J.H. Prynne’s updated bibliography, maintained by Michael Tencer, is now up online, at http://prynnebibliography.wordpress.com
Projects
Tony Lopez, Works on Paper published by Crater Press
New from Crater Press: WORKS ON PAPER by Tony Lopez At the apex of modernism in the early twentieth century, Bury in Lancashire was the world centre of industrial paper manufacture. Works on Paper by Tony Lopez is a serial poem looking through the history and language of that technical innovation and place of trade. The poem was written in 2008, first performed at the Text Festival in 2009, and printed on (130gsm) Hahnemuhle old antique laid by Richard Parker in October and November 2011, limited to 100 copies at £4.
Copies are available now at http://www.craterpress.co.uk
Deuter Kelner
zimZalla object 011 is Deuter Kelner, a set of post-punk visual poetry ceramic tile coasters by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Each coaster measures 9cm x 9cm. Available individually or as a set of six.
The Covers project
SJ Fowler’s project in which contemporary poets read work that has inspired them, now has a new dedicated site where you can watch all the films so far. As a taster, here is Colin Herd covering Maggie O’Sullivan, recorded at the last Other Room. Film of Colin’s reading, together with films of the other two readers, Jennifer Cooke and SJ Fowler, will be published soon.
Polyply 14 > MEASURE
POLYply > 14: MEASURE
Jeff Hilson
Simon Jarvis
Zoë Skoulding
Fiona Templeton
Timothy Thornton
Thursday 10 November, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
Vanessa Place reading at The Other Room, September
Vanessa Place reads at our September 2011 event at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation.
Alan Halsey and Mick Beck performing Hugo Ball poems at September’s The Other Room
Halsey (vocals) and Beck (sax and bassoon) perform six poems by dada man Hugo Ball at The Other Room 28, September 2011.
Poem talk 46 on Jackson Mac Low
Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris, and Joan Retallack and Al Filreis discuss Jackson’s Mac Low’s Words nd Ends from Ez. This episode was recorded at Bard College, and we are grateful to Joan Retallack and her colleagues for hosting us there.
GLTI.CH Karaoke (LONDON event)
Meanwhile Space. O2 Centre, 255 Finchley Road London, NW3 6LU.
A project that seeks to set up unnecessarily-elaborate portals of amateur singing, GLTI.CH Karaoke posits that there is discernible value & joy in:
1. the collective stumbling & frustrations met in the face of tech limits, language barriers & time zone differences
2. oblique experimentation &
3. embracing & folding in “errors” in future iterations versus seeking to “overcome” or eradicate them.
GLTI.CH asks to be written & rewritten as cracks, bruises & mistranslation errors gather & proliferate through pop songs & datastreams, as people are GLTI.CHed together.
More at the Facebook page and at the Meanwhile Space site.
Blue Touch Paper
Making New Collaborations in Contemporary Culture
London Sinfonietta and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation are pleased to announce three new projects as part of the London Sinfonietta’s Blue Touch Paper programme. Working with the London Sinfonietta musicians, three composers working with collaborators from other arts disciplines will devise innovative and exciting interdisciplinary works to be presented throughout its Music Programme 2011/12.
Following an open, national call the London Sinfonietta has selected a group of composers and multidisciplinary artists to participate in the Blue Touch Paper programme. The three composer-collaborator partnerships, who have all been awarded a Jerwood Blue Touch Paper bursary, are:
- Steve Potter (composer) & Kélina Gotman (Writer/Dramaturg)
- Elspeth Brooke (composer), Seonaid Goody (Puppeteer) & Anna G Jones (Director)
- Philip Venables (composer) & Steven J Fowler (Poet)
Maintenant: the Camarade project
Maintenant: the Camarade project, Featuring Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Iily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler.
Out now on Red Ceilings Press.
The book will be launched at The Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 15th October.
