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.
Jonny Liron will be reading at The Other Room on 20th July. Check out his Gag Reflex blog, a discussion of his work at all over the grid and The Situation Room, a performance event organised by Jonny. His work can also be found in Grasp Press no. 5.
Jonny will be reading with Tamarin Norwood and Chris Goode. A preview of Chris’ work will follow soon.
An Anabranch With Slug by Tim Allen. See the website.
Pocket Venus by Michael Blackburn, available now at The Red Ceilings Press.
Named for a tenth-century poet and revolutionary who lived in what is now Iraq, Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad was the center of the city’s intellectual and literary life. It was home to booksellers, stationery stores, antiquarian bookstores, and cafes as famous for the ideas that flowed freely as for their pungent coffee.
In 2007, a car bomb exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street, killing 30 and injuring another 100. Residents of Baghdad felt it as not just another attack but a strike against the richness of Iraqi literary history and against the free exchange of ideas and openness of thought. Books and papers lay scattered and charred beside the corpses on Al-Mutanabbi Street that day in March.
Beau Beausoleil, an American poet and bookseller based in San Francisco, was inspired to act. He created the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project because “I felt this connection between Al-Mutanabbi Street and here, and myself, on a visceral level. If I were an Iraqi, a bookseller, a poet, I would be on that street. I felt we needed some sort of response [to the bombing] from our own arts community.”
More about this project including work by Other Room reader Tina Darragh, can be found at the Foreign Policy in Focus site.
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
Tamarin will be performing at the next Other Room on 20th July. She describes herself and her work as follows:
“Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. Her work addresses the possibility of reciprocation between art and writing; practice and everyday life; production and circulation. Projects usually take the form of performance, objects or text. Tamarin holds first class bachelor’s degrees from Oxford University (2004) and Central Saint Martins (2007) in Italian & Linguistics and Fine Art respectively and gained her master’s degree in Art Writing at Goldsmiths (2010).”
For a wide range of samples from her work, visit Tamarin’s website. You can also watch her June 2011 Maintenant Slovakia reading at the Rich Mix in London’s Brick Lane, her “illustrated performative talk” What To Do at the Roehampton Institute and a performance of her Musica Practica at Tate Britain on YouTube.
Previews of Chris Goode and Jonny Liron to follow.
Kirmen Uribe is a basque poet who has become a world poet. A pioneer and a sensation in Spain, a true representative of the new and modern from one of Europe’s most distinct cultures and languages, Kirmen is already one of the most celebrated literary figures in the history of Basque literature. His is the first Basque language collection to be published and translated in full by an American publisher, and he is the winner of numerous awards, reading his work at festivals around the world. His work is unsurprisingly unique – graceful in its vitriol, singular but not solipsistic. He is the standard bearer of a nation as it moves into new realms of poetic expression, for the 67th edition of Maintenant we are proud to bring you Kirmen Uribe.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-67-kirmen-uribe/
Accompanying the interview are two of Kirmen’s poems, translated from the Basque by Elizabeth Macklin.
An Ed Dorn special issue featuring:
i) a selection of poems by Timothy Thornton, Nour Mobarak, The Rejection Group, Francesca Lisette, John Wilkinson, Alexander Nemser, Jonty Tiplady, Luke Roberts and Justin Katko; and ii) a section of work on and by Edward Dorn, including essays by Reitha Pattison, John Armstrong, Kyle Waugh and Richard Owens; two unpublished poems by Dorn, “The Poem of Dedication” and “Osawatomie”, with notes by Justin Katko; and Dorn’s introductory note to The Book of Daniel Drew as well as an uncollected poem, “To Tom Pickard & the Newcastle Brown Beer Revolutionaries”.
The Paper Nautilus publishes contemporary poetry and is based in Cambridge, UK. It is edited by Laura Kilbride and Rosa van Hensbergen. Issue 1 features work by Alice Notely, Nat Raha and Posie Rider. Details here.
A new online journal with essays and poems in textual and audio form. First issue features Charles Bernstein, Brice Bogher, Joshua Clover, Emily Dorman, Robert Fernandez, David Gorin, Simon Jarvis, Kent Johnson, Francesca Lisette, Joe Luna, Marianne Morris, Sara Nicholson, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Giulio Pertile, Vanessa Place, Daniel Poppick, Margaret Ross, Rod Smith, Colby Somerville, Keston Sutherland and Michael Thomas Taren, here.
FRANCES KRUK | DOWN YOU GO, OR,NÉGATION de BRUIT (APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBERT)
“The most pathetic poem is small people on fire”
Frontis piece constructed by gustave morin.
Two color silk screen on construction grade brown packing paper wrapped around black bristol cover. Interior printed on Mohawk Superfine. Set in Bodoni and Gill Sans. Hand stitched.
$5.00 US | $8.00 outside the US
Castlefield Gallery will host the launch of artist Tracey Moberly’s new book TEXT-ME-UP! Saving every single text message she has ever received since 1999, the book is an auto biographical work weaving personal narratives with psycho-geographical histories of Manchester, London, Moscow, New York and Haiti. Journeying from underground to mainstream in the worlds of both music and art it includes over 3,000 images.
Thursday 7 July 2011, 6-8pm, FREE
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