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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
the modernist – issue 2
Issue 2 of the modernist magazine will be launched at at 6pm on Thursday 15th September at Manchester’s Cornerhouse.
Otoliths – new issue
Issue 22 of Otoliths is out now, including poems from Mark Cobley, Grzegorz Wróblewski and Other Room reader Lisa Samuels.
James Davies and Carol Watts on Radio 3
James Davies and Carol Watts, authors of the two most recent Reality Street titles, will be on BBC Radio 4′s The Verb next month. More on Ken Edwards’ blog: http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/kens-blog/reality-street-on-the-verb
Flarf is 10
“In 10 years, the 30-odd people who wound up coming and going on the list published dozens of books and chapbooks, held a number of festivals in New York, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore and elsewhere, and put on high-profile readings at the Denver Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center and the Whitney (with our rivals and closest peers, the Conceptual Writers). Collections of flarf appeared in the online magazine, Jacket, and—scandalously—in Poetry magazine, our second and last appearance with the Conceptual Writers before their attempted hostile takeover. We were written about in numerous alt weekly papers, as well as in Poets & Writers and the Wall Street Journal. The BBC, Wired and NPR covered our activities—as well as the anger our very existence seemed to incite.”
In Utero: Intercapillary Places Poetry @ Parasol Unit
23 June · 19:00 – 20:30
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
*** Free Drinks & ‘Interior Ears’ hand-out for all ***
…
£3 / £1.50 – for booking details see below
More info see: Intercapillary Places website https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/
Parasol Unit: http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php
Important: As the capacity for the event is limited, please book in advance by emailing Charlotte Jones at events@parasol-unit.org or calling on 020 7490 7373 ext 20. Please be aware that if you haven’t booked in advance and turn up on the night, this is fine but if capacity is reached you may not be allowed in.
About the Speakers
Carol Watts is Reader in Literature and Poetics, Birkbeck, University of London; Co-Director, Birkbeck Centre for Research in Contemporary Poetics. She has published a study of Dorothy Richardson (Northcote House, 1995) and The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years War and the Imagining of the Shandean State (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007). Her poetry publications include Wrack (Reality Street, 2007), brass, running (Equipage, 2006), When blue light falls (Oystercatcher, 2008) and alphabetise (Intercapillary Editions, hardback edition 2011). She is currently researching the transatlantic culture of loyalism during the American Revolution.
Marianne Morris was raised in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge, and was the recipient of the Harper-Wood Studentship for Creative Writing from St. John’s College in 2008. She is now researching for a PhD in contemporary poetry at Dartington (University College Falmouth). She founded Bad Press in 2002. Publications include: Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011); Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2008); A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006); with Bad Press: Cocteau Turquoise Turning, Fetish Poems (2004); Gathered Tongue, Memento Mori (2003); Poems in Order (2002). Who Not To Speak To and Iran Documents are forthcoming from Acts of Language and Openned Press respectively.
‘Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol Unit’ is organised by Edmund Hardy and Felicity Roberts
More here.
