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Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery Seminar
CONTEMPORARY INNOVATIVE POETRY RESEARCH SEMINAR
Poetry, Parapoetics and Architecture
Karen Mac Cormack: “Enmeshed Tessitura”: Poetry & Architecture
Steve McCaffery: Parapoetics & the Architectural
All welcome
Details on the Institute for English Studies website
Friday 25 May at 6.00 in the University of London Senate House, Russell Square, WC1
Philip Terry, Advanced Immorality
Other Room reader Philip Terry’s Advanced Immorality is out now from if p then q
The title of Philip Terry’s book, and the name of one of the seven poems in his latest collection, is an antonymic translation (opposites) of Terry’s own translations of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality. Queneau’s quennet form is further utilised in A Berlin Notebook. Also included are 50½ uproarious synopsises of imagined murder mysteries, the utter destruction of the sestina, Hamlet in four pages and much, much more. From start to finish Advanced Immorality is hilarious, polished, questioning and great fun.
equus press
equus press was established in 2011 between Paris, London & Prague with the objective of publishing new writing that is innovative & conscious of being doubly marginalised: outside the literary establishment defined by the Anglo-American publishing industry, & outside the confines of nationalism, pursuing a broadly cosmopolitan “agenda”; what has come to be termed “translocal” writing. The press is launching its next two novels, The News Clown by Thor Garcia and Breakfast at Midnight by Louis Armand at a series of events in London and Manchester:
- FRIDAY 13 APRIL, 7-9pm @ Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA..
- SATURDAY 14 APRIL, 6.30-8.30pm @ The Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY.
- SUNDAY 15 APRIL, 7.30-9.30pm @ The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE.
- MONDAY 16 APRIL, 7-9 pm @ The Phoenix Artists Club, 1 Phoenix Street, London, WC2H 8BU.
More at the equus press site.
Maintenant #89 – Eric Suchère
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.
quarter after
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
Hobby Horse: A PUPPET PLAY FOR CABARET VOLTAIRE
Hobby Horse: A PUPPET PLAY FOR CABARET VOLTAIRE
by CHRISTINE KENNEDY
A celebration of the DADA dolls & art of
Emmy Hennings, Hannah Höch, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
Tuesday 13 March 6pm
Digital Performance Lab
University of Salford at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays
See: http://www.salford.ac.uk/MediaCityUK/location for directions
ADMISSION FREE
SIMPLE REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
Doors open at 6pm
Performance starts at 6.15 – latecomers will not be admitted until the interval
The performance lasts approx 30 minutes and the interval for 20 minutes
A creative practice lecture and discussion will follow the interval
New from Oystercatcher
New from Oystercatcher.
Cloud Breaking Sun by John James
A5 32pp ISBN:978-1-905885-51-0
When blue light falls 3 by Carol Watts
A5 20pp ISBN:978-1-905885-50-3
£5 each inc. UK postage.
Cheques payable to P. Hughes (4 Coastguard Cottages, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL)
or order via Paypal through the website www.oystercatcherpress.com
Poetry / Music: Cambridge – Friday 24th Feb
- JUSTIN KATKO
- OUT TO LUNCH
- LASH + STENT
- DRACHMAE LUCKY STRENGTH
The Found Readings at the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics
A Second Conceptual Gesture: The Found Readings at the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics.
- TONY LOPEZ
- REDELL OLSEN
- JOHN SEED
+ a smörgåsbord of found poetry by others. Saturday 25 February, 4.30-7pm. Free and all welcome. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, WC1.
Postgraduate Funding Opportunities at Salford
Keele University and the University of Salford are in receipt of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Block Grant Partnership, totalling 26 studentships over three years. Awards are available at the University of Salford to commence in October 2012 in the following areas:
Doctoral Studentship in English
Professional Preparation Masters in Museum Studies, MA
Professional Preparation Masters in Creative Writing, MA
Professional Preparation Masters in Film, Digital and Media Production, MA
For more details see: LINK
PLUS-QUE-PARFAIT
Plus-Que-Parfait is an evolving, open-ended text created by Emily Howard, Mark Cobley & Simon Howard. New edition online now.
