Events
Pharmapoetica : a dispensary of poetry
Writers’ Forum North next event
Writers’ Forum North is meeting again next saturday (26th October). It’s 2-4 pm in function room above Terrace bar in Edge street, Manchester M2. It’s just down road from Madlab, go through back entrance of Terrace and turn immediately right and go up the stairs.
Bring photocopies of poem you like (by someone else) – and one of your own.
Caesura #18
Friday, 8th November, 19:00.
Artisan Bar. 35 London Rd, Edinburgh, EH7 5BQ.
THIS MONTH we’ve got a radical writer and mixed-media artist who champions all things good, an incredible local poet and occasional performance artist, an avant-guard writer venturing through from the wild west and a local, by of Calfornia, innovative poet.
That is: Sandra Alland, Iain Morrison, Karen Veitch and James Leveque
WHAT IS IT? Bespoke spoken word performances at Edinburgh’s monthly night of racketeers and raconteurs, experiments and experience, synapses and sounds. Avante-jive for the masses.
SANDRA ALLAND
Sandra Alland is a writer, filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been published and presented throughout the UK, North America and Europe. Sandra’s poetic love-affair with voice-activated software and disability poetics, Naturally Speaking, was published in 2012 by Toronto’s espresso Books. In 2009, Edinburgh’s Forest Publications published Sandra’s chapbook of short fiction, Here’s To Wang, which quickly went into a second printing. Sandra has published widely, including two other books of poetry: Blissful Times (BookThug, Toronto); and Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan, Toronto). She was guest editor at Jacket2 for a special edition on Scottish poets in 2012.
– www.blissfultimes.ca
IAIN MORRISON
Iain Morrison serially lost kitten slipper and voguer, Dickinsonian Mirror’s son, who despite veering all over the shop, remains interested loyally in sound structures and overlays in support/distort of meaning structure; expresses this in poems at present. Hoping to present new poem sequence at Caesura. At time of writ, proven in clinical trials to be enjoying whatever was happening way too much.
KAREN VEITCH
Karen Veitch grew up in Glasgow, where she currently resides. In 2013 she completed her doctorate studies at the University of Sussex in political and working-class women’s poetry of the Depression Era United States. She has translated Spanish poetry (such as by Pedro Salinas) into English and her work has been published in Comparative American Studies and SCREE.
JAMES LEVEQUE
James Leveque was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up on Fresno, California. He has lived in Edinburgh since 2009. He is completing a PhD in literature and works as a tutor. His poetry has appeared in SCREE and the San Joaquin Review.
Coming next in December
The Other Room presents The Dark Would Tonight
Not to be missed…
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MATERIALS READING SERIES – REITHA PATTISON / LUKE ROBERTS
This is a new reading series of poetry. It is in Cambridge. Two readers will read every two weeks. This is the first reading. The first two readers will be Reitha Pattison and Luke Roberts, THIS Thursday, the 17^th October, at 7.30 for 8p.m. in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College. Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) and Lisa Jeschke (ljj28@cam.ac.uk) for further information & / or clarification.
Reitha Pattison is the author of SOME FABLES (Cambridge: Grasp, 2011) and the recent A DROLL KINGDOM (Scarborough, ME: Punch Press, 2013), as well as a co-editor of the Collected Poems of Ed Dorn (London: Carcanet, 2012) “The undersong of / the ‘economic cosmos’ is heard in / the meadow where the herbicides / work swift harm for a margin like / inharmonic blue prairie fires.”
Luke Roberts is the author of FALSE FLAGS (Cambridge: Mountain, 2011) and has a new book forthcoming from Equipage. “There is a car inside my stomach. / You are centuries late.”
Preview of The Other Room, The Dark Would, 16th October
Create at Salford has written this on tomorrow’s The Other Room –
Four of our 2012 MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment alumni, including Nigel Wood, Jo Langton, Stephen Emmerson and Leanne Bridgewater, as well as current part-time student Richard Barrett have contributed to a new pioneering anthology called The Dark Would. Compiling work from over 100 international contributors, The Dark Would celebrates the continuum of language-based creative practice between visual art and poetry. This ground-breaking anthology features work from some of the most noted artists and poets alive today including Richard Long, Fiona Banner, Charles Bernstein and many more.
