THE OTHER ROOM
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Manchester’s (and north west) Huge winter programmme
Things to juggle with:
30th September – James Davies & Adrian Slatcher @ Didsbury Arts Festival: LINK
30th September – Anthony Rowland, Scott Thurston, Robert Sheppard (KFS event) @ Burgess Centre: LINK
6th October – The Other Room 19 with Emily Cricthley, Adrian Clarke and Steve Willey @ Old Abbey Inn
7th October – Counting Backwards with Sonic Pleasure, Mick Beck, Richard Barrett and Stephen Emerson: LINK
19th October – The Other Room 20 with Jerome Rothenberg, Maggie O’Sullivan and Allen Fisher @ Burgess Centre
4th September – 31st October – A Perverse Library curated by Information as Material (Simon Morris, Nick Thurston, Craig Dworkin et al) @ Shandy Hall (just outside York) : LINK
James Davies interviewed about if p then q at Ink Sweat and Tears
My approach is to banish the myth that experimental poetry is impossible to read. I think that being able to read experimental poetry is often seen as an elitist or privileged skill. But it’s not always like that: I don’t know how to fix a sink but I could do it if I did the training. It’s often a case of time or patience. I have an aim of presenting it as such, letting people know that. I’ve done a lot of bubblegum things to get people interested: promotional paraphernalia, wacky gifts, goofy blog speech, events. And I’m also in the business of telling people they don’t have to ‘understand’ a poem for it to be fun. I mean, I don’t understand an ice cream. I personally don’t understand a lot music I listen to but again I could do if I put in the work.
Read the rest HERE
Damn the Caesars
Four new publications now available, including DAMN THE CAESARS vol. N ($15.00).
NEW WRITING: Keston Sutherland, Justin Katko, Emily Critchley, Luke Roberts,
Francesca Lisette, Dale Smith, Geoffrey Gatza, Josh Stanley, Frances Kruk, David
Hadbawnik, Carrie Etter, Francis Crot, and Rosa Alcala.
FEATURE: New writing and 6 full-color visual pieces from Allen Fisher followed by
an extended consideration of Allen Fisher’s work by Pierre Joris.
ESSAY: Dennis Tedlock on Alcheringa’s relationship to Language Writing.
TRANSLATION: The Papyrus of Ani translated by Steve McCaffery; writing from
Egyptian poet Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi translated by Rick London and Omnia Amin.
More here.
Other Room service update
We are having problems with some of our longer videos hosted by MySpace. Unfortunately, this means that the Stuart Calton, James Davies, Craig Dworkin, Michael Haslam, Nick Thurston and Tony Trehy readings and the Tina Darragh and P.Inman inerviews cannot currently be played. Sorry to all concerned: we will resolve this situation soon. Thanks to Jaime Birch for bringing this problem to our attention.
if p then q launches TONIGHT with Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, Tom Jenks. Lucy Harvest Clarke and Geof Huth
if p then q readings & book launches
@ Odder Bar
14 Oxford Road (opposite The BBC), Manchester, UK
23rd June 2010
6.30 pm [1:30 pm Eastern Time in the US]
Free admission
Performers:
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism
Geof Huth
Tom Jenks
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Programme:
6.30: Joy as Tiresome Vandalism present Nøjagtig Pamplemousse
7.00: Geof Huth (live stream – watch at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geof-huth)
7.45: Lucy Harvest Clarke (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
8.15: Tom Jenks: (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
If you can’t be there in person use the above URLs to watch on the internet. Please be aware that all times are approximate.
Extension to this work i don’t know what is
this work im doin I don’t kno what it is
Philip Davenport’s visual poetry project at Henry Moore Institute library will be exhibited until July. Poems have been written into spreadsheets, presenting moral dilemmas as accountancy – war crimes, celebrity, or the simple act of shopping become a tangle of questions. The spreadsheets are accompanied by 3D objects. So, dozens of broken eggshells become symbols for smashed skulls; a poem inscribed within the fragments. From these broken pieces of information, Davenport rebuilds delicate, intuited meanings…
Images and more details at LINK
(Please note that the exhibition run has been extended for longer than originally advertised.)
Henry Moore Institute
The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AH, UK
Open Monday to Sunday from 10am to 5.30pm, and Wednesday from 10am to 9pm
