Events
Kerry Morrison video from The Other Room December 2016
The North by North West Poetry Tour at Edge Hill
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The tour visits Edge Hill University on Thursday 19th January with performances by Robert Sheppard & Joanne Ashcroft, Luke Thurogood & Brendan Quinn, Martin Palmer & Laura Tickle, Jessica Tillings & Jazmine Linklater, Adam Hampton & Matt Fallaize, James Byrne & Cathy Butterworth, Mark Greenwood & Johnathan Hartley, Tom Jenks & Tim Allen, Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell and Amy Cutler & Nathan Walker. More here.
Cathy Butterworth video from The Other Room December 2016
The North by North West Poetry Tour in Manchester
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The second date of the tour is in Manchester on Saturday 14th January at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester, M1 5BY with performances by Richard Barrett & Tim Allen, Helmut Lemke & Tony Trehy, SJ Fowler & Tom Jenks, Chris McCabe & Amy Cutler, Patricia Farrell & Nathan Walker, Alec Newman & Rachel Sills, Ben Knight & Ben Morris, Bryony Bates & Gareth Twose, Sarah-Claire Conlon & Fat Roland, David Gaffney & Adrian Slatcher, Lauren Bolger & Joey Frances, Matt Dalby & Steven Waling, Luke Allan & Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir and Jazmine Linklater & Jessica Tillings. More here.
The North by North West Poetry Tour in York
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The tour kicks off on Friday 13th February at York City Screen, 13-17 Coney St, York, YO1 9QL with performances by JT Welsch & Kimberly Campanello, SJ Fowler & Amy Cutler, Tom Jenks & Nathan Walker, Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell, Abi Curtis & Julie Egdell, Dave Spittle & Harry Man, Bill Herbert & Colin Herd and Melony Bethala & David Steans. More here.
Noise in the Face of by David Buuck
NOISE IN THE FACE OF
new poems by David Buuck
Roof Books, NY, 2016.
http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781931824675/noise-in-the-face-of.aspx
I don’t know when I’ve ever read poetry more completely of and in the streets—where the form and content of the poetics of the march and occupation and riot are so thoroughly merged. Squelch that cop radio feedback, turn up the Michael Jackson—the livestream is on and in your hands, comrade. David Buuck has his razor sharp eye and ear at all times on “what / ’s beyond the shattered frame” of mere representational aes- thetics/politics: this is poetry bashed out on a burning piano as it hurtles downhill during an Oakland riot. I for one am more than a little excited to be along for the ride. —Stephen Collis
David Buuck writes a history of the problem of being a poet inside the historical moment of a city which itself had become a poem. Oakland was once a messed-up erupting ambiguity of the negatively capable indecorously accessorizing, the messed-up positron of the all, but maybe what Oakland was also was the precipice overlooking Silicon Valley, a cliff geo-tagged as a protest taking the form of a funeral in the form of a dance you refuse to do: “Whose fuck ups? / Our fuck ups.” The meta-shards of mega-self-awareness that come after are a jewel on the radiant pavement of after that. —Anne Boyer
David Buuck’s Noise in the Face Of is not a book exposing lies. It is about the labor of standing together in the face of the exposed and learning to be there for one another. There is Love here and there is a promise for enough of it, just stand in there and you know he is right. What an honor to be alive at the same time as this poet who is showing that there is so much more beyond the filth and conspiracy of politics. —CAConrad
The North by North West Poetry Tour
The North by North West Poetry Tour features over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. Poets local to each of the six venues will perform on each night alongside a core group of touring poets, who will perform at every venue. All events are free. More here.
Open Call – Museum of Futures: Visual Poetry Exhibition
An open call for new works of visual poetry or artworks that explore the visual and material properties of language through paint and print. Works may include concrete poems, asemic writing, abstract works, framed page print – there needs only to be an engagement with language in some form..
