Events

Blue Bus – Lawrence Upton, Sarah Kelly and Juliet Troy

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Lawrence Upton, Sarah Kelly and Juliet Troy on Tuesday 15th July from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninetieth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Juliet Troy completed an MA in  Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway University in 2013. She has had poetry published in:  Poetry Salzburg Review, Fire no.33, and Fire No. 31, Neon Highway, Ver Poets ‘Unguarded Gold’ and 40th Anniversary Anthology, Ver poets Ten Liners and had a poem selected in the recent Ver competition. She is also published in Camden and Lumen’s  ‘Genius Floored – Alphabet of Days’, online on ‘Greatworks’, ‘Write Off’ and ‘Neon Highway’. Her Artists Book, ‘Pop up Temple’ was displayed at the ‘Visual Poetics’ exhibition at the Southbank’s Poetry Library.  Her  ‘Rhythm of Furrows Across a Field’ pamphlet was published by Kater Murr’s Press, in April 2013. She is a committee member of Ver poets and one of the Blue Bus organisers.  Juliet is especially interested in Ecopoetics and other innovative approaches that work towards communicating an eco/ethno -logical mindfulness.
Sarah Kelly is the author of ‘locklines’ (KFS Press) and has contributed work to many magazines, journals and literary reviews, including the anthologies ‘Better than Language’ (Ganzfeld Press) and ‘Dear World’ (Bloodaxe). Her text based visual work has been exhibited in the Saison Poetry Library, The London Poetry Festival, SoundEye and TARP Audio-Visual Poetry festival. She is an editor for the bilingual edition ‘AlbaLondres’ and her experimental translation work has been performed at Spain NOW! (London) and MACBA, (Barcelona). www.s-kelly.co.uk

Lawrence Upton: Poet; graphic artist; sound artist: curator. Recent publications wrack (2012); Memory Fictions (2012); and Unframed Pictures (2011). Co-edited Word Score Utterance Choreography in verbal and visual poetry (1998) with Bob Cobbing, with whom he wrote collaboratively (NB D.A.N. 1994-2000) . Commentaries on Bob Cobbing (2013). Journals: Artist’s Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Emerging Language Practices, Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, Readings, Sounds Rite. Second solo exhibition “from recent projects” September 2012 St James Hatcham. Makes text-sound composition with John Levack Drever, Benedict Taylor, Tina Krekels & Jeff Cloke. photo, synthesis (for solo viola) commissioned by to  Benedict Taylor (2013), now being premiered. Convenes Writers Forum Workshop, directs Writers Forum . Visiting Research Fellow in Music, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Auld Enemies

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7 locales : over 40 poets : a national tour of Scotland and brand new innovative poetic collaborations : a Scottish Enemies project, organised by SJ Fowler.

The Enemies project: Auld Enemies is a transnational poetry collaboration where six poets will work in rolling pairs to produce original works for readings across the breadth of Scotland. Each event will also feature numerous pairs of writers from the region, who will be presenting brand new poetry collaborations as well. Auld Enemies is a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Scottish poetics through the potential of collaboration.

​​​Auld Enemies will commence with a six date tour of Scotland, taking in Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Lerwick in the Shetlands and finishing with Kirkwall in the Orkneys. It will conclude with an event in London, at the Rich Mix Arts Centre, on July 26th, which will feature many of the new works from the tour, new collaborations and a documentary screening about Auld Enemies.

WFW(N) dates

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The next meetings are August 16th, October 25th and 13th of December. 2-4pm at the function room above Terrace bar, in Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester. Organised by Gareth Twose, WFW(N) is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.

Storm and Golden Sky

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Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £4, 7 pm spot-on start!

