07 November · 18:30 – 21:30. Johanna Linsley with Sophie Robinson. More at the Press Free Press site.
Month: October 2011
James McLaughlin’s Aeido reviewed by James Davies at 3 am Magazine
James McLaughlin’s excellent Knives Forks and Spoons title is reviewed HERE
Minimum Security Prison Poetry
Reality Street launches
Dwelling by Richard Makin
“This is prose you must learn to experience, before you begin to interpret … The pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry: revised, corrected, disciplined, polished and then given their head.” – IAIN SINCLAIR
Head of a Man by John Gilmore
“I admire this spare, lean gem of a novel, so lyrical and evocative its brief prose fragments get into your head and stay there.” – GARY GEDDES
STONE SQUID experimental art space, 78 High Street, Old Town, Hastings TN34 3EL. Saturday 5 November 2011, 6:00pm, free admission – refreshments available.
More at the Reality Street site.
Polyply 14 > MEASURE
POLYply > 14: MEASURE
Jeff Hilson
Simon Jarvis
Zoë Skoulding
Fiona Templeton
Timothy Thornton
Thursday 10 November, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
THE FOULE READINGS
Friday 28th October, 7.30pm. THE FOULE READINGS are a new series of contemporary poetry readings in Cambridge organised by undergraduates in English (Caitlín Doherty, Andrew Griffin, Connie Scozzaro and Tomas Weber)
- Frances Kruk
- Mike Wallace-Hadrill
- Ed Luker
- Caitlín Doherty
The Nihon Room, Pembroke College There’ll be free wine, a book table, a Foule publication & a cigarette break in a Japanese garden. It’s all free.
Scott Thurston:Talking Poetics— Dialogues in Innovative Poetry
This is a book of full-length interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Caroline Bergvall and Andrea Brady carried out between 2008 and 2009 in the UK and USA by Scott Thurston. During the course of these conversations, the poets explore a huge range of topics likely to interest anyone concerned with the state of innovative poetry today. Each interview considers the complete oeuvre of each writer and includes detailed engagements with selected texts as well as unfolding themes such as the role of innovation, the politics of poetry and reflections on lyric and autobiography. Each interview is footnoted and there is an extensive bibliography. Out now on Shearsman.
Maintenant #77 – Maarten Inghels
It is no exaggeration to say Maarten Enghels’ impact on the Belgian poetry scene has been nothing short of sensational. At an age where poets are just beginning to find their voice, he has become one of the most recognisable and bombastic presences in the entire country and it’s considerable Flemish poetical tradition. Iconoclastic, immediate and passionate, his work has firmly put him at the forefront of a new generation of Belgian poets who will continue to emerge as major writers across central Europe by effortlessly speaking in and about his own time, in his own language. For the 77th edition of Maintenant, we are pleased to introduce Maarten Inghels. With thanks to Jan Pollet
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-77-maarten-inghels/
Accompanying the interview are three poems, translated by Willem Groenewegen. This is the first time Maarten Inghel’s poetry has been translated into English and was only made possible by the generous support of the Flemish Literature Fund and of Patrick Peeters, and Willem Groenewegen himself.
The Other Room tonight
MICHAEL9MURRAY
An eclectic and elegant arts and culture blog by Michael Murray with writing on a diverse range of poetry, including Lyn Hejinian and Inger Christensen.
Adrian Clarke: Exiting Through the Singular
Now available from the Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
POLYproject 1: Poetry as Score
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG, Wednesday 2nd November, 7.30pm (pre-concert discussion 6.30-7pm)
Jürg Frey – Landschaft mit Wörtern (selection) (2003)
Manfred Werder – 2009/4
Michael Pisaro – A single charm is doubtful [harmony series no.14] (2004-6)
Antoine Beuger – Confidential Letter #7 (2011)
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
This event launches Sound and Music’s Cut & Splice Grúndelweiser festival, which runs from 3 to 6 November:
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/cut-splice-grundelweiser
WFN
Saturday, November 5 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Madlab, Manchester.
WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
Hi Zero 8
Monday 31st October 2011, with Harry Gilonis & Sean Bonney, 8pm start, £4. The Hope, Queen’s Road (just down from the station), Brighton.
Harry Gilonis // Sean Bonney
Gilonis’ work spans decades of writing, composing and criticking, most recently producing some of the most crucial translations of Welsh, Irish, Chinese and Russian poetry on the black market. He has published reams, including (for starters) a stunning version of Mayakovsky’s “Order No. 2 to the Armies of the Arts” in Hi Zero 3.
Bonney is perhaps the foremost British poet of the violent fluctuations between activism and language, an arch and absolutely important thinker in verse that refuses to be thought without a fight. Sean’s _The Commons_ and _Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud_ are both out now.
You Call Him Doctor Jones!
Sat 22 October
7pm – 1am
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street
London E1 7EX
Join a host of poets, performers, musicians and comedians for a monkey-brain-packed adventure through 30 years of Indiana Jones. Expect Indy trivia quizzes, prizes, an impromptu archaeology seminar and giant boulders. There will be a professional eyelid painter so you can flutter a message to our own in-house Dr. Jones (with only minor risk of exposure to tomb-raiding Nazis). Bring along an object for the Museum of Antiquities, try your hand at brass-rubbing and guessing the weight of the Golden Idol, find out what Marian Ravenwood really thought of Jones, and be careful not to drink the blood of Kali Ma. If that’s not enough whip-cracking Indynerd action for you, the entertainment will be followed by our stylish Obi-Wan Club DJs until late.
Produced by Penned in the Margins in association with Bad Dates
LINEUP
Poetry & performance from Jack Underwood, Kirsten Irving, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Julia Bird, Chrissy Williams, SJ Fowler & Patrick Coyle
Music from Gwyneth Herbert
Comedy from Rich Sandling & Tom Bell
Performance publishing by Ladies of the Press*
Obi Wan Club DJs til late
PLUS
The Museum of Antiquities
Guess the weight of the Golden Idol
Lego Indiana Jones
Eyelid painting
Brass rubbing
Eyeball soup & special cocktails
TICKETS
£6.50 on the door
£5 advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/134968
Reality Street at the Small Publishers’ Fair
REALITY STREET will be at the annual Small Publishers Fair in November over the weekend of Friday 11th-Saturday 12th November. It takes place in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
Reality Street will be featuring the three new books in the Narrative Series that are being launched this autumn:
- Dwelling by Richard Makin
- Gero Nimo by Johan de Wit
- The Raft by Leopold Haas
On the Saturday, at 4pm, Richard Makin will launch his 672pp “anti-novel” Dwelling, and John Gilmore will (belatedly) launch his book Head of a Man, which was published at the beginning of this year.
Maggie O’Sullivan & Jennifer Pike Cobbing
The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, Wednesday 26th October 2011, 18:00-21:00.
Launch of the ‘Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan’, & launch/reading of Maggie O’Sullivan’s ‘murmur’ and Jennifer Pike Cobbing’s ‘The Conglomorization of Wot’.
Colin Herd: a preview
Colin Herd will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. For a flavour of his work, watch his reading at the Maintenant Slovakia event in London or read selections of his work in Blart and Streetcake. Or check out his images from the recent I AM NOT A POET festival in Edinburgh. Or his interviews with Steven Fowler and Kevin Killian.
The other readers are Jennifer Cooke and SJ Fowler.
Xing the Line – Stephen Emmerson & Holly Pester
Xing the Line, Thursday, October 27 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
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