Events

Shad Thames, Broken Wharf

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Shad Thames, Broken Wharf

by Chris McCabe

Saturday 4 December 2010, 8pm
Tickets £5

The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX

Tickets and Information     0151 702 5324

www.thebluecoat.org.uk

Spanning centuries of changes across London’s Docklands, this multimedia ‘play of voices’ by poet Chris McCabe eavesdrops on a conversation between Echo, a middle-aged woman who has lived her life in the area, and Blaise, a northerner who finds resonances with the more familiar docks at Liverpool. Breaking into the dialogue, The Restructure is a sinister, all-knowing Public Service Announcement with ‘advice’ to share with anyone who’ll listen…

With accompanying tipsy folk melodies from Bleeding Heart Narrative’s Bartokian piano, strings, synths and sample set, and film from Jack Wake-Walker, Shad Thames, Broken Wharf resonates with what the docks might mean.

“a multiple narrative of various timescapes, set in a constantly evolving Docklands” – Londonist.com

“an elegy, an urban bucolic around the river and its Eastern banks” – Culture Wars

A London Word Festival Commission

Change of line up for tonight

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Unfortunately, weather conditions have forced Ken Edwards to withdraw from tonight’s reading. Richard Barrett will be reading instead. Richard’s first collection, Sidings, was published by White Leaf Press this year. He is the editor of DEPT magazine and co-organises the poetry and performance series Counting Backwards.

UNFIXED

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Flat Time House is pleased to host a weekend of events organised by Reading for Reading’s Sake with:

David Berridge, Maurice Carlin, Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker, Patrick Coyle, Ella Finer, John Hill, Helen Kaplinsky and Stefan Sulzer

UNFIXED is a series of events developed by Reading for Reading Sake (RfRS)

Flat Time House, John Latham Foundation and Archive, London

 2-4 December

LINK

Ghosts move about me patched with histories

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Philip Davenport and Nicola Smith
Chinese Art Centre, Manchester 9 – 17 December

Artists’ Talk: 9 December 5.30- 6.30pm
Preview Evening: 9 December – 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Tour dates: 9 – 11 December

Ghosts move about me patched with histories is an immersive text/art experience, designed by poet Philip Davenport and performance artist Nicola Smith. Both have previously taken part in artist residencies in Chongqing and will use the exhibition to reflect on their experiences in China. The exhibition counterpoints the freedom of being in a strange environment with the limits imposed by social control.

Davenport’s text installation is a poem written into wallpaper, covering one side of the gallery. Nicola will act as a deliberately misleading tour guide, taking visitors through the environment created by the pair, including a pause for snacks, some trashy TV and a computer that rewrites Davenport’s words with infinite variations, programmed by poet Tom Jenks. A live chicken will be ‘resident’ in the space.

The artist talk is free but booking is required: please follow the link below for tickets: http://whisper-residency-artists-talk.eventbrite.com/

The tours are free and running as part of the open studio as follows:

9 Dec – 7pm       10 Dec – 1.15pm and 3.30pm       11 Dec – 1.15pm

Special thanks to Tom Jenks and Leftfield, School of Art & Design, University of Salford www.salfordleftfield.co.uk for their support.

Maintenant #35 – Ragnhildur Jóhanns

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Celebrating the third Maintenant reading of 2010 we introduce Ragnhildur Jóhanns, one of four innovative Icelandic poets to read at the Rich Mix arts centre in London on November 27th, and one of the most exciting and elastic poetic talents to emerge in Europe over the last few years. A unique craftswoman, she is a sculptural, visual and physical poet, unhindered by convention. She works with text, with performance but seeks to create poetic objects, pure concrete poems, that is literally fashioning books out of her work and embodying the text. Fulfilling our remit to introduce poets who will undoubtedly rise to prominence in the next few decades and who refuse to be limited by what has come before, for the 35th Maintenant interview, Ragnhildur Jóhanns.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-35-ragnhildur-johanns/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ten-poems-ragnhildur-johanns/

Maintenant catch up and Iceland reading

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Maintenant 32

An interview with the Slovenian poet, Primož Čučnik, the 32nd subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets. The interview is also accompanied by two poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-32-primoz-cucnik/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/two-poems-primoz-cucnik/