The exhibition is open to those with a cogent connection to the Surbiton and Kingston area, be it through former or present residence, work or study. Inquiries of suitability welcome.
Successful applicants will provide a framed rendition of the successful work to be exhibited for the duration of the exhibition. Participants will be invited to read at one of two events taking place during the exhibition.
More details, including how to submit work, here.
Inventing Rauschenberg: The Artist as Engineer
20 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH 2017
Monday evenings : 18.45–20.45, in the galleries at Tate Modern.
A course with SJ Fowler exploring the work of the pioneering artist Robert Rauschenberg, as part of the exhibition celebrating his life’s work.
Over five weeks, through talks, discussions and practical writing exercises, participants will follow Rauschenberg’s innovations fundamental to 20th century art, while surrounded by his work in Tate Modern. Discover Rauschenberg’s innovative use of material, his ground-breaking sculptural combines, his engagement with popular and global culture beyond the US, his exploration of collaboration and conceptualism at the Black Mountain College, as well as his work in the field of performance, and his telling use of technology.
This course is a chance to trace this iconoclastic artist’s life and continued reinvention, whose practise genuinely scanned the fullest range of artistic possibility proximate to our time, and as part of the course, to explore in your own work the lessons we can draw from his extraordinary legacy.
More information, including booking, here.
New Edition of Junction Box
It’s HERE and features reviews, discussion and creative work by previous Other Room readers and others, as well as upcoming reader Steven Hitchins reviewing Stephen Emmerson’s Family Portraits.
Poetry and Photography in Liverpool: Robert Sheppard and Chris Routledge
Nottingham Poetry Series – Sophie Collins & Linda Kemp
Poetry Performance Evening
Poetry Performance Evening: Sophie Collins and Linda Kemp
13th December 2016, 7pm @ Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham
More here
Verbose
Monday 28 November 2016, Fallow Cafe, 2A Landcross Road, Manchester,M14 6NA . Featuring Richard Barrett, Jazmine Linklater and Alec Newman, all part of the Enemies Project North West Poetry Tour. 19.30 start, free entry. More here.
Cathy Butterworth – A Preview
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.
Cathy Butterworth is an artist who makes work at the intersection of writing, performance and visual art. Her recent pamphlet Cimmerian was published by Dock Road Press. Performance actions, writing and visual art projects include: Sketches for Britain (Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, 2010), 22 Mondays (durational performance with Mark Greenwood, 2015), Everyone in Your Life is a Figment of Your Imagination (Delhi, 2015), Elective Affinities (Tate Liverpool 2016) and True Blue: 26 Lost Performances (2016). Her literary object, Fortunate, will be published by zimZalla in December 2016.
Crater Ardent Calendar
Crater 43: December 2016. Crater Ardent Calendar. 27 poets and artists across 25 windows! Fully articulated full colour A4 advent calendar, with work from: Luke Allan, Oliver Baggott, Sharon Borthwick, cris cheek, David Connearn, Amy De’Ath, Amy Evans, Alec Finlay, Harry Gilonis, Elizabeth Guthrie, Chris Gutkind, Jeff Hilson, Peter Hughes, Peter Jaeger, Frances Kruk, Colin and Yuna Lee Marshall, Dorothy Lehane, Aislinn Melville, nick-e melville, Montenegro Fisher, Jèssica Pujol i Duran, Tom Raworth, David Rees, Andrew Spragg and Steve Willey.
£5 including postage — UK only.
Alternate Gravities: Allen Fisher, Fran Lock, Vicky Sparrow
Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM
CPRC, Birkbeck
Please join us for a poetry reading featuring Allen Fisher, Fran Lock and Vicky Sparrow. This reading is hosted by the CPRC, including some of Birkbeck’s PhD students working on contemporary poetry
Allen Fisher is a poet, artist and publisher, and the editor of Spanner magazine. He lives in Hereford, and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Altogether Fisher has over 150 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. In 2015 his book of essays Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture and Reception , a companion to his work with essays by contemporaries and an Allen Fisher Reader were all published.
