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Frakture present Juxtavoices
Saturday 17th March
The Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool l1 3BX
Prompt: 7.30 start 5.00 / 3.00
Juxtavoices is a large antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield’s leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scene. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing normal concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places and at poetry / text events. A Discus CD is planned for 2012. Always on the look out for new members.
Peter Jaeger at Edge Hill
Tuesday, 28th February 2012, 7:30pm
The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University
Edge Hill’s Creative Writing Department present
An Evening with Canadian poet, Peter Jaeger, at the Rose Theatre.
Tickets £4.00 all
Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. He is the author of five books of poetry, including Rapid Eye Movement (2009) and The Persons (2011). He has recently collaborated with the video artist Kaz to produce the film Nozomi, which was exhibited at the Bury Text Festival in 2011, and he is currently
working on a critical monograph on John Cage. Peter uses found texts to write through the words of others: those protagonists who have animated his imagination and left their traces in newspapers, emails, diaries, books (from literature to philosophy), and in all the countless ephemera with which the externalised inner drama of our lives plays out.
Peter Jaeger teaches poetry and literary theory at Roehampton University, in London. http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/Peter-Jaeger/
His work includes the poetry collections Power Lawn (1999), Eckhart Cars (2004), and Prop (2007), as well as a critical study on contemporary poetics, entitled ABC of Reading TRG: Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, and the Toronto Research Group (2000). He currently divides his time between London and rural Somerset, where he lives with his family.
Recent book from Reality Street: Rapid Eye Movement follows a strict constraint: two bands of text run continuously throughout the book. The top band consists entirely of fragmented dream narratives recorded by historical and contemporary dreamers, while the lower band juxtaposes found material which includes the word “dream.” No two sentences taken from the same source follow each other. As an investigation of the sign “dream” across a number of social discourses, including literature, psychoanalysis, advertising, popular culture, song lyrics, philosophy and
religious literature, Rapid Eye Movement presents a record of our culture dreaming.
“Jaeger dreams of the day when forestry operations can use balloon-based, skidding devices that float above the treetops and winch trees out of the forest without damaging the woodland floor. Jaeger dreams up some interesting shots. Jaeger dreams of peace. His book of dreams is not too different from a hope chest. His dreams are getting better all the time.
His dreams are coming true.”
Christian Bök
Members of the Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics Research group will be reading as a warm-up.
Hi Zero! #ELEVEN Contemporary Poetry Readings in Brighton
- KESTON SUTHERLAND
- MICHAEL KINDELLAN
Wednesday, February 29, 7:30pm. Upstairs at the HOPE on Queen’s Road, Brighton.
Tim Allen: a preview
Tim Allen will be reading at the next Other Room on Wednesday 29th February. You can read an interview with him at The Argotist Online or find out more about him on his author page at Shearsman, the publisher of his latest collection The Voice Thrower. For a whole range of interesting links try The Blah Blah Blah Show. The other readers will be Andrea Brady and nick-e melville.
Maintenant: the Camarade project ii
Featuring…
- Andrea Brady & Maria Fusco
- James Davies & Stephen Emmerson
- Sam Riviere & Sophie Collins
- Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe
- Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry
- Katerina Kashchavtseva & Lucy Harvest Clarke
- Carrie Etter & Tim Atkins
- Colin Herd & Patrick Coyle
- Nathan Jones & Richard Barrett
- Marcus Slease & Peter Jaeger
Out now from The Red Ceilings Press. You can also view films of the London launch event on February 11th by following the links below:
McCabe & Jenks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99xcgyjTqZw
Shearsman Reading — Wednesday 15 February 2012
Tim Allen & Jeremy Reed will be officially launching their recent Shearsman titles: The Voice Thrower and Bona Vada, respectively. The reading venue is:
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Admission free. Further details at the Shearsman site.
nick-e melville: a preview
nick-e melville will be performing at the next Other Room on Wednesday 29th February. You can read 13 of his poems at the minimalist concrete poetry site, some tippexed sonnets in Blackbox Manifold and a review of his 2011 collection of found poetry Stuff at 3AM Magazine. Try also an alphabet sequence on otoliths and another on logolalia. For some AV action, check out the video for Get On The Increase by Nicky’s poetry band Shellsuit Massacre.
The other readers will be Tim Allen and Andrea Brady. A preview of Andrea’s work can be found in our previous post. A preview of Tim’s work will follow next week.
