Events
Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dorn book launches
BOOK LAUNCH
With readings from Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Kyle Waugh, and Sean Bonney
Celebrating the publication of Edward Dorn’s Derelict Air: From Collected Out. Jennifer Dorn’s new book Eastward Ho: The Saga of Vitus Bering will also be available.
6.30 for 7pm Thursday 2 July
at ENITHARMON — 10 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL
Derelict Air gathers over 400 pages of Edward Dorn’s previously uncollected poetry gleaned from ephemera, correspondence, and notebooks housed at numerous archives in the USA and UK.
Entry is free, but it will fill up so you MUST reserve your seat:
EMAIL: info@enitharmon.co.ukPHONE: 0207 430 0844
Rhys Trimble: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Rhys Trimble is one of the performers and will make his second appearance at The Other Room. Lots of things can be trimbled at Rhys’ website – LINK
Launch reading in London
Tuesday, July 7, 7.30 pm
Peter Philpott, Pete Smith, Simon Smith
at The Apple Tree (upstairs room), 45 Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 0AE
Simon Smith is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, the latest is 11781 W. Sunset Boulevard from Shearsman. Half a dozen just like you (Oystercatcher) and Navy (Verisimilitude) are the first two volumes of a ‘trilogy’; the third booklet, Salon Noir, will appear from Equipage in the autumn of 2015. Presently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent.
Pete Smith, born & raised in Coventry, emigrated to Canada in 1974. After a long detour returned to poetry in the late 1990s. Has published poetry with Wild Honey Press, Poetical Histories, Great Works & Oystercatcher among others; reviews & essays in Agenda, The Gig, The Paper, The Capilano Review, Crayon & elsewhere. He has given readings at the Kootenay School of Writing & at the final CCCP in 2006. His first full-length collection, Bindings with Discords, was published by Shearsman in February 2015.
Peter Philpott ran Great Works Press and magazine in the 1970s, the now largely quiescent Great Works and modernpoetry.org.uk websites in the 2000s – active online now with Innovative Poetry Readings in London webpage, blogging serial poems (http://a2ndlife.org.uk) & proudly attending Writers Forum Workshop – New Series. He’s launching Ianthe Poems (Shearsman)
Kenneth Goldsmith: THEORY
Kenneth Goldsmith’s Theory offers an unprecedented reading of the contemporary world: 500 texts – from poems and musings to short stories – printed on 500 pages assembled
in the form of a ream of paper. Curated by the author-poet, this unique collection maps out the various issues and trends in contemporary literature in a world currently being shaken up by everything online and digital,and calls for the reinvention of creative forms.
Jack Kerouac’s On The Road Turned Into Google Driving Directions & Published as a Free eBook
Gregor Weichbrodt, a German college student, took all of the geographic stops mentioned in On the Road, plugged them into Google Maps, and ended up with a 45-page manual of driving directions, divided into chapters paralleling those of Kerouac’s original book. You can read the manual — On the Road for 17,527 Miles— as a free ebook. Just click the image above to view it online (or click here). Likewise, you can purchase a print copy on Lulu and perhaps make it the basis for your own road trip. Wondering how long such a trip might take? Google Maps indicates that Kerouac’s journey covered some 17,527 miles and theoretically took some 272 hours.
LINK to free e-book
Nia Davies: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Follow this LINK to read an interview with Nia Davies in Wales Art Review
Chris Paul: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Hear Chris Paul read from his Veer publication stenia cultas handbook – LINK
Or some poems at onedit – LINK
Berlin Camarade
The Berlin Camarade will pair 32 poets to write new collaborations especially for this event, drawing from the extraordinary poetry scene of Berlin, one of the most dynamic avant-garde hubs in Europe. Berlin as a brilliant, poetic, communal landscape of literature will be revealed across the possibilities of collaboration. www.theenemiesproject.com/berlin
June Tuesday 23rd – 8pm at http://www.lettretage.de {Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin, Germany}. Entrance fee of 5€ (4€ reduced for students). All proceeds go entirely to Lettretage.
The event will be split into two acts, with 16 poets in 8 pairs presenting brand new collaborations in each. Curated in partnership with Lettretage.
