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Events
Preview of Other Room reader 7th July – Keston Sutherland
Some links to Keston Sutherland who reads with Nathan Thompson, Derek Beaulieu & Jeff Hilson next week.
Editing
Part one of Hot White Andy on Youtube
Poem
Nojagtig Pamplemousse
Nojagtig Pamplemousse was shown at the recent if p then q book launches. It is part of the book Absolute Elsewhere by Joy as Tiresome Vandalism published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. The video below is to be played on a loop. It’ll be archived at if p then q in the next few days.
LINK to Knives Forks and Spoons Press
LINK to video
Geof Huth reading live and not in person
Geof Huth’s superb live reading from his house in New York transmitted to The Odder Bar in Manchester and the internet for if p then q is available at this link and later it should be on the if p then q website.
Preview of The Other Room reader 7th July – Derek Beaulieu
Some links to the work of Derek Beaulieu who reads at The Other Room 7th July with Keston Sutherland, Jeff Hilson and Nathan Thompson. Next week Keston Sutherland:
Interview
Youtube reading of How to Write
Some works
Richard Makin, Ken Edwards and Lucy Harvest Clarke reading
Sat 26 June 2010 – Richard Makin, Ken Edwards, with Lucy Harvest-Clarke, F-ISH Gallery, 45 Robertson St, Hastings, 6.15, free
Preview of Other Room reader 7th July – Nathan Thompson
Some links to the work of Nathan Thompson who reads at The Other Room 7th July with Keston Sutherland, Jeff Hilson and Derek Beaulieu. Next week Derek Beaulieu:
Reviews
American Poetry With An Accent
Paul Evans, The Door of Taldir, Selected Poems
Lee Harwood
Poems
Preview of Other Room reader 7th July – Jeff Hilson
The Other Room 16 – Reviews
The last reading in the Other Room series, (Susana Gardner, Peter Manson and Nicole Mauro) was easily the best that I’ve been to. I absolutely loved it. All three poets had me pretty much mesmerized for their entire set. There’s not a lot of point in me describing their performances though as they were filmed and can be viewed here on this very site. I’ve just had another quick look at the first half of Peter’s reading myself actually and am now smiling stupidly at the thought of what a brill evening was had by myself and my mate Fran (and, judging by the look of sheer joy that was on their faces, most of the other people in the room.)
Susana brought with her a little table full of exquisitely packaged poetry from her Dusie Press, on sale for a pound per item. I bought a selection, the coolest of which came in a squashed loo roll tube matching, if not beating, my collection of Matchbox poems in the funky packaging category.
I loved the Scottish and American accents of the night. I loved Peter’s fanatical flailing and precise pronunciation of lines like ‘the least dismissive of the leaf police’. I loved Nicole’s military style stance and how she seemed to smoothly slip something about a head wedged up an ass into every poem. I loved how hypnotic Susana was, especially as she repeated the word shore shore shore, turning it (for me) into sure sure sure and then back again and reminding me of Sylvia Plath, only without the woe-is-me-ishness.
The whole night was great fun with lots of naughty swear words and beer.
Jaime Birch
Things have been a little odd lately because I’ve felt quite directionless while taking a lot on. All of which means I get a little frayed. So I’m learning to relax and just accept how I feel about things, rather than trying to please other people. Which is a way of saying I might not be as generous in this review as I normally might be. So try not to take offence.
Matt Dalby’s take; for more click HERE
Yesterday was the latest reading at The Other Room, with three very good performances from Susanna Gardner, Peter Manson and Nicole Mauro. After a previous week where I was performing three times, including once in a jazz band, it was a relief to sit back and watch for a change.
Steve Waling’s comments HERE
The Situation Room
Sean Bonney, Frances Kruk. Saturday 12th June 2010. Unit 12, 7 Fountayne Rd., London, N15 4QL. More here.
Perception
An exhibition of work by second year photography students from The Manchester College. Each student will display their final major project at 52 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6JX. A diverse range of photographic styles that embraces portaiture, landscape, documentary and fashion. 8th June, 6.00 – 8.oo pm; 9th – 11th June, 12 – 5 pm. Free drinks on entry.
if p then q book launches in just over two weeks
if p then q readings & book launches
@ Odder Bar
14 Oxford Road (opposite The BBC), Manchester, UK
23rd June 2010
6.30 pm [1:30 pm Eastern Time in the US]
Free admission
Performers:
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism
Geof Huth
Tom Jenks
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Programme:
6.30: Joy as Tiresome Vandalism present Nøjagtig Pamplemousse
7.00: Geof Huth (live stream – watch at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geof-huth)
7.45: Lucy Harvest Clarke (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
8.15: Tom Jenks: (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
If you can’t be there in person use the above URLs to watch on the internet. Please be aware that all times are approximate.
Karen MacCormack and Steve McCaffery
TALKSTALKSTALKS
Karen Mac Cormack: Taking Reality By Surprise’
Steve McCafferty: ‘Zarathustran Pataphysics’
Thursday 10 June
6.45-8.45
The Royal Holloway Central London base: 11 Bedford Square.
