Events
Performance Writing Weekend at the Arnolfini
Reading and discussions 4-6th May in Bristol including Peter Jaeger, Harriet Tarlo, Larry Lynch, Marianne Morris, Nick Thurston, John Hall
Full programme HERE
Paula Claire
Paula Claire read remotely for The Other Room on 19th April. This is the film she sent. Click on the bottom right of the player to view the film on a larger screen.
The Other Room tonight
South of the River Symposium
POLYply 18
Paula Claire: a preview
In addition to live performances by Becky Cremin, Tony Lopez and Elena Rivera, The Other Room on Thursday 19th April will feature a video performance by Paula Claire. For an extensive overview of her work, including texts, sound recordings and films, visit her own site.
Text and Electricity
Text and Electricity is an afternoon symposium designed to bring experimental poets together with those working creatively with technology: coders, circuit-benders, dorks and hackers.
We plan a loosely structured and exploratory conversation, punctuated by short informal accounts from participants talking about their work and approaches. The afternoon will be designed to enable people working across disciplines to share ideas and experience.
Discussion could focus on possible points of convergence between experimental uses of text and technology, whether in performance, online, in software applications or in gallery contexts. It will be up to you!
The event will be facilitated by Will Montgomery Director, Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway and Brian Condon of C4CC.
Co-organised by the Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway and the Centre for Creative Collaboration.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG. Book a ticket at Eventbrite.
Maintenant #90 – Andrei Codrescu
It is hard to think of fitting superlatives that have not already been bestowed upon Andrei Codrescu over the course of his writing career, which spans five decades and two continents. Since his emigration from Romania in the late 1960s, his work has lodged itself in the poetic consciousness of both America and Europe for its sheer edges – its energy, its voice, its deft wit, and like all great dadaists, at heart, he is the hardest of realists, a man who cannot lie to himself above all others, in his poetry or in his ebullient criticism, journalism and collected writing. A poet whose oeuvre reaches back into the depths of Europe from the core of America, who has been peer to some of greatest writers of our century, where he now, as we roll into the 21st century, must take his own place. For the 90th edition of Maintenant, Andrei Codrescu.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-90-andrei-codrescu/
Accompanying the interview are three of Andrei’s poem, generously given over to Maintenant.
Xing the Line
Giles Goodland, Jessica Pujol & Simon Perril — Friday, April 20 at 7:30pm at The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE.
A Summit of Joyful Old Savages
ANSELM HOLLO – TOM RAWORTH – GUNNAR HARDING – ANDREI CODRESCU
Wednesday 18th April 2012 – Doors at 7.30
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
+44 (0)20 7833 3644 – Tickets – £8 in advance here.
Maintenant: celebrating the avant garde
On March 31st 2012, 3:AM Magazine’s Maintenant series hosted a celebration of the avant garde event at the Rich Mix centre near Brick Lane in London. Eight performances of contemporary sound poetry and sonic art were interspersed with a free exchange of visual poetry provided by over seventy contemporary European poets and open to the public. More information about and videos from the event, including this Other Room dream team performance by David Berridge and nick-e melville, can be found at the Maintenant site.
The Debris Field
14 Apr 19:30 Blue Room, The South Bank Centre, London. The Debris Field is a new multi-media production written and performed by poets Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe. The evocative poetic text is accompanied by original music from Oli Barrett of Bleeding Heart Narrative, and film by Jack Wake-Walker. The poets will take you on a resonant tour of the cultural debris of this iconic event, exploring ideas of luxury and labour; courage and folly; life and loss; and human ambition in the face of nature’s power. A key historic event explored with striking poetic, musical and visual impact.
Surrey Poetry Festival
BLUE BUS Reading 62: Elena Rivera, Scott Thurston and Melissa Buckheit
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a poetry event featuring Melissa Buckheit, Eléna Rivera, Scott Thurston, on Tuesday 17th April, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the sixty-second event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message. Forthcoming events will include Marcus Slease, Lesley McKenna and Fran Lock (15th May), D S Marriott, Sarah Kelly and Robert Sheppard (19th June), and John Muckle and tba (17th July).
Melissa Buckheit is a poet, dancer, photographer, English Professor and Bodywork Therapist. She is the author of Noctilucent (Shearsman Books, 2012), Arc, a chapbook, (The Drunken Boat, 2007), and her poems, translations, photography, interviews and reviews have appeared in nth position, Blue Fifth Review, The Drunken Boat, Sinister Wisdom, Cutthroat, Bombay Gin, Pirene’s Fountain, A Trunk of Delirium, Spiral Orb, Shearsman Magazine, and Sonora Review. She translates the poet Ioulita Iliopoulou from Modern Greek, and her poetry has also been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She holds an M.F.A. from Naropa University and a B.A. from Brandeis University. She has taught at University of Arizona, Pima College and SUVA. Melissa is the curator of Edge, a monthly reading series for emerging and younger writers at Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, AZ.
