Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Amy De’Ath, Graham Hartill, Allen Fisher

Amy De’Ath’s poetry chapbooks include ON MY LOVE FOR gender abolition (Capricious 2016), Lower Parallel (Barque 2014), Caribou (Bad Press 2011), and Erec & Enide (Salt 2010). With Fred Wah, she is the editor of a poetics anthology, Toward. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press 2015). Her criticism has appeared in Women: A Cultural Review, Anguish Language (Archive Books 2015), and Cambridge Literary Review, and is forthcoming in After Objectvism: Reconfiguring 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (U of Iowa P 2017). She is a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University and lives in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territories.

Conceptual Poetics exhibition and opening night at The Poetry Library

Conceptual poetics takes Marcel Duchamp’s approach to visual art and extends it to poetry.

Join us at the opening of this exhibition and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to readings from some of the poets and publishers associated with this avant-garde poetic practice.

The conceptualist movement has become perhaps the most contested but also one of the most popular movements in contemporary poetry. Focusing on poets and artists in the current UK scene, this exhibition features work published by presses such as if p then q, Information as Material and ZimZalla.

The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall

Admission is free but space is limited. Email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to reserve your place.

Neil Campbell, Rhys Trimble & Tim Allen at Verbose

Monday 23 May 2016, Manchester literature night verbose continues

Headliners from the fabulous Knives Forks and Spoons press: Tim Allen, Neil Campbell and Rhys Trimble.

Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 23 May, with special guests from the fabulous Knives Forks and Spoons press and the usual open mic of prose and poetry performances – sign up for a three-minute slot by emailing verbosemcr at gmail dot com.

Run by Alec Newman, Knives Forks and Spoons has developed the biggest avant garde poetry list in the UK since its launch in 2010, publishing seminal international figures in experimental poetry together with many young poets and “outsider” practitioners. May’s Verbose welcomes Tim Allen, Neil Campbell and Rhys Trimble.

Tim Allen edited the magazine Terrible Work and is involved with the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette live literature events in Manchester. He has a number of poetry pamphlets to his name. Neil Campbell has been included three times in the brilliant Best British Short Stories series. He has three collections of short fiction, two poetry chapbooks and his first novel, Sky Hooks, is out in September. Rhys Trimble is a poet and shoutyman from Wales who enjoys poetry across languages. He has performed extensively across UK and Europe.

Verbose is hosted by Sarah-Clare Conlon at Fallow café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M14 6NA. It’s free entry and doors are at 7.30pm. Verbose takes place every fourth Monday of the month.

 

European Poetry Night

European Poetry Night 2016 in London. May Saturday 14th: Rich Mix
7.30pm – Free Entry. 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA

http://www.richmix.org.uk/events/spoken-word/european-poetry-night

 Vanni Bianconi & Billy Ramsell
Alessandro Burbank & Alexander Filyuta
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir & SJ Fowler
Ulrike Ulrich & Jen Calleja
Nurduran Duman & Jonathan Morley
Christodoulos Makris & Martin Bakero
Niillas Holmberg & Peter Sulej
Efe Duyan & Livia Franchini
Tomica Bajsic & Colin Herd
Ghareeb Iskander & Ahsan Akbar
Ariadne Radi Cor & Iris Colomb
Ana Seferovic & Agnieszka Studzinka
Rufo Quintavalle & Ian Monk
The Enemies Project presents London’s first ever European Poetry Night as part of European Literature Festival in 2016. An opportunity to see some of the most exciting contemporary poets from all over Europe, as over 20 poets travel to London to share new collaborative poems, premiered on the night, in pairs, across languages, styles & nations. These are some of the most dynamic literary and avant-garde poets of the 21st century, from Iceland to Turkey, from Ireland to Russia, from France to Slovakia, all presenting brand new works and performances. Curated by SJ Fowler.

New reviews by Billy Mills

A number of new, short reviews are up at Billy Mills’ blog: the journals Reliquiæ from Corbel Stone Press and Uniformagazine from Uniform Books, as well as of derek beaulieu’s collection of essays and interviews, The Unbearable Contact with Poets, from if p then q press and poetry pamphlets by John McVey, Sarah Barnsley and James King.

European Literature Night Edinburgh

13 May at 17:30–18:30, North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh, EH4 4TZ.

Curated by Colin Herd and Theodora Danek in association Edinburgh City of Literature, European Literature Festival and the Enemies Project’s SJ Fowler, Edinburgh’s European Literature Night is one magical night dedicated to celebrating European literature on Friday 13 May 2016..

