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18/07/2011 at 5:00 am · Filed under Publications and tagged: #, richard barrett, Tom Jenks, zimZalla
#: Richard Barrett
# 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 #.
06/07/2011 at 9:06 am · Filed under Publications and tagged: GAMAG, richard barrett, Stephen Emmerson, Tom Jenks, WFN
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.
£1.50 via the paypal in the sidebar at http://writersforumnorth.blogspot.com
23/06/2011 at 8:00 am · Filed under Events and tagged: richard barrett, Stephen Emmerson, Tom Jenks, WFN
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
28 Great George St, Leeds LS1 3DL
More here.
17/05/2011 at 9:19 pm · Filed under Publications and tagged: department, richard barrett, Simon Howard, Tom Jenks
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.
More here.
08/05/2011 at 9:11 pm · Filed under Publications and tagged: anything anymore anywhere, Colin Herd, Francis Crot, Greg Thomas, Iain Morrison, J L Williams, Jacq Kelly, jim ferguson, Justin Katko, Michael Farrell, nick-e melville, Pete McConville, posie rider, richard barrett, Richie McCaffery, RODNEY RELAX, Rosa van Hensbergen, S.J. Fowler, Thomas Moore, Tony Leuzzi
Action packed third issue starring:
Francis Crot, nick-e melville, Justin Katko, Posie Rider, Jacq Kelly, Iain Morrison, jim ferguson, Tony Leuzzi, Michael Farrell, Richard Barrett, J L Williams, S J Fowler, RODNEY RELAX, Rosa van Hensbergen, Thomas Moore, Pete McConville, Richie McCaffery and Greg Thomas
£4
LINK
19/04/2011 at 2:36 pm · Filed under Events and tagged: richard barrett, Stephen Emmerson, Tom Jenks, Wriers Forum North
Saturday, May 7 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Victoria Family & Commercial Hotel
28 Great George Street, Leeds
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.
More here.
03/12/2010 at 8:11 pm · Filed under Publications and tagged: Chris Torrance, ctrl+alt+del, Damian Sawyer, Dave Lewis, DAVID CAMERON, Homan Yousofi and Lee Duggan, James Davies, Johan de Wit, rhys trimble, richard barrett
Featuring:
Johan de Wit, Chris Torrance, Dave Lewis, Damian Sawyer, DAVID CAMERON, Homan Yousofi and Lee Duggan, with open field Vs quantum open field string theory ‘article’ cut-up by Rhys Trimble
Plus new downloadable echapbook The Hard Shoulder from Richard Barrett on the website
LINK
15/11/2010 at 11:51 pm · Filed under Publications and tagged: DEPT, richard barrett, Tom Jenks
DEPT #1 now available. Features new work from Simon Howard, Becky Cremin, Nat Raha, James Davies, Stephen Emmerson, Bill Drennan, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Tim Thornton, Alex Davies, Karen Sandhu and Gary Fisher. Costs 3 quid. Or exchanges very welcome. Send a message to barrett.richard1@googlemail.com if you want one. Please send submissions of poetry/essays/reviews/photographs for #2 to the same address.
25/08/2010 at 10:11 pm · Filed under Publications and tagged: 3 am magazine, richard barrett, Sidings, Tom Jenks
“This is a coal-fired collection with its roots in romanticism. Barrett is as fascinated by place and landscape as Wordsworth or Coleridge, but his is an urban, post-industrial pastoral. For Lake Windermere, read the Manchester Ship Canal; for the opium den, read the fast food outlet; for the storm scoured heath, read the corporate courtyard.”
More at 3AM magazine, here.
18/07/2010 at 8:59 am · Filed under Events and tagged: Counting Backwards, gary fisher, Matt Dalby, richard barrett, Tom Jenks
Recalibrate your instruments. Counting Backwards, Manchester’s new series of text-sound-performance events has a new site at http://countingbackwards.posterous.com. Counting Backwards takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. After a successful launch in June the series returns on Thursday 5 August 2010 with performances from Blood Stereo, Becky Creminand Jennifer McDonald & Louise Woodcock. Counting Backwards is Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher.
21/05/2010 at 8:24 am · Filed under Events and tagged: Coutning Bakwards, gary fisher, holly pester, Matt Dalby, mike cannell, richard barrett, thf drenching
Counting Backwards is a new series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. The first event is on Thursday 3 June 2010. Entrance is free. Performing at the first event are Mike Cannell, THF Drenching and Holly Pester.
Mike Cannell is an intermedia poly-poet from west Midlands who works in visual, linear and sound poetry of various types. His work is primarily concerned with exploration of the materiality and emotional power of language. He releases the experimental sound poetry podcast l,angu(ages)paz,m, which is to be regarded as both one long, ongoing sound poem and an audio essay proclaiming ideas regarding experimental poetics He is also is the editor of würm, a monthly e-magazine showcasing experimental poetry of all kinds. His work including many e-books can be found at: http://visoundtextpoem.blogspot.com/, worbdlog, {n/o/t/a/t/w/i/t}. His work has featured in online periodicals such as Otoliths and wordforword.
THF Drenching is a free improvisor and composer of musique concrète, based in Manchester, England. As a dictaphone-player, he was one fifth of Derek Bailey’s final band Limescale, and has played with many of the UK’s best improvisors. He was also half of the bricks and dictaphone duo Pleasure-Drenching Improvers. As a poet (writing under his slave name, Stuart Calton) he’s published four books. Three came out on Barque Press and one is self-published. His fifth is awaiting publication. As a composer, he’s completed thirteen albums of musique concrète, electronic music and various dubious overdubbed semi-improvised amalgams.
Holly Pester is an experimental sound poet and writer undergoing practice-led research at Birkbeck, University of London in ‘Speech and the Archive in Intermedia Poetry’. Her performance texts are experiments in the sound and shape of speech, blending pre-verbal noises with semantic surrealism in an investigation into language transmission. She is currently investigating the sound aesthetic of the ‘radio-voice’ and the poetic qualities of analog sound.
Holly Pester regularly performs her poetry at art and literary events in the UK including the Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon and the upcoming Text Festival 2011. This also includes collaborative works with regular co-performers Jamie Wilkes and Abbi Oborne. She has been published in numerous journals and an anthology of London poets, City State.
Examples of her work and theory can be found at hollypester.com
Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby, Gary Fisher
Counting Backwards editors
countingback@yahoo.co.uk
http://tingbckwrds.wordpress.com/
22/04/2010 at 9:34 am · Filed under Events, Projects and tagged: gary fisher, holly pester, Matt Dalby, mike cannell, richard barrett, thf drenching
At last I can let you know about a new series of events in Manchester.
For a few weeks now Richard Barrett, Gary Fisher and myself have been working on a new series of text-sound-performance events called Counting Backwards.
Beginning Thursday 3 June 2010, Counting Backwards will take as its starting point contemporary text-sound practices that question semantics and received traditions, and emphasise performability.
Counting Backwards takes place at Fuel Cafe Bar in Withington on the first Thursday of alternate months. Entry is free. The flyer for our launch event is below.
Via Matt Dalby
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