Month: March 2012

Maintenant #89 – Eric Suchère

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To many what was once the most expansively influential European tradition of poetry has now become one of the most hermetic. Yet within France there remains singularm emergent figures whose invention, and whose brilliance, marks them out as some of the most innovative in the world. Eric Suchère is one of them, art critic and art historian, he has created a remarkable oeuvre of conceptual, prose and written poetry over the last few decades and holds a rightful place as a leading light in the current French scene. For the 89th interview in our series, Eric Suchère.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-89-eric-suchere/

Accompanying the interview is an extract from Eric’s longer work Set, Winterwreck, translated by Lisa Robertson.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/eric-suchere-setwinterwreck/

Summer 2012 with The Other Room

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Why go to Spain…

Our summer programme is making some progress. Here is what we’ve got so far. Take note that we’re no longer at our 4 year home The Old Abbey Inn but at some cracking new venues.

12th June, @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Ira Lightman, Marcus Slease & TBA

19th July, @ Leeds Gallery, http://www.leedsgallery.com (not Leeds Art Gallery) with Hazel Smith and TBA

14th August, @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Frank Kuppner, David Gaffney & Nathan Jones

the little society

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Visual poetry by Philip Davenport, at Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Wigan, UK. April 2-14. This exhibition questions the idea of a BIG society by focusing on the voices of the little and the lost.

Davenport’s poems APPEAL IN AIR and POLLINATORS OF EDEN erupt from the page into dizzy sequences of word/space disjuncts spilling across the large gallery.

APPEAL IN AIR is a celebration of quiet voices, the people at the fringe –- and the songs of birds. Texts bend into the shape of birds and weave through a city skyline. Children mimic birdcalls as a soundtrack for the space. Language morphs into code: Davenport’s “Liquid morse.” APPEAL celebrates the many voices and languages that make up a world – including those that get lost in noise.

POLLINATORS OF EDEN replays the form of a child’s educational book, complete with an instructional animation of a drowning shark. The piece documents encounters with people in North Manchester, an area of stark economic hardship, and is cartoonishly illustrated by local school pupils, in bright counterpoint to the dark tone of the poem.

Much of the material in the show derives from Davenport’s recent book APPEAL IN AIR, published by Knives Forks & Spoons Press.

Davenport’s debut was published by seminal avant-garde press Writers Forum in 1999; his heartporn/poems written on apples were shown at the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. His work has been variously billposted and exhibited throughout Europe and in China. Davenport curated the largest survey exhibition of Bob Cobbing’s work for Bury Text Festival in 2005 and the first posthumous gallery exhibition of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work in 2006. He often collaborates with other artists and writer, including Ben Gwilliam, Lee Patterson, Tom Jenks. His current sequence of spreadsheet poems have been exhibited in the Henry Moore. APPEAL IN AIR is published by Knives Forks and Spoons press, UK whose list includes many British avant-garde poets.

For further information contact TURNPIKE GALLERY (+44)1942 404420

EXHIBITION FACEBOOK PAGE http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.257496341008638.59781.208328225925450&type=1

APPEAL IN AIR isbn 978-1-907812-77-4 available from http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk

West House Books

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Steve McCaffery PANOPTICON. BookThug rev. edn. 2011. £15

Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Panopticon Papers’, McCaffery’s Panopticon shatters all omnivision in a tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical comment and narrative critique. In Panopticon narrative stutters, repeats itself, sequence is deranged and complicated by a multimedia presence on the page of grids, film bands and acoustic channels. On its first appearance Charles Bernstein hailed the book as ‘perhaps the exemplary “antiabsorptive work” and William McPheron claimed it as “an extraordinary act of revolution and charity”. Out of print for more than twenty years, this new edition has been revised extensively and is accompanied by an afterword written by McCaffery himself.

OPEN LETTER 14.7, Fall 2011: Breakthrough Nostalgia: Reading Steve McCaffery Then and Now. Ed. Stephen Cain. 172pp. £10.50

W/ contributions by Geoffrey Hlibchuk, Stephen Voyce, Gregory Betts, Tim Conley, Jason Starnes, Alessandra Capperdoni, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Matt Carrington, Lori Emerson, Andy Weaver, Christian Bök, Derek Beaulieu, Alan Halsey, Peter Jaeger + new poetry & prose by SMcC.

Allen Fisher PROPOSALS, 1-35. Poem-image-commentary. 76pp incl. 35 images in colour. Spanner 2010. £9.50

Allen Fisher STROLL & STRUT STEP. 16pp + 3 images in colour. Spanner 2004. £7.50

Post-free in UK. Payment by cheque or Paypal.