European Literature Night Edinburgh presents the best and brightest of a new generation of avant-garde and literary poets from over a dozen countries across Europe. An extravaganza celebration of European poetry, culminating in a specially commissioned collective performance, #Europoem. This is a free event but please book a ticket.

Kakania Berlin

7.30pm at Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin kulturforum berlin: kulturforumberlin.at
Free Entry – May Monday 9th 2016
Stauffenbergstraße 1, 10785 Berlin. T: +49 30 202 87-114 E: berlin-kf (at) bmeia.gv.at

Six new literary performance commissions from contemporary artists, each of whom will present a work that celebrates/responds to a figure from the Habsburg era:

Max Höfler on Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maja Jantar on Lou Andreas Salome
Stephen Emmerson on Rainer Maria Rilke
Tomomi Adachi on Josef Matthias Hauer
Ernesto Estrella on Gustav Mahler
Ann Cotten on Otto Neurath

More here.

The Rich Mix Anniversary Camarade

May 2nd, 6pm, at Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA. Free.

To celebrate the ten year anniversary of Rich Mix a special celebratory Camarade event will bring together some of the best known pairs from the series, all of whom had their debut at Rich Mix, alongside some brand new commissioned pairs of young and established poets, invited especially for the night. Featuring:

Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne
Carol Watts & George Szirtes
Mark Waldron & Rebecca Perry
Prudence Chamberlain & Eley Williams
Giovanna Coppola & Clover Peake
Mischa Foster Poole & Chrissy Williams
Julia Lewis & Harry Man
Tasimbaradzwa Kanyangarara & Susie Campbell
Rachel Long & Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Farhana Khatun & Francine Elena
Kathryn Maris & Amy Key
SJ Fowler & more.

Verbose

Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 25 April, featuring special guests plus the usual open mic of prose and poetry performances. Verbose, hailed in the press as one of the best spoken word nights in Manchester, each month invites three headliners who collaborate or share a common thread.

This month’s guests work or have worked at the University of Bolton, in the English & Creative Writing department. We’ll be hearing from Bolton tutors, past and present, Anne Caldwell, Simon Holloway and Evan Jones. We’ll also have a sneak preview of some of the work published in The Bolton Review, issue four of which is being officially launched on Wednesday 27 April.

Anne Caldwell was until recently a lecturer at the University of Bolton and is now Poet and Literature Programme Manager for The British Council. She was long-listed for the National Poetry Competition in 2015 and her latest collection, Painting The Spiral Staircase, has just come out on Cinnamon Press to critical acclaim. Simon Holloway is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bolton and a novelist, short story writer and still occasionally a poet. His short fiction has been published in places such as Stand, New Contrast, New Writing and The North American Review. His latest novel is The Words We Use are Black and White. Canadian poet Evan Jones has published two collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, the most recent of which is Paralogues (2012). He has lived in Manchester since 2005 and teaches at the University of Bolton.

Another nine published and up-and-coming poets and prose writers will also perform.

Taking place on the fourth Monday of the month at Fallow café in Fallowfield (2a Landcross Road, M14 6NA), Verbose is free entry and doors are at 7.30pm. See http://verbosemcr.wordpress.com. For the open mic, email verbosemcr@gmail.com.

Reading The Other

READING THE OTHER

Location:
Proof Bar, Manchester
Dates:
Monday 23 May, 2016 – 19:30 doors

Free

Reading The Other: a literary reading with a twist.

We have brought together eight very different writers of poetry and prose, paired them up at random and asked them to swap their setlists for the evening. What happens when you cross a Confessional poet with an Imagist? A surrealist with a kitchen-sink dramatist? An exuberant performance poet with an introverted memoirist? How much do writers squirm when forced to sit in the audience and listen to their own words read out in someone else’s voice? Will it descend into fisticuffs at the first sign of a misplaced trochee?

As part of the Chorlton Literature Festival http://www.chorltonartsfestival.com/event/reading-the-other/

 

Storm and Golden Sky at the Caledonia

Sarah Crewe and Nathan Jones. Friday 29th April.

Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7.30 pm spot-on start!

Nathan Jones is a poet and writer based in Liverpool. His current work mixes technological forms of composition and production with autobiographical subject matter.  He is currently PhD student at Royal Holloway University of London exploring the concept of “Glitch Poetics” and the impact of technology on contemporary poetry. He is also co-editor of mind-language-technology publisher Torque, and director of literature and performance agency Mercy 2003. His book length poem Noah’s Ark was published by Henningham Family Press. He also writes criticism for new media blog Furtherfield and Art Monthly. He is co-host of Storm and Golden Sky!

