POLYply presents Writers Forum Workshop (New Series)
Thursday 12 December The Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG Free entry, 7pm Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre and MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway.
This tremendous course starts in January…
Explore contemporary innovations in European poetry in Steven Fowler’s company and discover how their remarkable explorations in the written word often compliment, rather than antagonise, more formal writing practice. Over 5 sessions, 5 great poetic movements will be used as references to springboard you into new writing techniques, stressing the possibility amidst the history. Covering OULIPO, Austrian modernism, Concrete poetry, CoBra and the British poetry revival, this course – with the energy, dynamism and invention of the movements it explores – will enrich anyone’s poetry horizons. Steven will organise a post-course reading for students on this course.
Some more details, direct from Steven …I’m delighted to announce that in 2014 I will be teaching a course for the Poetry School http://www.poetryschool.com called Maintenant! exploring post-war & contemporary European avant-garde poetry. It’s a bi-weekly course, five lessons over ten weeks, aiming to elucidate traditions that might be occluded in the UK, and explore how their innovations in writing can compliment people’s poetry in the now. The onus is on how these great moments in modern poetry can enrich writing practise, rather than dense historical analysis. It’s a rare chance to excavate avant garde work in such a setting, please sign up below if interested & in London.
http://www.poetryschool.com/courses-workshops/face-to-face/maintenant.php
Week One: January tuesday 28th – OulipoGeorges Perec, Jacques Roubeau, Raymond Queneau up to Frederic Forte and British Oulippeans like Philip Terry. The constraints that emancipate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
Week Two: February tuesday 11th – Austrian postwar modernismThomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek. How to deal with the legacy of Fascism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Handke
Week Three: February tuesday 25th – Concrete poetryHansjörg Mayer, Bob Cobbing, The Vienna Group, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Marton Koppany up to Anatol Knotek. The visuality of the poem as its meaning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry
Week Four: tuesday March 11th – CoBrAAsger Jorn, Christian Dotremont, Pierre Alechinsky. Dutch, Danish, Belgian & beyond, poetry as art revolt & primitivism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement)
Week Five: March tuesday 25th – British Poetry RevivalTom Raworth, Bill Griffiths, Maggie O’Sullivan & many many more.
Those every British poet should know, our immense late 20th century Vanguard heritage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_poetry_revival & near the end of the course, on March 15th 2014, at the Rich Mix arts centre, the students will get a chance to read some of the work they’ve produced during Enemies: Fjender, which explores contemporary Danish avant garde poetry in collaboration, with Cia Rinne, Martin Glaz Serup and Morten Sondergaard, who will also be exhibiting his remarkable Wordpharmacy http://www.wordpharmacy.com Here is the interview series that inspired the course http://www.maintenant.co.uk/ all 97 editions so far.
See more at: http://www.poetryschool.com/courses-workshops/face-to-face/maintenant.php#sthash.zt47atrZ.dpuf
In a change to our previously advertised programme, Rachel Smith will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 4th December at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE, 7 PM start, free entry. The other readers are Sandeep Parmar and Robert Sheppard.
Bio.:
Rachel Smith is an artist engaged in durational drawing processes, text art and guerrilla writing. Her artist’s statement is as follows:
“writing: reading–language–speaking :drawing
My practice involves predetermined algorithmic methodologies; generative constraints. These processes embrace the limit and freedom of restriction. The durational aspect of my artwork implies endurance and the processes are habitual, obsessive and repetitive.
Drawn lines delineate materiality, bodily presence and temporality.
The white noise din of information drive a drawing practice where the artist acts as a conduit, filtering language and re-presenting it. Readable narratives are often disrupted, creating non-communication, where intuition is used as a set of random number generators and mathematically sequenced illegibility questions our logic.
Despite never deviating from the procedural process, once it is set in motion, the visual form remains key as a document of the time spent.”
Some links:
Rachel’s blog
Gareth Twose is unfortunately now now able to perform at The Other Room on Wednesday, 4th December. We are, however, pleased to announce that Rachel Smith will be performing. More details of Rachel and her work to follow very soon. Gareth will appear in 2014.
Hannah Silva will perform at The Other Room’s sixth birthday event in April 2014, but is in Manchester sooner than that to launch her new collection Forms of Protest. Details below via Penned in the Margins:
Thursday, December 5th, 2013, 6:30 pm | £6/£4
Three of the UK’s most exciting voices launch new collections in a night of cutting-edge modern poetry from award-winning independent literary publisher Penned in the Margins. Blackburn poet Melissa Lee-Houghton celebrates the launch of her second book, Beautiful Girls: a raw and powerful account of mental illness that has been awarded a PBS Recommendation. Hanna Silva, widely acclaimed for her innovative vocal performances, launches her debut collection Forms of Protest and Siddhartha Bose launches Digital Monsoon, where dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London populated by the ghosts of a multicultural city. Hosted and introduced by Tom Chivers of Penned in the Margins www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk. Buy tickets here.
