Maintenant #67: Kirmen Uribe

Kirmen Uribe is a basque poet who has become a world poet. A pioneer and a sensation in Spain, a true representative of the new and modern from one of Europe’s most distinct cultures and languages, Kirmen is already one of the most celebrated literary figures in the history of Basque literature. His is the first Basque language collection to be published and translated in full by an American publisher, and he is the winner of numerous awards, reading his work at festivals around the world. His work is unsurprisingly unique – graceful in its vitriol, singular but not solipsistic. He is the standard bearer of a nation as it moves into new realms of poetic expression, for the 67th edition of Maintenant we are proud to bring you Kirmen Uribe.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-67-kirmen-uribe/

Accompanying the interview are two of Kirmen’s poems, translated from the Basque by Elizabeth Macklin.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/2-poems-kirmen-uribe/

Hot Gun!

An Ed Dorn special issue featuring:

i) a selection of poems by Timothy Thornton, Nour Mobarak, The Rejection Group, Francesca Lisette, John Wilkinson, Alexander Nemser, Jonty Tiplady, Luke Roberts and Justin Katko; and ii) a section of work on and by Edward Dorn, including essays by Reitha Pattison, John Armstrong, Kyle Waugh and Richard Owens; two unpublished poems by Dorn, “The Poem of Dedication” and “Osawatomie”, with notes by Justin Katko; and Dorn’s introductory note to The Book of Daniel Drew as well as an uncollected poem, “To Tom Pickard & the Newcastle Brown Beer Revolutionaries”.

The Claudius App

A new online journal with essays and poems in textual and audio form. First issue features Charles Bernstein, Brice Bogher, Joshua Clover, Emily Dorman, Robert Fernandez, David Gorin, Simon Jarvis, Kent Johnson, Francesca Lisette, Joe Luna, Marianne Morris, Sara Nicholson, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Giulio Pertile, Vanessa Place, Daniel Poppick, Margaret Ross, Rod Smith, Colby Somerville, Keston Sutherland and Michael Thomas Taren, here.

Frances Kruk – Down You Go

FRANCES KRUK | DOWN YOU GO, OR,NÉGATION de BRUIT (APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBERT)

“The most pathetic poem is small people on fire”

Frontis piece constructed by gustave morin.

Two color silk screen on construction grade brown packing paper wrapped around black bristol cover. Interior printed on Mohawk Superfine. Set in Bodoni and Gill Sans. Hand stitched.

$5.00 US | $8.00 outside the US

http://damnthecaesars.org/punchpress.html

New Craters; Guthrie / Atkins

The new Crater, the 13th, is Elizabeth Guthrie’s X Portraits; 10 odd and unsettling lyrical non-lyric realizations of portraits of America and Britain.  Accurate representations of modern life!  Each copy includes an individual painted iteration by E.G. reminiscent of 3 stoppages etalon‘s dropped string measure; they all include a wood block by Dirk E. Lee and are letterpressed, handbound &c.  Requires paperknife.  £7 + p&p.  Tim Atkins on Guthrie: ‘Elizabeth Guthrie’s poems – thoughtful, unusual, tender & (of course) tough – do far more interesting acrobatics than so so many of the more – shall we say? – pumped up ones. It is a joy to see her appearing in this latest Crater. Who can say no to it?’
Also: in honour of the impending London Ezra Pound conference, Tim Atkins offers 3 Ezra Pound themed Pet Soundz, available on a poetry-poster with a nice blue rendition of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska on the other side.  £3 + p&p, available in unfolded or (cheaper) folded format. Guthrie on Atkins: ‘With Tim Atkins’ poetry, it is all where you find (you have found) he has found and placed the voice. It is all vivid joy and sorrow, distinct again and again in its rolling locale, within its expansive palate contemporary and timeless, completely unleashed and discerning as it turns its attention into forms of each and any place of our worlds.’

See www.craterpress.co.uk

AVENIR – Julius Kalamarz

zimZalla object 009, AVENIR by Julius Kalamarz, is now available.