Beginning at 8pm
Monika Rinck & Nele Brönner
Sam Langer & Jeroen Nieuwland
Catherine Hales & Brigitte Oleschinski
Polly Dickson & Esther Yi
Lara Rüter & Georg Leß
Alexander Gumz & Christoph Szalay
Laura Elliott & Angus Sinclair
Max Czollek & Ernesto Estrella
Beginning at 9.30pm
Andreas Bülhoff & Charlotte Warsen
Martin Jackson & Mike Saunders
Birgit Kreipe & Yevgeniy Breyger
Christiane Heidrich & Rike Scheffler
SJ Fowler & Daniela Seel
Tom Bresemann & Alexander Filyuta
Eugene Ostashevsky & Norbert Lange
Cia Rinne & Uljana Wolf
Storm and Golden Sky: Andy Brown and Kelvin Corcoran
Friday June 26th at 7.00, £5
For this month only this reading will be held at the Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX in the centre of Liverpool.
The event will take place in the Sandon Room: turn right after entering the main entrance of the Bluecoat, follow the ramp and through the double doors. See the Bluecoat website for directions.
ANDY BROWN’s latest poetry books are WATERSONG (Shearsman, 2015), EXURBIA (Worple, 2014), THE FOOL AND THE PHYSICIAN (Salt, 2012) and 7 previous collections. He published his first novel, APPLES & PRAYERS in 2015 (Dean Street). He is the co-editor of A BODY OF WORK: Poetry and Medical Writing, forthcoming from Bloomsbury (2016) and also edited THE WRITING OCCURS AS SONG: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman, 2014). He is a performing musician, and has been Director of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter for fifteen years.
KELVIN CORCORAN was born in 1956. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, the most recent of which is For the Greek Spring. In addition he has interviewed Lee Harwood for the volume Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, published in June 2008. He has read extensively in the UK and also in Germany and Ireland and accompanied travelling Arts Council exhibitions reading poetry written in response to the work of contemporary painters and sculptors. Three extended interviews with him can be found in The Writing Occurs As Song: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader, the first full-length study of his work, edited by Andy Brown and published by Shearsman in 2014. With Recent projects include collaboration with Greek musicians in setting his poetry to music and collaborative performances with songwriters Jack Hues, Liam Magill and pianist Sam Bailey at the Free Range series of events in Canterbury. Hear some samples of these collaborations at soundcloud here, here, here and here. His recent books include a New and Selected Poems and Backward Turning Sea, both from Shearsman.
Lyndon Davies and Graham Hartill: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details. Below is a recent collaboration between two of the our performers, Lyndon Davies and Graham Hartill.
James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston at Verbose
Last year at Sheffield’s Midsummer Festival The Other Room organisers performed for the first time together – the first time in 7 years.
Only one year on and it’s happening again, this time on home turf in Fallowfield, Manchester, at Verbose:
Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 22 June. This month, our special guests are James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston, the three organisers of long-running, Manchester-based experimental poetry reading series The Other Room. No slouches on the publishing front, with over 20 books between them, James, Tom and Scott also collaborate extensively with other writers and run various other enterprises: if p then q independent publishing house (James), zimZalla avant objects (Tom) and Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (Scott).
There will also be an open mic of prose and poetry – visit the Verbose website for instructions on how to sign up. Your host is Sarah-Clare Conlon. It’s free entry and doors are at 7.30pm – get there then to bagsie a seat. Verbose takes place every fourth Monday of the month at Fallow café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M14 6NA. See http://verbosemcr.wordpress.com/ for more details.
