Other Room reader Nathan Thompson’s The Day Maybe Died now available at www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk. Watch a film of his reading at The Other Room in July 2010 here.
Publications
Halfcircle III poetry journal launch party
15 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge (on Christ’s Pieces), from 6:30pm, Thursday 16th June.
With readings by:
- Emily Critchley
- Rosa Van Hensbergen
- Amy De’ Ath
- Jonty Tiplady
The 52-page journal features poems by:
Richard Barrett, John Wilkinson, James Cummins, Rosa Van Hensbergen, Laura Kilbride, Tom Graham, Amy De’ Ath, Andy Spragg, Tomas Weber, Emily Critchley, Lisa Jeschke, Charles Bernstein, Jonty Tiplady, Keston Sutherland and The Liquid Bros.
Images by Lara Hawthorne, Harry Sanderson, Timothy Crombie and David Savagar and a poetry postcard courtesy of infinite editions (edited by Andy Spragg) by Emily Critchley, Tom Graham, Gerry Loose and Tom Raworth.
The journal will be available for the special price of £4 (usual price £5) at the launch. Wine etc.
Maintenant #64: Željko Mitić
Whether birthed in collaboration or contradiction with its culture, a nation like Serbia is bound to produce iconoclastic and intractable poets. In Željko Mitić, the new Serbia has found a poet that speaks with a vitality and energy few can match, and in whom a generation has found representation. One of the very most exciting and imperative writers emerging in Europe, Mitić is a critic, a poet, a persona and his work is intense, humourous, satirical and pointed. With Zvonko Karanovic and Ana Božičević, he is amongst the many fantastic poets emerging from the Balkans in the new millenium, who are piece by piece overturning the proprietorial dominance of formal poetry and forcing themselves into recognition. A poet truly representative of the spirit of the Maintenant series, we welcome Željko Mitić as our 64th edition.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-64-zeljko-mitic/
Accompanying the interview are twelve of Željko’s poems.
Questions for Painters by Nathan Thompson
New ebook now available at Red Ceilings.
COPYS By Craig Dworkin
‘My idea for these poems is that they be like cigarettes. On the one hand, briefly intense and repaying as much focused contemplation as you want to give them — each is in fact composed according to a rigorous and elided formal logic — but then also, at the very same time, merely discardable amusements: quickly read and easily forgotten, thrown away without a second thought as soon as they are finished.’ — Craig Dworkin
Originally published in the UK by Matchbox in May 2007, No press is proud to return this rarely-seen edition to print.
Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale) each copy consists of 34 loose cards in a hand-typed envelope.
Copies are available for $8.00 each (including postage).
To order, please contact derek beaulieu.
Maintenant #63: Colin Herd
Inarguably symbolic of the dexterity and erudition of a new generation of Scottish poets, Colin Herd is an instantly memorable presence in the contemporary poetry scene north of the border. Deft, at times demure, urbane and insightful, his poetry is effusive in its grace and ease of motion. Yet Herd is a markedly energetic presence leading a resurgence of poetry in and around the city of Edinburgh. A critic of some note and already demanding a considerable following in both the UK and the United States (lauded by Dennis Cooper, amongst others) we are pleased he is our first Scots Maintenant inductee and another valuable addition to the growing record of contemporary European poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/
Accompanying the interview are six of Colin’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
It should also be mentioned Colin is going to be reading at the next Maintenant event in just under 3 weeks time.
Streetcake issue 17
Featuring:
- Sean Burn
- Steven Fowler
- Howie Good
- Katherine Holmes
- Katia Kashchavtseva
- James Stamford
- Thomas Wingfield
Read it here.
New Grasp chapbook
Poems, written between October and December 2010…
by FRANCESCA LISETTE, JONNY LIRON, JOE LUNA, and TIMOTHY THORNTON
LVRS
JL / LVRSLVRSLVRSLVRS / 24 A4 pp. w/pink cardstock photocopied covers / contents: FUCKING HELL, TRANSIT, LIFE, OVERLOVE, NINE LINES FOR STREET VIEW / ed. 2.0 / £4.50 postage paid / hizeroreadings@gmail.com
David Berridge, Black Gardens
David Berridge’s Black Garden’s has been published as a free e-book by The Red Ceilings Press. david will perform at The Other Room in August
Marco Giovenale, some texts
Some pdf texts of the first performer at The Text Festival Marco Giovenale:
Maintenant #61: Marcus Slease
Though the Maintenant series tries not to overstate the importance of the poet’s origin, practicality alone demands an attempt to show the range of European poetries with a representative range of nations. However in actually seeking out those poets creating exciting, original, genuinely evolutionary work, we find many cannot be tied to one single nation – they are migratory, multi-lingual – pan-European if not pan-global. Marcus Slease fits this archetype more than most. By birth he stands as the first Northern Irish poet to feature in our series. However by experience he is a poet of England, America, Poland, Italy, Turkey. Unsurprisingly he is an adroit and worldly writer, defined by his ability to remain elastic and fluid, and utterly unpretentious in his idiom, and yet fulfilling and resonant in his tone. His poetics are extremely contemporary, and yet they seem to maintain the confidence and solidity of time past. A major feature of the current London scene, we are pleased to introduce Marcus Slease as the 61st edition of Maintenant.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-61-marcus-slease/
Accompanying the interview are six of Marcus’ poems.
