Two videos from our August event:
Events
Philip Terry – The Other Room Interview and August Reading
Two videos from our August event:
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA
Jennifer Cooke – a preview
Jennifer Cooke will be reading at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn, on Manchester Science Park. You can read some of her work in onedit issue 11, Great Works and “Intercapillary Space”. Previews of SJ Fowler and Colin Herd to follow soon.
POLYply > 13: THE THING
Ryan Dobran
Patrick Farmer
Patrick Farmer
Peter Larkin
Salomé Voegelin
Gillian Wylde
Gillian Wylde
Thursday 13 October, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NGFree entry
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NGFree entry
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Future diffusions:
Wednesday 2 November: POLYproject 1 – POETRY AS SCORE (Cut & Splice Grundelweiser festival launch event)
Works by Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro and Manfred Werder.
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
Thursday 10 November: MEASURE
Simon Jarvis and others tbc
Simon Jarvis and others tbc
John Kinsella / Sophie Mayer / Drew Milne Cambridge reading
Friday, 14 October, 7.30 pm.
Special Poetry Event / Reading:
John Kinsella
Sophie Mayer
Drew Milne
Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Free Entry. All welcome.
This event marks the beginning of John Kinsella’s residence as this year’s Judith E Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow.
John Kinsella has written over 20 books of poetry, as well as plays and fiction. His recent books include ‘The New Arcadia’ (2005); Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful (2008); ‘Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a
Regional Geography’ (2010); and ‘Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley’ ( 2010).
Sophie Mayer’s latest collection is ‘The Private Parts of Girls’ (Salt, 2011). She is the author of ‘The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love’ (2009) and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound.
Drew Milne’s book’s of poetry include ‘The Damage: new and selected poems’ (2001), ‘Mars Disarmed’ (2002) and ‘Go Figure’ (2003).
Maintenant: the Camarade project
Maintenant: the Camarade project, Featuring Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Iily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler.
Out now on Red Ceilings Press.
The book will be launched at The Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 15th October.
A Common Strangeness
A talk by Jacob Edmond in the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar series organized by Robert Hampson. The title of the talk is “A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature,” which is also the title of his book due out from Fordham UP early next year.
Wednesday, October 19 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Room 102, Senate House, 1st Floor
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
London, United Kingdom
WFW(NS)
The next workshop will be this Saturday 8 October at 4pm at the William IV pub, 7 Shepherdess Walk, Shoreditch, London, N1 7QE, nearest tube Old Street.
Focusing on experimental writing, these workshops offer a supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere for poets to share new work. The meetings aim to engage and encourage the broadest possible range of innovative practices.
Sean Bonney launch 6th October
“Happiness: Poems after Rimbaud” will be launched at The Blue Posts, Rupert St. 7 o’clock start. More info here:
http://www.unkant.com/2011/09/book-launch-6th-oct-all-bourgeoisie.html
thetextisthetext
visual poetry Vs text art
an exhibition match
Fri 7th Oct, 6.30-9, Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Featuring text works by nick-e melville, Gerry Smith, Dorothy Alexander, Greg Thomas, Shandra Lamaute, Lisa Temple-Cox, Becky Campbell and Alexa Hare.
Emily Critchley and Peter Philpott Reading at the Blue Bus
Tuesday, October 18 · 7:30pm
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ
Check the Facebook page for more.
The Other Room – future events
For your diary our next scheduled events are as follows:
October 26th 2011, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Jennifer Cooke, Colin Herd & Steven Fowler
February 29th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Andrea Brady, nick-e melville & Tim Allen
April 19th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room 4th birthday with Tony Lopez, Paula Claire, Becky Cremin & Elena Rivera
Tim Atkins at Edge Hill
Poetry Reading 19th October 2011 at The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Orsmkirk, Lancaster, 7.30: £4.
