New book from Other Room reader Rachel Sills out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Publications
Leanne Bridgewater: Confessions of a Cyclist
Other Room reader Leanne Bridgewater’s first collection of experimental poetry, out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Blackbox Manifold #15
Editors Adam Piette & Alex Houen at Blackbox Manifold are pleased to announce the launch of its fifteenth issue, with work by Chris Andrews, Tara Bergin, Rob Burton, James Coghill, Christopher Cokinos, Adam Day, Darren Demaree, Mark Greenwood, David Hadbawnik, Alan Halsey, Amaan Hyder, Peter Larkin, Agnes Lehoczky, Sophie Mayer, Drew Milne, Helen Moore, Geraldine Monk, Christopher Mulrooney, Burgess Needle, Eleanor Perry, Cal Revely-Calder, Mike Saunders & Todd Swift. The issue also features a section on the poetic sequence, with essays by Charles Bernstein (“Reznikoff’s Nearness”), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (“Some Interpretive Puzzles within Seriality”), Alan Halsey (“Some Possibly Connected Remarks on Sequences”) & Robin Purves (“The Value of Inconsistency: John Wilkinson and ‘Facing Port Talbot’”). Adam Piette reviews the work of Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni and Attila Dósa reviews Edwin Morgan’s letters, edited by James McGonigal & John Coyle. More here.
FENCE
Winter/Spring 2015 issue out now, featuring this by John Ashbery and work by Other Room reader Jeff Hilson. More here.
The Curly Mind
Linguistically innovative online poetry magazine, including Alphabetical Adlestrop by Mark Totterdell:
A Adlestrop, Adlestrop afternoon,
all and, and and, and and, and and, and and,
and bare, because birds, blackbird,
by came, cleared close.
Cloudlets drew dry, express fair.
Farther, farther for Gloucestershire grass,
haycocks, heat high. Him his hissed.
I, I in it, June, late, left less lonely.
Meadowsweet minute. Mistier name, name.
No, no, no, of of on one, one, one
only Oxfordshire platform, remember round.
Sang. Saw someone. Sky. Steam still than that.
The the the the the the the the;
there, throat train! Unwontedly up
was, was what? Whit? Willow? Willow-herb?
Yes!
More here.
Strange Country: Poetry by Kimberly Campanello
Kimberly Campanello’s new collection is an exciting new work, that through the theme of the mythical Sheela na gig, explores the light and dark of Modern Ireland. Out now on The Penny Dreadful.
An Educated Desire: for Robert Sheppard at 60
Scott Thurston has edited a festschrift in celebration of Robert Sheppard’s sixtieth birthday, out now on Knives Forks and Spoons and available to buy for the reduced price of £10 until the end of December.
Knives Forks and Spoons: pop-up reading
The KFS pop-up reading series continues at 13:00 on the 12th of December 2015 in the public area of St Helens Central Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DY. The readers are Tom Jenks and Ann Matthews, who will be reading from her new book, Losing Boundaries.
Scott Thurston on The Verb
Scott Thurston is the Podcast Extra on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, episode from 27th November 2015, reading his poem inspired by Buber’s ‘I and Thou’, and examines the relationship between his poetry and Buber’s philosophy.
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Chris McCabe: two new publications
Mud is a version of the Orpheus myth involving a fake wizard, a camera crew, scallops that can speak and tonnes of mud. Out now as an ebook on Galley Beggar Press.
The Dedalus Poems, visual poems, inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses. Read more about it here.
Robert Sheppard: History or Sleep – Selected Poems
Robert Sheppard’s selection draws on every book of his poetry since Returns (1985) through to Words Out of Time (2015), and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his work and their restlessly changing forms. Out now on Shearsman.
if p then q Christmas sale
Poetry publishers if p then q currently has some books available at discount until the end of the year including the mighty Written 1976-2013 by P. Inman and the Not The Booker longlisted A Field Guide to Lost Things by Peter Jaeger.
derek beaulieu: The Unbearable Contact with Poets
if p then q is very pleased to announce a new publication of reviews, essays and interviews by poet derek beaulieu. The edition is available at a snip of £5 or as a free pdf edition.
