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Tony Lopez: Sounds New Poetry Festival
Recent Other Room reader Tony Lopez is reading with Steve Collis at this year’s Sounds New Poetry Festival in Canterbury. Details below:
Wednesday 9th May 6pm, Peter Brown Room, Darwin College, University of Kent.
Reading: Found Text
Working with the idea of the found text, Steve Collis and Tony Lopez present poems that explore borrowing and appropriation in art. Like John Tavener in The Veil of the Temple, Collis and Lopez work with and through mixed sources to open the possibilities of collective expression.
Tony Lopez videos from The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Tony Lopez reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Tony Lopez: a preview
Tony Lopez will be reading at the next Other Room on Thursday 19th April. For a flavour of his work, check his own site, his blog and his page at Shearsman Books, where you can find information about and samples from his two most recent books, Only More So and False Memory. The photograph above is of More and More, part of the Bury Art Museum collection and was taken by Julia Grime.
Tony will be reading with Becky Cremin and Elena Rivera. Previews of both to follow in the coming weeks.
The Found Readings at the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics
A Second Conceptual Gesture: The Found Readings at the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics.
- TONY LOPEZ
- REDELL OLSEN
- JOHN SEED
+ a smörgåsbord of found poetry by others. Saturday 25 February, 4.30-7pm. Free and all welcome. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, WC1.
Tony Lopez: False Memory 2nd edition published by Shearsman
Tony Lopez’s landmark collection False Memory has been made into a second edition with a new introduction by Robert Hampson.
“[…] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez’s False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge.” —Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003.
Shearsman Reading – Tony Lopez & Peter Robinson
The first reading in Shearsman’s 2012 series takes place on Thursday 6 February at 6:00pm for 6:30, and features Tony Lopez & Peter Robinson, who will be officially launching their new Shearsman titles: Only More So and The Returning Sky.
The reading venue is: University of Notre Dame in London, 1 Suffolk Street,
London, SW1Y 4HG (Just around the corner from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square).
Admission free. but RSVP required as space limited. More details at the Shearsman site.
Tony Lopez, Works on Paper published by Crater Press
New from Crater Press: WORKS ON PAPER by Tony Lopez At the apex of modernism in the early twentieth century, Bury in Lancashire was the world centre of industrial paper manufacture. Works on Paper by Tony Lopez is a serial poem looking through the history and language of that technical innovation and place of trade. The poem was written in 2008, first performed at the Text Festival in 2009, and printed on (130gsm) Hahnemuhle old antique laid by Richard Parker in October and November 2011, limited to 100 copies at £4.
Copies are available now at www.craterpress.co.uk
The Other Room – future events
For your diary our next scheduled events are as follows:
October 26th 2011, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Jennifer Cooke, Colin Herd & Steven Fowler
February 29th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Andrea Brady, nick-e melville & Tim Allen
April 19th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room 4th birthday with Tony Lopez, Paula Claire, Becky Cremin & Elena Rivera
Topy Lopez – Only More So
Only More So is published in North America by the University of New Orleans, UNO Press and is available now on Amazon. A poem in ten prose sections, 254 pages including a bibliography of sources and index. Cover photo: Fimmvörðuháls Iceland, 1997, John S. Webb.
The Text Festival 2011, Opening Performances
The Other Room was asked to film the opening performances of 2011′s international Text Festival. This represents less than a quarter of the events took place.
On Saturday 30th April The third international Text Festival opened. The montage at the beginning shows a small percentage of the art on display in three galleries around Bury, Manchester. There are performances here by Marco Giovenale, Helen White & Moniek Darge, Marton Koppany, Helmet Lemke & Hans Specht and Sarah Sanders. The Lemke/Specht performance was a durational piece of four hours. What is captured here is only a small portion of that fabulous piece.
The Text Festival 2011 Opening Performances from The Other Room on Vimeo.
Click Here to see the video in a larger screen
The Bury Poems
Text Festival publication. Poems in response to Bury.
Features: Geof Huth, Holly Pester, Ron Silliman, Tony Trehy, Phil Davenport, Carol Watts, Tony Lopez, Robert Grenier
