Projects

Double Change with Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand et Tonya Foster

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double change, The Poetry Foundation,

la galerie éof, la bibliothèque anglophone d’Angers,

la Maison des écrivains et de la littérature d’Angers,

la Maison de la poésie de Nantes et les éditions joca seria

vous invitent

au festival ‘poésie : usa’

 avec les poètes Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand et Tonya Foster

 Mardi 6 décembre, 19h30, lectures & book launch, galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 PARIS, http://www.doublechange.org

 Mercredi 7 décembre, 19h, lectures, Bibliothèque anglophone d’Angers,  60 rue Boisnet, 49100 ANGERS, www.ellia.org, http://www.m-e-l.fr/

 Jeudi 8 décembre, 19h30, lectures et entretiens, Le Pannonica, 9 rue Basse-Porte, 44000 NANTES. Festival Midi Minuit Poésie http://www.midiminuitpoesie.com

 À cette occasion les éditions joca seria publient :

De coin à corner de Tina Darragh,

Le jardin de M. de Marcella Durand et

La grammaire des os de Tonya Foster traduits par Olivier Brossard et Béatrice Trotignon.

Publishers Fair at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield

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Independent Publishers Book Fair

Bank Street Arts
32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS

Saturday 26 November 2016

Book Fair: 11am – 5pm  (admission free)
Image and Text as Exploration: 7pm  (pay as you feel)

A one-day book fair at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts, bringing some of our most innovative artists and independent presses together under one roof. The fair will include handmade artists’ books, poetry, fiction, art writing, literary criticism, zines, and much more. A not-to-be-missed opportunity to see and buy some beautiful editions and meet the publishers and artists involved. Short descriptions of the participating publishers appear below; click here for longer descriptions and images.

Scroll down for details of Image and Text as Exploration, an evening performance (7pm start, 6.30pm doors) curated by Emma Bolland (Gordian Projects).

Publishers taking part in the book fair include:

And Other Stories (London, Sheffield, Wycombe)
And Other Stories publishes the best in contemporary writing, including many translations. @andothertweets

Bradical (Bradford)
Bradford based fanzine writing about Islamophobia / diaspora / Bradford. @bradicalbfd

Comma Press (Manchester)
Independent publisher of short fiction from the UK and beyond. @commapress

enjoy your homes (Sheffield)
enjoy your homes press is an independent publishing press and platform. @eyh_press

Gordian Projects (Sheffield / Glasgow / York)
Gordian Projects focuses on small editions that use art and language as a space for exploration. @GordianProjects

Joanne Lee / Pam Flett Press (Sheffield)
Artist, researcher, writer and publisher with a curiosity about everyday life and the ordinary places in which she lives and works. @generalistjo

Longbarrow Press (Sheffield)
Poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. @LongbarrowPress

Jean McEwan (West Yorkshire)
Jean McEwan makes zines both solo and in collaboration with others, curates contribution-based zines, teaches zine-making workshops, and organises self-publishing events and projects. @Jeanmcewan

Peepal Tree Press (Leeds)
Peepal Tree Press is home of the best in Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, literary criticism, memoirs and historical studies. @peepaltreepress

The Poetry Business (Sheffield)
The Poetry Business is a UK poetry publisher and writer development agency. @poetrybusiness

Tilted Axis Press (London / Sheffield)
Founded in 2015, Tilted Axis is a not-for-profit press publishing cutting-edge contemporary fiction translated from Asian languages. @TiltedAxisPress

West House Books (Sheffield)
Founded in 1995, West House Books has published fifty books and pamphlets, including major collections by Geraldine Monk, Karen Mac Cormack, Kelvin Corcoran and Bill Griffiths.


Evening performance:
Image and Text as Exploration
curated and introduced by Emma Bolland (Gordian Projects)
7pm (doors 6.30pm)

This event will feature talks and readings from five artists, academics, publishers and writers:

Leeds-based artist and writer Helen Clarke will be talking about and reading from her photo / text book that emerged from her drift walks in Berlin;
Artist-photographer Tom Rodgers is from York and will discuss his film-based photobooks of abstract landscapes;
Artist, publisher and academic Joanne Lee will talk about her Pam Flett Press and her urban exploration of Sheffield;
Poet and academic Chris Jones will be reading from his work-in-progress verse novel set against the background of the the 2007 Sheffield floods;
Sheffield-based writer and publisher Brian Lewis will be talking in his capacity as a writer who uses night walking and endurance walking, and reading from his pamphlet East Wind.

https://independentbookfair.wordpress.com/

Kerry Morrison – A Preview

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The next Other Room takes place on December 7th 2016 at The Castle Hotel, Manchester and as always is free entry. It features Kerry Morrison, Wayne Clements & Cathy Butterworth. More at the EVENTS page.

