Events

Camarade 61

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7pm – Free Entry – Apiary Studios: 460 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG.
A stand alone Camarade poetry event in London to mark the beginning of 2016, the 61st event of it’s type curated by the Enemies project. Featuring: 
 
Tim Atkins & JJ Mars
Lavinia Singer & Ella Frears
John Canfield & Joe Turrent
Simone Gilson & Claudia Juhre
Liddy Gilbert & James Caley
Maren Nygard & Eley Williams
Sarah Kelly & Iris Colomb
Prudence Chamberlain & SJ Fowler
Farhana Khatun & Freya Harwood Bond
Molly Bergin & Megan Haycock
Olga Kolesnikova & Richard Scott
Susie Campbell & Mike West
Keely Laufer & Emma Mackilligin
Julia Lewis & Annabel Banks
Clover Peake & Giovanna Coppola

Hi Zero 40 – Peter Manson, Holly Pester,Xelis de Toro

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Hi Zero Number 40 of the New Year 2016 will feature readings/performances by the following poets:

Peter Manson

Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His books include “Poems of Frank Rupture” (Sancho Panza Press), “English in Mallarmé” (Blart Books), “Adjunct: an Undigest” and “For the Good of Liars” (both from Barque Press), and “Between Cup and Lip” (Miami University Press, Ohio). Miami UP also publish his book of translations, “Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse”. More Mallarmé to follow, probably. A double-sided broadside, “the science of poetry • the poetry of science” by Manson and Linus Slug, appeared from ninerrors in 2015.petermanson.wordpress.com for more.

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Holly Pester

Holly Pester lives in London and teaches at the University of Essex. Her collection of poetry, gossip and archive fanfiction called, ‘go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip’ was published by Book Works in 2015. She is currently working on a sound poetry album of Lullabies made in collaboration with fellow poets and artists to be published by Test Centre in late 2016.

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Xelís de Toro

Xelís de Toro is a Galician (Spain) writer and performer based in the UK. He has published 5 novels and more than 10 children’s books in Galician, Spanish and Catalan. In recent years his text work has transmutated and spilled into stages and streets in the shape of live art, performance and spoken word. He has published a bilingual collection of poetry in English / Galician called ‘The Book of Invisible Bridges\ (Pighogpress, 2012). His spoken word performances comprise poetry, vocal improvisation and body movement.

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And take place on Wednesday 27th January, 2016.

Plus the usual music from a thing, books, bar and people, all taking place upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, just down from the train station on Queen’s road, Brighton.

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. £4.

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A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS V

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January Saturday 9th | 7.30pm, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG. Free Entry.
A World without Words will return to Apiary Studios on Hackney Road, London. Another exceptional panel of speakers and performers, exploring language, the human brain, aphasia and creativity, from the worlds of neuroscience and avant-garde art, will share new ideas and artworks, created specifically for the event. Featuring:

Dr. Daniel Margulies of the Max Planck Institute is a neuroscientist with a background in the humanities. His work consists of neuroanatomy that explores how connectivity within the cerebral cortex is organized, as well as ongoing collaborations that address the functional implications of this organization for spontaneous thought, or ‘mind-wandering’, amongst other things.

Josh Alexander is a film-maker and artist. He will present a newly commissioned piece of video art responding to the a World without Words project and it’s concerns.

Gillian Bridge is a resilience consultant specialising in brain and language development and the use of language affect on behaviour and communication. Her work also seeks an understanding and treating of dysfunctional behaviour (incl addictions) and developmental disorders (particularly autism and Asperger’s) in her practise as a psycholinguistic consultant.

Elena Agudio is a Berlin-based art historian and curator. She is artistic director of the non-profit association AoN – a platform for Neuroscience and Art, a project in collaboration with the Medical University of Charité, The School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University and the Institut für Raumexperimente led by Olafur Eliasson.

Christian Patracchini is an artist, writer and curator who works across different art forms, alternating between performance, text, sound and drawing. Within this commissioned performance he is interested in what constitutes a novelty and how thinking through movement can alter the force of thought.

Sarah Kelly creates works with text and handmade paper. Her work is concerned with pages (surfaces, interfaces and skins) and explores embodied language and mark making in connection with somatic bodies of knowledge. It encompasses poetics, sculptural paper making, movement, typography, calligraphy, translation and iteration. She will present a new commission on the night.
Admission is free and booking is not required. Email steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for enquiries.