Geof Huth’s Vimeo Page
Geof Huth has a whole host of poetry readings and projects at this LINK
He’s recently added all the readings at Bury Parish Church during 2011′s Text Festival: Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen and Karri Kokko and Phil Minton’s Feral Choir.
Andrea Brady: a preview
Andrea Brady will be reading at the next Other Room on Wednesday 29th February. For a flavour of her work, visit her Archive of the Now page. Previews of the other two readers, Tim Allen and nick-e melville, will appear here over the next two weeks.
Tony Lopez: False Memory 2nd edition published by Shearsman
Tony Lopez’s landmark collection False Memory has been made into a second edition with a new introduction by Robert Hampson.
“[…] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez’s False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge.” —Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003.
Polyply> 16: Expenditure
POLYply > 16: EXPENDITURE
Sean Bonney Jennifer Cooke Emily Critchley Angharad Davies Andrew Spragg Jonty Tiplady
Thursday 9 February, 7pm The Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG Free entry
Keeping Time – Tamarin Norwood
Through a short residency at Modern Art Oxford (31st January – 19th February), Tamarin Norwood will explore the Legacy Fellowship to develop a visual vocabulary of choreography, instruction and transcription. As part of her ongoing investigation of the gaps between words and things, rules and games, intentions and accidents, she will track the progress of the Fellowship to create a new body of text and video work.
Shearsman Reading – Tony Lopez & Peter Robinson
The first reading in Shearsman’s 2012 series takes place on Thursday 6 February at 6:00pm for 6:30, and features Tony Lopez & Peter Robinson, who will be officially launching their new Shearsman titles: Only More So and The Returning Sky.
The reading venue is: University of Notre Dame in London, 1 Suffolk Street,
London, SW1Y 4HG (Just around the corner from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square).
Admission free. but RSVP required as space limited. More details at the Shearsman site.
Poetry Reading of Bill Griffiths’ Poetry
Friday, January 27, 2012, 5:00pm. Lecture Room 149, Northumberland Building, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Readers include: Peter Barry, Sean Bonney, Clive Fencott, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Jeff Hilson, Ann Matthews, Mendoza, Will Rowe and Juha Virtanen.
Xing the Line
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 7:30pm, The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X. Becky Cremin and Alan Halsey.
SJ Fowler and Ben Morris at Liverpool Music Week
An experimental, highly affecting experimental poetry and music performance for unsuspecting audience at Liverpool Music Week, commissioned by Mercy.
Sucking on Words
Sucking on Words
A night of primordial sonatas, to celebrate 10 years of writers’ collective information as material
Venue: Whitechapel Gallery, London, E1 7QX
Date: Saturday 18 February 2012
Time: 19.30-22.30
Tickets: online here or tel: +44 (0)20 7522 7888
A feast of sonic poetry with performances by Rob Lavers and Simon Morris, Nick Thurston, and a headline set by Dutch avant-garde composer Jaap Blonk. A VJ playlist, put together especially for the night by Canadian poet Christian Bök, will provide sights and sounds between performances and alongside the drinks.
The audience are politely reminded that the ears have no lids.
As Jaap Blonk recalls: “The reception of these first public performances [of Kurt Scwitters' Ursonate] was varying widely. On many occasions I was performing at rock or punk clubs as an opening act for a band, and lots of people were not at all into it. Their preference was either to just talk with their friends or hear their habitual kind of music. So they started to scream and protest, and often throwing things at me, especially beer, which fortunately was mostly given out in plastic, not glass containers. The culminating point of this kind of experience was a performance of the Ursonate, opening for a concert of The Stranglers at Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht in 1986, for an audience of about 2000 fans. When I was announced, even before I had opened my mouth, people started calling out: “Rot op!” (“Fuck off!”), and when I started, the atmosphere became very much that of a football match, but clearly an away game for me. With massive roaring they tried to drown out my voice, but of course the P.A. made me louder. Six stage guards were working hard to keep people from climbing the stage and hitting me, and hundreds of half-full plastic beer glasses flew about me. But in the course of the performance I managed to win over at least a few hundred people, who were roaring in my favor. The next morning one newspaper had the headline “Jaap Blonk Shocks Punk Audience With Dada Poetry”, which for me was a nice testimony to the fact that Schwitters’ piece was still very much alive, in spite of its age.”
Book launch: Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs
Via David Berridge:
Please join us at 7pm on Wed 25th January 2011 at X Marks the Bökship for a launch and performance reading of Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs, the inaugural title of the LemonMelon/VerySmallKitchen book series:
