THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for September, 2010
Anna Mendelssohn & Grace Lake Celebration room switch
If you were intending to go to this event the room has been moved. Up-to-date details below:
Wednesday 15th September, 6 – 9pm
There will be readings from among others:
■Sean Bonney
■Chloe Harries
■Jane Liddell-King
■Ian Patterson
■Frances Presley
■Barry Schwabsky
The reading will now be held at 32 Tavistock Square in Birkbeck College.
Tim Atkins’ 1000 Sonnets published by if p then q
The long awaited full set of Tim Atkins’ minimalist sonnets is finally here. First published by The Figures back in 2000 this if p then q collection contains over 100 extra sonnets to comprise 127. The title alludes to Kenneth Koch’s hilarious sequence of short plays/skits 1000 Avant Garde Plays and as ever Tim Atkins’ magic is in the spirit of that playfulness. You will have clocked some of these delights in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.
What Ron Silliman had to say about Sonnet 91:
“Certainly a sonnet is possible in which these words fall in these places. Yet is not clear if anything, in fact, is missing. As such, the text stands mute, ironic, self-amused all at once.”
LINK to purchase from if p then q
Next two books from Knives Forks and Spoons
Are:
‘Waves upon the Waves’ by Harry Ross, £5
&
‘Excoriate Exhale’ by Heller Levinson (who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008), £5
3 new chapbooks from NO press: Zits, Molotiu/Mallarme, Upton
No press is proud to announce the release of 3 new handbound limited-edition chapbooks:
MASSACRE STREET
by Paul William Zits
MASSACRE STREET is Zits’ avant-garde interpretation of Alberta’s Frog Lake Massacre, created using only primary documents. Zits has created a text which simultaneously disturbs history and language. Produced in a limited edition of 70 handbound copies, $4.00 each
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THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
by Stephane Mallarme (translated, and with an afterword by, Andrei Molotiu)
THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN is Andrei Molotiu’s translation of Mallarme’s classic text, allowing for swerves in meaning and expansion of possibilities within the form and narrative of the original. Produced in a limited edition of 50 handbound copies, $3.00 each
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NAMING For Betsey
by Lawrence Upon
NAMING For Betsey is Upton’s latest radical asemic visual poetry score; a radical act of reading and performance by a renowned visual poet. Produced in a limited edition of 40 handbound copies, $3.00 each.
to order copies, or for more details, please email derek@housepress.ca
Poet hijacks Atlanta streets with haiku advertising campaign
Mimicking the usual advertisements for weight loss and health insurance, Morse’s poems began appearing throughout the city last month. From an exhortation to “Lose ugly weight fast!!/ Feel Happier! Healthier!/ Dump your bigotry” to “Meet local singles!!/ Easy: stand near others/ Hang up your cell phone” and “Free debt counselling/ Take the important first step/ Beware signs like these”, the artist has written 10 different haikus, printed 50 copies of each and placed them at 500 locations across Atlanta.
Ken Edwards reading
Ken Edwards and Harry Gilonis, in the Blue Bus series at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room, on Tuesday 14th September, from 7.30. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Ken Edwards and Myung Mi Kim, in the Poetry Center series at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, Saturday 25th September, 7:30 pm. Admission: $10.
Juan Andrés García Román
Via Steven Fowler:
An interview with the Spanish poet, the first Spaniard to be featured in Maintenant, Juan Andrés García Román, the 26th subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets. Four of his poems are also included. An exceptional interview by an exceptional poet.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-26-juan-andres-garcia-roman
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/four-poems-juan-andres-garcia-roman
We can happily announce that November Saturday 27th will feature our third Maintenant reading in London at the Rich mix centre in 2010. From Iceland we will welcome Ragnhildur Jóhanns / Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl / Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir / Jón Örn Loðmfjörð. As part of the event, the four poets from Iceland will collaborate to produce work with four poets from Britain and we can announce those participants too – Iain Sinclair / Stewart Home / Scott Thurston / Tom Jenks.