Scott Thurston lectures at the University of Salford where he runs a Masters in Innovative and Experimental Creative Writing. He co-runs The Other Room reading series in Manchester, edits The Radiator, a little magazine of poetics, and co-edits The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry with Robert Sheppard. He is the author of Hold, Momentum, Internal Rhyme, and Of Being Circular.
Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris, France. She is the author of Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL-e Editions, 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), The Perforated Map (Shearsman) and translator of Secret of Breath (Burning Deck Press, 2008) poems by Isabelle Baladine Howald. She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage by Bernard Noël, which will be published by Graywolf Press in November 2011. She was also awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, and a 2009 Fundacíon Valparaíso Poetry Residency in Mojácar, Spain.
More here.
Eléna Rivera: a preview
Eléna Rivera will read at the next Other Room on Thursday 19th April. For a comprehensive overview of her work, visit her own site and her author page at Shearsman, including details of her most recent collection The Perforated Map. You can also find examples of her work at Little Red Leaves 4 and Sky Press.
Please note that this event is on a different day (Thursday) to our usual day (Wednesday) and is also at a different venue: the Basement Bar of the Deaf Institute just off Oxford Road, Manchester.
The other two readers will be Becky Cremin and Tony Lopez. There will also be a video performance by Paula Claire.
Rachel Lois Clapham: OF FINGER
Other Room performer Rachel Lois Clapham be presenting OF FINGER – a talk from recent scores, readings and live performances that presses on embodied acts of (w)reading and writing, finger(ing) texts and pointing to pointing at things at Spike Island on April 10th. More details at Open Dialogues.
Summer 2012 with The Other Room
Why go to Spain…
Our summer programme is making some progress. Here is what we’ve got so far. Take note that we’re no longer at our 4 year home The Old Abbey Inn but at some cracking new venues.
12th June, @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Ira Lightman, Marcus Slease & TBA
19th July, @ Leeds Gallery, http://www.leedsgallery.com (not Leeds Art Gallery) with Hazel Smith and TBA
14th August, @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Frank Kuppner, David Gaffney & Nathan Jones
the little society
Visual poetry by Philip Davenport, at Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Wigan, UK. April 2-14. This exhibition questions the idea of a BIG society by focusing on the voices of the little and the lost.
Davenport’s poems APPEAL IN AIR and POLLINATORS OF EDEN erupt from the page into dizzy sequences of word/space disjuncts spilling across the large gallery.
APPEAL IN AIR is a celebration of quiet voices, the people at the fringe –- and the songs of birds. Texts bend into the shape of birds and weave through a city skyline. Children mimic birdcalls as a soundtrack for the space. Language morphs into code: Davenport’s “Liquid morse.” APPEAL celebrates the many voices and languages that make up a world – including those that get lost in noise.
POLLINATORS OF EDEN replays the form of a child’s educational book, complete with an instructional animation of a drowning shark. The piece documents encounters with people in North Manchester, an area of stark economic hardship, and is cartoonishly illustrated by local school pupils, in bright counterpoint to the dark tone of the poem.
Much of the material in the show derives from Davenport’s recent book APPEAL IN AIR, published by Knives Forks & Spoons Press.
Davenport’s debut was published by seminal avant-garde press Writers Forum in 1999; his heartporn/poems written on apples were shown at the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. His work has been variously billposted and exhibited throughout Europe and in China. Davenport curated the largest survey exhibition of Bob Cobbing’s work for Bury Text Festival in 2005 and the first posthumous gallery exhibition of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work in 2006. He often collaborates with other artists and writer, including Ben Gwilliam, Lee Patterson, Tom Jenks. His current sequence of spreadsheet poems have been exhibited in the Henry Moore. APPEAL IN AIR is published by Knives Forks and Spoons press, UK whose list includes many British avant-garde poets.
For further information contact TURNPIKE GALLERY (+44)1942 404420
EXHIBITION FACEBOOK PAGE http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.257496341008638.59781.208328225925450&type=1
APPEAL IN AIR isbn 978-1-907812-77-4 available from http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
Becky Cremin: a preview
Becky Cremin will read at the next Other Room on Thursday 17th April. For a flavour of her work, see this film of her reading with Ryan Ormonde at Openned, her page at Veer, her blog, Perform-A-Text and her other blog Revelation Nation. Check out also the press free press project.
The other readers will be Tony Lopez and Elena Rivera. You can find a preview of Tony’s work here, with a preview of Elena to follow next week. Please note the change of location for this event owing to the closure of our usual venue. The reading on 19th April will be in the Basement Bar of the Deaf Institute, just off Oxford Road, Manchester.
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