The Unbearable Contact with Poets, derek beaulieu’s second selection of essays and reviews, is essential reading. A keen and shrewd essayist, he marks himself out as one of the key commentators on contemporary concrete and conceptual poetry. The selection includes a substantial review of concrete poetry by women, an exploration into concrete and conceptual poetic representations of the holocaust, alongside interviews with Tony Trehy, Natalie Simpson and Gregory Betts, as well as lots more. The edition is available as a free pdf and as a perfect bound copy.
derek beaulieu is author of eight books of poetry (including a volume of his selected poetry entitled Please, No More Poetry), four volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection Local Colour: ghosts, variations), 2 collections of critical writing and over 175 chapbooks, derek beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging in contemporary Canadian writing.
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Elizabeth Jane Burnett: A Preview
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet, critic and curator. Poetry includes: Her Body: The City, Exotic Birds and oh-zones and has been anthologised in Dear World And Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe). Criticism has appeared in journals such as the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Jacket, How2, Green Humanities. She has curated exhibitions with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) and is currently collaborating on a film on the poet John Clare. A collection on wild swimming and a monograph on the gift are forthcoming. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University in Birmingham.
Datableed issue 2
Anthony John, Bruno Neiva, Calum Gardner, Carleen Tibbetts, Dorothy Lehane, Ed Luker, Emilia Weber, Emilie Dufresne, Florence Uniacke, Haley Jenkins, Lawrence Uziell, Linda Kemp, Lisa Jayne, Luke Blake, Map 71 (Lisa Jayne & Andy Pyne), Mike Saunders, Naomi Weber, Nathan Walker, Rachel Warriner, Sarah Crewe, Sarah Rupp, Shana Bulhan Haydock, Sophie Mayer, Vicky Sparrow and Wanda O’Connor, here.
Place Waste Dissent: cut-up poetry/art exhibition
12 November – 10 December. The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3RU.
An exhibition of cut-up poetry and art from the new collection, Place Waste Dissent, by Paul Hawkins, out Nov 12th, pre-order here http://www.influxpress.com/place-waste-dissent/#.Vip_f6IkNE4
Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road.
Using the voices of Dolly Watson, Old Mick and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK.
From Claremont Road to Cameron via surveillance culture and Occupy: transient-beta memory traces re-surfacing along the A12. This collection is an important reflection on a historic site of resistance, offering us illumination, ideas and inspiration for the future.
The collage is taken from photographs by Julia Guest, Maureen Measure, Steve Ryan, Sarer Scotthorne, Susan Worth and personal photographs by Paul. On each page of the book the text and images have been cut and pasted by hand by Paul, and, in a long sequence of text/image called Flea, by poet Sarer Scotthorne.
‘This is not so much a book as an archive, a dataset or a dossier of evidence. At times reminiscent of Tom Phillips’ A Humument with its jump cut juxtapositions, liminal layers and luminous word wiring, Place Waste Dissent is nonetheless an utterly distinctive poetic document, weaving text and image to create a wakeful dream state of white noise, static and flux.’ Tom Jenks
website: https://placewastedissent.wordpress.com/
twitter: @PlayWDissent
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Fidelities, Ian Seed
Ian Seed says of Fidelities, ‘The poems here range from the lyrical to the more experimental, but I think that they all probe and explore a series of encounters and journeys. I see them as being faithful, “in their fashion”, to the truths they discover along the way’. This collection enacts an excursive articulation of the world and language, the shifts and creative repetitions found in both, between words and inside words, between moments and within moments: each poem finding its distinct poetic imperative to reveal these moves in the landscape in complex and subtle ways. The rhythms of these poetic journeys involve but also exceed the sonic; here is the shaping of the space and time of attention, a focus and intimacy that situates and then opens up, and into, our embodied encounters with the phenomenal world; here is presence, and reflection on presence and on being present. This is language as an eye that sees and a hand that touches and shapes, but also as ‘skin listening’. ‘We do not see from our bodies as from inside /a box. We pertain to the whole, we take our place /in the landscape, in the touching of the sleek and rough.’”
Patricia Farrell
Out now on The Red Ceilings.
Kenneth Goldsmith – Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century
Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century
Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.
Available from Verso – HERE
Best British Poetry 2015
Out soon on Salt and including Other Room performers Chris McCabe, Holly Pester, Sophie Robinson, Hannah Silva and Tom Jenks, plus future reader Sophie Mayer. Edited by Emily Berry.
The Wolf
An exclusive interview with Kelvin Corcoran. Niall McDevitt on David Gascoyne. Tom Jenks reviews Chris McCabe. John Kinsella on re-imagining place. Mexican Poetry feature. Patricia Farrell as Artist in Residence. Poems from Yang Lian, Michelle Cahill, Ellen Hinsey and much more. Out now.
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