Hi Zero Proudly Present: Number 24 in the Current Series, Featuring Readings of Poetry by the Following Poets:
RYAN DOBRAN
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LISA JESCHKE
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PRUDENCE CHAMBERLAIN
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Music from a thing, the bar, lights, the whole shebang. Taking place at The Hope, Queens Road, Brighton, on –
TUESDAY 26th November –
£4 entry –
Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start.
This will be the last Hi Zero of 2013! Come and celebrate! More info soon! Please spread the word and invite your friends!
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 19:30 until 22:00. The Village Hall, Shoreditch Works, 33 Hoxton Square, N1 6NN.
Introduction and short reading by Will Rowe. Extended reading from ‘Elegy’ (London: Veer, 2013) by Steve Willey, featuring collaborative performances with Tom Bamford and others. Also, talks, further readers, and performances T.B.A.
Entrance: Free. Booze situation is Bring your own.
The third reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, 14 November, in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College, Cambridge, 7.30 for 8pm.
Caitlín Doherty is the author of O (Cambridge: Foule Press, 2012) and SATELLITES (Tokyo: Tipped Press, 2012) and has a book forthcoming from Critical Documents. ‘An inter-galactic stargate opens. Titan falls through it.’
Frances Kruk is the author of A Discourse on Vegetation & Motion (Cambridge: Critical Documents, 2008), DOWN YOU GO OR NÉGATION de BRUIT APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBER (Scarborough, ME: Punch Press, 2011) and DWARF SURGE (London: yt communication, 2013). ‘he cannot have your face he / cannot have your face’
A small part of our video archive, including readings and videos, hosted by MySpace has been down for a while. We’ve a couple more to sort out but meanwhile here are these videos back in action to be watched for the first time or again. Bon Appetit.
Nick Thurston December 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78619129 w=250&h=216]Nick Thurston interview 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/77545012 w=250&h=216]Sophie Robsinon December 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78679878 w=250&h=216]Sophie Robinson interview 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/77545011 w=250&h=216]
Stuart Calton October 2009 at Oxjam
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78618997 w=250&h=216]
Michael Haslam October 2009
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/78618999 w=250&h=216]
Saturday 16th November, 20:30 start. Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA .
Susan Birchenough has been writing poetry for about 3 years. She had a poem published in the English PEN anthology “Catechism ” and has been shortlisted for the Erbacce poetry prize in 2012 and 2013. She has a particular interest in experimental and visual poetry and is a self-employed permaculturist.
Charlotte Henson is a young writer from Greater Manchester currently living in London. She is widely published, including appearances in Award-winning zine Rising, The Morning Star, and Sculpted: Poetry of the North West. Her upcoming collection Every Street will be published by erbacce. She edits the zine Astronaut.
Lindsey Holland’s collection Particle Soup (2012) is available from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. She co-edited the anthologySculpted: Poetry of the North West and edited the anthology Not On Our Green Belt. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in publications including Tears in the Fence, The New Writer, B O D Y, Estuary, Verse Kraken, Sabotage Reviews, Penning Perfumes, and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam. She studied Writing at the University of Warwick and now teaches poetry on the Creative Writing programme at Edge Hill University, where she is a PhD candidate. She is the founder member and driving force behind North West Poets.
Steven Waling is the author of Calling On the Phone, Travelator and Captured Yes. A new collection Hello GCHQ is forthcoming from Department.
Other Room performer seekers of lice will be showing a short film on Saturday 16th November at 2.30pm at the Small Publishers Fair (Conway Hall, Red Lion Square).
This year’s Fair brings together presses from across the UK – from Cornwall to the Vale of Glamorgan, and from Kent to Edinburgh. They will be joined by publishers from Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands and Norway.
Key organisations from the world of small publishing and artists’ books will also attend: artistsbooksonline, bookartbookshop, Boekie Woekie, The Saison Poetry Library; Book Arts, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, and Royal Holloway MA Poetic Practice.
This exhibition runs in Liverpool until 22nd November. Read Tony Lopez’s reflections here.
7.00 on Wednesday, 30 October.
Daniel Blau Gallery, 51 Hoxton Square, London, N1. Free. All welcome.
Summerhall, Edinburgh 7 Dec – 24 Jan (Public preview 7pm, 6 Dec)
World-leading text artists and poets have contributed work about living and dying for The Dark Would exhibition, which includes pieces by Susan Hiller, Richard Long, Tom Phillips, Simon Patterson, Richard Wentworth, Tony Lopez, Caroline Bergvall, Steve Giasson, Erica Baum, Ron Silliman and many others, including ‘outsider’ artists.
Whether homeless people or outsider artists or art stars – we all have to find our way through the dark. Challenging and uplifting, The Dark Would reads the human traces that we leave in the world. This exhibition asks what it is to have a body and to lose it. As well as including work from the living, there will also be ‘answering’ works by dead artists and poets including Stephane Mallarme, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Joseph Beuys.
Summerhall hosts the world premiere of this ground-breaking show curated by poet Philip Davenport. The Dark Would exhibition is an ‘out-growth’ of the large anthology of text art and poetry edited by Davenport and published by Apple Pie Editions 2013.
There will be a series of artist’s talks paralleling the exhibition.
Harry Gilonis reads for The Other Room. This video is archived along with all other readings in the middle bar.
otherroom.org 