AVENIR is a series of synesthetic (grapheme → color) interpretations of color fields. The interpretations, and their corresponding colors, are presented on 24 cards housed within a box. The monochromes of Yves Klein inspired the concept, while the Event Scores of George Brecht inspired its presentation.

Click here to find out more, view a sample or buy a set.

Maintenant #66: Valzhyna Mort

The emigration of European poets to the United States appears a tradition in its own right, and a luminous one at that. The effect of Miłosz, Brodsky et al on American poetry resonates even today, perhaps even to the extent that a restrictive romanticism has emerged in the poetic consciousness of global poetics toward Eastern European poets in the US. Through the celebrated work of Valzhyna Mort that Eastern European influence continues, but abated in reconstituted voice utterly individual and unique. Winner of the Crystal of Vilenica poetry award, lauded on both sides of the continent, Mort is a resolute and dexterous presence in contemporary East coast American poetry circles. A native of Belarus, her poetry is remarkable for its elegance and fluidity, and its ability to maintain an idiom both utterly modern and somehow enduring. For the 66th edition of the Maintenantseries, Valzhyna Mort.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-66-valzhyna-mort/

Lobe Scarps & Finials by Geraldine Monk

Via Alan Halsey:

Published by Leafe Press
& also available from West House Books (orders to info@westhousebooks.co.uk , postfree in UK, payment by cheque or Paypal

Lobe Scarps & Finials by Geraldine Monk
£8.95 / $14.50. 104 pages

Leafe Press are excited to announce the publication of the latest book by Geraldine Monk. This new collection features the controversial “A Nocturnall Upon S Lucies Day”, a newly revised “Raccoon” and three new sequences: “Glow in the Darklunar Calendar”, “Print & Pin” and “Poppyheads”.

The book is available on Amazon, but it would help Leafe Press if you bought it directly from us via our website.

Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has published a series of 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 was brought out in 2007 by Salt Publishing.

‘Monk is more attuned to the physical heft of words than any other poet working in English today’

Simon Turner, Horizon Review

“Monk’s latest collection shows a continuing foray into the alchemy of language and a reclamation of the visceral soundscapes of loss and celebration…the poems can seem little miracles of construction.”

Chris Emery, Jacket Magazine on “Noctivagations”.

“Geraldine Monk’s poetry activates words, makes them events rather than hollow vessels for received understanding. They play, clash, spark and rub up against one another in unpredictable ways with unforeseen consequences.”

Julian Cowley, The Wire

Painted Spoken at ten

Painted, spoken commiserate/celebrates its tenth year of publication with issue 21, comprising poetry by:

Amy Anderson
Tim Atkins
Isobel Dixon
Francesca Lisette
James McGonigal
Peter McCarey
Valerie Josephs
Peter Manson
Catherine Wagner

And in the Prose Supplement:

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan [text-based works reflecting on / refracting their collaborative practice]
Kristen Krieder on / through / via PolyPly
Alistair Peebles on Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Orkney
Richard Price on film-maker & poet Margaret Tait
Peter McCarey on Ilôt 13 [Improvisation / Sound Art in Geneva]

Available almost free (send two A5 envelopes, each with two second class stamps on them) to: 24 Sirdar Rd, London, N22 6RG.

via Richard Price (ed.)

Maintenant #65: Marco Giovenale

There are figures emerging in European poetry that are defined by their refusal to be limited to one form of poetic, who increasingly maintain their central concerns across sound, visual and linguistic mediums. Then within this group, there are those who are breaking new ground, following in the footsteps of poets as agile as Apollinaire and Mallarmé, whose explicit concerns shed new light on what we might consider poetry. Marco Giovenale is one of the most gifted of Europe’s new breed of poets, and a leading practitioner in the field of asemic writing. The remarkable art of asemic text is one of the most enlivening areas of contemporary poetry – a wordless, semantic, post-lingual poetry that utilises the figuration and trace of handwriting and automatic writing to create superimposed abstract poems and ideograms of visual poetry. Drawing influence from postmodern Chinese calligraphy, the work of Brion Gysin, Roland Barthes, Henri Michaux, Christian Dotremont and others, and the field of undecipherable semiotics, asemic poetry is a beautiful and fascinating practise, and Marco Giovenale is one of the most talented and seminal artists in the field. A prolific journalist, publisher and critic and a respected performer across Europe, we are proud to welcome Marco Giovenale as our first Italian poet into the Maintenant series.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-65-marco-giovenale/

