Events

Nat Raha: a preview

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Photo credit: Georgie Lord

Nat Raha will perform at The Other Room on Wednesday 5th December, at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. 7 PM start. Free entry. The other performers are Seekers of Lice and Alec Newman.

Bio.

Nat Raha lives in London. Her poetry includes ‘polemics for loudhailer’ (in Viersomes 001, Veer Books 2012), Octet (Veer 2010), countersonnets (Contraband, forthcoming), and is included in Better than Language: An Anthology of New Modernist Poetries (ed. Chris Goode, Ganzfeld, 2011). Her work has recently appeared in Angel Exhaust, Damn the Caesars, M58, Supernormal zine and Inside My Head My Dog’s a Bear zine. She is undertaking a PhD in Marxist queer theory and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex, and also helps out with ninerrors press.

Links:

Nat Raha’s blog.

Poems at “intercapiliary / space”

A film of Nat’s performance at the London Poets’ For Pussy Riot event.

Allen Fisher: 3 events

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Allen Fisher Reading

23rd Nov 2012, 6pm

Gallery North, City Campus, Northumbria University

Free Entry

Poet and painter Allen Fisher will read from his work as part of Northumbria University’s Allen Fisher Symposium.

Allen’s performance will be accompanied by short readings from Ira Lightman and Sophie Robinson.

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Allen Fisher Symposium

24th Nov 2012, 10.30 to 5.30

Sutherland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University

Free Entry (booking essential)

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Rob Holloway and Allen Fisher Live

Xing the Line

7.30pm Wednesday, 5 December reading

‘The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London

Alec Newman: a preview

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Alec Newman will perform at The Other Room on Wednesday 5th December, at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. 7 PM start. Free entry. The other performers are Seekers of Lice, of whom you can read a preview here, and Nat Raha, who will be previewed next week.

Bio.

Alec Newman runs The Knives forks and Spoons Press, which the British Library nominated for the Michael Marks Publisher of the Year Award in 2011.  He is fascinated by linguistics and the relation of phonology to metrical theory.

Links:

Alec Newman’s press, Knives Forks and Spoons.

Poems at Stride.

An article about the UK innovative poetry scene at Cordite Poetry Review.

A poem at the red ceilings.

The Debris Field

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The Debris Field: Salvaging The Titanic in Word, Sound and Image, Thu 15 Nov 8pm, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Check the site for tickets.

In this new, multi-media production, a key historic event – the sinking of the Titanic – is explored. Evocative text and performance by poets Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe, with original music from Oli Barrett of Bleeding Heart Narrative, and film by Jack Wake-Walker. The performance takes you on a resonant tour of the cultural debris of this iconic catastrophe.

Early 2013 programme for The Other Room

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After our next event with Nat Raha, Alec Newman and Seekers of Lice on 5th December at The Castle, Manchester, we have the following two dates already organised at The Castle for your diaries:

The Other Room 37: 6th February 2013: Nikolai Duffy, Linda Black & Marcus Slease
The Other Room 38: 3rd April 2013: The Other Room 5th birthday, Readers TBC

London Small Publishers Fair

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Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November 2012. Open 11am to 7pm admission free. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

The international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers, The programme of readings and talks includes Sean Pemberton, Giles Goodland, Johan de Wit and Robert Sheppard reading for Reality Street on Saturday 16th at 4PM. More about the fair here.

Alloa Poetry Jamboree

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We’ve posted about this before, but the full itinerary for this event, starting tomorrow, is now available and is:

FRIDAY 2nd November

7:30pm JAM

Frank Kuppner, Peter Manson, Samantha Walton and Andrew Duncan
Alloa Tower, Alloa Park, Alloa FK10 1PP. £5 (£3 concessions)

SATURDAY 3rd November

1. 10.30-11.00
Dorothy Alexander
nick-e melville
Alloa Tower, FREE

2. 2.00-4.00
Bill Herbert
Lila Matsumoto
David Kinloch
Jim Ferguson
Donny O’Rourke,
Alloa Tower, FREE

4.30-6pm
Workshop on Cut Up poetry run by Jennifer (JL) Williams of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Resonate Arts House, FREE

3. 7.30-9.20
Tom Leonard
Drew Milne
Kathleen Jamie
Alloa Tower, FREE

SUNDAY 4th November

Ochills Poetry Walk: walk and reading of poems commissioned for the event by:

Gerry Loose
Thomas A. Clarke

Leaving at 11am from Dollar Museum. FREE.

Read the brochure for more details. Book tickets via the booking portal.

 

The Blue Bus

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Tuesday 13 November, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 – admission: £5 / £3 (concessions) .

