poets, the continued pertinence of poetry for a new generation of talent from a diverse selection of European poetic traditions. The interviews, and the poetry that accompanies them, have shown the slow dissolution of stylistic recalcitrance, internal bias to gender and race, methodological snobbery and poetical jingoism. The fusion of poetic expression inevitable in a world of increased communication, access and political freedom is remarkable and cause for optimism where so often there is pessimism in poetry circles. The range and depth of poetry on display, and it’s standard, is a small representation of what each nation is producing.
The Maintenant dictum is to introduce poets that might lie outside of the Anglo-American scene, or be overlooked until they have reached the prominence of middle age. More at the new Maintenant site here.
Preview of Other Room reader 7th July – Jeff Hilson
Preview of Jeff Hilson. Click on the links below. Next week Nathan Thompson:
Poems
The wonderful bird bird
Review
of Stretchers at On Company Time
Blog
Signals Issue 6
Poetry
Amy De’Ath
Kai Fierle-Hedrick
Sarah Kelly
D. S. Marriott
Timothy Thornton
Reviews
Michael Kindellan reviews Sara Crangle, Wild Ascending Lisp
Peter Manson reviews Keston Sutherland, Stress Position
More here.