FRIDAY 27th June 2014

Holly Pester & Evan Jones

Holly Pester is a sound poet, archive-curator and researcher based in London.She has recently completed a practice-based PhD in poetics at Birkbeck, University of London titled, ‘Making Speech-Matter: Recurring Mediations in Sound Poetics and Its Contemporary Practice’. Her practice-work experiments in frequencies of speech, song and articulated noise through performance and installation. She has performed at art events including the Prague MicroFestival 2012, Text Festival 2011 and Serpentine Poetry Marathon 2009, and was a writer in residence at dOCUMENTA 13. Holly Pester’s poetry collection, Hoofs, was released with if p then q press in 2011. See (or rather hear): https://soundcloud.com/#holly-pester

Evan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthologyModern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010).He is working on a new translation of Cavafy for Carcanet. Did you know Cavafy lived just round the corner from tonight’s venue? Evan did.

See http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847771377

Born of a Liverpool taste for variety and drama, Storm and Golden Sky offers literary high style from across the poetic landscape. Programmed by a collective of Liverpool-based poets, Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees.

Clive and Robin Fencott: Augmented Cyber/Text Performance

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A taste of what is to come at The Other Room on July 2nd for our evening of technopoetics, as described by Clive Fencott:

“The text as a catalyst for performance, the poem/piece realised through performance, the text thus lost in performance rather than an end in itself, has been of particular interest to and a way of working for sound poets and others for many years.

The ergodic text, and in particular the cybertext, the dynamic presentation of lexia, selections/creations of a text in response to the reader’s interaction with it through digital means, has been a growing phenomena for over 3 decades now.

This performance is an exploration of the augmented cyber/text as a dynamic entity in performance; the use of both the real and the virtual as augmentation. For instance, the the tactile interaction with the text, in the process of perception, generates data for the augmentation, the digital completion of the audible and/or visual performance.

In this process the text reasserts itself in performance: becomes a player in amongst the performer(s).”

The other performers are Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Full previews to follow.

Black & BLUE: ILLUMINATIONS

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Black & BLUE Illuminations press web_Page_1

 

Black & BLUE is pleased to present ILLUMINATIONS, a radical new exhibition showing at The Crypt Gallery, London, from the 19th – 21st June. The exhibition explores textual art through a
variety of different media; sculpture, photography, film, painting, ceramics, textiles and works on paper. Featuring works by Robert Montgomery; Julius Kalamarz; Lara Popovic; Anna Pickles Harvey; Hyeran Han; Celia Wickham; Andie Mckenzie Meadows; Lillian Wilkie; Dario Srbic; Kerry O’connor; Simone Barnes; Lindenberg Munroe; Anna Klimentchenko; Christabel Macgreevy; Emma Kelsey; Lewis Lazar; Dane Weatherman; Charles Ogilvie; Stephen Emmerson; Kirsty Andrew; Daniel Leyland; Alice O’Neill. Click on the image to read the catalogue.

Cabaret Hrabal

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One of the boundless figures of late 20th century Czech literature, Bohumil Hrabal was a novelist, a drinker, a bon vivant, an avant gardist, a railway dispatcher during the Nazi occupation, a traveling salesman, a steelworker, a recycling mill worker, a stagehand… His novels, which include Too Loud a Solitude, Closely Observed Trains, and I Served the King of England, were censored under the Communist regime, yet have since been translated into nearly thirty languages. A survivor of both the Nazi and Soviet occupations of Czechoslovakia, much of Hrabal’s work juxtaposes the darkness of history to the comic, human-scale happenings of the every-day. His oeuvre is as inimitable as his novels are unforgettable.

Through a half-dozen brand new commissions from some of the most exciting UK based poets, artists, conceptualists, theatre makers and dramaturges, Hrabal will be evoked and enveloped, transposed into some of the most exciting literary experimentalists of contemporary London.

Featuring Zoe Skoulding (sound poetry), Sarah Kelly (book sculptures), Joshua Alexander (film art), Stephen Emmerson (conceptual performance), Marcus Slease (poetry), Tom Jenks (literary experiments), Eva Danickova (stage reading) and Lucinka Eisler (theatre), this is a chance to discover, or rediscover, a great European writer through new and exciting works that pay their debt to the remarkable achievements of Hrabal in the essence of their happening.