CPRC/Veer Book Launch: Clarke, Jones, Raha, Rowe

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Wednesday, 13 January 2016at 19:30–21:00,  Room 101, 30 Russell Square, Birkbeck, University of London.

Adrian Clarke, Doug Jones, Nat Raha, William Rowe are launching their new books –

The room has extensive level access and is accessible to those using a wheelchair

Poetry Launch: Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes and Time Dust by Ian Patterson

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Wednesday, 24th February 2016, 18:30. Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge. The launch of two new poetry collections published by Equipage: Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes and Time Dust by Ian Patterson.

Peter Hughes is based in Hunstanton, having worked as a teacher and translator in Italy and the UK. He is the publisher of the Oystercatcher Press chapbooks and has had his own works published by a wide range of presses, including Equipage, Shearsman and Reality Street. His most recent publications are Quite Frankly: After Petrarch’s Sonnets (Reality Street, 2015) and Cavalcanty (Equipage, 2015)

Ian Patterson lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Queens’ College. He is well known for his work on Modernism and C20 and contemporary literature, especially poetry. A Selected Poems was published by Salt in 2003 under the title Time to Get Here. Since then, The Glass Bell (2009) has appeared from Barque, as well as Time Dust (2015) from Equipage and Still Life (2015) from Oystercatcher.

The event is free to attend, but booking is essential.

Sophie Mayer: A Preview

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On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.

Sophie Mayer is the co-editor of Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (English PEN, 2012, with Markie Burnhope and Sarah Crewe) and Glitter is a Gender (Contraband, 2014, with Sarah Crewe). She has published poetry collections with Shearsman, Salt, Oystercatcher, Knives Forks and Spoons, and – most recently – (O) with Arc and kaolin, or How Does a Girl Like You Get to be a Girl Like You with Lark. She is currently a full-time feminist film activist. @tr0ublemayer.

Christine Kennedy: A Preview

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On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.

Christine Kennedy is a Sheffield-based writer, artist and independent scholar who has published co-authored articles on women’s experimental poetry. Her own experimental poetry grew out of her fine art practice and has remained largely integral to it. Her poetry publications include ‘Hobby Horse: A Puppet Play for Cabaret Voltaire’ in Dadadollz (ISPress, 2010), Nineteen Nights in San Francisco (West House Books / The Cherry On The Top Press, 2007) and Possessions (The Cherry On The Top Press, 2003). The poetry sequence Twelve Entries from The Encyclopaedia of Natural Sexual Relations is published by The Cherry On The Top Press (2000/2003) including her short supporting essay. The White Lady’s Casket, her site-specific text installation for Bishops’ House and her supporting essay, are published in RSE 4packs No4: Renga + (Reality Street Editions, 2002). She is the co-author of Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool University Press, 2013) which is the first full-length study of these poets. Readings of her work can be heard at http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=49&f=1515#1515 and her studio blog is at https://warmstoragestudio.wordpress.com/

Forrest Gander in conversation, with Oscar Martín Centeno

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Wed, 25 Nov 2015, 6.30 PM – 7.30 PM at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. Free, booking required.

Writer and translator Forrest Gander is concerned largely with the way the self is revised and translated in encounters with the foreign. His book Core Samples From the World was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. Recent translations include Watchword by Pura López Colomé and, with Kyoko Yoshida, Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura, winner of the Best Translated Book Award in 2012. In conjunction with the University of Liverpool Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and supported by HLC.

The Centre for New and International Writing presents: Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2015
Óscar Martín Centeno & Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.

Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and travelled intensively; he has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics, ecology, and intersubjectivity. A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Currently, he is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Óscar Martín Centeno

Óscar Martín Centeno holds a degree in History and Music Sciences by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 2006 he received the prize “Premio Internacional Florentino Pérez-Embid” by Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras for his first book Espejos enfrentados, published by Rialp publishing house in the collection Adonais. In 2007 he received the prize “Premio Nacional Nicolás del Hierro” for his second book Las cántigas del diablo, published the same year. In 2007 he obtained the prize “Premio Internacional Paul Beckett” for his third book Sucio tango del alma, published in 2008 by la Fundación Valparaíso. He has published two teaching manuals: Manual de creación literaria en la era de Internet (2009) and Animación a la lectura mediante las nuevas tecnologías (2010).

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