THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for September, 2010
Mute Live
Mute brings together a talented group of artists, musicians & composers for a one-off live event based around the use of sound as an art form.
Featuring performances & demonstrations by Edwyn Butler, Nicholas Donovan, Gary Fisher, Jennifer McDonald & Louise Woodcock, Daniel Watson.
Saturday, October 2 · 8:00pm – 10:30pm
Soup Kitchen Basement
31-33 Spear Street, M1 1DF
Manchester, United Kingdom
zimZalla object 006
zimZalla object 006, Klitschko, an A3 poster poem by SJ Fowler, is now available. Visit the zimZalla site for details.
Preview of Other Room reader 6th October Steve Willey
Preview of October reader Steve Willey. Next week of course is The Other Room:
Poems
Publishing, Events, Everything
Matt Welton at Indentity Parade
Wednesday 29 September 6pm
City Library
Becker Room, First Floor
Elliot House, 151 Deansgate
Manchester M3 3WD
FREE
More here.
Shad Thames, Broken Wharf
From Chris McCabe:
“My play for voices has just been published by Penned in the Margins, it’s called Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and was performed at the London Word Festival in March this year. It’s a beautifully made mini-book of 48 pages that comes in a limited edition box (200 made) with a free-gift of an item from the Thames (fitting the theme of the play), including Victorian claypipes, pottery, a McDonalds toy, a champagne cork and what looks to me like a horse’s tooth. The play will be performed again at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on the 4th of December. More info and to buy on Penned site here: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/?p=954
Closing weekend of Writing / Exhibition / Performance at The Pigeon Wing
Last chance to see the exhibition. Also a variety of live art and performances over the weekend:
Sat 2nd October Live Writing
Artists in residence in the space throughout the weekend include Matt Dalby, Pippa Koszerek, Rachel Lois Clapham, Marianne Holm Hansen, and Press Free Press.
Sun 3rd October Live Writing
Artists in residence in the space throughout the weekend include Matt Dalby, Pippa Koszerek, Rachel Lois Clapham, Marianne Holm Hansen, Karen Di Franco/ CONCRETE RADIO and Press Free Press.
7pm, Closing meal / Performance event
Performances include Julia Calver, Matt Dalby, James Davies, Marianne Holm Hansen, Press Free Press, and Helen Kaplinksy.
Streetcake 13
Out now, featuring:
- Anthony Arnott
- Rembrandt Clarke
- Becky Cremin
- Dr Phuoc-Tan Diep
- Steven Fowler
- Joshua Jones
- Paul McDonald
- Corey Mesler
- A W Singerman
- Tom Watts
More here.
KFS reading and Didsbury Arts Festival reading: Thursday 30th September
If you fancy going out on 30th September there are two great readings which clash in Manchester. Take your pick:
James Davies and Adrian Slatcher, Didsbury Arts Festival, Pizza Express, Lapwing Lane, 7.30
Scott Thurston, Robert Sheppard & Anthony Rowland, Anthony Burgess Foundation, 7pm
Derek Beaulieu on How To Write
Other Room reader Derek Beaulieu talks about How To Write to Helen Hajnoczky.
“Writers in ostrich-like ignorance of the potential of sharing—as opposed to hoarding—their texts, are ignoring potentially the most important artistic innovation of the 20th century: collage.”
More here.
Adrian Clarke: Eurochants review by David Kennedy
Adrian Clarke’s most recent book with Shearsman gets a review from David Kennedy:
“The more you know about poetry, the more poetry becomes a matter of echoes and hauntings. Eliot dedicated ‘The Waste Land’ to Pound with the words il miglior fabbro, the same designation that Dante had given to the troubadour poet Arnaut Daniel. Larkin’s ‘postal districts packed like squares of wheat’ triggers a memory of Auden’s ‘The crowds upon the pavement / Were fields of harvest wheat’. George Herbert’s ‘Is there in truth no beauty?’ becomes a kind of backbeat at the end of Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. This sort of poetic relationship is at the heart of Adrian Clarke’s new book which, in the words of the blurb, tests ‘some possibilities and limits of cultural and linguistic exchange’. Eurochants gathers translations of Max Jacob; improvisations on Chinese love poems, Persius, Tacitus and Villon; and other recent work in Clarke’s characteristic short-lined, phrasal style. Daniel and Dante are in there too.”
Soho Curzon Poetry Reading – SJ Fowler – October Wednesday 6th 7pm
A release of five SJ Fowler publications by four presses Zimzalla / Knives Forks & Spoons press / Kitt press / Arthur Shilling press (http://www.zimzalla.co.uk) (http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk) (http://www.kittpress.com) (http://arthur-shilling-press.blogspot.com) Wednesday October 6th 2010 ~ 7pm ~ Entrance free the Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar
99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 5DY 0871 703 3988
A unique collaborative poetry event featuring the presence of the four of the UK’s most vital and productive publishing organisations. The event will feature a forty-minute reading from SJ Fowler and a sales table with work from the list of each of the presses.