Openned Zine 3
Third installment featuring:
- Joe Luna and Steve Willey on SoundEye
- Susana Gardner on the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival
- Harry Godwin explaining the Cleaves editorial process
- Linus Slug curating recollections of the Morden Tower reading with contributions from Chris Stephenson, S J Fowler, Stephen Emmerson,
- Nat Raha, Michael Zand, Gareth Durasow and Antony John
- Jonny Liron exploring The Situation Room
- David-Baptiste Chirot’s editorial for the forthcoming Openned Eyes online gallery
- James Davies’ thoughts on live streaming readings following his if p then q broadcast
- Lara Buckerton tackling The eBook Nova
- Adrian Clarke’s primer on And
- Stephen Emmerson’s introduction to blart
Plus regular features:
- Bookface
- Bird Puke
- Logbay
Photography: in this issue, Amy De’Ath, Sharon Borthwick, Georgie M’Glug, Nat Raha and Tommy Peeps
The Text of Shelley’s Death
Alan Halsey
reading
The Text of Shelley’s Death
An Optic Nerve CD, 70′ 37″
Recording by Colin Still
£12 post free in the UK. Payment by cheque or Paypal.
The Text of Shelley’s Death was first published by Five Seasons in 1995. The West House reprint, 2001, 84pp, is still available @ £8.95
The Text of Shelley’s Death ‘merely underlines one’s worst fears that the postmodern world view adds nothing to any subject and tends to confuse what we already know.’ Christopher Goulding, Keats-Shelley Review
”I sometimes carry it with me for protection against the spirits who want to steer me away toward death.’ Ronald Palmer, Goodreads
West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN
Paradigm of the Tinctures
The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey. This revised and expanded edition of “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey revisits the classic humanist idea of the Sister Arts where poetry is understood to be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem. The revisitation, however, is bluntly revisionary and the result is a fresh text-graphic dialogue. Available as a free ebook here.
Allen Fisher revised itinerary
An amendment to the earlier post. Please note the revised time for The Other Room reading with Maggie O’Sullivan and Jerome Rothenberg on 19th October and that the conferences included in the previous itinerary, at the Royal Geographical Society and at University of Kent, will not be open to the public, but are for conference attendees only. More details on Allen’s New Site here.
24th September, annual autumn lecture, 7.30 pm, Friday
Courtyard Studio Theatre, Edgar Street, Hereford
Love and Beauty: a lecture reviewing the legacies from ancient art and their usage in modern and post-modern painting. A conversation about continuity and invention, illustrated through works of art from Roman villas, Renaissance palaces, French Salons and twentieth century galleries. http://www.courtyard.org.uk/whatson/847
6th October, 8 pm, Wednesday
The Complexity Manifold, one of three talks
Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London SE1
assemblage and empathy: paying attention to poetic composition with regard to aspects of spacetime, catastrophe theory, decoherence and proprioception
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/readings/?StartRow=41&PageNum=5&type=oneoff
13th October, 7.30 pm, Wednesday
The Complexity Manifold, second talk
Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College,
University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1
reiterates the process of the first talk and develops those proposals through ideas of situation and dislocation
19th October, 6 pm Tuesday
Other Room reading with Jerome Rothenberg and Maggie O’Sullivan
Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House,
Chorlton Mill, Manchester
21st October, 7 pm, Thursday
The Complexity Manifold, third talk
Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway,
University of London, 2 Gower Street, Bedford Square, WC1
27th October, 7.30pm, Wednesday
Openned reading
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Road, London SE17 3LG
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Some interesting links
Via Italian experimental writer and artist Marco Giovenale:
du-champ
http://du-champ.blogspot.com/
A blog that re-blogs & echoes the news from over 800 blogs and sites featuring experimental works, vispo, poetry, asemic writing, mail-art, fluxus etc
the asemic googlegroup
http://groups.google.it/group/asemic
A group for discussing and sharing asemic stuff and links, linked to projects by Tim Gaze (asemic.net) Michael Jacobson (thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com) and Satu Kaikkonen (foffof2.blogspot.com)
exp-net
http://exp-net.blogspot.com/
A newly born blog hosting new stuff & reblogging the contents of the net of 29 blogs or sites edited or co-edited by Marco.
gammm
http://gammm.org
A site founded by Marco and others in 2006 in Italy, to give voice and space to the several facets of the far and recent and present research in the field of experimental poetry, prose, arts.
slowforward
http://slowforward.wordpress.com
A blog run by Marco, hosting or linking or reviewing stuff from all over the world.
Richard Barrett interview
BEGINNING a. Can I borrow your stapler?
Richard Barrett interviewed by Tom Jenks for 3 AM magazine, here.
