Events
Nick Thurston at the Whitworth Gallery
Other Room reader Nick Thurston will be giving a talk at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester on Tuesday 29th November.
Nick Thurston is the author of “Reading the Remove of Literature” (2006), ”Historia Abscondita (An Index of Joy)”, and co-author of a third (pocket)book, “THE DIE IS CAST (2009)”, plus numerous journal articles and artists’ pages. He has exhibited and performed internationally, and his editions and artworks are owned by public and private collections around the world, including the Tate (London), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and the Biblioteque Nationale (Paris). Since 2006 Nick has been Editor of the independent artists’ book publishing imprint, information as material, with whom he is currently (April 2011 – April 2012) Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
WFN
Sunday 4 December · 14:00 – 17:00, Madlab, Northern Quarter Manchester. WFN 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.
Xing the Line: Jim Goar and Geraldine Monk
Xing the Line: 30 November · 19:30 – 22:30. The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London.
Jim will be launching his new book The Louisiana Purchase, out from Rose Metal Press. See http://www.rosemetalpress.com/Catalog/TLP.html
Geraldine will be launching her new book Lobe Scarps & Finials, out from Leafe Press. See http://alan-baker.blogspot.com/2011/06/lobe-scarp-and-finials-by-geraldine.html
Veer Books launch: Demosthenes Agriofotis, James Cummins & Justin Katko
Friday 09 December 2011, 7pm, entrance free. Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. UK Launch readings for the Veer Books:
- +-graphies by Demosthenes Agriofotis
- FLASH BANG by James Cummins
- The Death of Pringle by Justin Katko
Minimum Security Prison Poetry videos
Videos of last Wednesday’s event at the Horse Hospital are now available:
- Tim Atkins – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGSe0lZg2eM
- Richard Barrett – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vms3Zy9-x1Q
- Stephen Emmerson – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23AMje1WdvU
- SJ Fowler – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvA2wP46-0
- Jeff Hilson – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAyR9YTZDQ
- Holly Hopkins – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f5yqWW7-jQ
- Matthew Gregory – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHM35022sI
- Kirsty Irving – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvDviZ_BCIY
- Antony John – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKAMiQhtg4
- Mendoza – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2_1mZGd0U
- Tamarin Norwood – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMvde0GJBk
- Chris Page – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTUIsjmvXng
- Holly Pester – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hfl7HGrmU
- Jon K Shaw – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60XHVNETejU
- Marcus Slease – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAzWi4nhELM
- Andy Spragg – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcWJGEQo6o
- Steve Willey – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i94kzHV4v70
Colin Herd The Other Room reading and interview: October 2011
Reading
Interview
Steven Fowler Other Room interview and reading October 2011
Reading from Fights
Interview
SIXFOLD POETS
LIVERPOOL POETRY CAFE
Thursday, 24th November, 7.30- 9.30pm
SIXFOLD POETS
A special evening of evocative, atmospheric poetry from Sixfold, a group of six Lancaster-based poets led by the dynamic Sarah Hymas. Sixfold will perform their brilliant joint sequence on the theme of Water, from ocean to tap water, via rivers, lakes and rainfall, diving into the ways water features in our lives and imaginations. The evening will also feature individual readings from the six award-winning poets – Mike Barlow, Elizabeth Burns, Carole Coates, Jane Routh, Ian Seed and Sarah Hymas.
Admission £3/£2
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
0151 702 5324
Liverpool Poetry Cafe – supported by Arts Council England and The National Lottery
Hi Zero Nine
- Marianne Morris
- Mike Wallace-Hadrill
- Binnsclagg
Upstairs at the HOPE on Queen’s Road, Brighton, on Tuesday 22nd November. The doors will open at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start, and it will cost £4 to get in to it. hi Zero magazines will also be on sale.
WFN presents an evening of contemporary poetry
December 9 from 6:30pm for a 7pm start for an evening of the best in contemporary poetry.
A one off-meeting of WFN sees MadLab’s monthly experimental poetry workshop play host to a reading line-up of three specially invited guests:
- Jessica Pujol i Duran
- Stephen Emmerson
- Ollie Evans
Entry is free and drinks will be available by donation before the reading and during the interval.
Riot Acts
Richmix, 37-45 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Saturday 19 November, 7.30pm, £5
Box Office: 020 7613 7498
http://www.richmix.org.uk/
Riot Acts presents four new works in development, written in response to the August riots.
Stand-up poet Luke Wright‘s Revolt is a tale of corruption at the top, combining contemporary social satire with the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Performance artist and theatre maker Greg McLaren of STK International conducts A Score for a Riot, asking the audience to consider who is responsible for what they are doing, and who put them there in the first place. Sophie Woolley‘s futuristic monologue Stratford City 2013 is a confessional about a bickering couple accidentally caught up in the riots of a beautiful giant shopping mall filled with lovely things. And theatre collectives The Hurly Burly & Circus Kinetica join forces to create Birdy, a modern take on the Icarus myth set in a burning building.
SJ Fowler at Liverpool Music Week
Friday 11th November, 7.00pm the Cinema Room at the Contemporary Urban Centre as part of Liverpool Music Week Closing Party.
Nathan Jones and Mercy are teaming up with Samizdat and La Racaille for a new music/language/art event exploring trance, mantra and the loop. The event features a new commission from Other Room reader Steven Fowler and a new setting of Dustin Wong’s Infinite Love album for guitar orchestra by Jon Davies.
Xing the Line: Johan de Wit and Ken Edwards
The Apple Tree (upstairs), 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
Wednesday 16 November, 8:00pm
This will be the official launch of Johan de Wit’s Gero Nimo
admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)
Cambridge poetry reading
Cambridge poets Connie Scozzaro, Ian Heames and Ryan Dobran will read their poetry on Friday 11 November, at 7:30pm in the Judith Wilson Drama Studio at the Faculty of English to celebrate the publication of *Confection* by Ryan Dobran and *Gloss To Carriers* by Ian Heames. There will be free wine and a generous book table. http://crs0hq.tumblr.com
Foma and Fontanelles
RunAmok’s poetry magazine ‘Foma and Fontanelles’ , edited by James Cummins, Sarah Hayden, Niamh O’Mahony and Rachel Warriner is now looking for submissions for issue two.
runamokpress@gmail.com
http://runamokpress.blogspot.com/p/magazine.html
Salt Modern Voices: London
Jocund Day launch readings
Timothy Thornton’s ‘Jocund Day’ will be launched with readings in London on Thursday 3 November, and in Cambridge on Friday 4 November. Further details are below.
London launch
Thursday 3 November, 8pm
The Situation Room (http://sitroom.blogspot.com/)
Timothy Thornton, Tomas Weber, and others will be reading.
Cambridge launch
Friday 4 November, 7:30pm
Judith Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English (http://crs0hq.tumblr.com)
Timothy Thornton, Simon Jarvis and Tomas Weber will be reading.
Veer Books Launch
UK Launch readings for the Veer Books:
- sable smoke by Gilbert Adair
- Black, Grey and White – a book of visual sonnets by David Miller
- My Camp by Tom White
Wednesday, 2nd November at The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck.
press free press @ curzon
07 November · 18:30 – 21:30. Johanna Linsley with Sophie Robinson. More at the Press Free Press site.
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