Fran Lock is writing her practice based Ph.D. on the relationship between the epistolary form in contemporary poetry and the use of letters in therapeutic contexts. She is the author of two poetry collections Flatrock (Little Episodes, 2011) and The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt, 2014). A third collect, Dogtooth, will be published by Out-Spoken Press in in February 2017.
Vicky Sparrow is writing her PhD on the poet-activist Anna Mendelssohn at the CPRC. Vicky’s poems can be found in datableed, Litmus, Kakania and Intercapillary Space and she’s currently finalising a chapbook to be published by Zarf Editions this Winter.
Bronaċ Ferran is first year PhD/MPhil at Birkbeck researching the work of poet, publisher and typographer Hansjörg Mayer. She’s writing a book about Mayer’s work in concrete poetry and other fields which will be published early next year by Walther König books. She also presents radio programmes on Resonancefm.
Daydreaming in the City
Home, Manchester, Sun 27 Nov, from 13:30.
Featuring Other Room readers Emma Bennett and James Wilkes.
This micro-festival explores daydreaming and poetic states of mind, and features an eclectic programme of spoken word performance, talks, music, film and an immersive audio experience from In the Dark Radio. Presented by live poetry producer, Poet in the City in collaboration with Hubbub, a collective of social scientists, artists, researchers and mental health experts in residence at the Wellcome Trust. More here.
Storm and Golden Sky
Friday 25th November 2016. 7.30 (entrance £5) The Caledonia, (in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter on the edge of Catharine Street and Caledonia Street: up the steep stairs at the back of the bar room).
Linda Stupart and Allen Fisher
Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and poetry since 1962. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced more than 140 chapbooks and books of poetry, graphic and art documentation. He currently edits Spanner, lives in Hereford, and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited paintings in many shows, including one-man shows in London, 2003, and Hereford, 2013.
PLACE was Allen Fisher’s now somewhat legendary poetic project of the 1970s. Originally published over several years as a series of interconnecting books, virtually all of them now unobtainable, it incorporated influences from Blake, Olson, Pope, Wordsworth, Robert Kelly, Walter Benjamin, Jung, Dickens, Foucault, Wilhelm Reich, Marxism, the Situationists, conceptual art and researches in mythology, linguistics, psychology, mathematics, immunology, topography, zoology and much else – and yet remains unclassifiable.
The poems in the sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape, composed in the period 1982-2006, were previously issued in many journals and small publications and then eventually in three succinct volumes. This collected edition brings all of the poems from the sequence together for the first time into one volume.
Linda Stupart: Artist/Writer/Educator
Virus, her debut Novella, published by ARCADIA_MISSA, is available to buy here & read an excerpt of it here
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Hito Steyerl in Hito Steyel in Parkett. Vol 97/Sex Acts in How to Sleep Faster #6, Arcadia Missa /Walking the Street: Slutwalk and the Street in Return to the Street. Edited by Sofie Fuggle and Tom Henri. Pavement Books. / Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects in You Must Make Your Death Public: selected writing on Chris Kraus. Edited by Mira Mater. Mute./ Things Like Us and Them in …ment Journal. /Rematerialising Feminismadia Missa Press. in Rematerialising Feminism. ARCADI_MISSA/ National Velvetin Eros: Woman Edition. Eros Press/ Untitled piece in Oh Wicked Flesh! Edited by Joseph Noonan-Ganley. South London Gallery./ Friday in Idioglossia: an Art Writing Glossary. Edited by Joseph Noonan-Ganley. Hato Press. Old Wounds, Fresh Meat: A Year in South African Art in Art Review, September 2012./ Entanglement: A Love Story Set at dOCUMENTA 13. Art South Africa, Vol 5: issue 3.
Simon Perril at Edge Hill
A reminder about this event at Edge Hill on Wednesday 16th November, now with a flyer and more details.
otherroom.org 