….A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality….
Issue 4 out now, including Other Room reader Carol Watts.
Month: October 2011
Notes For Fatty Cakes by Andrew Spragg
anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk is pleased to announce the publication of
Notes For Fatty Cakes by Andrew Spragg.
The follow-up to Andrew Spragg’s sell-out debut The Fleetingest (Red Ceilings Press, 2011), Notes For Fatty Cakes is uproarious and mannered, with tenderness by the shimmering and deliciously shifty bucketload.
‘Andrew Spragg’s Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other.”Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.’ —Tom Raworth
Maintenant #75 – Anna Auziņa
One of the stars of the contemporary Latvian poetry scene, Anna Auziņa, already established as a classically trained artist, has emerged as a constant and resonant force in Baltic poetry over the last decade. Her work maintains a resolute affinity with the organic and perhaps overtly poetic language of her own personal journey as an artist. Gifted in both fields, her work reveals this creative agility in its imagery and tone. One of the five non-British poets visiting for the Maintenant Camarade event in the East end of London this October 2011, we are pleased to welcome our 75th interviewee in the Maintenant series.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-75-anna-auzina/
Accompanying the interview are four of Anna’s poems.
WFW(NS)
The next workshop will be this Saturday 8 October at 4pm at the William IV pub, 7 Shepherdess Walk, Shoreditch, London, N1 7QE, nearest tube Old Street.
Focusing on experimental writing, these workshops offer a supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere for poets to share new work. The meetings aim to engage and encourage the broadest possible range of innovative practices.
Sean Bonney launch 6th October
“Happiness: Poems after Rimbaud” will be launched at The Blue Posts, Rupert St. 7 o’clock start. More info here:
http://www.unkant.com/2011/09/book-launch-6th-oct-all-bourgeoisie.html
thetextisthetext
visual poetry Vs text art
an exhibition match
Fri 7th Oct, 6.30-9, Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Featuring text works by nick-e melville, Gerry Smith, Dorothy Alexander, Greg Thomas, Shandra Lamaute, Lisa Temple-Cox, Becky Campbell and Alexa Hare.
Emily Critchley and Peter Philpott Reading at the Blue Bus
Tuesday, October 18 · 7:30pm
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ
Check the Facebook page for more.
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
stutter studies by ollie evans new from deptpress
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.
Ron Silliman in Bury
Ron Silliman’s Bury Text, part of the 2011 Text Festival exhibition, has now been installed at Bury Metrolink station. More about the project at Tony Trehy’s blog.
Blackbox Manifold, Issue 7
Out now and available on the Blackbox Manifold site, featuring
Poetry:
- Emily Carr
- Claire Crowther
- Nikolai Duffy
- Ian Ganassi
- Julie Gard
- Geoff Gilbert
- Carl Griffin
- Tom Jenks
- Mark Johnson
- Jill Jones
- David Kinloch
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Anthony Madrid
- Helen Mort
- Rebecca Muntean
- Burgess Needle
- Ujjal Nihil
- Aidan Semmens
- Corey Wakeling
- Duncan White
Reviews:
- Michael Vagnetti on Franz Wright
- Alistair Noon on Abdellatif Laȃbi
Translation section:
- Tim Atkins, Poems from Petrarch
- Vahni Capildeo, Four Departures from ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’
- Geoff Gilbert & Alex Houen, free translation from Zola and Girard
- Hagihan Haliloglu, translation of Roni Margulies
- Ian Heames, out of Villon
- Michael Kindellan, after Baudelaire, Pound, Char
- Rod Mengham, version of Archilochus
- Alistair Noon, Mandelstam
- Richard Owens, Eight Ballads
- Justin Quinn, from Bohuslav Reynek
- Keston Sutherland, Marx & Espitallier
- Geoff Ward, from Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies
- Adam Piette, Review of Ashbery’s Rimbaud
Tim Atkins at Edge Hill
Poetry Reading 19th October 2011 at The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Orsmkirk, Lancaster, 7.30: £4.
Tim Atkins is the author of Folklore 1-25 (Heart Hammer), To Repel Ghosts (Like Books), 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Oriental Tapping (Penguin), Horace (O Books), and Folklore (Salt). Another volume, Petrarch, is available from Barque Press. His work to ‘translate’ the whole of Petarch is one of the most exciting poetic projects of our time. He calls them ‘versions & perversions of the love poems of Petrarch’. He is editor of the online poetry journal onedit, Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of East London, a practising Buddhist, practising father, and is lousy at multi-tasking.
More Herbarium readings
Two afternoons at the Harvest Hangout at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Autumn Harvest Show 2011. A line-up of music and readings organised by Helen Babbs:
Tue 4th Oct
11am Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
12pm Monooka + Buffy – music & poetry (40mins)
2pm Herbarium poets readings – Matt Martin, Luke Heeley, Kirsten Irving & Jon Stone (30mins)
3pm Monooka and her band (30mins)
4pm Herbarium poets readings – Matt Martin, Luke Heeley, Kirsten Irving & Jon Stone(30mins)
5pm Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
Weds 5th Oct
11am Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
12pm Robin Grey and his band (45mins)
2pm Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
3pm Allan Shepherd + Herbarium poets Allan Shepherd, Holly Hopkins & MJ Weller(30mins)
Tickets are £5 on Tue; £3 on Weds (free entry to readers and one friend)
Robert Sheppard at the Bluecoat, Liverpool
Sunday 16 October 5.30 – 6.30pm
Part of the radical literary avant-garde sometimes called ‘linguistically innovative’, Sheppard combines subtle effects of language and tone with a variety of performance styles, from the direct and quick-fire to the musical. His most recent books are Warrant Error, a verbal intervention into the War on Terror and Berlin Bursts, which contains poems that explore one of his persistent themes of human unfinish. Anthologised in the OUP Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry he is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University.
Robert says, ‘What I’m planning to do for this reading, which is an important one for me, is to plug into the Bluecoat’s theme of ‘city of radicals by reading some poems about Liverpool, some poems that I hope are radical in form, and others that are radical in content. While I will read from Berlin Bursts, my 2011 book, I am also going to read from other books and from recent, unpublished work, including a new radical poetry manifesto. This last piece was specially written for the occasion. Reading something new always makes me a little edgy, but that’s good. When I’ve finished I’ll be answering questions, signing books and having a drink.’
Free, ticket required. The best way to book is by phone or via the web.
Book at www.thebluecoat.org.uk or 0151 702 5324 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX (which is also the venue).
Carol Watts reviewed
“Masterly on its own terms, Occasionals is the kind of book that should appear on prize shortlists – but all too rarely does.”
Carrie Etter reviews Carol Watts’ Occasionals in The Guardian. More about the book, including how to buy it, can be found on the Reality Street site.
Maintenant #74 – Ailbhe Darcy
Already considered one of the finest poets of Ireland’s new generation, Ailbhe Darcy has gained international recognition for her vibrant poetry and rapidly growing body of work. Being at the forefront of a tradition as considerable as Ireland’s has required her to maintain the idiosyncracy of her own taste and voice, and though undoubtedly, the lilt of her work, it’s care for being read and for being rhymtical, resounds with the narrative tradition of Irish poetry, it is also true her idiom can be disjunctive, unpretentious and colloquial. More vitally she creates poems that are conceptually often unresolved, an act of humility that sits apart from neat lyricism. Yet it is too far to say she has made a break from the tradition of her nation, and many would say this is the bigger achievement. For the 74th edition of Maintenant, our first Irish poet, Ailbhe Darcy. thanks to Michael Schmidt
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-74-ailbhe-darcy/
Accompanying the interview are three of Ailbhe’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3-poems/
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