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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
ANGEL EXHAUST TWENTY-ONE
Via David Bircumshaw:
EACH AEON FREE AFTER THE FIRST ONE: THE WELSH UNDERGROUND
Despite the denials of official organs, Wales participated in the great blossoming of poetic culture of those decades between the end of the primary Cold War and the dawn of the New Right, and this unofficial English literary magazine is offering a large-scale celebration of the achievements of Welsh poets whose optimism captured them. The fall of monoliths spills daylight onto the missing half of the picture. The most interesting anglophone Welsh literature of the past century has been in the innovative vein.
A mixture of poetry, essays, memoirs, and interviews recreates a literary era in depth.
Poets featured are: John James, David Barnett, Paul Evans, Iain Sinclair, Zoë Skoulding, Ralph Hawkins, Peter Finch, David Greenslade, John Goodby, Nic Laight, Nick Macias, Niall Quinn, Philip Jenkins, Graham Hartill, Lynette Roberts, Chris Ozzard, Rhys Trimble, John Powell Ward. We touch on the history of innovative writing in Welsh and even turn up two avant garde texts in Welsh. An analytical essay (drawing on work only available in Welsh) uncovers the use of Welsh patterns of consonantal echoing in the English experimental tradition. An ample poetry anthology includes mainly unpublished poetry but also recovers texts from as far back as the seventies, defying forgetfulness.
Living witnesses told us strange tales. Recovery of original texts from archives and deposits has brought a disintegration of the intellectual legacy. Salvaged from among the debris of Christian, nationalist, and communalist ideologies, we shake clear a brilliant line of liberated and imaginative writing. Set up in order to fill a gap, the project has uncovered a whole gulf, a submerged realm of sophisticated intellectual exploration. Awed, we recover the traces of the classic Welsh magazine 2nd Aeon between 1966 and 1975. That is truly why each aeon is free after the first one.
£7. 1.70 pp. publication date 4 June 2010. available from: 21 Querneby Road, Nottingham, NG3 5JA. cheques payable to ‘Andrew Duncan’ please.
edited by Goodby and Duncan.
If Only..! Robert Sheppard and others at The Bluecoat
IF ONLY..!
Wed 9 June 8pm Free!
Bluecoat Arts Centre, School Lane, Liverpool
The LAUNCH of Liverpool’s monthly melting pot of music, performance, dance, spoken word and the otherwise unclassifiable. If Only..!’s eclectic bills are brought to you by a group of Liverpool-based artists, curators and promoters in the spirit of celebration, exploration, provocation and revelation..!
Trinity Girls Brass Band [music]
The nation’s only all female brass band in virtuoso concert
Steve Lewis [music]
Original songs created from Lewis’s signature combination of voice, unexpected texts, bric-a-brac percussion and live sampling
Robert Sheppard [spoken word]
Sheppard performs new work exploring the poetics of space and launches Looking Thru’ a Hole in the Wall, a collaborative pamphlet created with Patricia Farrell
Maria Malone and Chris Murray Cover [dance/physical theatre] A duet between a girl and her bedclothes exploring the lands where addiction and dependence can lead.
Original concept by Marcus Drummond
Choreography and performance, Maria Malone and Christopher Murray with directorial input from Yorgos Karamalegos
LIC Studio and associate artists [dance/performance/music] Some of Liverpool’s finest improvisers and performers create a multi-disciplinary performance score
MC: Mandy Romero
Menu for Murmur
Final exhibition at Salford’s Chapman Gallery as the univeristy shuts it down. The line-up should make for a wonderful final curtian; an exhibition of sound artists.
Click on the picture for more details
Artists: Matt Wand, Lee Patterson, Seth Cluett, Chris Gladwin, Frans de Waard, Chop Shop, Ryu Hankil, Stan Pete, Jason Zeh, Matt Dalby, Kirsten Reese, Adolfo Guevara, Urban Maeder, G. Fisher, Hainer Woermann, Petri Kuljuntuarte, Hans Specht, Claus van Bebber, Beserker, Rob Gawthrop, Espen Jensen, Bob Levene, Henning Schweichel, Paul Haywood, Tony Trehy, Jonathan May
Openned Podcast 3: e-publishing and the future of the small press
Now available on the Online Podcast page, featuring a discussion between Alex Davies and Steve Willey about ePublishing and the future of the Small Press.
A full transcript of this discussion is available for download.
Subscribe to the Openned Podcast.
Lucy Harvest Clarke at Blue Bus
May 18th, 7.30 @ The Lamb 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, The Blue Bus with Lucy Harvest Clarke, Nat Raha and Anna Ticehurst
Scott Thurston – Internal Rhyme
Published today.
BUY from SHEARSMAN
Poems at:
Review at Silliman’s Blog
Silliman’s blog – Internal Rhyme
Videos
The Other Room 15 in photos
Photos of Ian Davidson, Zoe Skoulding, Matthew Welton and poetry chocolate Easter eggs. These eggs were devoted to one of each of last year’s readers and had a line attached from one of their poems in The Other Room Anthology. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.
Ian Davidson
Ian Davidson in mirror
Zoe Skoulding
Zoe Skoulding
audience
Matthew Welton
eggs
Frances Kruk’s egg
Tim Atkins’ egg
Preview of TOR April reader Matthew Welton
Links to April reader Matthew Welton. Next week of course is The Other Room 15:
Read Poppy – LINK
Carcanet page with audio interview and readings – LINK
Review of We Needed Coffee by James Davies – LINK
Review of The Book of Matthew by Charles Bainbridge – LINK
