Allen will be performing at the next Other Room on 3rd June. As a taster, try this clip recorded at James Davies’ Matchbox event in 2007.
Audio Visual
Matt Dalby – Whisper
Other Room performer Matt Dalby is releasing a CD-R of sound poetry every month throughout 2009. June’s release, Whisper, will be on sale at Matt’s Other Room performance on 3rd June. Get your hands on this and the previous five to keep you in your old age.
Concrete Poetry Generator
Robin Blaser
Robin Blaser, one of the last major figures among those who came to public notice via Don Allen’s New American Poetry, died on May 7th at the age of 83. This week’s edition of Jefferson Davis’ Wordplay features three recordings. The first finds Blaser reading in Vancouver in 1965; the second, discussing his work, and that of his fellows, in a BBC interview with Iain Sinclair in 1994; the third, reading at the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee in 2004.
Via British-Irish Poets and Marcus Slease.
Steve McCaffery
Steve McCaffery reading from Carnival, Panel 2, @ Instal 09, Glasgow. 21.03.09. Via Charles Bernstein.
P. Inman and Tina Darragh interviews
On July 1st P. Inman and Tina Darragh will perform The Other Room. To commemorate this fantastic reading we will be making a two films – one for Tina and one for Pete -where they’ll be interviewed. We would like to pose questions set by you. If your question is featured you will be credited at the end of the film. The resulting movies will be hosted here on the site. Please email us: otherroomeditors@googlemail.com
Ron Silliman at Birkbeck
Richard Barrett reads The Rushes
The Other Room 6 was a night of technical meltdown. We’ve asked all readers to give us something to be representative of their fabulous readings. Here Richard Barrett reads the whole of his Rushes sequence. Filmed April 2009 outside The Old Abbey Inn, Manchester.
Geraldine Monk at The Other Room
Geraldine Monk at first The Other Room, April 2008
Tom Jenks reading at The first ever The Other Room
The first part of Tom’s reading. Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk also kicked off the show. Videos of them are currently being transferred, uploaded and caressed.
House of Bedlam and Matthew Welton
Performance at The Warehouse at the link below on the BBC until Saturday 18th April. Do it now.
Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Below is Pound’s Canto 1
James Davies meets Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks was born in Sunderland and now lives, works and writes in Manchester. He is the founding editor of Parameter Magazine and has had a mini-series, OMEN, published by Matchbox. His first collection is A Priori.
In two parts below from if p then q downloads
Lucy Harvest Clarke at The Other Room 6
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