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Damn the Caesars | Crisis Inquiry | Cambridge Launch Readings
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 2:00pm. Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, West Road, Cambridge. Featuring performances from:
- Sean Bonney
- Ryan Dobran
- Danny Hayward
- Rosa van Hensbergen
- Owen Holland
- Laura Kilbride
- Frances Kruk
- Joe Luna
- Marianne Morris
- Richard Owens
- Reitha Pattison
- Nat Raha
- Luke Roberts
- Skeletor
Free Entry | All welcome | Cake
Maintenant at the Poetry Parnassus
Four events at London’s Southbank Centre:
Tuesday 26th June 7pm – 9pm in the Blue Room
Maintenant celebration reading I: Pekko Kappi, Christodoulos Makris, Damir Sodan, Endre Ruset & more poets to be announced…
Friday 29th June 5pm – 6pm in the Level 5 Function Room
Maintenant: Poetry from the Balkans – Damir Šodan, Ana Ristovic, Doina Ioanid, Taja Kramberger, Luljeta Lleshanaku & more poets to be announced…
Saturday 30th 7pm-9pm in the White Room
Maintenant: a celebration of the avant garde & the experimental: James Wilkes, Holly Pester, Kirsty Irving, Sam Riviere, Vahni Capildeo, Audrey Brown-Pereira, Rocío Cerón & more poets to be announced…
Sunday 1st July 1pm – 2pm in the Clore Ballroom
Maintenant celebration reading II: Donatas Petrosius, Agnes Lehoczky, Immanuel Mifsud, Gerdur Kristny, Nigar Hasan Zadeh & more poets to be announced…
Poetry & Revolution @ Xing the Line
Friday, May 25, 2012, 7:30pm. The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X.
- Tom Leonard
- Jack Hirshman
- Ziba Karbassi
- Marianne Morris
- Sean Bonney
- Harry Gilonis
South of the River videos
Films of the South of the River symposium, organised by Emily Critchley, are now available. The list in full is as follows:
Allen Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9uCiOsslUF0
D S Marriott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3pbRCQ4wpfQ
Jeff Hilson (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbEcoRMncLYc
Jeff Hilson (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgpXc6Pl2UrI
Carol Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQVIFHx4V-qk
Iain Sinclair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DaRGrII8CBeY
Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell
Monday 11th June at 8.30p.m at the New Beehive Inn, Westgate, Bradford BD1 3AA. (About 10 minutes walk from either Interchange or Foster square railway stations). Entry is by a £3.00 donation.
A NIGHT OF PSYCHEDELIC NOIR
To celebrate the end of Again, A Time Machine: Stewart Home, SPACE and Book Works invite you to A Night of Psychedelic Noir.
A closing performance, screening and party, with Stewart Home, Katrina Palmer and Bridget Penney at SPACE, London, on 20 May, from 6.30-late, and the launch of a new limited edition print by Stewart Home.
DOORS OPEN – 6.30PM
READINGS – 7.00–8.00PM
SCREENINGS, MUSIC AND FOOD – 8.00–LATE
FREE ENTRY
Stewart Home’s selective archive closes with a night of readings and performance, from Semina artists and writers, Katrina Palmer, author of The Dark Object, and Bridget Penney, author of Index, along with Stewart Home, reading from Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie, Defiant Pose, Memphis Underground and Down and Out in Shoreditch and London.
The event and exhibition closes with a barbeque and party, screenings of cult kung-fu films Master of the Flying Guillotine and Scorpion Thunderbolt, and the sounds of northern soul.
Handmade at Futuresonic
As part of the annual Manchester smorgasbord arts and technology festival that is Future Everything innovative poetry publishers if p then q and zimZalla will have stalls at the event Handmade which includes a fanzine and small press fair.
Handmade is FutureEverything’s interactive craft fair exploring the intersection between craft and digital technology – a forum for crafters, hackers and innovators to share ideas and practice with the maker community and the public.
Handmade brings the dialogue around the intersection of craft and digital culture to life, in one of Manchester’s prime heritage locations. Artists working in the areas of craft and digital technology display their work in an interactive craft fair designed to encourage visitors to create their own DIY artworks.
Saturday 19 May 2012, 10am-5pm Victoria Baths, Hathersage Rd, Manchester £2. Free to conference ticket holders.
Re-Word – mostly from the mainland
Performances of poetry and drama in translation, together with other local and European poets and translators.
Tuesday 22 May, 7.30-9.30 pm, Lloyds Upstairs, Lloyds Hotel, 617 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, Manchester.