 

Maintenant 31

An interview with the Norwegian poet, Paal Bjelke Andersen, the 31st subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets and the fourth and final Norwegian poet featured as part of the series to celebrate the Maintenant: Ny Poesi readings held in London recently at the Poetry Cafe & the Rich mix arts centre. The interview is also accompanied by five pieces of poetry translated into English specifically for the readings & interview.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-31-paal-bjelke-andersen/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-paal-bjelke-andersen/

 

Maintenant 30

An interview with the Danish poet, Martin Glaz Serup, the 30th subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets. An extraordinary poet, children’s author and critic, included with the interview are seven excerpts from his remarkable work The Traffic Is Unreal translated by Thomas E. Kennedy.

 

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-30-martin-glaz-serup/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/seven-poems-martin-glaz-serup/

 

Maintenant 29

An interview with the Russian-born British poet, Annie Katchinska, the 29th subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets. An extraordinary talent, she is one of the very brightest stars emerging in the UK. Included with the interview are three of her poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-29-annie-katchinska/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/three-poems-annie-katchinska/

 

Icelandic & British Poetry in collaboration

3am magazine’s Maintenant interview series presents Icelandic & British Poetry in collaboration at the Rich mix

(35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London. E1 6LA)

Saturday November 27th – 7pm – Entrance free

Iain Sinclair & Ragnhildur Jóhanns / Eirkur Örn Norðdahl & Stewart Home

Scott Thurston & Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir / Jón Örn Loðmfjörð & Tom Jenks

 

Openned is near

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Wednesday 27th October, 7.30pm.
Corsica Studios
Tube: Elephant & Castle
Admission Free

Readings from

* Tim Atkins
* Allen Fisher
* Sarah Kelly
* Jonny Liron
* Nat Raha

A simultaneous reading from

* Prudence Chamberlain*
* Jennifer Cooke
* Joanna Humphreys*
* Anna Lawrence*
* Jow Lindsay
* Peter Philpott
* Rachel Porcheret*
* Posie Rider
* Carol Watts
* Tessa Whitehouse

More here.

Jerome Rothenberg, Maggie O’Sullivan, Allen Fisher & Poems for the Millennium 3: Preview of 19th October event

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Some tasters for our three readers. In addition there will be readings by all three poets, Jeffrey Robinson and The Other Room of a selection of poem from Poems for Millennium Volume 3. Videos of O’Sullivan and Fisher can be found in the middle left column. Please note that this event starts at 6pm and is at THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY BURGESS FOUNDATION

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985, Khurbn, and most recently, A Paradise of Poets and A Book of Witness (all from New Directions). Describing his poetry career as “an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present,” he has also edited seven major assemblages of traditional and contemporary poetry.

LINK TO Buffalo Page with links to poems and publications

Maggie O’Sullivan
 
O’Sullivan’s work is influenced by Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Beuys, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Cobbing and Basil Bunting. Her books include An Incomplete Natural History (1984), In the House of the Shaman (1993), Red Shift (2000) and Palace of Reptiles (2003). She edited out of everywhere: An anthology of contemporary linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK (1996).

LINK to BEPC page

Allen Fisher
 
Allen Fisher has been involved in performance writing since 1962. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced one hundred and forty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation. He was co-editor and publisher of Aloes Books and he currently edits and publishes Spanner. He lives in Hereford and is Head of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University in Crewe. His books and chapbooks include: The Apocalyptic Sonnets (1978), Poetry for Schools (1980), Brixton Fractals (1985, republished 1999), Dispossession & Cure (1994), Civic Crime (1994), Now’s the time (1995), Fish Jet (1997), Place(collected set 2005) Gravity(2004), Entanglement(2004), Singularity Stereo(2006), Leans(2007), Birds (2009). 

LINK to Allen Fisher at BEPC

Review: A Perverse Library

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“Conceptual writing is not easy to grasp, or to read. It is not about pleasure, or narrative. It brings together conceptual art and language. The excitement is intellectual rather than aesthetic, and it can be witty. It might be a transcription of a year of weather reports by Kenneth Goldsmith, or John Baldessari’s repetition of the sentence: “I will not make anymore boring art”.

Read more at The Independent