Accompanying the interview are eight of Marco’s poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/eight-poems-marco-giovenale/

Sous Les Paves

SOUS LES PAVÉS is a quarterly newsletter of poetry & ideation. The latest issue features:

  • Brooks Johnson
  • Rodrigo Toscano
  • Emily Critchley
  • William Fuller
  • Linh Dinh
  • Roberto Harrison
  • John Beer
  • Tyrone Williams
  • Tim Atkins
  • j/j hastain
  • Jerome Rothenberg
  • Hoa Nguyen
  • Mary Burger
  • Sotère Torregian
  • The Rejection Group
  • Brenda Iijima
  • Micah Robbins
  • Edmond Caldwell
  • Frances Kruk
  • Warren Craghead

Tamarin Norwood: Art / Writing in June and July

In addition to her Other Room reading on 20th July, you can find Tamarin Norwood at the following places over the next couple of months:

 

Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
16 June – 6 August (opening 16 June, 6-8pm)

This exhibition will show how reading and interpreting literature is – in diverse ways – at the core of some of the most renowned contemporary artists’ practices: Allotrope, antepress, Julie Bacon, Ecke Bonk, Pavel Büchler, Davide Cascio, Tacita Dean, Cerith Wyn Evans, Maria Fusco, Kenneth Goldsmith, Rodney Graham, Joanna Karolini, Sean Lynch, Simon Morris, Brian O’Doherty, Michalis Pichler,Tim Rollins, Andrea Theis, Nick Thurston and Eric Zboya. Curated by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes.

Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications
Rich Mix, London
Saturday 18 June, 7pm

Ivan Štrpka – Mila Haugova – Marcus Slease – Tamarin Norwood – Jonty Tiplady – Colin Herd – James Wilkes.
Arc Publications’ Six Slovak Poets includes work by a generation who started publishing in the 1960s, who lived through the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and saw the 1993 division of the country give birth to today’s Slovak Republic. Emilia Haugovà and Ivan Štrpka, two of the collection’s contributors, will read alongside half a dozen London-based poets to celebrate the sixth event in the Maintenant series held at the Rich Mix arts centre in London’s Brick Lane. As ever, the Maintenant series will advocate a diverse selection of poetic methodologies, ages & nationalities – collecting together some of the most interesting poets Europe has to offer.

The Urban Physic Garden
100 Union Street, London SE1 0NL
Friday 22 July, 7-9pm
This summer an Urban Physic Garden will bloom on a slice of neglected London land. The garden will provide a platform for artists, designers, gardeners and health practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. It will be a place for lively debate – an outside space where a range of people can come together to explore the role of plants in science, health, well-being and the environment, including readings of new poetry commissioned for the garden on 22 July.

activate Journal issue 1, Vol. 1.
Published May 2011
activate is a peer-reviewed electronic journal based in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at Roehampton University, London. The contributions to the inaugural issue, On the paper floor: exploring writing practices, share a concern with language “not as a text, but, as an event”, as Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, has aptly noted (1999, p. 105). This publication’s aim is to explore the notion of writing as a way of performing as well as the ways that performance is being elaborated through linguistic and writing processes; and in this way, to expand the forms and ways that one can “make writing perform” (Pollock 1998, p. 75). Includes my article The Inscription of Art and Everyday Life: How Being Slips into Performance.

Mulberry Tree Press: Partial Fictions
Published May 2011
A collaboration between SE8 (Nicolas de Oliveira, Jonathan Houlding, Nicola Oxley), and St Pierre & Miquelon. This collection of partial fictions is the outcome of a collaborative project on the relationship between objects, location and language. In particular, it is concerned with the translation or transcription that takes place in order to facilitate the passage from one place to another, from the studio and the gallery to the printed page. Includes my antepress collaboration with Patrick Coyle and conductor Anthony Weeden, Getting to the Point.