THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for Tom Jenks
Damn the Caesars | Crisis Inquiry | Cambridge Launch Readings
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 2:00pm. Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, West Road, Cambridge. Featuring performances from:
- Sean Bonney
- Ryan Dobran
- Danny Hayward
- Rosa van Hensbergen
- Owen Holland
- Laura Kilbride
- Frances Kruk
- Joe Luna
- Marianne Morris
- Richard Owens
- Reitha Pattison
- Nat Raha
- Luke Roberts
- Skeletor
Free Entry | All welcome | Cake
Closed Caption
A publishing project by Orla Foster and Peter Martin, utilising found and manipulated text and images. Publications so far include Lovely Little Nutmegs, a sequence of poems made from football commentary. More information at the Closed Caption site.
Maintenant at the Poetry Parnassus
Four events at London’s Southbank Centre:
Tuesday 26th June 7pm – 9pm in the Blue Room
Maintenant celebration reading I: Pekko Kappi, Christodoulos Makris, Damir Sodan, Endre Ruset & more poets to be announced…
Friday 29th June 5pm – 6pm in the Level 5 Function Room
Maintenant: Poetry from the Balkans – Damir Šodan, Ana Ristovic, Doina Ioanid, Taja Kramberger, Luljeta Lleshanaku & more poets to be announced…
Saturday 30th 7pm-9pm in the White Room
Maintenant: a celebration of the avant garde & the experimental: James Wilkes, Holly Pester, Kirsty Irving, Sam Riviere, Vahni Capildeo, Audrey Brown-Pereira, Rocío Cerón & more poets to be announced…
Sunday 1st July 1pm – 2pm in the Clore Ballroom
Maintenant celebration reading II: Donatas Petrosius, Agnes Lehoczky, Immanuel Mifsud, Gerdur Kristny, Nigar Hasan Zadeh & more poets to be announced…
Poetry & Revolution @ Xing the Line
Friday, May 25, 2012, 7:30pm. The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X.
- Tom Leonard
- Jack Hirshman
- Ziba Karbassi
- Marianne Morris
- Sean Bonney
- Harry Gilonis
Streetcake issue 23
- Eleanor Bennett
- Lorna Callery
- Sophie Clarke
- J.R. Clarke
- William Garvin
- Jo Langton
- Siofra McSherry
- Ali Znaidi
Available now on the Streetcake site.
South of the River videos
Films of the South of the River symposium, organised by Emily Critchley, are now available. The list in full is as follows:
Allen Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9uCiOsslUF0
D S Marriott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3pbRCQ4wpfQ
Jeff Hilson (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbEcoRMncLYc
Jeff Hilson (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgpXc6Pl2UrI
Carol Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQVIFHx4V-qk
Iain Sinclair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DaRGrII8CBeY
Ira Lightman: a preview
Ira Lightman will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 12th June at The Castle in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. For a flavour of Ira’s work, try this film of a recent reading at JibbaJabba, Ira’s own site, some poems at Salt Publishing or some more poems at Peony Moon. His most recent book is PHONE IN THE ROLL, is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons press.
Performing with Ira will be Peter Jaeger and Helmut Lemke. Previews of both to follow soon.
Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell
Monday 11th June at 8.30p.m at the New Beehive Inn, Westgate, Bradford BD1 3AA. (About 10 minutes walk from either Interchange or Foster square railway stations). Entry is by a £3.00 donation.
A NIGHT OF PSYCHEDELIC NOIR
To celebrate the end of Again, A Time Machine: Stewart Home, SPACE and Book Works invite you to A Night of Psychedelic Noir.
A closing performance, screening and party, with Stewart Home, Katrina Palmer and Bridget Penney at SPACE, London, on 20 May, from 6.30-late, and the launch of a new limited edition print by Stewart Home.
DOORS OPEN – 6.30PM
READINGS – 7.00–8.00PM
SCREENINGS, MUSIC AND FOOD – 8.00–LATE
FREE ENTRY
Stewart Home’s selective archive closes with a night of readings and performance, from Semina artists and writers, Katrina Palmer, author of The Dark Object, and Bridget Penney, author of Index, along with Stewart Home, reading from Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie, Defiant Pose, Memphis Underground and Down and Out in Shoreditch and London.
The event and exhibition closes with a barbeque and party, screenings of cult kung-fu films Master of the Flying Guillotine and Scorpion Thunderbolt, and the sounds of northern soul.
