Sarah Kelly at our last reading in June
Library
The Start of Sentences
James Davies’ experiences of reading Robert Grenier’s Sentences in Bury’s Text Art Archive:
I don’t want to go into individual poems so much here as to explain the joy of reading Sentences as archived material, in the archive, and the processes of reading the poems in accordance with the way Sentences is catalogued. The copy of Sentences at Bury, “The Bury Sentences” as I now call it, is a like a “bootleg” record — just as cool as the original but with minor differences to interest the aficionado. I’ll explain why.
LINK for more.
Sarah-Clare Conlon – A Preview
Sarah-Clare Conlon’s prize-winning work is published by Salt, Comma, Stand andFlash, who called her “one of the most interesting and inspiring authors writing flashes today”. She was long listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. A former journalist on ELLE, with a Creative Writing MA, she edited The Manchester Anthology, writes for The Manchester Review, The Skinny, Creative Tourist andConfingo, and runs popular Manchester live literature night Verbose.
Our next event takes place on 20th July with Kimberly Campanello, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Geraldine Monk and Iain Morrison. Start time is 7pm at The Wonder Inn and as always is free entry. We hope to see you there. More on the events page.
Kimberly Campanello – A Preview
Kimberly Campanello’s previous poetry publications include Spinning Cities (Wurm Press), Consent (Doire Press), Imagines (New Dublin Press), Strange Country (Dreadful Press), and Hymn to Kālī (Eyewear). MOTHERBABYHOME, a book of conceptual and visual poetry on the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Ireland, will appear with zimZalla Avant Objects later this year. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. http://www.kimberlycampanello.com
Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.
Geraldine Monk – A Preview
Gerladine Monk
Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has written eight major collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, was published in 2007 by Salt Publishing. They Who Saw The Deep is her new book and will have its northern launch at the event.
Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.
From the vaults – Derek Beaulieu
July 2010
Bad Language with Richard Barrett
Our headliner for Bad Language on June 29th at The Castle is RICHARD BARRETT,
Richard Barrett’s poetry collections include A Personal History of Apathy, Endless / Nameless with Rachel Sills, and HUGZ. His new collection LOVE LIFE! is forthcoming on Stranger Press. He’s currently working on The Saragossa Manuscript, which takes in the 1990s West Yorkshire rave scene, and Super Normal, described as “a non-fiction prose account of Richard’s contribution to the history of the world during the years 2013 to 2015”.
Locals may know Richard best as a mainstay of Manchester poetry night The Other Room. And when he’s not being experimental with poetry, he spends time following celebrity Twitter feuds.
Our open mic line-up is:
Ava MacPherson, Cátia Soeiro, Christopher Nosnibor, Daniel Boylan, Daniel O’Sullvan, David Scott, Leonie Ferrer, Maria Alejandra, Rob Miur, Stan Benes.
29th June, 7pm
Castle Hotel, Manchester
Free
Streetcake Magazine 47
Issue 47 is now live.
This issue features: Sanjay Bheenuck, David Felix, A. Marie Kaluza, Adam Phillips and Phil Wood.
Here is the link to the issue: http://www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html
From the vaults – Clive and Robin Fencott
July 2014
The Other Room website rebooted!
The Other Room website has been running the whole duration we’ve been running our nights and has started to bulge and bulge. So we decided to do a bit of a spring clean in order to make it easier to navigate. We’ve also tidied up all those inevitable missed links which Mick Weller celebrates HERE.
If you’re old or new to the site have a look around our massive archive of blog/news posts, video archive from most of our readings, video and print interviews, book reviews, reviews of our events, poster archive and photos. Don’t forget of course to check out our upcoming events and annual anthology.
James, Scott & Tom
Harriet Tarlo and Geraldine Monk reading in Sheffield
Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents: a poetry reading with
Harriet Tarlo and Geraldine Monk
Lecture Theatre 5, Hicks Building (Hounsfield Road, main entrance and downstairs), University of Sheffield
18.00, 24th of May, 2016
Geraldine Monk’s poetry was first published in the 1970’s. Her main collections include Noctivagations and Escafeld Hangings both published by West House Books andSelected Poems by Salt Publishing. In 2012 she edited Cusp: Recollections of Poetry in Transition, Shearman Books. Her latest book They Who Saw The Deep was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Edition in April 2016. She is an affiliated poet at the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, The University of Sheffield.
Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic. Publications include Poems 1990-2003(Shearsman 2004); Nab (etruscan 2005); Field (forthcoming) and, with Judith Tucker,Sound Unseen and Behind Land (Wild Pansy, 2013 and 2015). She is editor of The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011). Recent critical and creative work appears in volumes published by Edinburgh University Press., Salt, Palgrave, Rodopi and Bloodaxe and in the following journals: Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English and the Journal of Ecocriticism (JoE). Her collaborative work with Judith Tucker has been shown widely, at galleries including the Catherine Nash Gallery Minneapolis, 2012; Musee de Moulages, Lyon, 2013; Southampton City Art Gallery 2013-14; The Muriel Barker Gallery, Grimsby; The Scott Gallery, Plymouth, 2014 and New Hall College Art Collection, Cambridge, 2015. She teaches at Sheffield Hallam University where she is Reader in Creative Writing.
