Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 19:30.
Thomas Restaurant & Bar, 49-51 Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1NA.
Readers confirmed so far are
with more readers to be added. For further information or to enquire about reading please contact barrett.richard1@googlemail.com
The next WFN meetings at Madlab, Edge Street Manchester, M4 1HN are:
Workshop runs from 2-4 pm. Bring a poem you like (by someone else) and copies of your own poems.
Wednesday 31 October at 7:00 pm
Sofia Gallery
(inside the Bulgarian Embassy)
186-188 Queen’s Gate
London SW7 5HL
More at the Shearsman site.
What is Field? Michael Pisaro and the Poetics of Geo-sound
Speaker: Michael Pisaro
Respondents: Paul Bavister, Drew Milne, Carol Watts
Monday 12 November, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 7pm
Presented by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London
This event is an exploration of the intersection of composition, text and field recording. American composer Michael Pisaro, a member of the Wandelweiser collective, will talk about his recent CDs July Mountain (the score of which develops from a poem by Wallace Stevens) and Crosshatches, a collaboration with Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda. A panel of respondents will comment on the work presented: architect Paul Bavister (UCL/ Bartlett) and poet-critics Carol Watts (Birkbeck) and Drew Milne (Cambridge).
Thursday November 22nd 2012 from 7.30 the Richmix arts centre, the main space. 35-47 Bethnal Green road, E1 6LA. 020 7613 7498. Free entrance for all.
A ground breaking collaborative exchange between three Israeli film-makers / video artists and three British poets, translating the medium of poetry into the practise of film to produce three original, poetic films, or cinepoems.
The aim of the project is to transform the auspices of a selected, single poem into short, conceptual films, that will be screened on November 22nd in London, at the Richmix Arts centre. The event will also feature poetry readings from Tom Raworth, Tim Atkins and SJ Fowler, and a panel discussion exploring the unique nature of poetic / filmic collaboration and the potentiality of poetry as a medium adaptable to film.
The project is designed to show that the potential for poetry to be realised in the narrative of film and film-making may lay the path for a wide future between these mediums, enriching them both in the process. This is the first instalment of the Enemies project, a year long exploration of poetry and collaboration, curated by SJ Fowler, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Programme of events:
A second performance of Paula Claire‘s poem/artist’s book devoted to migrating birds will take place at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop in Oxford on Monday 12th November at 7.30 pm. Giles Goodland will also read. This is part of a series of poetry recitals and, where it overlaps, jazz and poetry evenings throughout November 2012.
Maggie O’Sullivan
Rose Theatre (the Arts Centre, Edge Hill)
31st October 7.30-9.00
£4.50
Maggie O’ Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. In 1996 she edited Reality Street’s now classic anthology of innovative writing by women, Out of Everywhere (see below). Her work has been anthologised widely, including in Poems for the Millennium Vol 2. She lives in the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Charles Bernstein concludes: ‘O’Sullivan cleaves to charm: striating song with the visceral magic of shorn insistence.’
Just published by Reality Street in the form of five visually rich text sequences, Waterfalls is a companion to red shifts, both works comprising the poetic project her/story:eye (1994-99).
Maggie O’Sullivan at http://www.maggieosullivan.co.uk/
● WATERFALLS (new paperback edition: Hastings: Reality Street, 2012)
● murmur (London: Veer Books, 2011)
● ALTO (London: Veer Books, 2009)
● WATEFALLS (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 2009)
● Windows Opening (Brooklyn, New York: Belladonna Chapbook #108, Belladonna Books, 2007)
● Body of Work (Hastings: Reality Street, 2006)
● “all origins are lonely” (London: Veer Books, 2003)
● Palace of Reptiles (Ontario: The Gig, 2003)
● red shifts (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan Books, 2001)
● etruscan reader III (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 1997)
● that bread should be (London: RWC issue 35, 1996)
● Ellen’s Lament (Toronto: PUSHYbroadsides, 1993)
● In the House of the Shaman (London: Reality Street, 1993)
She has performed a number of times at Edge Hill and this reading represents a welcome return to celebrate Waterfalls.
Also reading: Joanne Ashcroft and Tom Jenks.
Last night’s spectacular celebration of Bob Cobbing included an ensemble performance of his ABC in Sound, featuring Tim Allen, Joanne Ashcroft, Richard Barrett, Leanne Bridgewater, Matt Dalby, Phil Davenport, James Davies, Ollie Evans, Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Alan Halsey, Michael Haslam, Tom Jenks, Angela Keaton, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’Sullivan, Holly Pester, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Slatcher, Scott Thurston, Gareth Twose, Steven Waling, Steve Willey and Nigel Wood. You can watch the film above.
