Audio Visual
Day of the Deaded films
Held on October 31st 2014 at the Rich Mix Arts centre, Day of the Deaded celebrated the Mexican festival of Dia de Muertos in London with 7 original readings and performances firmly rooted in the European avant garde tradition. Part of the Enemigos project, Day of the Deaded was produced by www.weareenemies.com Films from the event are now online, including this from Sarah Kelly. Full list as follows:
zimZalla closing nights films
Films from the closing night of the zimZalla exhibition at the Hardy Tree gallery are now online, including this from Lucy Harvest Clarke. More here.
Sarah James, Anna McKerrow, and James Davies reading for KFS at The Free Verse Fair
11:00-11.30 am (dead on)
6th of September 2014
Garden Cafe, Red Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
This is part of a bigger programme at Free Verse
Auld Enemies: a poetry documentary by Ross Sutherland
The Enemies project: Auld Enemies was a transnational poetry collaboration where six poets worked in rolling paired to produce original works for readings across the breadth of Scotland and where in each event also featured numerous pairs of writers from the region, who also presented brand new poetry collaborations. Beginning on July 9th and finishing on July 27th, the project visited Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Lerwick and Kirkwall, before a wrapping up in London. Auld Enemies was a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Scottish poetics through the potential of collaboration. Supported by Creative Scotland.
MJ Weller video from August’s The Other Room
Alison Gibb video from August’s The Other Room
Gareth Twose video from August’s The Other Room
KFS podcast
Four Knives Forks and Spoons poets Richard Barrett, Ryan Ormonde, Sarah Leavesley and Anna McKerrow, recently talked about their work on Resonance FM. The broadcasts have now been archived and you can listen to them via the Knives Forks and Spoons site,
Clive and Robin Fencott video at The Other Room July 2014
Leanne Bridgewater video from The Other Room June 2014
Ágnes Lehóczky video from June 2104 The Other Room
Chrissy Williams on The Verb tonight
Other Room reader Chrissy Williams appears on The Verb tonight discussing her latest book Epigraphs published by if p then q.
The show is broadcast at 10pm on Radio 3 and stays on iplayer for a week.
Emma Bennett performing at The Other Room April 2014
Nathan Walker performing at The Other Room, April 2014
Hidden Door films
Films from SJ Fowler’s Enemies event at the Hidden Door festival in Edinburgh are now online, including this performance from Jow Lindsay and Samantha Walton. Full list below:
Fjender films
Held on March 15th 2014, at the Rich mix arts centre in Shoreditch, London, Fjender (part of the SJ Fowler’s Enemies project) celebrated cutting edge avant garde poetry from Europe, centred around contemporary Danish poets. A selection of British poets were asked to write original works as commissions in response to the themes of Morten Sondergaard’s Wordpharmacy, including Stephen Emmerson, above.
Wrogowie films
Bill Griffiths Collected Poems Launch videos
Films from the 1st March event in London, courtesy of SJ Fowler. More about the event, and links to more films, can be found at Robert Sheppard’s site.
Chris Stephenson: a preview
Chris Stephenson will perform at the next Other Room, on Wednesday 5th February, 7 PM start, free entry. The clip above is of Chris performing at the Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event in 2012. For more, try his work at Spine, or Blart. Bio. below. The other readers will be Gavin Selerie and Frances Presley.