Sean Bonney and Stephen Collis
Crossing the Line
Sean Bonney and Stephen Collis
Thursday, June 18 at 7:30pm
The Apple Tree, Clerkenwell, London
Wor(l)ds in Collision
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This exhibition concentrates on Wittgenstein’s insistence in his later writings on the usefulness of the concept of ‘games’ for thinking about language. There is no one quality that unites all the things we think of as games, and to play a game requires not only rules, but the possibility of testing, breaking, revising those rules. Rejecting the idea that language has one essential purpose, or that meaning is something fixed and transparent, the artworks here are engaged in various forms of play, translation or reconfiguration. Language is physical as well as symbolic. Our experiences lay claim to the traditions and practices that give them meaning, but can be turned back thereon to question and confuse what we might otherwise take for granted. We come to points where ordinary language seems inadequate, but this is not because we lack an adequately nuanced set of concepts, or because we need a better ‘theory’ of language, but because we have not paid enough attention to the particular and the familiar. What frameworks support our observations and convictions? The artwork here in some ways mimics the incompleteness of Wittgenstein’s writing, the unendingness of his philosophical project. Variously they show art as a process of discarding and reassembling, of repetition with variation, of careful attention to presentation and nested meanings, to the balance between authorial control and emergence, between understanding and opacity.
We are delighted to welcome you to this playful collaboration between poets, artists and philosophers, where the boundaries between words and images, meanings and material are plucked, strummed, exalted and trammelled.
Preview of Other Room reader – Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Amy Cutler and Luke Allan.
I sometimes wrote in Italian, in an exploratory kind of way, just for myself, in notebooks. I didn’t try to publish it. Mainly I contented myself with reading Italian, and sometimes translating from Italian into English.
Read more of this interview with Peter Hughes HERE
And a review of Quite Frankly (Translations of Petrarch’s Sonnets) by Steve Waling HERE
blart books reading
Sunday 7th June @ The Hardy Tree Gallery
7pm BYOB
Readings from:
Richard Barrett
Cathy Weedon
There will also be readings celebrating MJ Weller’s Homebaked Books.
The Hardy Tree Gallery
119 Pancras Road
London, UK
NW1 1UN
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ABOUT every house has a door http://www.everyhousehasadoor.org
Every house has a door was formed in 2008 by Lin Hixson, director, and Matthew Goulish, dramaturge, to convene project-specific teams of specialists, including emerging as well as internationally recognized artists. Drawn to historically or critically neglected subjects, Every house creates performances in which the subject remains largely absented from the finished work. The performances distil and separate presentational elements into distinct modes – recitation, installation, movement, music – to grant each its own space and time, and inviting the viewer to assemble the parts in duration, after the fact of the performance, to rediscover the missing subject. Works include Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. (2009) in response to the work of Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev, Testimonium (2013) a collaboration with the band Joan of Arc in response to Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony poems, and the on-going project 9 Beginnings based on local performance archives.
Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and Every house has a door in 2008. His 39 Microlectures—in proximity of performance was published by Routledge in 2000, and Small Acts of Repair—Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, which he co-edited with Stephen Bottoms, in 2007. He was awarded a Lannan Foundation Writers Residency in 2004, and in 2007 he received an honorary Ph.D. from Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth. Goulish is Provocations editor for The Drama Review, and he teaches in the MFA and BFA Writing Programs of the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lin Hixson co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and Every house has a door in 2008. She is full Professor of Performance at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received an honorary doctorate from Dartington College in 2007. She was awarded a Foundation for the Arts Award in 2014 and the United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in 2009 with Matthew Goulish, her collaborator and co-founder of Every house has a door. Goat Island created nine performance works and toured extensively in the US, England, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, and Canada. Her writing on directing and performance has been published in the journals P-Form, TDR, Frakcija, Performance Research, Women and Performance, and Whitewalls; and included in the anthologies Small Acts of Repair—Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, Live Art and Performance, Theatre in Crisis?, and the textbook Place and Placelessness in Performance. Hixson has directed two films, Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka and It’s Aching Like Birds, in collaboration with the artist Lucy Cash and Goat Island.
ABOUT forced entertainment
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Preview of Other room reader – Amy Cutler
Amy Cutler will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Luke Allan and Peter Hughes. Below is an example of her series Suckers.
Read more on Amy’s blog HERE
Teaching Gertrude Stein
Bank Street Arts
Poet/artist collaborations at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield to coincide with the South Yorkshire Poetry Festival, including Brian Lewis and Andrew Hirst; Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker; Helen Tookey and Patricia Farrell. Closing Event 2pm on Saturday 30th May. The bar will be open and there’ll be short artist talks about each of the installations.
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