Films of the first half readings by Clive Fencott and Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell will follow soon.
Further incentive to come along tonight to the Bob Cobbing Celebration at The Other Room is a limited edition free CD of Z from Cobbing’s ABC in Sound, by Philip Davenport and Julia Grime.
Listen to it in this video below.
THE ENSEMBLE: Tim Allen, Joanne Ashcroft, Richard Barrett, Leanne Bridgewater, Matt Dalby, Phil Davenport, James Davies, Ollie Evans, Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Alan Halsey, Michael Haslam, Tom Jenks, Angela Keaton, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’Sullivan, Holly Pester, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Slatcher, Chris Stephenson, Scott Thurston, Gareth Twose, Steven Waling, Steve Willey and Nigel Wood.
Visit Ubu at the LINK to hear letters d, p and t of the ABC in Sound.
The Other Room 35 takes place at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. Tuesday 23rd October 2012, 7.00 pm. FREE
The next of Chris Goode & Company’s conversations that lead to podcasts takes place on Monday 22nd October at the Stoke Newington International Airport at 8.30, with Rajni Shah, Phelim McDermott and John Hall. See here for more information and here for previous podcasts, including Andrea Brady.
Four poems from Tim Allen’s Default Soul sequence now up on Intercapillary Space.
Preview of October 23rd reader Clive Fencott who will read alongside Robert Sheppard, Patricia Farrell and the ABC in Sound ensemble next week. Click on the link below to visit his website.
A celebration of Bob Cobbing. Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Robert Sheppard and an ensemble performance of ABC in Sound. The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. Tuesday 23rd October 2012, 7.00 pm. FREE
Preview of October 23rd reader Patricia Farrell who will read alongside Robert Sheppard, Clive Fencott and the ABC in Sound ensemble next week. Click on the links.
The Tower of Silence at Shadowtrain
‘Whose Signature’.
Patricia recorded this around four months after her 2009 The Other Room reading as a special favour after a night of technological meltdown.
A celebration of Bob Cobbing. Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Robert Sheppard and an ensemble performance of ABC in Sound. The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. Tuesday 23rd October 2012, 7.00 pm. FREE
Exhibition: 19th -26th October 2012 at BLANKSPACE (43, Hulme Street, Manchester M15 6AW)
Public Preview: 18th October 6-9pm Symposium: 27th & 28th October
IN/(from the out) is a collaborative project from Ben Gwilliam & Helmut Lemke working with listening and location sound (& their contexts) at the site of BLANKSPACE in Manchester. As practitioners in the ‘between’ areas of sound/music and the Fine Arts they are fascinated by the value of listening; to be engaged with the human relationship of sound in the environment, looking at three distinct urban ‘scapes’ (land, sound and texture).
Exhibition Opening Times: Wednesday-Sunday: 11am-5pm | Thursday: 11am-7pm | Closed: Monday-Tuesday
Address: BLANKSPACE | 43 Hulme Street | Manchester | M15 6AW | Tel: +44(0)161 222 6164
zimZalla object 017 is Pomegranates in the Oak, a sound collage CD with discovered and manipulated text by Alison Gibb and text and sound treatments by Tom Jenks.
The object’s primary text is Virginia Andrews’ 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, from which Gibb, using instinctive selection and placement, has created a second text. This second text was then replicated sonically using spoken recordings by Gibb of the relevant sections of the original novel, with selected words and phrases isolated and spliced in order, preserving uneven and disjunctive patterns of tone and stress. This sonic collage was then fed through speech to text software to create a third, shadow text, which was recorded and added as a layer to the first track. Finally, a selection of samples, suggested by the hybrid text, were added, with some distortion. More at the zimZalla site.
Preview of October 23rd reader Robert Sheppard who will read alongside Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott and the ABC in Sound ensemble next week.
Reading back in June 2008 The Other Room 2
Tuesday 23rd October 2012, 7.00 pm.
A celebration of Bob Cobbing. Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Robert Sheppard and an ensemble performance of ABC in Sound. The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. FREE
Knives Forks and Spoons author Joanne Ashcroft is the winner of this year’s Poetry Wales Purple Moose prize with her collection Maps and Love Song for Mina Loy, which will be published next year. Read more about her here. Of Parts Becoming Whole is available at the KFS site.
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