Commenting on the brilliance of this comprehensive anthology, contributing author and English and Creative Writing Senior Lecturer, Dr. Scott Thurston stated: “I hear The Dark Would as a plea to develop the cross-generic approach even further so that it incorporates more totally the whole gamut of the arts – to encourage conversations not just between artists and writers, but between musicians and sculptors, between dancers and poets, between film-makers and performers, and to ultimately break down these generic distinctions altogether.”
Following a sold-out preview at London’s prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery, the editors and contributors of the language art compilation are eagerly anticipating their Northern launch event at Manchester’s Castle Hotel tomorrow 16th October at 7pm. Nigel Wood and Jo Langton will both be reading from a selection of their literary works at the event alongside Rogue Artists’ Studios’ Mike Chavez-Dawson, visual artist Carolyn Thompson and international artist and curator Laurence Lane.
Sarah Sanders – with:
with: presents the outcomes of three collaborations between artists that arose from discussions during a series of crit sessions, held at Rogue Project Space, in 2011-2012. During the sessions one or more of the artists presented an aspect of their practice to the group and conversation developed. The name of the crit sessions ‘Community of Practice’, referred to the book by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) that describes how a group of individuals with common interests can develop professionally by sharing experiences through storytelling and regular interaction.
From these discussions, common interests and relationships developed organically, and these led to collaborations. Annie Harrison and Jenny Steele discovered similar concerns in mapping of place and history in relation to architecture. Julie Del Hopital and Nicola Dale exchanged ideas about the idiosyncrasies of knowledge and language. Jacqueline Wylie and Sarah Sanders considered a dialogue built through drawing, and enforced physical distance.
with: will show the results from the three collaborations-
Sanders and Wylie’s Skype based conversations on art and learning inspired a series of exercises performed by the artists on and off-line, exploring how communication is mediated by technology.
Annie Harrison and Jenny Steele’s film investigates the canal basin which their studio spaces overlook, using methods which sometimes clash awkwardly and sometimes merge.
Del Hopital and Dale’s collaboration “Stalker” simultaneously presents analogue and digital footage of the day the artists let objects with very personal meanings sink or sail away on the River Mersey.
The artists have invited writer and curator ‘Lauren Velvick’ to reflect on the collaborations within a text available to the public at the event.
with:
PV Friday 18th October 2013 6-9pm
Open Saturday 19th October + Sunday 20th October 2013 1-4pm
Open Crit: Saturday 19th October 2013 3-4pm ALL WELCOME
Rogue Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly
Manchester, M1 2WH
For further information:
Rogue Artist Studios and Project Space http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk/
Community of Practice http://communityofpracticeman.tumblr.com/
The Blue Bus
- Laurie Duggan
- Andrew Spragg
- Peter Philpott
Tuesday, 15th October, 19:30. The Lamb, Conduit Street, London.
Xing the Zone
Launch of issue one of ZONE. Readings by contributors Tim Atkins, Natalie Bradbeer, Amy Evans, Ollie Evans, Nancy Gaffield, Ben Hickman, Jeff Hilson, Doug Jones, Dorothy Lehane, Richard Parker, Will Rowe, Juha Virtanen, Steve Willey.
POLYply 26
CFP: 1913 / the art of noises / 2013
University College Cork, 13 December 2013.
The year 1913 was a momentous one in art. From Proust to Stravinsky, Duchamp to Malevitch, Modernism was to recalibrate the way the world was seen; Futurism offered to change the way the world was heard. One hundred
years ago, Luigi Russolo published his manifesto, L’arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises), announcing a new way not only of conceiving music but also how we would hear the world around us. In the future, noises would be the material of music. Russolo’s manifesto, and his strange intonarumori devices, have been fantastically influential in the intervening century, and this event seeks to capture some of those connections, in both discursive and performative modes.
Possible themes: New sounds; new instruments; celebration of speed, war, or the modern city in music, visual art and poetry; Futurist manifestos; music and sound art; connections to other artworks and artists in 1913; influences of Futurism in music and other arts.
Proposals are invited for papers on any of the suggested themes, in the form of an abstract or outline of not more than 300 words. Proposals are also invited for art works – especially performances, installations, sound sculptures, compositions which are specifically designed to address the themes suggested. The proposal should outline the projected artwork, and should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 300 words that details the relationship of the work to the themes of the symposium. The proposer will be responsible for supplying all equipment/special resources required for the creation or display/performance of any accepted proposal.