Provisional programme:
Issa haiku (Japanese) – Wilhelm Wetterhoff
Four contemporary Romanian poets – Daniel Puia-Dumitrescu (with Judy Kendall)
Poetry in Polish – Scott Thurston
Anna Szabo poems (Hungarian) – Szilvi Naray-Davey (with Judy Kendall)
INTERVAL 8.15-8.40
Hungarian drama – Szilvi Naray-Davey (with Judy Kendall)
Poetry in German – Daniele Pantano
Walloon poems from ‘A Translated Man’ (Belgian poet Rene Van Valckenborch) – Robert Sheppard
Contemporary English haiku and tanka by Sheila Butterworth, Martin Lucas, Stuart Quine, Fred Schofield, Ian Storr translated into Swedish, Finnish and Romanian – Daniel P-D, Wilhelm W, Martin Lucas/Judy Kendall
Maintenant Croatia: films online
Films of Maintenant Croatia, where five Croatian poets read alongside an assortment of British writers at Europe House, in Westminster, are now online. They include this performance by Other Room reader Jeff Hilson.
Poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack
Part of the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre readings series. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD. 7:30-9:00pm – all welcome.
Rebecca Cremin reading at The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Rebecca Cremin reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Contemporary Poetry and Source Conference
18th May 2012 – 20th May 2012 at Plymouth University.
“This conference aims to explore the use of source material in contemporary poetry. The term ‘source’ should be given a wide remit, incorporating ‘origin’, ‘subject’ and ‘method’. Contemporary poetry, here, refers to writers working post – 1950, but of course thier sources may well be historical. We invite single author studies as well as papers which speak to the sources which are defining our poetic zeitgeist; we also invite creative practitioners to explore their own sources with a framework or context. Some topics for panels include: visual arts, music, nature, the personal, the impersonal, found material, the documentary, the trans-Atlantic exchange, influence, language, literature, biography, history, politics, philosophy and translations. Papers on or inspired by the work of our plenary speakers are very welcome.”
Includes a paper by Mark Leahy on Opposable Dumbs by Other Room reader Tina Darragh. You can watch part one of Tina’s reading below and find the other parts here.
Holdfire Press Launch
Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, L2 2JH. Thursday, 31 May 2012, 20:00.
Readings by JT Welsch, Steve Van Hagen, Catherine Woodward, Luke Kennard, Richard Watt, Jess Green and Colette Sensier to launch Holdfire‘s first 8 pamphlets by these seven writers, plus Emily Critchley.
Shearsman Reading: Laurie Duggan & Paul A. Green
Laurie Duggan & Paul A. Green will be officially launching their new Shearsman titles: The Pursuit of Happiness and The Gestaltbunker, respectively. Also being launched on the evening is The Complete Poems of César Vallejo, translated by Michael Smith & Valentino Gianuzzi. There will be a short reading by Valentino Gianuzzi and Tony Frazer from the volume. Click on the covers for more information.
The reading venue is:
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Admission free.
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 mins’ walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 mins), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 mins). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, beneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it should be required.
Further details here of the venue:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html
Poems For Many Voices
Thursday 7 June, 1.00-2.00pm
St Michael at the North Gate , Cornmarket, central OXFORD
Join Oxford poet Paula Claire in a communal performance of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Cobbing and herself that she has arranged for groups of interactive voices, part of her Dreaming Spires Online initiative. Free admission, family friendly.
This is part of OXFRINGE 2012
Tony Lopez: Sounds New Poetry Festival
Recent Other Room reader Tony Lopez is reading with Steve Collis at this year’s Sounds New Poetry Festival in Canterbury. Details below:
Wednesday 9th May 6pm, Peter Brown Room, Darwin College, University of Kent.
Reading: Found Text
Working with the idea of the found text, Steve Collis and Tony Lopez present poems that explore borrowing and appropriation in art. Like John Tavener in The Veil of the Temple, Collis and Lopez work with and through mixed sources to open the possibilities of collective expression.
The Future of Poetry: UCL – French Embassy
9 May 2012, 6pm, followed by reception.
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.
The massive growth in creative writing courses in recent years has meant that there are probably more practicing poets at work now than ever before. Yet the position of poetry in relation to the public sphere at large seems to grow increasingly opaque. Is poetry merely a minority leisure activity, or can it still claim to be, as it was for Milton and Wordsworth, a means of understanding the world unrivalled both in its scope and its complexity? With so many new media changing the ways in which we produce and consume texts of all kinds, what is the future of poetry?
Participants include Other Room reader Keston Sutherland. More at the UCL site.
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – Salford reading
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks will be reading at The Angel Centre in Salford on Sunday 6th May at 3.30 pm as part of the Sounds of the Other City festival. In addition to individual sets, they will be performing both of their Camarade collaborations in full. Here is a film of the first, read at the Rich Mix in London in October 2011.
Polyply 19: Administration
cris cheek Ruth Maclennan Sue Tompkins Tracy Ryan
Thursday 10 May, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
http://polyply.wordpress.com/
Addition to June line-up
Peter Jaeger will be our third performer at our June 12th reading. Please note that this will be at another new venue: The Castle on Oldham Street, Manchester, which we hope will be our home for the forseeable future. Please also note that 12th June is a Tuesday rather than our previously usual Wednesday. To help the next six weeks pass a little quicker, you can enjoy this film of Peter performing his collaboration with Marcus Slease at February’s Camarade II event at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London.
