Xing the Line: Lucy Harvest Clarke & Martin Corless-Smith
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London. More here.
Month: December 2011
James Harvey – Many Species
zimZalla object 013 is Many Species, a poem by James Harvey with pictures of fishes, birds and bees by Elfreda Harvey. Many Species comes as a mostly prior assembled hanging mobile with a simple drop mechanism requiring only a wire coat hanger to complete the construction, and is accompanied by an illustrative poem. Available to buy now at the zimZalla site.
Ira Lightman and Angela Topping at Matt and Phred’s in Manchester
Knives Forks and Spoons presents Ira Lightman and Angela Topping in the swarve Matt and Phred’s. Nice.
13th December, 7pm doors.
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Secret Santa – 6
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 William Carlos Williams. But who is this, enjoying panto season? Or should that be canto season?
Launch of Alba Londres 2
16th of December, 7.30pm to 9pm. Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX.
- Amy De’Ath
- Noèlia Díaz Vicedo
- Carlos Fernández López
- Aurèlia Lassaque
- Richard Parker
- William Rowe
More at the Alba Londres site.
Secret Santa – 5
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 Marianne Moore. Congratulations to Heurelho Gomes and Mrs. Trellis from North Wales, who both guessed correctly. But who is this, whose favourite reindeer has a nose as red as a plum in an icebox?
Maintenant #81 – Valerio Magrelli
For over thirty years Valerio Magrelli has represented Italian poetry to the world. Inarguably the most influential poet of his generation in Italy, the oeuvre he has thus far established has ensured his place as one of the few poets able to look eye to eye with his nation’s iconoclastic predecessors. And yet, this language of grandeur does not seem apropos in describing a work built on agility of thought, deftness of expression, a modest, good-natured gesturing to the immense power of poetry which, in and of itself, locates that very power. Valerio Magrelli is a poet whose work has the authority to wake his readers, to bring their focus back to the poem itself, as a thing, not as a product of a poet first and foremost. Consistently, it is this eloquent and energetic intellect which resonates through his work and reminds us of the heights that the Italian language and the Italian poetry tradition can reach. For the 81st edition of Maintenant, Valerio Magrelli. Thanks to Jan Wagner, Federico Italiano & Jamie McKendrick.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-81-valerio-magrelli/
Accompanying the interview are four poems, taken from the book ‘Valerio Magrelli: The Embrace’ Faber & Faber 2009, translated by Jamie McKendrick.
For this remarkable undertaking, Jamie McKendrick won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the John Florio Prize.
Secret Santa – 4
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 John Berryman. But who is this with a beard as white as an Arctic fox?
Streetcake issue 20
- Billy Cancel
- J.R. Clarke
- Trini Decombe
- Nikki Dudley
- Caroline England
- Jo Langton
- Sean Neville
- Steve Toase
- Serena Wilcox
Online now at the Streetcake site.
Secret Santa – 3
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 Gertrude Stein. But who is this, hiding out from Henry and his no doubt unspeakable antics under the mistletoe?
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Secret Santa – 2
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 Charles Olson. Congratulations to Stephen Emmerson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who both guessed correctly. But who is this? They might bring you a lovely cardigan with some very sensitive fasteners.
VLAK 2
Issue 2 of VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts is now available. VLAK 2 is edited by Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan, Carol Watts, Stephan Delbos, David Vichnar, Jane Lewty & Ali Alizadeh. It includes work by Other Room readers Steve McCaffery, Adrian Clarke, Ken Edwards and Robert Sheppard and many others.
Secret Santa – 1
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. So who is this, celebrating Christmas to the Maximus?
Reality Street videos
John Gilmore launched Head of a Man and Richard Makin launched Dwelling with readings at Stone Squid experimental art space, Hastings, East Sussex, UK on 5 November 2011.
A video of part of John Gilmore’s reading can be accessed here.
A video of part of Richard Makin’s reading can be accessed here.
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