The Other Room – future events
For your diary our next scheduled events are as follows:
October 26th 2011, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Jennifer Cooke, Colin Herd & Steven Fowler
February 29th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Andrea Brady, nick-e melville & Tim Allen
April 19th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room 4th birthday with Tony Lopez, Paula Claire, Becky Cremin & Elena Rivera
Ron Silliman in Bury
Ron Silliman’s Bury Text, part of the 2011 Text Festival exhibition, has now been installed at Bury Metrolink station. More about the project at Tony Trehy’s blog.
Double Change winter reading series
If in Paris…
Double Change vous propose 4 lectures en septembre et octobre :
Vendredi 30 septembre, 19h00, Point Ephémère : Vanessa Place et Emilie Notéris
Lundi 10 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : Lynn Crawford et Harry Mathews
Lundi 17 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : Rae Armantrout et Joe Ross
Jeudi 20 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : soirée en marge du colloque Gertrude Stein (20-21 oct, Grand Palais) avec Charles Bernstein, Thalia Field & Abigail Lang, Joan Retallack et Jean-Marie Gleize.
Polyply 12: Neo Benshi or The New Talkies
POLYply > 12: NEO-BENSHI or THE NEW TALKIES
James Davies
Sophie Mayer
Drew Milne
Redell Olsen
Thursday 8 September, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
Juxtavoices in Sheffield
The next Sheffield appearance for Martin Archer & Alan Halsey’s 25+ voice anti-choir will be at the annual Art in the Gardens event in the Botanical Gardens.
The group will be playing three different sets during the course of the afternoon: 12.30pm – Pavilion 1.30pm – Bear Pit 3.00pm – Bear Pit Works to be performed include Hugo Ball’s Dadaist sound poem Karawane, plus semi-improvised pieces based on texts by Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein and Alan Halsey. Admission price is to the whole event, which centres around exhibitions by locally based artists.
SUNDAY 4th SEPTEMBER 2011 BOTANICAL GARDENS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD £6 NOTES & SOUNDS presents Mick Beck tenor sax & bassoon Martin Archer reeds & electronic effects Steve Chase guitar & miscellaneous A brilliant and curious selection of left field exponents.
MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2011 THE RED DEER, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield S1 4DD 8pm £3.00/2.00 concessions.
CM TJ Maintenant
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks are collaborating for a project related to the Maintenant series of interviews, readings and publications organised by SJ Fowler. All work is appearing on a WordPress blog. Comments and suggestions are welcome and any input may be woven into the finished piece.
I am not a poet
I AM NOT A POET: A FESTIVAL AT THE TOTALKUNST GALLERY, EDINBURGH 7-21st AUGUST 2011
VerySmallKitchen and theTotalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh, present I AM NOT A POET, a 2 week festival exploring connections of language, writing and art practice. Beginning with conversations and lectures as part of AN EDINBURGH ZINE & SMALL PRESS FAIRon 7th August, I AM NOT A POET presents a series of three and one day exhibitions, alongside conversations, lectures, performances, publications, and screenings…
Artists include: Pete Cant, Magdalen Chua, Patrick Coyle, Alex Eisenberg, Jennie Guy, Colin Herd, Shandra Lamaute, Michelle Letowska, Marit Muenzberg, nick e-melville, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson, Gerry Smith, seekers of lice. Curated by David Berridge (VerySmallKitchen) and Mirja Koponen (Totalkunst Gallery)
TotalKunst Gallery
3 Bristo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 1EY
More at the LINK
Infinite Editions e-poetry postcards
Editor Andrew Spragg has been amassing an impressive list of poets for his e-postcard series, so far including Tom Raworth and Emily Critchley and more. You can even print them as postcards and send to your loved ones. After opening the file in Google reader choose ‘file’ to open as a pdf. From there select ‘print’. In print choose ‘multiple pages’ where it reads page scaling and tick ‘page borders’
tamlyn 11
Documentation of a durational performative text in varied media created in Manchester, England 2-16 July 2011 by artist Matt Dalby.
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