Sarah Crewe is from the Port of Liverpool. Her work focuses largely on working class feminist psychogeography. Her latest publication is urchin (dancing girl press 2016.) Previous chapbooks includeRWF/RAF,a collaboration with Pascal O’Loughlin,(Stinky Bear Press 2015) sea witch (Leafe Press,2014) andflick invicta (Oystercatcher,2012.) She collaborates frequently with Sophie Mayer and her work can be heard at the Archive of the Now website. She will be starting a Masters in Poetry:Innovative Practice and Research at the University of Kent in September.

Storm is run by Nathan Jones, Eleanor Rees, Michael Egan and Robert Sheppard.

‘ONCE HE WAS A POET: PSYCHOANALYSIS AS POETRY IN LACAN’S CLINICAL PARADIGM’ at Essex University

OPEN SEMINAR (COLCHESTER CAMPUS)
ONCE HE WAS A POET: PSYCHOANALYSIS AS POETRY IN LACAN’S CLINICAL PARADIGM’
Professor Dany Nobus, Brunel University London

To talk about psychoanalysis as poetry is risky; it might even be considered inappropriate, reckless and outright dangerous. Nonetheless, I intend to argue that psychoanalytic knowledge should embrace the richly evocative playfulness of the ars poetica, which celebrates the polyphonic musicality of language whilst simultaneously adhering to specific formal structures and metrical patterns, in order to stay attuned to the uniquely human subjective truth from which it derives its raison d’être. In my paper, I will develop the argument of ‘psychoanalysis as poetry’ along three distinct lines: the end of analysis, the status of psychoanalytic knowledge, and the position of the analyst.

The speaker

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs at Brunel University London, where he also convenes the MA Programme in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society. In addition, he is the Chair of the Freud Museum London, and the author of numerous publications on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

Date: Wednesday 4 May 2016
Time: 5:00 – 6:30PM
Venue: Room 4SB.5.3

All welcome

Phonica: Two

Wednesday 13 April, 8pm
Jack Nealons, 165 Capel Street, Dublin 1
Admission Free

Phonica is a Dublin-based poetry and music venture with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Conceived, curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, it aims to provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse, and an environment conducive to collaborative enterprise and improvisation. For Phonica: Two, the curators will be joined by Fergus Kelly, James King, Paul Roe and Catherine Walsh to explore spaces between sound poetry, performance, new music, experimental poetics, invented instruments and collaboration. More here.

Through the Weather Glass poetry installation launches & tour – Lucy Burnett

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During 2016, an interactive installation version of Lucy Burnett’s hybrid novel, Through the Weather Glass (Knives Forks & Spoons 2015), is going on UK tour with the financial support of Arts Council England & Leeds Beckett University. Come join lead character Icarus on a Lewis Carrollian journey through the weather glass of climate change into the word beyond at one of three upcoming launch events:

19th April, The Kings Arms, Salford, 6.30 for 7pm – Launch & performance
20th April, Broadcasting Place, Leeds Beckett University, 5pm – Viewing & talk
21st April, Kava Café, Todmorden, 7pm – Viewing & participatory performance.

More here.

Rosanne Robertson: a preview

Rosanne Robertson will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 13th April. The other performers are Stuart Calton, Gary Fisher and Linda Kemp. Scroll down for previews of all three.

Rosanne Robertson is an artist based in Manchester from artist led space The Penthouse which she co founded and co runs. Working with performance, sculpture, assemblage and sound she explores tensions, anxieties and relationships between body, object and environment. Described by Dazed and Confused when selected by Doodlebug as one of the city’s ‘Emerging Ones’ as “working beneath the skin by any means possible”. Her work has been featured and released by The Wire and her live sound art series based from The Penthouse was described as “Elevating Manchester’s underground scene to the top floor of a tower block” by The Wire. Robertson’s solo residency project Risk Assessment at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art was reviewed by contemporary art journal Corridor 8. Robertson has performed and exhibited worldwide from group exhibition For Posterity at Castlefield Gallery (Manchester) and Inside Out/Next Generation at K11 Art Foundation (Wuhan, China) to residencies in New York with Sluice__ /Norte Maar (London/Brooklyn). Recent sound and performance commissions for Call & Response by CFCCA have seen Robertson perform at places such as The Whitworth Art Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry and John Rylands Library.

Robertson was recently awarded Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for her research and development project TOO MUCH exploring the contemporary condition of anxiety via forms of performance sculpture and sound with a special focus on women and ideas of anxieties induced by violent displacement of women’s power and forms of breaking through masculine oppression. More here.