Month: December 2012

Shearsman reading

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The first event in Shearsman’s 2013 Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 9 January at 7:30 pm, and features 3 poets from the USA:

  • Melissa Buckheit
  • Maxine Chernoff
  • Jaime Robles

The venue is Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. More details at the Shearsman site.

On Beat

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ON BEAT

Barry Miles, Ian MacFadyen, Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 7 pm

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, Islington

£6/£5 Concessions

http://parasol-unit.org/on-beat

To accompany the October Gallery exhibition ‘William Burroughs: All out of time and into space’ and relating to Shezad Dawood’s ‘New Dream Machine Project’ for Parasolstice – Winter Light 2012, ON BEAT will focus on Beat Culture’s history and influence more broadly. It will include talks by contemporaries of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, creator of the original Dream Machine in 1959, as well as explications of poetics and contemporary work influenced by the era.

 Peter Jaeger will give a talk/reading entitled “A Philip Whalen Mala” on Whalen, Snyder, Ginsberg and their understanding of Buddhism as it pertains to compositional method.

Marcus Slease will read new work inspired by Burroughs’ The Soft Machine.

This event is a collaboration between Parasol unit, October Gallery and Intercapillary Space.

Links:
Exhibition at October Gallery: http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/exhibitions/
Intercapillary http://www.intercapillaryspace.org/

 

Blackbox Manifold Issue 9

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Online now and featuring work from:

  • Sheila Black
  • Rocio Ceron, translated by Anna Rosen Guercio
  • Ray DiPalma
  • Carrie Etter
  • Glenn Frantz
  • Max Ghiara
  • Anne Gorrick
  • Paul Green
  • W.N. Herbert
  • Kate Kilalea
  • John Latta
  • Tony Lopez
  • Erín Moure
  • Jal Nicholl
  • Philip Byron Oakes
  • John Peck
  • Ian Seed
  • Aidan Semmens
  • Samantha Walton
  • Joshua Marie Wilkinson
  • John Wilkinson

and poems written for Peter Robinson by:

  • Kate Behrens
  • Adrian Blamires
  • Peter Carpenter
  • David Cooke
  • Tim Dooley
  • Roy Fisher
  • Isabel Galleymore
  • John Matthias
  • Tom Phillips

SONGS FOR ONE OCCASION – Justin Katko

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36 pp 200 copies; 17.6x25cm
ISBN: 978-0-9791411-7-1
Published December 2012

Songs for One Occasion contains nine songs, variously beautiful and deformed, with a microscopic three-part novel embedded as intro, median, and outro, all of it written 2011 to 12, and Even You might buy one today at any one of the three fairly world-shattering prices that will imminently follow the colon with which you are about to be presented regardless of however long said action may theoretically be deferred ad infinitum usw, as if hate were cycling to the middle of nowhere where love cuts wit to size and back, turning itself endlessly on and on and on in Mélos Kateglytißménon that doesn’t mean anything ahorita:

Out now on Critical Documents.

FEELINGS XMAS MELTDOWN

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Thursday, December 20, 2012, 8:00pm. Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB.

An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poetry:
Amy De’Ath
Marianne Morris
Sophie Mayer
Jeff Hilson
Samantha Walton
!more tbc!

Film:
Liz Rosenfeld

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp

Welcoming the Child

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Welcoming the Child – An installation of text and audio based on Hugo Ball’s ‘Simultaneous Nativity Play’ by New Free Theatre.
‘Welcoming the Child’ takes inspiration from Hugo Ball’s surrealist ‘Simultaneous Nativity Play’ in order to think through questions of textuality and performance in relation to the nativity play as a central although not-exactly-canonical feature of the landscape of western theatre.Visitors are welcome daily at any time from 17.00 – 21.00 and also for matinee performances on Sundays from 11.00 – 13.00, until December 23rd. St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA.

Ubu Roi, I Boris

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I Boris

Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks’ fourth collaboration is Ubu Roi, I Boris an adaptation of the 1951 Gaberbocchus edition of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi,  illustrated by Franciszka Themerson.  You can catch up with the text so far, featuring, amongst others, Dale Winton, Ant & Dec, Peter Mandleson and William Hague in a bespoke sausage suit at the website.

The collaboration is part of SJ Fowler’s Camarade project and will be performed in some shape or form at the next Camarade event on 9th February at the Rich Mix in London.