Tim Atkins is the author of Folklore 1-25 (Heart Hammer), To Repel Ghosts (Like Books), 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Oriental Tapping (Penguin), Horace (O Books), and Folklore (Salt). Another volume, Petrarch, is available from Barque Press. His work to ‘translate’ the whole of Petarch is one of the most exciting poetic projects of our time. He calls them ‘versions & perversions of the love poems of Petrarch’. He is editor of the online poetry journal onedit, Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of East London, a practising Buddhist, practising father, and is lousy at multi-tasking.
More Herbarium readings
Two afternoons at the Harvest Hangout at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Autumn Harvest Show 2011. A line-up of music and readings organised by Helen Babbs:
Tue 4th Oct
11am Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
12pm Monooka + Buffy – music & poetry (40mins)
2pm Herbarium poets readings – Matt Martin, Luke Heeley, Kirsten Irving & Jon Stone (30mins)
3pm Monooka and her band (30mins)
4pm Herbarium poets readings – Matt Martin, Luke Heeley, Kirsten Irving & Jon Stone(30mins)
5pm Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
Weds 5th Oct
11am Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
12pm Robin Grey and his band (45mins)
2pm Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
3pm Allan Shepherd + Herbarium poets Allan Shepherd, Holly Hopkins & MJ Weller(30mins)
Tickets are £5 on Tue; £3 on Weds (free entry to readers and one friend)
Robert Sheppard at the Bluecoat, Liverpool
Sunday 16 October 5.30 – 6.30pm
Part of the radical literary avant-garde sometimes called ‘linguistically innovative’, Sheppard combines subtle effects of language and tone with a variety of performance styles, from the direct and quick-fire to the musical. His most recent books are Warrant Error, a verbal intervention into the War on Terror and Berlin Bursts, which contains poems that explore one of his persistent themes of human unfinish. Anthologised in the OUP Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry he is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University.
Robert says, ‘What I’m planning to do for this reading, which is an important one for me, is to plug into the Bluecoat’s theme of ‘city of radicals by reading some poems about Liverpool, some poems that I hope are radical in form, and others that are radical in content. While I will read from Berlin Bursts, my 2011 book, I am also going to read from other books and from recent, unpublished work, including a new radical poetry manifesto. This last piece was specially written for the occasion. Reading something new always makes me a little edgy, but that’s good. When I’ve finished I’ll be answering questions, signing books and having a drink.’
Free, ticket required. The best way to book is by phone or via the web.
Book at www.thebluecoat.org.uk or 0151 702 5324 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX (which is also the venue).
Maintenant IX Camarade
Shearsman’s 2011 Reading Series
Tuesday, 4 October at 7:30 pm, featuring Linda Black and Ian Seed. Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. Admission is free.
For details of the books that will be launched by the authors:
For details of the venue:
Fatty Cakes
Between Soundings presents Notes for Fatty Cakes 8th October 2011 at 8.00 PM
Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX £3
To mark the release of Andrew Spragg’s Notes for Fatty Cakes (published by Anything Anymore Anywhere) Between Soundings has prepared a performance of the text with sound from Julie Groves and Matt Cockshutt. Utilising ambient recordings and live performance, the music has been composed as a specific soundscape response for the occasion.Praise for the book:
‘Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other.”Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.’ Tom Raworth
FC is going to be rubbed into your carefully composed faces, into your delicately frozen critical measurements {…} The punctuation, which has been so diligently learnt in defence of the contemporary, is spilt and walked over with chant and serious weirdness{…}The shrill swazzle of Mr Punch is wired sideways through the PA or intimately whispered over and over again.’
Brian Catling
‘Ranging from ocean to dry-land pub, prairie to outer space, this book’s good-humoured restlessness provokes us to think about relations between self and other. Andrew Spragg is a poet who can love; this book is in love with language without losing a grip on the world.’ Vahni Capildeo Matt Cockshutt http://yellotone.com/mattdefence.htm Julie Groves http://www.juliegroves.com/ Andy Spragg www.brokenloop.blogspot.com Anything Anymore Anywhere http://www.anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk/
The Other Room – Tonight
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