Maintenant #79 – Emanuella Amichai
Perhaps Emanuella Amichai represents the ethos of the Maintenant series more succinctly than any of the other 78 poets that have gone before her. The question of what is poetic is akin to the question of what is European. Both are fluid, unanswerable, and all the more essential for that unresolvability. Working in the medium of moving image, of dance, theatre and film, she has taken groundbreaking strides towards what can only be called a video poetry, a form of visual poetry. Working in tandem with some of Europe’s finest writers, including Jan Wagner, she has shown her absolute control of both mediums, both poetry and film, utilising the grammar of motion to remarkable poetic effect. If this places her outside the poetic mainstream, what might be deemed The definition of a poet, then the fact she is the daughter of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets firmly roots her back into the tradition of European letters. For the 79th edition of Maintenant, Israel’s Emanuella Amichai.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-79-emanuella-amichai/
A video poem of Emanuella’s will soon follow online, so please check http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/
Poetry reading: Sean Bonney and others
- Sean Bonney
- Mike Wallace-Hadrill
- Danny Hayward
- James Staniforth
7:30pm, Thurs 17 November, Judith Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge.
Alan Halsey – ‘Even if only out of’
Veer Publication 046 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-39-1]
These poems were written 2008-10. They include some skips & charms against recession, Cicero’s reflections on New Labour, an alphabet, two sets of riddles, a quarrelsome symposium on Blake’s erotica, a tale of post-imperial commerce, recent discoveries concerning the lizopard, versions of Martial, notes on bubbles and additions to Lives of the Poets.
6×9” size. 108 pages. November 2011. £8.00
Sean Bonney: two new books
Out now:
The Commons
http://www.openned.com/print/category/sean-bonney
“The work was originally subtitled “A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle”, wherein voices from contemporary uprisings blend into the Paris Commune, into October 1917, into the execution of Charles 1, and on into superstitions, fantasies of crazed fairies and supernatural bandits //// all clambering up from their hidden places in history, getting ready to storm the Cities of the Rich //// to the bourgeois eye they may look like zombies, to us they are sparrows, cuckoos, pirates & sirens //// the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs, cracking the windows of Piccadilly //// or, as a contemporary Greek proverb has it, “smashing up the present because they come from the future”.
Out soon:
Happiness – Poems after Rimbaud
http://www.unkant.com/p/publications.html#rimbaud“It is impossible to fully grasp Rimbaud’s work, and especially Une Saison en Enfer, if you have not studied through and understood the whole of Marx’s Capital. And this is why no English speaking poet has ever understood Rimbaud. Poetry is stupid, but then again, stupidity is not the absence of intellectual ability but rather the scar of its mutilation ////// Rimbaud hammered out his poetic programme in 1871, just as the Paris Commune was being blown off the map. He wanted to be there. It’s all he talked about. The “systematic derangement of the senses” is the social senses, ok, and the “I” becomes an “other” as in the transformation of the individual into the collective when it all kicks off. It’s only in the English speaking world you have to point simple shit like that out. But then again, these poems have NOTHING TO DO WITH RIMBAUD. If you think they’re translations you’re an idiot. In the enemy language it is necessary to lie.”
Out soon:
Crossing the Painted
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September, 3.00 pm
at Whitechapel Art Gallery, Art Book Fair
Readings of new work from poets in a collaboration between Painted, Spoken magazine and the Crossing the Line live poetry series. For two events only, six poets read individually, prefaced and ‘afterworded’ by a rules-based group work. Although representing a vast range of poetry practice the poets all come from modernist traditions with art practice selfconsciousness: hear how their work diverges and overlaps, creating a unique live event. Vahni Capildeo, Giles Goodland, Jeff Hilson, Francesca Lisette, Richard Price and Simon Smith.
Free. Presented at the The Portable Reading Room, the Wild Pansy Press stand. For more information see: www.wildpansypress.com
ΠΟΕΤΡΥ issue 2 launch
You are cordially invited to the launch of Friary Road House second experimental journal “ΠΟΕΤΡΥ”.
This anthology is limited to 100 copies available on the night and features written pieces by the following persons:
Boris Jardine
Nathan Cash Davidson
Nikola Tosic
Caleb Klaces
Dominic Walker
Bobby Dowler
William Kherberk
Danny Adams
Tristram Bellotti
Vincent Clay
James Balmforth
Octavia Lamb
Thomas Brock
Joseph Waller
Alexander Nemser
Edited by Louis Eastwood and with artworks by Sofia Stevi.
Unit 19
Copeland Rd
Industrial estate
133 Copeland Rd
SE15 3SN
on the evening of Wednseday 14th of September 2011 from 6.30pm.
We hope you can join us!
Note: We will be launching this book in the gallery at the same time that the following three solo shows will be opening:
James Capper ‘FLEET’,
Bobby Dowler ‘ODD PAINTINGS’,
Viktor Timofeev 12.168.13[MONSTROcity]
http://friaryroadhouse.blogspot.com/2011/09/launch-of-second-issue.html
The Emblem of My Work