Conceptual Poetics exhibition and opening night at The Poetry Library
Conceptual poetics takes Marcel Duchamp’s approach to visual art and extends it to poetry.
Join us at the opening of this exhibition and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to readings from some of the poets and publishers associated with this avant-garde poetic practice.
The conceptualist movement has become perhaps the most contested but also one of the most popular movements in contemporary poetry. Focusing on poets and artists in the current UK scene, this exhibition features work published by presses such as if p then q, Information as Material and ZimZalla.
The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall
Admission is free but space is limited. Email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to reserve your place.
24 May 2016, 19:30pm – 20:30pm
Neil Campbell, Rhys Trimble & Tim Allen at Verbose
Monday 23 May 2016, Manchester literature night verbose continues
Headliners from the fabulous Knives Forks and Spoons press: Tim Allen, Neil Campbell and Rhys Trimble.
Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 23 May, with special guests from the fabulous Knives Forks and Spoons press and the usual open mic of prose and poetry performances – sign up for a three-minute slot by emailing verbosemcr at gmail dot com.
Run by Alec Newman, Knives Forks and Spoons has developed the biggest avant garde poetry list in the UK since its launch in 2010, publishing seminal international figures in experimental poetry together with many young poets and “outsider” practitioners. May’s Verbose welcomes Tim Allen, Neil Campbell and Rhys Trimble.
Tim Allen edited the magazine Terrible Work and is involved with the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette live literature events in Manchester. He has a …number of poetry pamphlets to his name. Neil Campbell has been included three times in the brilliant Best British Short Stories series. He has three collections of short fiction, two poetry chapbooks and his first novel, Sky Hooks, is out in September. Rhys Trimble is a poet and shoutyman from Wales who enjoys poetry across languages. He has performed extensively across UK and Europe.
Verbose is hosted by Sarah-Clare Conlon at Fallow café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M14 6NA. It’s free entry and doors are at 7.30pm. Verbose takes place every fourth Monday of the month.
See http://verbosemcr.wordpress.com/ for more details
David Miller’s review of Michael N. McGregor’s biography of Robert Lax
David Miller on Michael N McGregor’s new bio of Robert Lax is now up at Stride:
http://stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202016/March2016/Miller.Lax.htm
Rather like his great friend Ad Reinhardt’s late, ‘all-black’ paintings, the poems almost aren’t there, yet very much there, or if you like, very much here. That’s their paradox. And the best of them are extraordinary.
The Recluse now seeking submissions
We are now accepting submissions for The Recluse 12! All work must be submitted via email to info@poetryproject.org with “Recluse” in the subject line. Please title your word file submission with your last name and the word “Recluse.”
The Recluse is published annually each Spring, and edited by the staff of The Poetry Project. For PDFs of past issues, visit our website. With issue 10, The Recluse moved from print to an online journal.
We suggest that people read an issue or two before submitting work! We are primarily interested in poetry and translations, but will consider other work as well.
The Anchored Terset
Not quite ‘new’ as these articles claim, remember:
frog
pond
plop!
but of interest, especially the generator that riffs on the NPL acronym, Get tweeting – Minimalism’s sticky end.
More at NORTHERN POETRY LIBRARY
And some opinions at The Guardian – yes!
Galatea Resurrects 25 out now
Christmas treats courtesy of Galatea. Including reviews of Peter Jaeger’s A Field Guide to Lost Things and Tim Atkins’ Petrarch.
Anna Mendelssohn archive launch
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The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry relaunched
The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry edited by Scott Thurston and Gareth Farmer is re-launched at the Open Library of the Humanities.
You can find out more HERE
The Globe Road Poetry Festival, 13-15 November
The QMUL Centre for Poetry is thrilled to invite you to a three-day world poetry festival, celebrating the diversity of local and global poetic traditions in London’s East End, to be held at Queen Mary University of London, 13-15 November 2015.
Performers include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Daljit Nagra, M. NourbeSe Philip, Myung Mi Kim, Kaiser Haq, Caroline Bergvall, Samira Negrouche, Agnes Agboton, Anthony Joseph, Avaes Mohammed, Siddhartha Bose, Aisling Fahey, Pangaea Poetry, Ladies of the Press, Ross Sutherland, Theo Chiotis, Hannah Silva, Andra Simons, Shama Rahman, Miriam Nash, Michael Vidon, Gareth Evans, and Elaine Mitchener.
Programme and booking information on the QMUL Centre for Poetry website: http://www.poetry.qmul.ac.uk/events/globeroad/152563.html. Almost all events are free but booking is essential.
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