SJ Fowler is one of the most prolific and inventive young poets emerging in Britain. A formidable reader, his poetry is concerned with the latency of aggression in passive cultures, and the violence of the banal. A devotee of boxing, his symbolic engagement with the combative arts lends his writing an assailing immediacy. Concurrently antagonistic and innovative, his poetry is distinct and affecting whether spoken or read from the page – Robert Sutcliffe (editor of Kitt press)
Kitt press present Saint Augustine of Hippo
A poetic / pictorial collaboration with the artist David Kelly, the book is a love letter to Augustine’s secular lust and apparently disingenuous commitment to chastity. The fragmented abstract of an Augustine icon permeates the poetry.
The Knives forks Spoons press present Arthur Abraham
Ten poems in celebration of the German / Armenian boxer recall the tonality of epic Anglo-Saxon poetry run through the grinder of avant-garde documentation.
Kitt press present Animal Husbandry
A series of poems written in response to the Rorschach inkblot paintings of Sian Williams. Each is a meditation on the novelty of this psychological test and the supposed inevitability of its response – an invocation of the sexualized female form.
Arthur Shilling press presents Antonio Margarito
A poetry cycle dedicated to the Mexican boxer banned for loading his gloves with Plaster of Paris, the poems evoke Aztec ritual invocations and Beat-esque free verse ecstatics.
ZimZalla presents Klitschko
Zimzalla object number 6 is a boxing poster designed by SJ Fowler in the manner of the Vienna group concrete poets. Mixing heavy blocked type with irreverent commentaries on the nature of punching people in the face for a living.
Preview of The Other Room reader 6th October Emily Critchley
Preview of October reader Emily Critchley. Next week Steve Willey:
Poems
in How2
This weekend at WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION
WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION
3rd September – 3rd October 2010
Open Fri – Sun 12 – 5pm
The Pigeon Wing
Guild House
Excelsior Works
Rollins Street
SE15 1EP
London
EVENTS: Weekend 4.
On Saturday September 25th 1.30-4.30, WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION presents an afternoon of performances, discussions and installations.
1.30pm How To Blush – performance lecture by seekers of lice:
”The talk as an installation space: How to blush is a collaged text circling around blushing via the life of the bedbug, the colour puce, visceral reactions, earlobes, Sappho…”
2.00-3.30pm LemonMelon Publishing Seminar.
LemonMelon extends the following invitation: Please join!!! LemonMelon would like to discuss the following with you
a book as strategy
a book as a living organism
a book as a platform for research
a book as an exhibition space
a book as a place of collaboration
a book as nearly invisible publishing
a book as structure
Specifically invited contributors are asked to present their publications and to respond to the above.
Contributers include: seekers of lice, Phil Baber/ Cannon, David Berridge/ VerySmallKitchen, James Davies/ If P Then Q, Marit Muenzberg/ LemonMelon.
3.30-4.30pm Janine Harrington, Performing Book Experiment No.2
“Performing Book Experiment No.2 is a structure for five or more dancers. The work aims to facilitate a playful interaction between the audience-reader and the performers. The structure is only activated when an audience member enters a “channel” of the space, their movement programs the danced material in a certain way. As the activator becomes aware of their role as co-author of the work they are able to play with the structure, changing the direction of movement, its relationship to time and scale.”
ALSO THIS WEEKEND:
The 25th will be the conclusion of Phil Baber’s The Archaeology of an Essay installation, the result of a 3 day residency at WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION:
“Through artifacts, images, and texts, I’ll be unpacking, plotting, and presenting the ‘source-code’ of an essay-in-progress.”
The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing continues to unfold with Greetings from DEAL – a new installation project by Colin Priest, Malcolm Hobbs and Joe Reeves – and the online launch of LIKE IT IS: PRELUDE, an e-book by Nyeema Morgan.
WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION concludes with a final weekend of performances and events on October 2-3. See full programme of events here: www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/events
33 questions per minute
The current exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery (as part of AND festival) is Recorder by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Most interesting of all his art pieces is 33 Questions Per Minute. As his website states:
“33 Questions Per Minute consists of a computer program which uses grammatical rules to combine words from a dictionary and generate 55 billion unique, fortuitous questions. The automated questions are presented at a rate of 33 per minute –the threshold of legibility– on 21 tiny LCD screens encrusted on the support columns of the exhibition hall or mounted on a wall. The system will take over 3,000 years to ask all possible questions.”
LINK to read more and video
New Beard of Bees Chapbook
David Berridge’s five Gs: Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys
Matchbox Poetry in India
If poetry is all about firing your imagination, this one literally comes in a matchbox.
An avid poetry lover in Jorhat, India, is emptying matchboxes, filling them with rolls of poems and selling them for a mere Rupees 5 to help popularise Assamese poetry among the uninitiated.
The man behind the innovative idea, Bipul Regon, insists that the formula works.
“Innovative ideas always sell and believe me my messages in the matchboxes are selling big,” said Regon, a novelist himself.
Read more in The Calcutta Telegraph
Maintenant #27 – Zvonko Karanović
Preview of Other Room reader 6th October, Adrian Clarke
Preview of Adrian Clarke. Next Week Emily Critchley:
Critcism
Poetry
Link to Eurochants published by Shearsman and sampler
Audio
Openned October Reading
Details of the October Openned reading including confirmed readers and a
flyer are now available at:
