Video footage of Robert Sheppard’s reading, December 2013 at The Other Room
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Rachel Smith performs White Noise at The Other Room
Video of Rachel Smith’s performance in December 2013 at The Other Room
Sandeep Parmar video from The Other Room
Video footage of Sandeep Parmar’s reading, December 2013 at The Other Room
The Dark Would film
Curator and poet Philip Davenport introduces ‘The Dark Would’, featuring work from world-leading poets and text artists exploring the maze of living and dying. A variety of works from contributors such as Jenny Holzer, Richard Long, Susan Hiller, Tom Phillips, Simon Patterson, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Tony Lopez, Richard Wentworth, Caroline Bergvall, Lawrence Weiner, Fiona Banner and many others, including outsider artists.
Happy Christmas
Laurence Lane at The Other Room
Craig Dworkin back in the archive
Poem talk: Bob Cobbing
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Robert Sheppard: a preview
Robert Sheppard will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 4th December 2013, 7 PM start. Entry free at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. The other readers will be Sandeep Parmar and Gareth Twose. The clip above shows Robert reading with Patricia Farrell at the Other Room celebration of Bob Cobbing in October 2012, performing Blatant blather/virulent whoops.
Bio.:
Robert Sheppard invented René Van Valckenborch, though sometimes during the writing of the poems in A Translated Man it felt like the other way round. The poems are safely published in a book of that title, published by Shearsman in 2013. Shearsman also published Warrant Error and Berlin Bursts, poems, as well a critical work When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry. Knives Forks and Spoons have published his prose, both fiction, The Only Life and The Given, an ‘autrebiography’, and they will be bringing out an expanded version of the latter in 2014. Robert has recently collaborated with the painter Pete Clarke and the dancer Jo Blowers (after a near 20 year break). He teaches at Edge Hill University.
Some links:
Pages, a blogzine of investigative, exploratory, avant-garde, innovative poetry and poetics.
Robert’s own website.
A Translated Man at Shearsman.
Camaradefest films
Films of SJ Fowler’s collaborative extravaganza are now online, including this by Emma Bennett and Holly Pester.
Scott Thurston and Tom Jenks at The Other Room
Richard Barrett and Nigel Wood at The Other Room
Gareth Twose: a preview
Gareth Twose will read at the next Other Room, on Wednesday 4th December, The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start. The other readers are Robert Sheppard and Sandeep Parmar. The clip above shows Gareth reading at the launch of Top Ten Tyres in August 2013. Preview of Robert Sheppard to follow.
Bio.:
Gareth Twose is organiser of the Writers Forum North and one of the organisers of the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette series of Manchester based poetry readings. In 2012, he co-organised the Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event at the Lass O’Gowrie. Recent work has appeared in publications including 3 am, Depart, Litter, Sunfish, Assent and Ink, Sweat & Tears. His debut collection, Top Ten Tyres, was recently published by Red Ceilings Press.
Some links:
Poems in 3 AM Magazine.
Poems in Depart.
Carolyn Thompson at The Other Room
James Davies and Robert Lax
Mike Chavez-Dawson at The Other Room
Mike Chavez-Dawson’s Rorschach images derived from the names of dead poets, produced at the special Other Room event to launch The Dark Would anthology in Manchester.
Sandeep Parmar: a preview
Sandeep Parmar will read at the next Other Room, on Wednesday 4th December, The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start. The other readers are Robert Sheppard and Gareth Twose, with previews of both to follow. The clip above shows Sandeep reading for the Poets and Players reading series at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, March 2013.
Bio.:
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She is embarassed to admit she received an MA in Creative Writing from UEA (gah!) and has her PhD in English Lit from UCL (on Mina Loy’s archive). Her Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees appeared from Carcanet in 2011 and her collection The Marble Orchard was published by Shearsman in 2012. Her second book of poems, Eidolon, will hopefully appear soon. She lectures at the University of Liverpool. She’s the Reviews Editor of The Wolf poetry magazine.
Some links:
Philip Davenport and Arthur Rimbaud
Videos back in the archive
A small part of our video archive, including readings and videos, hosted by MySpace has been down for a while. We’ve a couple more to sort out but meanwhile here are these videos back in action to be watched for the first time or again. Bon Appetit.
Nick Thurston December 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78619129 w=250&h=216]Nick Thurston interview 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/77545012 w=250&h=216]Sophie Robsinon December 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78679878 w=250&h=216]Sophie Robinson interview 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/77545011 w=250&h=216]
Stuart Calton October 2009 at Oxjam
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78618997 w=250&h=216]
Michael Haslam October 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78618999 w=250&h=216]
press free press
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/76183356 w=250&h=216]
To celebrate National Poetry Day, pressfreepress put on four impromptu performances of THE NOTECARDS (text and objects by seekers of lice, performance by pressfreepress) in various locations around the Southbank Centre. Watch the clip above to see their performance.
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