THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterWFN
Via Gareth Twose:
“Writer’s Forum North is back in business running a Poetry Writing Workshop on Saturday, May 26th. Anyone welcome.
If possible we would like people to bring two things: a poem or poems of their own; & a poem (not their own) they either really love or hate.
As usual will be trying to offer constructive feedback and a few laughs. It would really help if everyone could bring multiple photocopies of their poems, so everyone in the group can read them.
The session will run from 2-4pm . And it’s in top floor at Madlab, Edge Street, in the Northern Quarter.”
Matthew Welton – Waffles
A recently released pamphlet by Matthew Welton from Egg Box and an early version of part of the poem read at The Other Room in 2010.
nick-e melville: Editorial
New e-book by nick-e melville published by Very Small Kitchen.
Available at the LINK
New from VerySmallKitchen
The latest VSK Chapbook is LEAVES by SJ Fowler. Read more here. You can also find a new visual collage sequence by SJ Fowler at otoliths.
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.
Performance Writing Weekend at the Arnolfini
Reading and discussions 4-6th May in Bristol including Peter Jaeger, Harriet Tarlo, Larry Lynch, Marianne Morris, Nick Thurston, John Hall
Full programme HERE
The Other Room Anthology 4 – out now
The Other Room Anthology 2011/12 features work from Tim Allen, David Berridge, Andrea Brady, Rachel Lois Clapham & Stephen Perry, Jennifer Cooke, Ken Edwards, Carrie Etter, Alec Finlay, SJ Fowler, Chris Goode, Phil Hall, Alan Halsey, Derek Henderson, Colin Herd, Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery, nick-e melville, Geraldine Monk, Tamarin Norwood, Vanessa Place and Philip Terry. Click HERE to buy a copy for £6.75 including postage within the UK or HERE to buy a copy for £8 including postage anywhere else.
New ebook from The Red Ceilings
Circle/Line, Alexander Allison.
The Red Ceilings has also announced that at is now open to submissions again.
Beard of Bees
Much of interest to be found in Eric Elshtain’s frequently active e-imprint Beard of Bees, all PDF and all free. The latest release is Mark Cunningham’s Regularly Scheduled.
Paula Claire
Paula Claire read remotely for The Other Room on 19th April. This is the film she sent. Click on the bottom right of the player to view the film on a larger screen.
Stride Magazine
Lots of interesting stuff to read at Rupert Loydell’s Stride, including his interview with Robert Sheppard and new work by Tim Allen, Steve Waling and Alec Newman.
Maintenant #91 – Gunnar Harding
It is too easy, and often, it would seem, far too tempting for the assumption to be made that it is just longevity itself which accounts for the repute and esteem of certain figures in poetry, whose influence seems so fundamental and ubiquitous within a nation’s poetic culture. Yet Gunnar Harding, as much as many a near legendary poet, has influenced so many and built such an immense following precisely because of his remarkable ability to make his poetry one founded on renewal, on tone, on intricacy, on inhabitation – to strike the reader with an original voice no matter their generation and poetic taste, whether they read his first published book in 1967, or his last, a third volume of selected poems. For nearly fifty years Harding has been at the forefront of Scandinavian poetics, rising from the generation of so many great poets in the 1960’s, a former artist and jazz musician, his fluid, energetic, deeply intelligent poetry has been a consistent inspiration to his countrymen and many poets who do not have five decades of writing behind them. For the 91st edition of Maintenant, Gunnar Harding.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-91-gunnar-harding/
Accompanying the interview are three of Gunnar’s poem, translated and generously given over to Maintenant by Roger Greenwald.
The BlazeVOX controversy
“A big controversy in the poetry world these days is the discussion surrounding Buffalo-based small press BlazeVOX [book]‘s (now discontinued) model of charging some authors a portion of the costs of publishing their poetry books ($250, as I gather). In the closing months of last year, the revelation of this practice inflamed passions in the generally staid world of independent literary publishing. The controversy just got an enormous boost with the recent decision of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) banning poets from listing books published by BlazeVOX on their grant applications.
Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.”
Read more, including the thoughts of Geoffrey Gatza, in this piece by Anis Shivani at The Huffington Post.
Wire: Sound Poetry Portal
This month’s issue of Wire magazine includes an article about sound poetry. Their website currently features a portal with links to Bob Cobbing, Henri Chopin and Michael McClure, shown here radicalising a lion.
Paula Claire: a preview
In addition to live performances by Becky Cremin, Tony Lopez and Elena Rivera, The Other Room on Thursday 19th April will feature a video performance by Paula Claire. For an extensive overview of her work, including texts, sound recordings and films, visit her own site.