Commitment by Marianne Morris
Published May 2011, in collaboration with Bad Press
Limited edition has two-tone stencil cover and sparkly endpapers
Jonty Tiplady on Commitment:
Un dolce amaro, un si e no mi muovi: it is not enough to not commend. Reading this book, you are witness to what Pater calls ‘the struggle of a desolating passion, which yearns to be resigned and sweet and pensive’, and which then unaccountably is. Speed is not good enough, neither is poetry, the era of climate change is an error. I think of Prince confused by his experiments with ecstasy, he made Lovesexy. Morris knows that the psychic thing-cruelty of the art-thing is only almost unavoidable, and so the image-tail wags. Too too tout autre muse. Out of the strong came forth more sweetness. Not only should you read it, you should read it again slowly, and think on.
More here.
department #4
A magazine in print for innovative poetry & poetics, for cultural theory & social performance / cultural performance & social theory. A magazine dead set against the dead hand & deadly hands of instrumentalist reason & the banalisation / terrorisation / commodification of everyday life. A situation.
More here.
Stupefaction – Keston Sutherland
Stupefaction
A Radical Anatomy of Phantoms
Sutherland examines how speculative and satirical descriptions of stupidity function in art and in argument. His examples include Alexander Pope’s dunce, Adorno’s philistine, Wordsworth’s mechanical adopter of poetic diction, and phenomenologist Michel Henry’s drunkard who rides an escalator to nothingness. Sutherland also provides an important new account of the figure of the bourgeois in Marx and a powerfully original interpretation of commodity fetishism as a satire against bourgeois objectivity. This unusual analysis of the trope of the idiot will appeal to scholars of literature and philosophy alike.
Out now on The University of Chicago Press.
Maintenant #60: Luljeta Lleshanaku
It is hard to make a case against Luljeta Lleshanaku being the greatest Albanian poet of the modern era. Such is the measure of her work, and her repute across Europe and America. Her poetry reflects her marked humility and reverence for the written word, utterly unique and yet universal in a way that belies the overuse of that concept. Though a child of political exile and marginalization, let alone physical danger, her work remains dignified and singular, and nor does she allow her poetry to be dominated by the issues of her nation, of it’s politics and history. She is a voice that would be recognized as truly poetic in any language, in any setting and this perhaps her most remarkable achievement. A winner of the International Kristal Vilenica prize (following the likes of Peter Handke, Zbigniew Herbert & Milan Kundera) it is wonderful to announce her first work published in the UK will be released this September with Bloodaxe Books, already a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, and she will be attending this year’s Aldeburgh poetry festival in November . It is honour to introduce the 60th edition of Maintenant, a pioneer of Balkan poetry and a rightfully major figure in the current European poetry landscape.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-60-luljeta-lleshanaku/
Accompanying the interview are eight of Luljeta’s poems, translated by Ani Gjika.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/eight-poems-luljeta-lleshanaku/
Anything Anymore Anywhere 3
Action packed third issue starring:
Francis Crot, nick-e melville, Justin Katko, Posie Rider, Jacq Kelly, Iain Morrison, jim ferguson, Tony Leuzzi, Michael Farrell, Richard Barrett, J L Williams, S J Fowler, RODNEY RELAX, Rosa van Hensbergen, Thomas Moore, Pete McConville, Richie McCaffery and Greg Thomas
£4
Maintenant #59: Gabriele Labanauskaite
It appears self-evident that poetry is remarkably pliant, elastic and apt for innovation. As a sonic artform, poetry, in it‘s truest sense, grows as each individual practitioner allows themselves to explore their own culture, and so from certain artists there arrives unique and memorable experiments within the medium. For the Lithuanian poetry scene, it is Gabriele Labanauskaite who leads the way. Assured, intelligent and engaging, her sonic art is poetry, song & performance. Though a versatile poet, playwright & singer, she is renowned for her fusion of spoken poetry, music and sound, often as part of the collective AVaspo. Her work is explosive as well as satirical, wise as well as energetic and she embraces technological innovation while absorbing a myriad of aesthetics. She is the final poet representing the Maintenant Lithuania events held in London during April 2011 and we are delighted to welcome her as our 59th interviewee and poet.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-59-gabriele-labanauskaite/<
Accompanying the interview are ten of Gabriele’s poems, translated Translated by Ada Valaitis and Kenneth Smallwood.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ten-poems-gabriele-labanauskaite/
{Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications}June Saturday 18th 2011 – 7pm – Entrance Free – The Rich Mix arts centre. LondonSlovak poets Ivan ��trpka and Mila Haugova will be joined by a half 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. Further details to follow…
Hi Zero
Via Joe Luna:
Hi Zero 3 now on sale in super-limited stock (i.e. about 20 copies left). Slim but sleek and fine, with poems from Harry Gilonis (after Mayakovsky), John Wilkinson, Ed Luker, Jennifer Cooke, Sarah Kelly, Laura Kilbride, Edmund Hardy & Joe Luna. =A33.30 inland UK all told, probs a lil more outside. E-mail hizeroreadings@gmail.com to order yours.
Next Hi Zero on Tuesday 24th May, radically fulsome details coming soon, but it WILL feature: Edmund Hardy, Helen Macdonald AND Sophie Robinson.
Thanks for watching!
The Bury Poems
Text Festival publication. Poems in response to Bury.
Features: Geof Huth, Holly Pester, Ron Silliman, Tony Trehy, Phil Davenport, Carol Watts, Tony Lopez, Robert Grenier
otherroom.org 