Including readings by:

  • Paul Buck
  • Brian Marley
  • Stephen Watts
  • M J Weller
  • David Miller

Catechism: Poems For Pussy Riot

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Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 19:30.

Thomas Restaurant & Bar, 49-51 Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1NA.

Readers confirmed so far are

  • Richard Barrett
  • Leanne Bridgewater
  • John Calvert
  • Ursula Hurley
  • Judy Kendall
  • Anna Percy
  • Steph Pike
  • Sian S. Rathore
  • Adrian Slatcher
  • Gareth Twose
  • Steven Waling

with more readers to be added. For further information or to enquire about reading please contact barrett.richard1@googlemail.com

What is Field? Michael Pisaro talk

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What is Field? Michael Pisaro and the Poetics of Geo-sound

Speaker: Michael Pisaro
Respondents: Paul Bavister, Drew Milne, Carol Watts

Monday 12 November, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 7pm
Presented by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London

This event is an exploration of the intersection of composition, text and field recording. American composer Michael Pisaro, a member of the Wandelweiser collective, will talk about his recent CDs July Mountain (the score of which develops from a poem by Wallace Stevens) and Crosshatches, a collaboration with Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda. A panel of respondents will comment on the work presented: architect Paul Bavister (UCL/ Bartlett) and poet-critics Carol Watts (Birkbeck) and Drew Milne (Cambridge).

The Cinepoem project

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Thursday November 22nd 2012 from 7.30 the Richmix arts centre, the main space. 35-47 Bethnal Green road, E1 6LA. 020 7613 7498. Free entrance for all.

  • Tom Raworth & Avi Dabach
  • Emanuella Amichai & SJ Fowler
  • Tim Atkins & Ran Slavin

A ground breaking collaborative exchange between three Israeli film-makers / video artists and three British poets, translating the medium of poetry into the practise of film to produce three original, poetic films, or cinepoems.

The aim of the project is to transform the auspices of a selected, single poem into short, conceptual films, that will be screened on November 22nd in London, at the Richmix Arts centre. The event will also feature poetry readings from Tom Raworth, Tim Atkins and SJ Fowler, and a panel discussion exploring the unique nature of poetic / filmic collaboration and the potentiality of poetry as a medium adaptable to film.

The project is designed to show that the potential for poetry to be realised in the narrative of film and film-making may lay the path for a wide future between these mediums, enriching them both in the process. This is the first instalment of the Enemies project, a year long exploration of poetry and collaboration, curated by SJ Fowler, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Programme of events:

  • A poetry reading by the poets: SJ Fowler, Tom Raworth, Tim Atkins.
  • Ran Slavin will introduce a film based on Tim Atkins’ poem: ODES I / 32+ODES II /3
  • – Avi Dabach will introduce a short film based on Tom Raworth’s poem “TAXOMONY”
  • Emanuella Amichai will introduce a short film based on SJ Fowler’s poem :”38 meditations on strong tea”
  • A panel discussion exploring the unique nature of poetic / filmic collaboration
  • Please contact steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for details.

Maggie O’Sullivan at Edge Hill

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Maggie O’Sullivan
Rose Theatre (the Arts Centre, Edge Hill)

31st October 7.30-9.00

£4.50

Maggie O’ Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. In 1996 she edited Reality Street’s now classic anthology of innovative writing by women, Out of Everywhere (see below). Her work has been anthologised widely, including in Poems for the Millennium Vol 2. She lives in the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Charles Bernstein concludes: ‘O’Sullivan cleaves to charm: striating song with the visceral magic of shorn insistence.’

Just published by Reality Street in the form of five visually rich text sequences, Waterfalls is a companion to red shifts, both works comprising the poetic project her/story:eye (1994-99).

Maggie O’Sullivan at http://www.maggieosullivan.co.uk/

●       WATERFALLS (new paperback edition: Hastings: Reality Street, 2012)
●       murmur (London: Veer Books, 2011)
●       ALTO (London: Veer Books, 2009)
●       WATEFALLS (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 2009)
●       Windows Opening (Brooklyn, New York: Belladonna Chapbook #108, Belladonna Books, 2007)
●       Body of Work (Hastings: Reality Street, 2006)
●       “all origins are lonely” (London: Veer Books, 2003)
●       Palace of Reptiles (Ontario: The Gig, 2003)
●       red shifts (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan Books, 2001)
●       etruscan reader III (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 1997)
●       that bread should be (London: RWC issue 35, 1996)
●       Ellen’s Lament (Toronto: PUSHYbroadsides, 1993)
●       In the House of the Shaman (London: Reality Street, 1993)

She has performed a number of times at Edge Hill and this reading represents a welcome return to celebrate Waterfalls.

Also reading: Joanne Ashcroft and Tom Jenks.