Orders to info@westhousebooks.co.uk

www.westhousebooks.co.uk

Becky Cremin: a preview

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Becky Cremin will read at the next Other Room on Thursday 17th April. For a flavour of her work, see this film of her reading with Ryan Ormonde at Openned, her page at Veer, her blog, Perform-A-Text and her other blog  Revelation Nation. Check out also the press free press project.

The other readers will be Tony Lopez and Elena Rivera. You can find a preview of Tony’s work here, with a preview of Elena to follow next week. Please note the change of location for this event owing to the closure of our usual venue. The reading on 19th April will be in the Basement Bar of the Deaf Institute, just off Oxford Road, Manchester.

BROKEN AND REDUCED

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Thursday 29 March 2012
Room B20, Birkbeck main building on Torrington Square, London WC1

6.00-7.30pm
“I lost my mother tongue more than thirty years ago and am still searching for it.”

Hungarian visual poet MÁRTON KOPPÁNY talks about his work, and projects images. Introduced by Holly Pester.

quarter after

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quarter after, a new journal for art and its reasons, is up and running with the recent release of Issue no. 1. 

Adam Fieled * Chad Scheel * David Berridge * Michael Farrell * Jane Joritz-Nakagawa * Tiffany Monroe * Felino A. Soriano * Vernon Frazer * rob mclennan * Donna Kuhn * Merlin Flower * Christina Baker-Jones * David Harrison Horton * Lawrence Upton * Ric Carfagna * Roger Sedarat * Seekers of Lice * James Sanders * Linda Neiswender

LINK

Nathan Thompson: The Visitor’s Guest

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“Who is looking at, listening to and leaning on whom? And what is left of looking, listening and leaning in what is ironically referred to as the post ultimate glade? Thompson, with understated assertiveness, doesn’t answer these questions, but the poems in The Visitor’s Guest changed the way I had to walk around the block this morning. Thompson’s writing opens up a space with which I’m half familiar—perhaps it’s the sense of honesty which underlies his slanted lyrical stance— but which continues to surprise. Many of these poems engage with ‘love’, as a perception, as a verb, but to say so underestimates them. Visceral, tangential, with a genuine sense of belief / refusal to believe. You might think that you’ve arrived but, most of all, how interesting it is trying to get there.” —Lucy Burnett

More information at Shearsman.

 

Maintenant #88 – Sylva Fischerová

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As the monumental literary figures of the velvet revolution have passed their profundity and vibrancy onto a new generation of poets and writers, the Czech Republic has faced a shift in its poetic register, as the country has in its fundamental politik. So a return to the author has taken place, and straddling the two great contrasting generations and experiences of the Czech Republic as perhaps few others could, Sylva Fischerová, poet, author, teacher, has become the representative of the very best of her times – a poet whose wit, whose wisdom, whose incisiveness has brought her devotees across the world and across languages. In the 88th edition of Maintenant we welcome the lauded Sylva Fischerová.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-88-sylva-fischerova/

Accompanying the interview is six poems, translated by Sylva and Stuart Friebert

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-sylva-fischerova/

Tony Lopez: a preview

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Tony Lopez will be reading at the next Other Room on Thursday 19th April. For a flavour of his work, check his own site, his blog and his page at Shearsman Books, where you can find information about and samples from his two most recent books, Only More So and False Memory. The photograph above is of More and More, part of the Bury Art Museum collection and was taken by Julia Grime.

Tony will be reading with Becky Cremin and Elena Rivera. Previews of both to follow in the coming weeks.

ENVIRONMENTAL UTTERANCE – A Performative Conference

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University College Falmouth invites submissions for ENVIRONMENTAL UTTERANCE – A Performative Conference – Sat 1 to Sun 2 September 2012. Submission Deadline: Saturday 31 March 2012. Across disciplines academics and artists are researching and creating practices that are highly contextual (determined by the environment in which they are located), exploring ways of articulating specific environments, spaces or places. This conference examines a specific problematic that attends the dissemination of this work: how to engage with ‘being there’ when ‘there’ is not here? For more information, see the programme.

Innovation in Fiction

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New magazine Innovation in Fiction is looking for the following for its debut issue:

  • short fiction of an experimental or innovative nature
  • reviews of innovative or experimental fiction
  • old and new essays on experimental writers, innovative fiction, forms and movements

Email adrian.slatcher@gmail.com

Writing and the Small Press – conference programme

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The programme for the Writing and the Small Press Conference at Salford University on Saturday 31st March is now available. This conference aims to bring together publishers, writers and academics to discuss the influence of the small presses on creative practice and to consider their broader role in cultural production. In addition, there will be practical sessions on how to publish with a small press and opportunities for publishers to showcase their books.