Please send your proposal by 5pm, October 31st by email to phegarty@french.ucc.ie. The selection panel will meet as soon after this date as possible and inform selected contributors forthwith.
CAESURA #17
Artisan Bar, 35 London Rd., Edinburgh, EH7 5BQ. Friday, 11 October 2013, 19:00.
ALEC FINLAY
Alec Finlay is an artist & poet based in Edinburgh. He has adopted such innovative poetic forms such as the mesostic, embedded-poem, and circle-poem. Recent poetic works include today today today (Playspace, 2013), A Company of Mountains (morning star, 2013) Be My Reader (Shearsman, 2012), Question Your Teaspoons (Calder Wood Press, 2012) Mesostic Remedy (morning star, 2009), Mesostic Interleaved (morning star & The University of Edinburgh, 2009), and Says You (Oystercatcher Press, 2009). Finlay established morning star in 1990, a press specialising in collaborations between artists and poets, including the award-winning pocketbooks series (1999–2002). He has published over twenty books and has won two Scottish Design Awards. In 2010 Finlay was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize. He blogs regularly at www.alecfinlay.com.
SAMANTHA WALTON
Samantha Walton: has published — Amaranth Unstitched (Punch Press), City Break Weekend Songs (Critical Documents), tristanundisolde (Arthur Shilling Press); co-organises the techno-poetry night Syndicate; most recently published in/on — Black Box Manifold / Veersomes / Hi Zero / Archive of the Now; working on a book about madness, law and crime fiction (not bloody poetry).
JAMES OATES
James Oates has gained a reputation in the North of England for quality performances on the poetry circuit for over 25 years, more recently gaining the accolade of being one of the most consistently dynamic performers of poetry in the North today. This culminated recently in his representation of the North East in the 2009 Radio 4 Poetry Slam Semi-finals. He won the ‘East Durham Writer of the Year’ competition in 1997 in the
Prose (Open) category and has been featured on Amazing Radio. James had his first full Poetry collection published in 2007 (Wideyback) by Red Squirrel Press and has several pamphlet publications by other publishers.
Poetry at The Sutton Gallery
The Sutton Gallery, 18a Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ. Monday, 30th September, 19:00.
Join us for an evening of poetry at The Sutton Gallery on Monday 30th September from 7pm. There will be wine and other refreshments available and there will also be a last minute chance to look at works by Peter Standen and Yoshishige Furukawa in the gallery. And it’s all absolutely free.
MacGillivray is a Scottish writer and artist. As a musician she has supported The Fall, Arthur Brown and Arlo Guthrie, performed internationally as well as being featured on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and The Verb. Her third album Horse Sweat Chandelier is released October 2013. MacGillivray’s poetry has been published in ASLS New Scottish Writing and Magma; her art criticism in Performance Research and several editions of Art Monthly. She has performed alongside writers such as Alan Moore, Don Paterson, Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. Her first collection, Last Wolf of Scotland will be published in October 2013 and treads a fine line between surreal reality and imaginative abstraction, in order to trace the violence through which national mythologies are forged and perpetuated, from the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands to the piratical showmanship of the wild west. http://www.kirstennorrie.com/
Andrew Spragg is a poet and critic. He was born in London and lives there currently. His books include The Fleetingest (Red Ceiling Press, 2011), Notes for Fatty Cakes (Anything Anymore Anywhere, 2011), cut out (Dept Press, 2012), To Blart & Kid (Like This Press, 2013) and A Treatise on Disaster (Contraband Books, 2013). His writing was also included in Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe, 2013). http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=138
FOSTER-M / JUXTAVOICES
Fri September 27th, 2013
7.30pm prompt start: £ Free
Snig Hill Gallery
24 Snig Hill Sheffield S3 8NB
Sheffield’s own antichoir Juxtavoices is now in it’s third year of surprising both itself and its audience in locations across the region.
We’re delighted to be performing (30 minutes 7.30pm – 8.00pm ) on the opening night of Foster-M’s latest solo art show in Sheffield.