Admission FREE
ALL WELCOME
Via Robert Hampson
Reality Street: new titles and book launches
REALITY STREET
announces the launch of
Emergence
by Fanny Howe
on Tuesday 22 June at 7:30pm
at The Blue Bus,The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1
Fanny Howe will be reading with Tom Raworth
(admission £5 / £3 concessions)
Also launching on this day will be
Seoul Bus Poems
by Jim Goar
Unfortunately, Jim can’t be here to read in person on this occasion.
You can buy these books at the launch, or via the Reality Street website, or here:
FANNY HOWE: LINK
JIM GOAR: LINK
If you would like to review either of these books, please reply to this email to request a copy: ken@realitystreet.co.uk
via Ken Edwards
Preview of Other Room reader for June 2nd – Susana Gardner
Links to Susana Gardner. Next week of course is The Other Room:
Poem
Blogging
Publishing
The Openned Book Table
Openned is setting up a book table in conjunction with Café 1001 in London’s East End.
Openned will have a presence at Café 1001 on the first Saturday of every month. The first event is on Saturday 5th June and runs from 12 – 6 pm.
Attendance is free as long as you bring one book to donate to Café 1001’s Book Orphanage. The book orphanage is a large bookshelf in the main bar space where anyone can wander in and read a book, for free, and then put it back on the shelf for the next person to read.
Alongside the selling of books on the Openned Table (which is in fact two tables, and more if we need it) there will also be some very short three-minute Openned Readings throughout the day.
More here.
Splash
Description: Studio 20Ten are a group of 2nd Year Fine Art students from the University of Bolton. The group of students are of mixed age range and varied backgrounds.They combine to form an exciting mix of styles and approaches in their work. Work on show will include drawing, painting, printmaking and photography. Entrance is free and there will be work available to buy.
‘Splash’ is the group’s end of year external exhibition. The exhibition will be held at Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road in Manchester. and this interesting and unique venue should provide a fantastic backdrop to the exhibition.
Exhibition times are as follows:
Friday 21 May 6 – 8pm Exhibition Private View
Saturday 22 May 12 – 4pm
Sunday 23 May 12 – 4pm
Victoria Baths, Manchester
Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, M13 0FE.
Counting Backwards in two weeks
Counting Backwards is a new series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. The first event is on Thursday 3 June 2010. Entrance is free. Performing at the first event are Mike Cannell, THF Drenching and Holly Pester.
Mike Cannell is an intermedia poly-poet from west Midlands who works in visual, linear and sound poetry of various types. His work is primarily concerned with exploration of the materiality and emotional power of language. He releases the experimental sound poetry podcast l,angu(ages)paz,m, which is to be regarded as both one long, ongoing sound poem and an audio essay proclaiming ideas regarding experimental poetics He is also is the editor of würm, a monthly e-magazine showcasing experimental poetry of all kinds. His work including many e-books can be found at: http://visoundtextpoem.blogspot.com/, worbdlog, {n/o/t/a/t/w/i/t}. His work has featured in online periodicals such as Otoliths and wordforword.
THF Drenching is a free improvisor and composer of musique concrète, based in Manchester, England. As a dictaphone-player, he was one fifth of Derek Bailey’s final band Limescale, and has played with many of the UK’s best improvisors. He was also half of the bricks and dictaphone duo Pleasure-Drenching Improvers. As a poet (writing under his slave name, Stuart Calton) he’s published four books. Three came out on Barque Press and one is self-published. His fifth is awaiting publication. As a composer, he’s completed thirteen albums of musique concrète, electronic music and various dubious overdubbed semi-improvised amalgams.
Holly Pester is an experimental sound poet and writer undergoing practice-led research at Birkbeck, University of London in ‘Speech and the Archive in Intermedia Poetry’. Her performance texts are experiments in the sound and shape of speech, blending pre-verbal noises with semantic surrealism in an investigation into language transmission. She is currently investigating the sound aesthetic of the ‘radio-voice’ and the poetic qualities of analog sound.
Holly Pester regularly performs her poetry at art and literary events in the UK including the Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon and the upcoming Text Festival 2011. This also includes collaborative works with regular co-performers Jamie Wilkes and Abbi Oborne. She has been published in numerous journals and an anthology of London poets, City State.
Examples of her work and theory can be found at hollypester.com
Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby, Gary Fisher
Counting Backwards editors
countingback@yahoo.co.uk
Preview of Other Room reader for June 2nd – Nicole Mauro
Links to Nicole Mauro. Next week Susana Gardner:
Poems
Reviews of others
Twittering
Interview
Voiceworks
The culmination of work from our Voiceworks project, a six-month collaboration between poets via Birkbeck Poetics Centre and composers and singers from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, is taking place at 6pm at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 20 May, free to attend and also live streamed for the first time on the internet. Full details of this and the upcoming new website voiceworks.org.uk which is launched at the same time is at: LINK
Voiceworks 2010 participants are:
Francisco Coll Garcia, Albert Pellicer, Iria Perestrelo
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Emma Bennett, Adam Crockatt
David Moore, Ben Gwalchmai, Luke Tracey
Raymond Yiu, Kim Patrick, Luis Gomes, Clément Dionet
Patrick Brennan, James Wilkes, Robert Elibay-Hartog
Nick Scott, Frances Kruk, Lucy Hall
Matthew Mendez, Holly Pester, Victor Sicard
Come along in person or virtually. It lasts 45 minutes.
Via Carol Watts
otherroom.org 