Readings from Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein and Maggie O’Sullivan at The Castle Hotel in Manchester. 7 PM start, free entry. Hope to see you there.
Events
Golden Handcuffs Review: A Screw in the Shoe: An Anthology of Changes
NEW GHR Publications anthology collectible print edition from 2016! a screw in the shoe: Anthology of Challenges features a cover photograph by Eleanor Antin. Poetry and prose by Carol Watts, Andrea Brady, Maurice Scully, John James, Sarah Hayden, Norman Weinstein, Nancy Gaffield, Stuart Cooke, Norman Fischer, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nathaniel Mackey, Richard Makin, Toby Olson, Michael Upchurch, Philip Terry, James Davies, John Hall, Peter Hughes, Peter Quartermain, Richard Makin. Publishing piece by Ken Edwards and reviews by Norman Weinstein and Steve Potter.
Available HERE
Gorse
Issue 6 out now, with poems by Chus Pato, Aodhán McCardle, Julie Morrissy and SJ Fowler, plus fiction, essays and more.
Kakania in Berlin
Kakania at Lettretage, Berlin – October Tuesday 11th 2016: 8pm. Free entrance http://www.lettretage.de/ Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin, Germany. Supported by Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin.
New performances & poetry from:
- Lea Schneider on Bertha Eckstein-Diener
- Kinga Toth on ‘Sissi’ Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- Rike Scheffler on Marie Pappenheim
- Günter Vallaster on Raoul Hausmann
- Fabian Faltin on Ernst Mach
- Norbert Lange on Rainer Maria Rilke
There has been no one city’s culture, at one singular time in modern history, more widely influential on contemporary thought than that of Habsburg Vienna a century ago. A time so densely constituted with intellectual revolution in fields as diverse as poetry, fiction, journalism, music, composition, philosophy, psychology and art, that it seems it can often only be evoked through a wistfulness that belies the melancholy, the energy and the seismic change that constituted it.
But in the Kakania project, sentimentality is set aside for radical new works by contemporary artists, each responding with a new performance or reading that celebrates or commemorates a single figure from the era in question. After 7 events and a symposium in London and Berlin, from the Freud Museum to the Österreichisches Kulturforum, and two exclusive publications, Kakania returns to Berlin at Lettretage for a night of newly commissioned avant garde live artworks. More here.
Linda Kemp’s Lease Prise Redux
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/
Soundings
SJ Fowler and Phil Minton at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. October 7th : 8pm
Soundings comes to an end on October 7th at Kings Place with a new collaborative performance between SJ Fowler and sound art / experimental music legend Phil Minton. The performance is part of a night celebrating Hubbub at Wellcome Collection and tickets are available here.
Soundings has been a series of collaborative sound poetry and sonic art performances held in seven different venues in the city of London over the last 18 months. Each edition of Soundings began with Wellcome Librarians suggesting images, manuscripts and books from the Library’s collections in response to a title initiated by Hubbub curators. More here.
From the vaults – P. Inman interview at The Text Festival
From back in 2009
Capital Letters – Ghazal Mosadeq, Paul Holman, Tim Atkins
Ghazal Mosadeq, Paul Holman, Tim Atkins: poetry and dialogue
21 Old Ford Road, E29PL London, United Kingdom
Wednesday
September 28
6.50–9 pm
September 28
6.50–9 pm
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
Beverley Bie Brahic, Jeffrey Wainwright & Matthew Welton
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Monday 10th October 2016
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7.30pm
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Martin Harris Centre, Manchester
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Tickets £7/£5
More HERE
enjoy your homes press presents…
CLAIRE POTTER
Claire Potter, an artist writer from Merseyside, works with live, published and recorded text, installation and performance. Claire’s work addresses modes of speaking and reading to bring considerations of narratology, affect and methods of articulation to the attention of audiences. Claire organises Shady Dealings With Language, an interdisciplinary event series for art and performance writing in the UK. Recent and forthcoming works include performance film Cast Metal Nut, White Rainbow, London, 2016; and, Lads of Aran, a visual essay in Bodies that Remain: Essays on the writer’s body, Punctum Books, New York/London, 2017.
Claire will read CHAVSCUMBOSS, a meditation on the performed masculinity of a Youtube user by the same name.
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STEPHEN CHASE
Stephen Chase composes, improvises, and walks quite a lot. His work veers between generative methods and following-his-nose. He has worked variously with Exaudi, Quatuor Bozzini, Philip Thomas, Ross Parfitt, Choir Brevis, Apartment House, Ensemble Zwischentöne, Music We’d Like to Hear, BBC Singers, omoplate sarangi, murmuration, piggle and Freaking Glamorous Teapot and Bank St Arts.
Stephen will perform one or two pieces which derive from performance scores comprised of words.
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Thursday 20th October 2016
Come to Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, grab a drink and unravel language.
Entry: £4 on the door. Doors: 19:00 for 19:30 start.
More here – https://eyhpress.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/claire-potter-stephen-chase/
Rest and Its Discontents
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
New reviews at Shearsman Review
James Davies reviews Rachel Sills
Martin Domleo reviews Yvonne Reddick
Colin Lee Marshall reviews Samantha Walton & Jo Lindsay
All HERE
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
A special, mid-week Peter Barlow’s Cig, at a new venue! Wednesday September 21, at Apotheca Bar, 17 Thomas Street, in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, 7-9pm. Free entry. All welcome.
Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair
Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair offers equal space to all exhibiting publishers, whether small or large, from pamphlets to anthologies, in all styles of writing, in order to give the public a chance to explore everything that contemporary poetry publishing has to offer, all under one roof. Free verse is organised by Chrissy Williams and Joey Connolly.
This year’s event is on Saturday 17th September at Conway Hall, London and the programme is out now, giving details of participants and readings.
Proms Extra Lates: Chrissy Williams
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
Geraldine Monk recording from The Other Room July 2016
Sarah Clare Conlon recording from The Other Room July 2016
Gramophone Ray Gun
The Singing Bridge
9 – 25 September 2016, Somerset House, London.
Wednesday to Friday 16.00 – 21.00
Saturday & Sunday 13.00 – 18.00
Fascinated by the rich and largely unearthed social history of Waterloo Bridge and its rebuilding during World War II by a predominantly female workforce comes a brand new work by composer and artist Claudia Molitor.
Collect a headset from Somerset House to begin your 40 minute musical experience that features new compositions by Molitor, with contributions from drum and synth duo AK/DK, folk band Stick in the Wheel and poet SJ Fowler. The Singing Bridge weaves you along Waterloo Bridge and its surrounding paths to give you time and space to consider your relationship to this bridge and its environs. More here.
otherroom.org 