Foster-m is a Sheffield (united kingdom) born artist. Working out of his F28b studio based in a disused machine factory in the old industrial part of the city. Using mixed media, not just on canvas but on any materials he can salvage or reclaim from his surrounding environment, wood, boards, old shop signs, roofing-felt, concrete sheets and numerous found objects. Having been brought up on the notorious KELVIN FLATS COMPLEX his works portray a cold alienation and social estrangement, so at first glance his paintings come across as violent, dark, self-destructive, full of chaotic lines, decaying figures, coded symbols and abstract texts which he refers to as primitive metaphors. But scratch the surface of the multi-layered work and you start to unlock a real warmth, a brutally honest social comment on his life and hostile environment, a life he describes as in isolation. You would expect this vision to leave you stone cold but that’s the great appeal to this artist and his work. …
The Other Room, Dark Would preview: Jo Langton
The Other Room’s next event is a northern launch of the anthology The Dark Would which takes place October 16th at The Castle Hotel in Manchester, 7pm. For more information see the poster in the middle column of this page.
Jo Langton is the author of ZimZalla object #015, PoeTea, consisting of handmade bags with text instead of tea. Her work has appeared in Department, 3.A.M, Otoliths, and Catechism: Poems For Pussy Riot. She also sub-edited and appeared in The Dark Would language art anthology, and has a MA in Experimental Writing from the University of Salford. Fill the Silence was published by erbacce press in 2011. She might have a cheeky chapbook before autumn, providing koi carp and terror cats don’t steal her soul along the way.
The British Onion Marketing Board
In a secondment funded by the European Union, Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks have been charged with overhauling the site of the British Onion Marketing Board, with the aim of raising its public profile and introducing the British onion into public discourse. Selections from their work will be presented at the Camaradefest in London on 25th October, where both parties will be on hand to answer questions and make recipe suggestions.
Camaradefest
October 26th 2013 , 2pm to 10pm at the Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London.
The Camarade poetry festival is a unique and unforgettable one day explosion of dynamic collaboration in contemporary avant garde and literary poetics. 100 poets align in 50 pairs, each writing an original collaborative work, written specifically for the festival and premiered on the day. The 5th Camarade event, and the crescendo of the Enemies project’s first year, this ambitious exploration of the possibilities of collaboration in poetry will evidence the true width and depth of poetry that is happening now.
2pm – Session 1
Jeff Hilson & Fabian MacPherson
David Berridge & Mary Paterson
Chrissy Williams & Nia Davies
Ben Stainton & Nathan Hamilton
Giles Goodland & Alistair Noon
Sarah Crewe & Jo Langdon
Marek Kazmierski &Wioletta Grzegorzewska
Matt Dalby & Steven Waling
Tom Chivers & Ross Sutherland
/ 3.30pm – Session 2
Marcus Slease & Claire Potter
Rhy Trimble & Harry Gilonis
Bea Colley & Francine Elena
Ekaterina Paronian & Sophie Mayer
Pascal O’Laughlin & Scott Thurston
Joel Shea & Ricardo Marques
Mendoza & Nat Raha
Andy Spragg & Joe Kennedy
Robert Sheppard & Robert Hampson
/ 5pm – Session 3
Ahren Warner & Mark Waldron
Matthew Gregory & Robert Herbert
Julia Bird & Sarah Hesketh
Becky Cremin & Ryan Ormonde
Stephen Watts & Will Rowe
Zoe Skoulding & Ondrej Buddeus
Kirsty Irving & Jon Stone
Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner
Oli Hazzard & Caleb Klaces
/ 7.30pm – Session 4
Carol Watts & George Szirtes
Tim Atkins & Jessica Pujol I Duran
Ryan Van Winkle & William Letford
Jack Underwood & Alex MacDonald
Joanna Rzadkowska & Kristen Kreider
Stephen Connolly & Emily Hasler
Sophie Collins & Rachael Allen
Deborah Pearson & Tamarin Norwood
Sarah Kelly & Gabriele Lebanauskaite
/ 9pm – Session 5
Holly Pester & Emma Bennett
Sam Riviere & Joe Dunthorne
Ollie Evans & Robert Kiely
Christodoulos Makris & Kim Campanello
Reza Mohammedi & Ana Seferovic
James Davies & Philip Terry
James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar
Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks
BOSCH Harvest Festival
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