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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 An ample poetry anthology includes mainly unpublished poetry but also recovers texts from as far back as the seventies, defying forgetfulness.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.
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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
Preview of TOR April reader Zoe Skoulding
Links to April reader Zoe Skoulding. Next week Matthew Welton:
British Council bio – LINK
Review of Remains of a Future City by Ian Seed - LINK
Becoming Post Avant
The thoughts of Steve Waling:
“It was a pressure in my head that made me finally admit that I was whatever kind of poet it is I think I’ve become. I had a failing poem that annoyed me so much, as a last resort, I cut it up. Lo! A light came down from heaven illuminating the path I must follow… or something… Rather, I discovered that I didn’t have to do the whole thing straight, that going the crooked route was just as interesting.”
More here. See Steve’s reading for The Other Room in February here.
Preview of TOR April reader Ian Davidson
Links to Ian Davidson on the web. Next week Zoe Skoulding:
Author Page at Shearsman – LINK
Poems at Intercapillary Space – LINK
Preview of The Other Room reader February: Holly Pester
The second introduction to our three February readers: Holly Pester. Click on the links.
Next week Steve Waling.
Poems
Criticism & more poetry
Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions: Fact Sheet
Fact sheet below.
See more emblems at onedit – LINK
Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions:
Fact Sheet
“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.” –Franz Kafka, Diaries
“In my life the furniture eats me.” –William Carlos Williams, Spring & All
EMBLEM
Invented in 1531 by a Florentine legal scholar named Andrea Alciato, the emblem is a tripartite structure composed of a motto or epigram (generally moral in theme), an icon (often referred to as the emblem’s ‘body’) and a commentary on the two in prose or poem form. Many emblems made variations on this formula.
ARMCHAIR EMBLEM
The upholstered emblem or armchair emblem incorporates only the epigram/motto and image tension of the Renaissance emblem but retains its conceptual gist and glyphic structure.
PROSTHETIC MOTTO
An aspirational embodiment or transcorporation for the body-image. “Building the muscles of mind’s legs.” Enhanced mobility via an ingested foreign body.
TRANSCORPORATION
A translation from one body to another. An ingestion or introjection.
WALKING DEFINITION
An indoor walking stick that defines constituents of the built interior as allegories of mind. A measure. A ‘getting underway’ instrument, frequently ‘left around.’
BUILT INTERIOR
An indoor pedestrian structure comprised of mobile furniture for the solicitation of thinking. An allegory of mind.
SOLICITATION
The directed rousal of thinking through upholstered didactic prompts or forms (an intelligent furniture).
FORMS
Ornaments of thought. Including: the glyphic (static—the emblem); the mnemonic (transcorporable—the prosthetic); the definitive (the Walking Definition).
FURNITURE
What is lived with. “The relation of with.” Any instrument or form housing information intended to be absorbed by accompaniment.
–THOMAS EVANS
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is
Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’
In its festive merriment and review of the culture of decade The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.
1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10.Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets
