Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was T.S. Eliot. But who is this knocking at the door? He’s making “A” list, he’s checking it twice.
Month: December 2011
Secret Santa – 16
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Edith Sitwell. But who is this? Santa often spends Christmas with flamboyant TV host Graham Norton and Graham is in charge of the Christmas dinner. One year, Graham overcooked the turkey. That’s Burnt, Norton!” Santa exclaimed.
Colin Herd interviewed
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Listen to Colin Herd deny that he is American and much else of interest in this interview for the Scottish Poetry Library.
Gnomes

Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks. Limited edition chapbook [rcp cb15] A6 36pp 40 copies. 3.50 inc. p&p (UK). Out now on Red Ceilings.
New Infinite Editions
More free poetry postcards now available at Andrew Spragg’s Infinite Editions, including Francesca Lisette, William Fuller and Joe Kennedy.
Secret Santa – 15
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Wallace Stevens. But who is this? Christmas is such a facade these days. It doesn’t sit well with me.
Secret Santa – 14
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Emily Dickinson. But who is this? Santa loves to relax on Christmas day by slipping into his Julius Caesar costume and gorging himself on raspberry ripple. His elves call him the emperor of ice cream.
Maintenant #82 – João Luís Barreto Guimarães
With a precision and focus that seems to mirror the requirements of his profession, a surgeon, the poetry of João Luís Barreto Guimarães is representative of the finest work in contemporary Portuguese letters. Concise, eloquent and immediate, his work is concerned with phenomenological clarity and an engagement with a language of presence, of excavated intimation, and a wholly personal reality that hinges on a fundamental act of communication with the impersonal. For over two decades he has been a leading light in a poetry tradition often underappreciated outside of its borders, but from which giants of modern poetry like Fernando Pessoa and João Miguel Fernandes Jorge have emerged. In an extremely generous interview, we are pleased to present João Luís Barreto Guimarães as our first Portuguese edition of Maintenant.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-82-joao-luis-barreto-guimaraes/
Accompanying the interview are five translations by Ana Hudson. These poems form part of Ana’s remarkable project http://www.poemsfromtheportuguese.org/ in which she has pioneered the translation and elucidation of a vast number of contemporary poets writing in the Portuguese language.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-joao-luis-guimaraes/
Postgraduate Funding Opportunities at Salford
Keele University and the University of Salford are in receipt of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Block Grant Partnership, totalling 26 studentships over three years. Awards are available at the University of Salford to commence in October 2012 in the following areas:
Doctoral Studentship in English
Professional Preparation Masters in Museum Studies, MA
Professional Preparation Masters in Creative Writing, MA
Professional Preparation Masters in Film, Digital and Media Production, MA
For more details see: LINK
New Issue of Sunfish
New issue of Manchester-based Sunfish now out, featuring work by Stan Rogal, mIEKAL aND, bill bissett, Ed Baker, derek beaulieu and Sarah Crewe.
Contact Nigel Wood at sunfishmag@googlemail.com for details
Camarade 2 – update
An update from SJ Fowler to our post last week about the Camarade 2 project. Two more pairings have now been confirmed:
- Carrie Etter and Tim Atkins
- Richard Barrett and Nathan Jones
Secret Santa – 13
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Frank O’Hara. But who – is – this? 
S J Fowler’s Minimum Security Prison Dentistry available now

The fourth full-length collection from London-based S J Fowler is uncompromised and uncompromising in its exploration of prison language and prison violence. Out now on anything anymore anywhere.
Secret Santa – 12
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Lorine Niedecker. But who is this, already seemingly under the malign influence of Crabbie’s ginger wine? Oh Santa Claus we love you get up.
Secret Santa – 11
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Robert Creeley. But who is this? Look at it objectively.
Secret Santa – 10
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was HD. But who is this? You can often find him riding his sleigh down a black mountain.
Camarade 2
The second phase of the Camarade collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks is unfolding now. Camarade 2 is a series of collaborations between poets organised by SJ Fowler, building towards a performance at London’s Rich Mix on February 11th 2012 where an accompanying anthology will be launched. Pairings confirmed so far are:
- Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland
- Maria Fusco & Andrea Brady
- Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry
- Colin Herd & Patrick Coyle
- James Davies & Stephen Emmerson
- Todd Swift & Matthew Gregory
- Sam Riviere & Sophie Collins
- Katerina Kashchavtseva & Lucy Harvest Clarke
- Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe
- Marcus Slease & Peter Jaeger
Secret Santa – 9
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Vladimir Mayakovsky. But who is this? Give it some initial thought.
Secret Santa – 8
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Elizabeth Bishop. Congratulations to correct guessers Kim Jong Il and two of the Nolan Sisters. But who is this, whose tree has a red star on top of it?
Secret Santa – 7
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Ezra Pound. Congratulations to George Osborne and Jeremy Clarkson, who both win a copy of Das Kapital. But who is this? Santa, of course, has magical powers and can easily produce a miracle for breakfast.










