The Other Room’s second outing proved to be as wonderful as the the first thanks to the amazing line-up. At the start of the first part of Alex Middleton’s reading you can hear some people talking who proved difficult to bargain with but they do leave after about 3 minutes so persevere and enjoy.
Robert Sheppard
Alex Middleton reading translations of Inger Christensen
Harriet Tarlo
Contact Matt Dalby if you’re interested in getting muta with him.
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March 15: Paul Taylor’s Trombone Poetry + Uru-Ana + Mike Weller
Paul Taylor’s Trombone Poetry is a solo performance project that interweaves music and poetry in a kind of poetry slalom. Uru-Ana are London-based sound artist/musician Alex Thomas and writer/performer Alex Walker. Michael Weller renders name, place, voice, words, stories, pictures, as public performance. All three approach the performance of poetry from difference routes – Paul Taylor from the improv music circuit, Uru-Ana from theatre and Dada cabaret (though Alex Walker has had two texts on Great Works: Offertorium and Termination #3: Quest), Mike Weller from Writers Forum, but also the politics of the punk scene. They are all skilled and thought-provoking performers who have extended the boundaries of performed language.
via Peter Philpott
Based in Manchester UK, startrunning is a non-profit making, independent, artist-led project with a focus on bringing together and developing an array of interdisciplinary arts practice. Created in order to present and experience challenging new work in unique environments, the initiative aims to offer opportunities to both emerging and established practitioners. This project has a limited lifespan and will run for twelve months. One event will take place each month during its existence.
‘there’s no point in not being friends with someone if you want to be friends with them‘ is a free, Manchester-based monthly night where people can read prose and poetry.
Tom Fletcher
Luke Yates
Catherine Lacey
N.P. Murgatroyd
Si Connor
23rd February, 8pm, FREE, Deaf Institute, just off Oxford Rd, Manchester.
“This work-four sets of 24 sonnet forms plus four poems, making
100-is highly allusive to the language of the ‘war on terror’ waged
after September 11, 2001.”
Robert Sheppard will read from his new collection along with philip kuhn as part of Shearsman’s reading series
7:30 pm.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
philip kuhn and Robert Sheppard
Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A
2TH.
There is no admission fee.
With grit and humour his new book Zeppelins takes on the speed and
surrealist chaos of the metropolis at the beginning of the 21st century.
A sequence of sonnets oscillates between two very different cities: a
London at the centre of a terrorist scare and a Liverpool enjoying its
renaissance as European City of Culture
The Rose Theatre: Thursday February 26th, 7.30: £3.50
via Robert Sheppard
Craig Dworkin produces a poetry rich and strange, a counterpart of French Oulipo but with a characteristically American pragmatic inflection. Dworkin takes seriously Wittgenstein’s axiom that there are no gaps in grammar, that everything is already there if we will only see the connections”–Marjorie Perloff.
17th February, 11am. Be there.
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