Kerry Morrison – Kerry is an experienced environment artist and ecologist. She has worked throughout the UK, including commissions for Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, and Grizedale Forest. Kerry has also worked in forests in Japan and Korea, parks, wilderness and farms in Germany, neighbourhoods in America, and urban streets in Finland. Her work is often performative and since 2006 she has endeavoured to create art without creating demands on natural resources.

Here is an example of her work, ‘Bird Sheet Music’ as featured on the BBC and at The Tate Gallery

Aram Saroyan, Light – out from sine wave peak

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Aram Saroyan, ‘light’
‘light’ is a poem-card intended for display. A single word, light, is debossed onto black card – literally made of light. When there is no light to catch it, the word vanishes. It is revealed only from angles around the room when light, pooling briefly in the furrows of the word’s impression, speaks. As a new work by the author of the controversial poem ‘lighght’ (1965), ‘light’ (2016) – an unprinted poem on a black page – is also a gentle nod back, a witty return, a final condensation.

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Robert Vas Dias – Black Book launch

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You’re invited to the launch on Wednesday 19 October at 7.00 pm of Black Book: An Assemblage of the Fragmentary (Shearsman Books), by Robert Vas Dias, in collaboration with the artist Julia Farrer, to take place at St. James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL. Author and artist will be present to sign copies of the book, and refreshments will be served. Admission is free.

Black Book is the first major collaboration between a poet and artist reacting to the worst humanitarian crisis of our times since the second world war. This stunningly produced book “confronts us with what has become our common world since the initiation of the ‘war on terror’… and is as up-to-date as this morning’s news,” writes Robert Hampson.

Mel Gooding writes: “Vas Dias is an experimental poet whose language is always simple and direct, who does not beat around the bush, except to flush out a startling truth, transform the familiar to a strangeness. Farrer is an artist for whom the abstract is a means to the controlled expression of the deepest and most sharp feelings, to a refinement of poignancy, a stoic poise.”

And the Revd. Lucy Winkett: “Listen to this black book bringing cruel comfort to a world as it is.

And still dreaming of how it could be.”

FRANK O’HARA: IN THE HEART OF NOISE

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Poet in the City presents an evening of poetry and music in celebration of Frank O’Hara, 50 years since his death.

From curating with Jackson Pollock to collaborating with John Cage and his friendship with Billie Holiday, O’Hara was at the restless heart of the 1960s New York creative explosion.

Featuring performance and discussion with poet and critic Mark Ford and players from Aurora Orchestra.

6th November, Royal Exchange, Manchester

https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/frank-o-hara-in-the-heart-of-noise

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground at John Ryland’s Library

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Off Beat:
Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September – 5 March 2017
Open daily, free entry

Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as “the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet,” Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish William S. Burroughs’ most experimental writing.

He was also a performance artist, a pioneer of ‘happenings’ and author of nearly 40 books. As a cultural critic, his seminal work, Bomb Culture, was discussed in Parliament. Nuttall was at the centre of the International Underground scene driven by social dissent and the fear of imminent nuclear attack.

Yet, despite being a giant of the counterculture, the Lancastrian-born polymath is little remembered today. That is set to change with our Autumn/Winter exhibition. Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground reveals a network of artists and writers whose work was shared worldwide via the low-fi, self-published magazines of the “mimeograph revolution”.

Chief among them was Nuttall’s My Own Mag. Burroughs was both a contributor and collaborator and displayed in the exhibition is a rare edition showcasing a Burroughs cut-up text. Other countercultural magazines are featured, to which Nuttall himself contributed, including the one-issue only “newspaper” The Moving Times, and five of Nuttall’s books.

It is Nuttall’s combination of word and image, art and activism – and content that remains provocative and sometimes shocking – that made him a legend in his own time. As we face our own uncertain times, Nuttall’s work feels as prescient today as it did five decades ago.

Please note: because of the adult nature of the content in this exhibition, it is not suitable for children.

Share your experience: #jrloffbeat @TheJohnRylands

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Koto y yo by Tim Atkins out now from Crater Press

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new Atkins product from Crater Press!

Koto y yo documents a year in the lives of a father and daughter living in Poble Sec; a working class barrio in Barcelona. Told in luminous poetic prose, the interlinked stories – echoing the Platero y yo stories of Juan Ramon Jiminez – detail the couple’s adventures and encounters as they wander around the streets. The pages are inhabited by the plumbers, hairdressers, bakers, traveling knife grinders, mechanics, tobacconists, waiters, postmen, mangy cats, and itinerant musicians who populate the neighborhood.

£10 paperback, £15 hardback, both available at

www.craterpress.co.uk 

or

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/craterpress
As it’s Lulu the postage is about the same wherever you are in the world, and if you use this code FWD15 when you purchase you will get 15% off (this is working today, but I’m not sure how long for as Lulu changes the codes pretty often).