Read more at the Czech Centre London site.

SCREE/Syndicate

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An evening of experimental poetry, music and visual art at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny St, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG. Saturday 14th June 2014.

ANAK-ANAK + SARAH HAYDEN + ROBERT KIELY + RICHARD TAYLOR + ILIOP

This evening raises its glass to Dick Higgins who said: ‘The idea has arisen, as if by spontaneous combustion throughout the entire world, that these points are arbitrary and only useful as critical tools, in saying that such-and-such a work is basically musical, but also poetry. This is the intermedial approach, to emphasize the dialectic between the media… As with the cubists, we are asking for a new way of looking at things. We do not ask any more to speak magnificently of taking arms against a sea of troubles, we want to see it done.’

More here.

Lisa Robertson & Zoe Skoulding

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Monday, 9th June, 18:00 F02, Firth Court, Western Bank

Free Entry. All are Welcome

Readings by Zoe Skoulding and Lisa Robertson followed by a Conversation with Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet now living in France.With Matthew Stadler she edited and annotated Revolution: A Reader, a 1200 page guide to how to live in the present. Her books include Debbie: An Epic and The Weather, both co-published in the UK by Reality Street Editions, a collection of essays Nilling (Bookthug, 2012), Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (Coach House, 2004), Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House, 2009) and RE28099s Boat (University of California Press, 2010). Cinema of the Present is forthcoming from Coach House, and Enitharmon is to publish a new edition of The Men (Bookthug, 2006). She was the Bain Swigget visiting Lecturer in Poetry at Princeton University, and teaches in the MFA programme at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

ZoeSkoulding is a poet, translator, editor and critic. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013) and Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), poems from which have been widely translated. She has performed her work at many international festivals, often incorporating electronic sound in her readings as well as collaborating with musicians. She is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University.

Petrarch -a Celebration of Tim Atkins

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Sat 28 June, 7pm at Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA.

Launching the remarkable collected Petrarch poems by Tim Atkins, clocking in at over 400 pages and published by Crater press, over 20 poets read from the book to celebrate this groundbreaking British poet.

Long heralded as one of the leading lights of the British 21st century avant garde poetry, here the work of Tim Atkins is revealed and celebrated by the key figures in the contemporary British vanguard of experimental writers.

Other Room dates for your diaries

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A busy 2014 summer period from The Other Room and also the beginnings of a winter programme for your diaries.

4th June 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Leanne Bridgewater, Allen Fisher, Agnes Lehoczky & David Miller

15th June 3.30 @ Bank Street Arts, Sheffield: The Other Room presents The Other Room as part of The Midsummer Festival (Scott Thurston, James Davies & Tom Jenks)

2nd July 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Hazel Smith&Roger Dean and Clive&Robin Fencott

13th August 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Gareth Twose, Mick Weller & Alison Gibb

15th October 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Emma Cocker, Matt Falaize & Ulli Freer

Agnes Lehoczky: a preview

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Ágnes Lehóczky will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 4th June at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, with Allen Fisher, Leanne Bridgewater and David Miller. Free entry. The film above shows Agnes at Poetry Parnassus in 2012. See also poems in Blackbox Manifold and details of her books published by Shearsman and Egg Box.

Bio.

Ágnes Lehóczky is an Hungarian poet, scholar and translator originally from Budapest. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002), published by Universitas, Hungary. Her first full collection in English, Budapest to Babel, was published in 2008 and her second collection, Rememberer, in 2012 by Egg Box Publishing. She was the winner of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award 2010 and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge in 2011. She was Hungary’s representative poet for Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre during London’s Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2012. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Poetry: the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars. Her latest collection of poems Carillonneur was published by Shearsman Books in April 2014.