Maintenant #93 – Charles Simic
What more can be asked of a poet than that they maintain their own sense of integrity towards what they deem poetic? It follows then if the poet who does maintain a writing life of such commitment is a thinker of originality and insight, and that they maintain this commitment across a lifetime, then their work will have a life far beyond them. All the more if they do so with an affability that belies their skill, and a determination that proves them to be enduring. For a lifetime of writing, Charles Simic has been one of world’s most engaging and singular poets. He has exerted such an influence over so many and for so long, he has almost come to define an era. His voice is sure, utterly recognisable, both profound and humble, both grounded and flighted, both incisive and witty and he has straddled labels and definitions, as he has the continents of North America and Europe. Never has his own work been occluded by his translations but his lifetime of service to European poetry has fundamentally shaped the perception of Serbian, and Balkan, poetry in the English speaking world at large. He is an immense presence in US poetry and inarguably one of the most important poets of the late 20th century. For edition 93 of the Maintenant series, Charles Simic.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-93-charles-simic/
To accompany the interview is a poem, never before published, ‘Ghost Cinema’
Matt Dalby: Chevassut/Waking
Other Room performer Matt Dalby has two recent free net label sound releases. The first, Chevassut, is available on osg and the second, Waking, is available on electronic musik. Lots more can be found on Matt’s own site, Santiago’s Dead Wasp.
DAMN THE CAESARS
A special volume of DAMN THE CAESARS with attention to the work of Rob Halpern and Keston Sutherland.
Re-Word – mostly from the mainland
Performances of poetry and drama in translation, together with other local and European poets and translators.
Tuesday 22 May, 7.30-9.30 pm, Lloyds Upstairs, Lloyds Hotel, 617 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, Manchester.
Provisional programme:
Issa haiku (Japanese) – Wilhelm Wetterhoff
Four contemporary Romanian poets – Daniel Puia-Dumitrescu (with Judy Kendall)
Poetry in Polish – Scott Thurston
Anna Szabo poems (Hungarian) – Szilvi Naray-Davey (with Judy Kendall)
INTERVAL 8.15-8.40
Hungarian drama – Szilvi Naray-Davey (with Judy Kendall)
Poetry in German – Daniele Pantano
Walloon poems from ‘A Translated Man’ (Belgian poet Rene Van Valckenborch) – Robert Sheppard
Contemporary English haiku and tanka by Sheila Butterworth, Martin Lucas, Stuart Quine, Fred Schofield, Ian Storr translated into Swedish, Finnish and Romanian – Daniel P-D, Wilhelm W, Martin Lucas/Judy Kendall
Like This Press: JT Welsch
Nikolai Duffy’s Like This Press launches with Waterloo, by JT Welsch. More details, including how to buy a limited hand bound and stamped edition, can be found at the Like This site.
Maintenant Croatia: films online
Films of Maintenant Croatia, where five Croatian poets read alongside an assortment of British writers at Europe House, in Westminster, are now online. They include this performance by Other Room reader Jeff Hilson.
Jennifer Cooke: Scenes of Intimacy
Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature, edited by Other Room reader Jennifer Cooke.
Scholars from a range of critical perspectives explore representations of intimacy in contemporary writing, from fiction to autobiography.
Out May 16th on Continuum.
You can watch Jennifer’s October 2011 reading at The Other Room below.
Poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack
Part of the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre readings series. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD. 7:30-9:00pm – all welcome.
Chris McCabe: The Restructure
“THE RESTRUCTURE tells the story, through a series of poems, of the circumstances leading to the conception of a boy and his delivery into a difficult world. Born with a condition that requires long stretches in hospital the author attempts to view the world through the senses of the boy who is yet to learn language. This play of words presents the challenges of the world in a new light. The backdrop of the book is social unrest, but the author and boy – who has 40 different pseudonyms – push back against the monotone order of THE RESTRUCTURE (the all-controlling voice that appears throughout as a public service announcement) through the surreal inventions of words and games. This is a gripping book of contrasts, conjuring a life of extreme polarities that is always striving for a resolution, towards a restructured world.”
Out now from Salt Publishing.
Contemporary Poetry and Source Conference
18th May 2012 – 20th May 2012 at Plymouth University.
“This conference aims to explore the use of source material in contemporary poetry. The term ‘source’ should be given a wide remit, incorporating ‘origin’, ‘subject’ and ‘method’. Contemporary poetry, here, refers to writers working post – 1950, but of course thier sources may well be historical. We invite single author studies as well as papers which speak to the sources which are defining our poetic zeitgeist; we also invite creative practitioners to explore their own sources with a framework or context. Some topics for panels include: visual arts, music, nature, the personal, the impersonal, found material, the documentary, the trans-Atlantic exchange, influence, language, literature, biography, history, politics, philosophy and translations. Papers on or inspired by the work of our plenary speakers are very welcome.”
Includes a paper by Mark Leahy on Opposable Dumbs by Other Room reader Tina Darragh. You can watch part one of Tina’s reading below and find the other parts here.
Holdfire Press Launch
Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, L2 2JH. Thursday, 31 May 2012, 20:00.
Readings by JT Welsch, Steve Van Hagen, Catherine Woodward, Luke Kennard, Richard Watt, Jess Green and Colette Sensier to launch Holdfire‘s first 8 pamphlets by these seven writers, plus Emily Critchley.
