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Kerry Morrison – A Preview

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The next Other Room takes place on December 7th 2016 at The Castle Hotel, Manchester and as always is free entry. It features Kerry Morrison, Wayne Clements & Cathy Butterworth. More at the EVENTS page.

Kerry Morrison – Kerry is an experienced environment artist and ecologist. She has worked throughout the UK, including commissions for Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, and Grizedale Forest. Kerry has also worked in forests in Japan and Korea, parks, wilderness and farms in Germany, neighbourhoods in America, and urban streets in Finland. Her work is often performative and since 2006 she has endeavoured to create art without creating demands on natural resources.

Here is an example of her work, ‘Bird Sheet Music’ as featured on the BBC and at The Tate Gallery

Louis Armand & Richard Makin LIVE in London

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Equus Press proudly presents, for one show only, LOUIS ARMAND & RICHARD MAKIN Live at Conway Hall, London. Join us at this year’s the Small Publishers Fair on Red Lion Sq for the (2nd edition) launch of Louis Armand’s Not-the-Booker Prize shortlisted novel, THE COMBINATIONS, & Richard Makin’s MOURNING. Readings, book signings & refreshments. Equus, in partnership with Litteraria Pragensia Books, will be manning a stall throughout the fair, throughout Friday 4th & Saturday 5th November, with a wide range of exciting new titles and selections from our backlist. Check out our catalogue at www.equuspress.com &www.litterariapragensia.com Free event! Everyone welcome.

Louis ARMAND will be reading from his recent Prague magnum opus, THE COMBINATIONS, praised by Richard Marshall as “an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience” and as “a ‘great novel’ — long and complex […] exemplifying remarkably the possibilities of the genre and contradicts the contemporary obsession with its decline and commodification” by Jean Bessiere. https://equuspress.wordpress.com/the-combinations/

Richard MAKIN will read from MOURNING, the final part of his trilogy (begun with WORK & DWELLING), described by David Caddy as “an extraordinary and distinct achievement. It is a demanding and enriching read characterized by highly wrought sentences, which cover a range of discourses and fictional events.” In the words of Iain Sinclair, “The writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” https://equuspress.wordpress.com/mourning/

Readings & authors introduced by David VICHNAR.
All welcome!

Saturday, November 5 at 4:30 PM – 5 PM
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL London, United Kingdom

Linda Kemp’s Lease Prise Redux

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64 poems of fourteen (!) lines each. Such as: ‘Homelessness | spiders out | the majority of participants | O curb! O vultures! | freedom is mad inside’. Or: ‘the IMF walks the streets at night | if to suck on children’.

‘a cumulative impact which slowly seeps in, like a kaleidoscope of slow-moving debt, arrears and social smallness’. [Stuart Calton]

You can buy it here:
http://material-s.blogspot.co.uk/

novelling

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A new work of electronic literature created by Will Luers, Roger Dean and Other Room reader Hazel Smith.

novelling is a recombinant digital novel that employs text, video, and sound. It poses questions about the acts of reading and writing fiction. Readerly and cinematic, the work unfolds through suggested narrative connections between four characters. The characters, immersed in their isolated life-worlds, appear to be transported elsewhere by what they are reading. Are they reading and thinking each other? The variable and deterministic system of selection and arrangement produces a fluid, ever-novel and potential narrative.

Available now on the New Binary Press site.

Rest and Its Discontents

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An exhibition organised by recent Other Room reader James Wilkes.

A number of events during the exhibition – including poetry (James Wilkes, Emma Bennett and Ella Finer), music, activism, debate and meditation – most of which are free. Further info and tickets from http://hubbubresearch.org/event/rest-discontents/

The first of a 3-part series ‘The Anatomy of Rest’ is also out on BBC Radio 4:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v07p0

Convolution 4

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Proms Extra Lates: Chrissy Williams

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LONDON SW7: Proms Extra Lates: Chrissy Williams

Date: Wednesday 7 September, 2016
Time: 10:00 PM
Price: Free, but book tickets in advance.
Venue address:
Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 2AP

Publicity material for this event says:

BBC Proms Extra, in association with The Poetry Society, presents a series of late-night events at the Elgar Room in the Royal Albert Hall pairing musicians with poets. Hosted by Georgia Mann, and then broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The poet featured at this event will be Chrissy Williams.

Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance from the Royal Albert Hall website.

Contact:
info@poetrysociety.org.uk

Event website

Reading as Art

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‘Reading as Art’ will be on public display from Saturday 27 August through to Saturday 19 November 2016. The works included in the exhibition find different means to foreground and to investigate the activity of reading: the forms it can take (silent reading, reading aloud, spontaneous reading, purposeful reading, and so on), the matter of reading (the book, the screen, the space of the page), the bodies that engage in it and the contexts in which it occurs. All of the works are concerned to make reading manifest in some way; in so doing, they each show – differently – how reading is its own form of making.

The image on the invitation is Fact by Craig Dworkin, 2016. The text records the relative molecular weights of the neurotransmitters activated when it is read.

Please save this date, Friday 7th October 2016 for the private view of the exhibition from 6-9pm with live performances from Jérémie Bennequin and Carol Sommer. Also, Kate Briggs’ Paper Size Poems will be performed…everyone is very welcome.

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