New anthology from Bloodaxe Books edited by Nathan Hamilton and featuring, amongst others, Other Room readers Richard Barrett, Emily Critchley, Steven Fowler, Colin Herd, Chris McCabe, Sophie Robinson, Linus Slug (Mendoza), Keston Sutherland, Joe Walton and Steve Willey.
zimZalla object 10.2 is a free PDF to accompany object 010, # by Richard Barrett. The document re-states the concept of the project, i.e. a unique microtext in exchange for a gift, provides a full catalogue of gifts received and photographs of gifts where available. The document concludes with an interview with Richard where he talks about the creation and dissemination of the texts.
Sunday 4 December · 14:00 – 17:00, Madlab, Northern Quarter Manchester. WFNis an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
More videos have now been added to SJ Fowler’s Covers project, where poets read work by poets who have inspired them. Visit the site for the full archive, or enjoy Richard Barrett reading Stewart Home right here.
Saturday, November 5 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Madlab, Manchester.
WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
A magazine in print for innovative poetry & poetics, for cultural theory & social performance / cultural performance & social theory. A magazine dead set against the dead hand & deadly hands of instrumentalist reason & the banalisation / terrorisation / commodification of everyday life. A situation. Department is edited by Richard Barrett & Simon Howard. More at the DEPT site.
01 October · 14:00 - 17:00 Madlab
36-40 Edge Street
Manchester, United Kingdom
After the workshop this month:
Steven Waling on Charles Reznikoff: ‘Walking & Listening To New York’
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WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
This month WFN will be starting slightly earlier at 1pm, this is to make way for a discussion at 3pm about the riots and the role of the artist.
The riots that affected parts of Britain recently have been the occasion for much debate: what were the causes? What would be an appropriate response from government/local council to those involved? What can be done to ensure further riots do not occur?
This discussion is to consider what, if any, obligations/responsibilities in the aftermath of the riots are now incumbent upon people involved in creative work of every kind.
Is it necessary now for artists to concentrate on making work critiquing the ruling elite and/or demonstrating solidarity with the alienated populace?
Is it still even important that art is made?
Can art be a means to enable people to experience greater levels of engagement with their society?
Should art be calling for a complete re-organization of society?
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We believe that discussion and debate is necessary to analyse the events that took place on our streets this August and to reaffirm the postion of the artist in these times.
Please come to MadLab on september3, 15:00-17:00 to make your views known.
Saturday, August 6 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Madlab, 36 – 40 Edge Street, Manchester
WFW(N) is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
The complete text of zimZalla object 010 read in its entirety. # consists of 50 unique micro-texts presented in a vial. More about the object can be found on the zimZalla site.
# is a treatment of selected text output from the @_M_I_A_ Twitter feed. Using instinctive interventions, the original text has been transformed to create a new artefact. Echoes, repetitions and ghost-motifs occur and re-occur throughout #, laying trails true and false, with the # symbol doubling as medical shorthand for “fracture”. For distribution, the complete work has been split into fifty micro-texts of which only a single version exists, each presented in a labelled vial and accompanied by a bespoke extraction tool. # can be owned individually only in part and totally only in common. Each micro-text object is available in exchange for a gift, which can be in a physical, digital, verbal, gestural, symbolic or any other form. Use and exchange value are entirely irrelevant. As gifts are received, they will be listed on the Twitter feed #zimzalla. This list will be collated for presentation as a future object. Contact mail@zimzalla.co.uk or encounter a relevant individual in logical space. Visit the zimZalla site for more #.
WFN Quarterly Report for April 2 to June 3, 2011. New work from Steven Waling, Richard Barrett, Gareth Durasow, Matthew Headley Stoppard, James Davies, Angie Harrison, Nigel Wood, Sue Birchenough, Scott Thurston, Chris Stephenson, Stephen Emmerson, Tom Jenks.
WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
Leeds’ only poetry workshop with the focus on work that doesn’t fit in the mainstream. Avant-garde techniques, humour and innovative use of language are all things that we like very much. We like work which has something to say about contemporary life yet shows an awareness of tradition.
Format of workshops will be poets reading from their work and receiving constructive feedback. It would be best if people could bring along copies of their work for the other group members to follow. It won’t be a problem if that isn’t possible though.
Anyone who wants to come along just to listen is very welcome.
For more info please email Stephen Emmerson on
stephen.emmerson@gmail.com
or
Richard Barrrett on
barrett.richard1@googlemail.com
This event will take place at the Victoria Family & Commercial Hotel
The Other Room is organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston. Get in touch with any of us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com
WHAT
The Other Room is a reading series presenting experimental writers at The Old Abbey Inn in Manchester.
MAILING LIST
If you would like to keep up with our events and other projects, send an email to otherroomeditors@googlemail.com and we will add you to our distribution list.
UPCOMING
THE OTHER ROOM 30
Wednesday 29th February 2012,
7.00 pm.
Tim Allen, Andrea Brady, nick-e melville. The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY.
The Other Room is always free, but you can book a ticket via Eventbrite. This will let us know you are coming and put you on our mailing list. Eventbrite will also give you updates and reminders relating to this event.
Poster designed by Harry Simmonds.
ANTHOLOGY
The Other Room Anthology 2010/11 features work from Neil Addison, Richard Barrett, derek beaulieu, Adrian Clarke, Emily Critchley, Ian Davidson, Stephen Emmerson, Allen Fisher, Susana Gardner, Ben Gwilliam, Jeff Hilson, Peter Manson, Craig Marchington, Nicole Mauro, Chris McCabe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Posie Rider, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg, Zoe Skoulding, Linus Slug, Nathan Thompson, Joseph Walton and Justin Katko, and Louise Woodcock. Click HERE to buy a copy for £6 including postage within the UK or HERE to buy a copy for £7 including postage anywhere else.
Copies of The Other Room Anthology 2 are still available.
Click HERE to buy a copy for £6 including postage within the UK or HERE to buy a copy for £7 including postage anywhere else. The Other Room Anthology 1 is currently out of print.
A magazine in print for innovative poetry & poetics, for cultural theory & social performance / cultural performance & social theory. A magazine dead set against the dead hand & deadly hands of instrumentalist reason & the banalisation / terrorisation / commodification of everyday life. A situation. Department is edited by Richard Barrett & Simon Howard. More at the DEPT site.
