Stephen Emmerson’s mutational translational project continues, with Rilke and mushrooms.
Projects
Thomas A Clark – eight lines
eight lines is the quiet unfolding of a single thought about poetry. Over the turning of eight pages, that thought travels over a landscape of metaphor, with each horizon offering a new definition.
Out now from Sine Wave Peak
Nancy Gaffield, Michael Kelleher & Jonathan Skinner at Crossing the Line
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Martin Palmer on The Other Room 52
It’s been a while since The Other Room‘s 52nd ‘inning’, and though I’ve already said a little about the poetry, I wanted to go on about the experience as a whole. Much like Storm and Golden Sky‘s nights, the power of live readings was emphatically exemplified, and I’m going to tell you why it was so enjoyable. Strap yourself in, this is going to be a long gush…
James Davies, Ann Matthews and others in St Helens
James Davies, Ann Matthews, and others to be confirmed, at 13:00 on the 14th of March 2015 in the public area of St Helens Central Library as part of The Knives Forks and Spoons pop up reading series.
Central Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside , WA10 1DY
Matt Dalby’s big M60 walk
Matt Dalby is walking around the entire M60 motorway in May and making art on the way, as part of his Islands project, which he describes as follows: “Islands is a series of artworks planned for 2015, beginning with a series of soundworks called Islands : Wind. My walk around the M60, and the period of preparation leading up to it, will lead to the creation of a set of linked works called Islands: Manchester. Islands : Manchester will exist across different media such as text, video, sound and installation works.”
Read more about the project here.
Action Score Generator by Nathan Walker out from if p then q
What follows is a sixty-minute performance by a machine writing ten six second texts every minute using only six words at a time. They are ordered as they were produced and remain unedited.
Nathan Walker’s superb Action Score Generator is out today from if p then q, available for £15.
624 pages of bliss.
Poetry and Experiment course at The Arvon Centre with Scott Thurston and Harriet Tarlo
Nov 23rd – Nov 28th 2015
Lumb Bank
During the week, participants will be encouraged to explore a diversity of poetic forms and uses of language, such as open form, collage and juxtaposition. We will bring to bear our background in what is often referred to as the UK’s ‘innovative’ poetry scene, introducing you to the approaches of British and American experimental poets as a means of encouraging you to play and take risks in your own work. Suitable for new poets and more experienced writers who would like to explore innovative poetic techniques, throw over old habits, or push their work further.
Single room price: £725
Shared room price: £680
Robin Fencott on Robin and Clive Fencott at The Other Room
Robin Fencott has reflected on last year’s performance at The Other Room. You can see the performance in our archive in the middle column of this website.
The second piece, titled ‘Schläfli {5,3} Arduino Bluebird’ is based around typewritten text attached to the faces of a dodecahedron. I constructed the dodecahedron specifically for this performance and installed within it an accelerometer and wireless transmitter broadcast orientation information. During performance, rotating the dodecahedron caused changes to a range of live vocal processing and sound synthesis.
More HERE
Claire Potter video from The Other Room November 2014
Full video below
Close up at this LINK
Don’t forget all our readings are archived in the middle panel.
Difficulties magazine archive available at Eclipse
DIFFICULTIES
Modeled on magazines like Cid Corman’s Origin, Tom Beckett’s THE DIFFICULTIES derived its title from an observation made by Charles Olson during a 1962 talk at Cortland, New York, “You know, we live in a time which is very easy itself,” and a line from the third of his Songs of Maximus: “the blessing/ that difficulties are once more.” Six numbers were published by Viscerally Press (Kent, Ohio) between 1980 and 1989.
The first number, edited by Beckett and Earel Neikirk, measured 17.5 x 21 cm; the second measured 20.25 x 27.5 cm; issues 2:1, 3:1, and 3:2 each measured 21.5 x 27 cm, with issue 2:2 slightly oversized at 21.5 x 28 cm. The first number included a small packet of Tom Raworth’s “loose alphabet,” containing a few dried alphabet soup noodles, glued in (the packet is missing from the copy scanned here). The second number featured a textured three-color cover with artwork by Frank Fecko; subsequent numbers featured black-and-white author photos in a cover design by Barbara Bakos. All numbers glue-bound.
A critique of conceptual poetry at The Argotist Online
5 interviews available at The Argotist at the LINK
P. Inman Written 1976-2013
Inman’s Written 1976-2013 is published today by Manchester publisher if p then q. The book is available for £20 and good postage rates are available both in the UK, USA and other locations.
The volume offers an incredible introduction and reappraisal of the work of one of the twentieth and twenty first century’s most outstanding poets. It includes the collections: Platin, Ocker, Uneven Development, Think of One, Red Shift, Criss Cross, Vel, at. least., amounts. to., Ad Finitum and Per Se in ‘final’ versions, as well as a number of other previously uncollected poems.
The volume also includes a sumptuous, lengthy essay by Craig Dworkin covering Inman’s career to date.
Without a doubt it is essential reading.
This is what Michael Golston has to say about the collection:
The collected P. Inman! It’s about time—and a lot of other words—many of which have never been seen or heard before. Inman’s half-century project of the complete dérèglement de tous la langue marks one of the endpoints of the great arc of American poetry, where the bow bends all the way to touch the ground. You’ll find a pot of linguistic gold there: Written is writing written at the limits of written writing. Accompanied by Craig Dworkin’s fantastic introductory essay, this book is sure to become a classic in the ongoing history of the avant-garde.
New McCabe/Jenks collaboration
The sixth collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks is inspired by Marcel Duchamp and can be found here. As with the previous five, this collaboration is for SJ Fowler’s Camarade project. Selections from it will be presented at the Camarade event at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on 25th October.
Leanne Bridgewater video from The Other Room June 2014
Stephen Ratcliffe reads the whole of Continuum
C o n t i n u u m, written between January 5, 2011 and September 30, 2013, is the fourth book in Stephen Ratcliffe’s ongoing series of 1,000-page books, each written in 1,000 consecutive days.
Stephen Ratcliffe reads his 1,000-page book “Continuum” in 10 hours. Listen to some or all of the recording, now at PennSound
David Miller special at Stride
Includes a review by James Davies of Miller’s Collected Poems Reassembling Still and an interview and tribute by Rupert Loydell
Dark Would exhibition catalogue free download
If you were unable to see the language art exhibition The Dark Would at Summerhall in Edinburgh (7 December 2013 – 24 January 2014) you can download a pdf catalogue from the Summerhall website here. The catalogue, edited by Philip Davenport and designed by Steve Giasson, works really well in iBooks and it’s free.
MOPHE
Mopher, where performance, art, writing, poetry, voice, concept and sound meet to wither and perish in order to rise again as something else, more than the sum of its parts. Mopha is a singular art performance / live poetry collective made up of six of the UK’s most accomplished artists / poets – Holly Pester, Patrick Coyle, Emma Bennett, SJ Fowler, James Wilkes and Tamarin Norwood.
Eschewing and mulching the multiple genres of live art and experimental writing, Moffa will premiere it’s work in 2014 at multiple venues in multiple forms.
Exploring notions of fractured speech, aberrant theatre, surreal vocality, performativity and audience expectation, improvisation and its tropes, compressed communication, humour and bleak irony, Moffer aims to create powerful immediate, arresting and unique works of performance that are mindful, and responsive, to their construction and contextual environment. Wholly collaborative and essentially collective, the works of Moffar will pool and mutate the already adept live practices of six powerful performers into a uncommon mesh of theatre, art and poetry.
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Northern Venetians
Gerry Smith’s collaborative project is now online, creating a composite city from places, such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Manchester, describes as the Venice of the North.
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