Installed this month on the Irwell Sculpture Trail, Tony Lopez‘s new text work After. This is one of three inscribed plaques installed in Radcliffe, Lancashire, along a footpath and a canal towpath near Radcliffe Metrolink Tram Station, part of the work After, also known as The Scattered Poem, a holocaust memorial piece that Tony has been planning for the last few years.
Month: November 2012
Pharmacopoetics
Pharmacopoetics – pill poems to be swallowed with a glass of water. By Stephen Emmerson. Out now on Apple Pie Editions and available via Blart.
Alec Newman: a preview
Alec Newman will perform at The Other Room on Wednesday 5th December, at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. 7 PM start. Free entry. The other performers are Seekers of Lice, of whom you can read a preview here, and Nat Raha, who will be previewed next week.
Bio.
Alec Newman runs The Knives forks and Spoons Press, which the British Library nominated for the Michael Marks Publisher of the Year Award in 2011. He is fascinated by linguistics and the relation of phonology to metrical theory.
Links:
Alec Newman’s press, Knives Forks and Spoons.
Poems at Stride.
An article about the UK innovative poetry scene at Cordite Poetry Review.
A poem at the red ceilings.
The Alchemist’s Mind
A book of narrative prose by poets.
An anthology edited by David Miller in collaboration with Ken Edwards. Contributors are: Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood, Ian Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Robert Sheppard, Bernadette Mayer, Paul Buck, Lyn Hejinian, M J Weller, Brian Marley, Johan de Wit, John Levy, Vahni Capildeo, Paul Haines, Lawrence Fixel, Robert Lax, Fanny Howe, David Miller, Keith Waldrop, Giles Goodland, bpNichol, David Rattray, Guy Birchard, Will Petersen, Tom Lowenstein, Kristin Prevallet, Stephen Watts, Daphne Marlatt. More at the Reality Street site.
Alba #03 launch
Friday, November 30, 2012, 7:00pm until 9:00pm.
Room 632, Birkbeck, University of London, Main campus: Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX
- Tim Atkins
- Albert Pellicer
- Elizabeth Guthrie
- Tom Slingsby
- Silvia Terrón
Theatre of Objects
Knives Forks and Spoons in Liverpool
Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12:00pm until 3:00pm.
The Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale Street, Liverpool, L3 2JH.
- Geraldine Monk
- D. E. Oprava
- Bobby Parker
- Ian Seed
The Debris Field
The Debris Field: Salvaging The Titanic in Word, Sound and Image, Thu 15 Nov 8pm, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Check the site for tickets.
In this new, multi-media production, a key historic event – the sinking of the Titanic – is explored. Evocative text and performance by poets Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe, with original music from Oli Barrett of Bleeding Heart Narrative, and film by Jack Wake-Walker. The performance takes you on a resonant tour of the cultural debris of this iconic catastrophe.
Press Free Press Respond
press free press RESPOND: A monthly series of active reading. Each month we choose two publications available to read in the Poetry Library – the selection is based on browsing and instinct. We are mostly interested in reading new work. In the library we each have 20 minutes to read each publication. Outside the library we are talking and writing in response: talking (5 minutes) / writing (5 minutes) / reading each other / repeat x 4. Resulting 12 documents are unedited recordings of live talking and unedited transcriptions of live writing. We hope this series will encourage dialogue between poets and books. This month, ‘Waffles’ by Matthew Welton and ‘Appeal in Air’ by Philip Davenport:
Early 2013 programme for The Other Room
After our next event with Nat Raha, Alec Newman and Seekers of Lice on 5th December at The Castle, Manchester, we have the following two dates already organised at The Castle for your diaries:
The Other Room 37: 6th February 2013: Nikolai Duffy, Linda Black & Marcus Slease
The Other Room 38: 3rd April 2013: The Other Room 5th birthday, Readers TBC
Allen Fisher symposium
Seekers of Lice: a preview
Seekers of Lice will perform at The Other Room on Wednesday 5th December, at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. 7 PM start. Free entry. The other performers are Alec Newman and Nat Raha. Previews of both will appear on the site over the next few week.
Bio.
seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch.
seekers of lice creates material interventions, sometimes of an ephemeral nature, which find gaps and spaces in which to operate. Its practice is concerned with objects and text.
Works range from interventions, participation in curated projects and exhibitions in galleries to book publishing and multiples.
In 2012 work by seekers of lice has been published in Soanyway 13, quarter after, VerySmallKitchen, Rattle 3 and VLAK 3. The most recent book is THEATRE OF OBJECTS published by VerySmallKitchen in November 2012.
Links:
Theatre of Objects at VerySmallKitchen.
Artist profile at the Axis site.
A Minor Poet of the Twenty-First Century: text.
Leaves, read at X Marks the Bökship.
The Bride of L’Amor-mor-l’amor at onedit.
Text pieces in quarter after.
Composite feedback – films
Films from this Mercy organised event at Manchester’s Cornerhouse are now available, featuring SJ Fowler, Nathan Jones and Hannah Silva, above. You can also watch SJ Fowler’s lecture on poetry and violence.
poetry /// from Department Press
Binders Full of Women’s Poems
A binder, full of outspoken poems by writers who identify as female, trans, intersex or gender-neutral, featuring Sarah Crewe, Nia Davies, Amy Evans, Maria Gornell, Sarah Hesketh, Kirsten Irving, Mara Katz, Rowena Knight, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Agnes Marton, Sophie Mayer, Sally McAlister, Michelle McGrane, slmendoza, Steph Pike, Chella Quint, Nat Raha, Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Jacqueline Saphra, Claire Trévien, Jackie Wills, Alison Winch. More here.
London Small Publishers Fair
Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November 2012. Open 11am to 7pm admission free. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers, The programme of readings and talks includes Sean Pemberton, Giles Goodland, Johan de Wit and Robert Sheppard reading for Reality Street on Saturday 16th at 4PM. More about the fair here.
Alloa Poetry Jamboree
We’ve posted about this before, but the full itinerary for this event, starting tomorrow, is now available and is:
FRIDAY 2nd November
7:30pm JAM
Frank Kuppner, Peter Manson, Samantha Walton and Andrew Duncan
Alloa Tower, Alloa Park, Alloa FK10 1PP. £5 (£3 concessions)
SATURDAY 3rd November
1. 10.30-11.00
Dorothy Alexander
nick-e melville
Alloa Tower, FREE
2. 2.00-4.00
Bill Herbert
Lila Matsumoto
David Kinloch
Jim Ferguson
Donny O’Rourke,
Alloa Tower, FREE
4.30-6pm
Workshop on Cut Up poetry run by Jennifer (JL) Williams of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Resonate Arts House, FREE
3. 7.30-9.20
Tom Leonard
Drew Milne
Kathleen Jamie
Alloa Tower, FREE
SUNDAY 4th November
Ochills Poetry Walk: walk and reading of poems commissioned for the event by:
Gerry Loose
Thomas A. Clarke
Leaving at 11am from Dollar Museum. FREE.
Read the brochure for more details. Book tickets via the booking portal.
The Blue Bus
Tuesday 13 November, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 – admission: £5 / £3 (concessions) .
Including readings by:
- Paul Buck
- Brian Marley
- Stephen Watts
- M J Weller
- David Miller
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