Waves on a Boring Beach by Emma Hammond, poems written in Walthamstow Mall, out now on zimZalla.
Publications
Italian Lessons by Ian Seed
Italian Lessons, a new short story by Ian Seed, published by Like This Press, 24pp, hand-bound paperback with French folds.
DEVELOPMENT LAB – CALL OUT FOR APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT LAB – CALL OUT FOR APPLICATION
We are looking for disabled and non-disabled practitioners to take part in an intensive research and development LAB in either Liverpool, Peterborough orSouthend. These four day workshops are aimed at artists (from all artforms) that work with the body, movement and dance; or are curious to explore with others these themes.
The Metal LAB format is a facilitated work space for artistic enquiry, offering opportunities for exploration, reflection, conversation and risk taking. Led by disabled dance artist and Associate Producer at Metal Kate Marsh, the development LAB’s are all about exploring ‘the in-between’ – the space that sits beyond the binary of the ’normative’ and ‘othered’ body. The sessions will act as stimulus and springboard proposing new ways of seeing, new ways of moving and new ways of being together.
Each LAB will also be supported by a cohort of guest speakers and mentors. Those confirmed include: Luke Pell, Clare Cunningham, Dan Daw, Martin Forsberg, Dinis Machado, Scottee and Caroline Bowditch.
COMMISSIONS – After the LAB, attendees will be supported to develop R&D proposals for new commissions based on their research. The artists will be invited into residence at Metal to develop their ideas further supported by a commissioning fund. The resulting collaborative works will be shared locally, showcased at the Southbank Centre (London) and will form part of a new national symposium in 2018 in partnership with the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University (C-DaRE) to coincide with Unlimited http://weareunlimited.org.uk/
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY 17TH MARCH AT 5PM – FOR FULL DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY PLEASE CLICK HERE.
If you would like to discuss your application or have any further questions please contact Kate Marsh or Mark Richards via email.
Kate.marsh@metalculture.com
Mark.richards@metalculture.com
David Miller – From Late to Early
Free Ebook available at the LINK
Reading: Calton / Doherty / DeWitt / Cassels — 10.02.2017
PPS READING # 2: *STUART CALTON ~~ CAITLÍN DOHERTY ~~ JOHN DE WITT ~~ IMOGEN CASSELS (Cambridge, 10th Feb 2017)
The second reading in the Poetry Performance Series (PPS) features two visiting poets – Stuart Calton, from Manchester, and John De Witt, from Paris – alongside Cambridge’s Imogen Cassels and Caitlín Doherty. There will also be a book table. Please feel free to circulate info to those who might be interested.
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STUART CALTON
Stuart Calton is the author of the following books: Blepharospasms (2016), Live at Late Dilated Ileum (2015), The Torn Instructions for No Trebuchet (2013), Three Reveries (2010), The Corn Mother (2006), The Bench Graft (2004), United Snap Up (2004), and Sheep Walk Cut (2003). As a musician, he is the incomparable dictophonist TFH Drenching. His book Wimpy and André has just been released from MATERIALS press and will be on-sale on the night. A poem in ten sections, setting forth the interrelations between protagonists Wimpy, Climpy, Sandy and André, in a potentially infinite selection of mixed scenarios. Amongst other sounds, the poem includes the sounds of a car alarm, the thin barking of a radically rationalised trick poultice, a shout, a voice, silence, static, galloping and The Lark Ascending played triple-speed nine octaves up like rain on a steel bin-lid over a rave synth line.
“Just too big. Firstly way too big. And then just right.”
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CAITLÍN DOHERTY
Caitlín Doherty is the author of O (Foule Press, 2012) and Satellites (Tipped Press, 2012).
About the latter, China Miéville has written in the Guardian:
“Doherty, an outstanding young poet, uses our orbital trash, the bric-a-brac of communication tech and a deflating space race as a hook for her interrogations. Even a familiar notion is reinvigorated: the pathos of the first dog in space is not a subject previously untouched, but in her eulogy to Laika, Doherty marries cool rigour and generosity without sentimentality, and if you can get to the end without tearing up you’re stronger than I.”
Doherty is also the poetry editor of the journal Salvage, and her new book, Our Party, is forthcoming from Critical Documents.
“could you plan on my improvement
could it be wagered thus
a silk drape and a massage of the air
a yankee candle and the Tory grandee
unlabouring harmony
ah”
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JOHN DE WITT
John DeWitt was born in Mexico City, later moved to Nashville, and now lives in Paris. He is the author of Ends (Tipped Press, 2011), and Visceral Apocrypha (Shit Valley, 2013) and co-wrote, with Rosa Van Hensbergen, as Bill Ding, Buildings (Tipped Press, 2012).
“Nevermind spirits, it was motherfucker(!)
Motherfucker how could you have me at the end of my legs
He shook his fist at the chairs, at the light, maybe even at the flowers in the garden
as motherfucker has such a small mouth for the world
and such a ponytail floating in the wind”
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IMOGEN CASSELS
Imogen Cassels is from Sheffield and reads English at Cambridge. She was a Young Poet on the Underground in 2015, and in 2016 was a winner of the Poetry Business New Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in Blackbox Manifold, The Literateur, Ambit, and the LondonMagazine.
“Somewhere they are watching rockets bombing
with fireless grace. Somewhere we end up
fucking in our sleep, and are disturbed by waking.”
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Friday 10th February [2017], 7.30pm.
Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty Building, Cambridge.
Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk <mailto:dmg37@cam.ac.uk>), Rosa Van Hensbergen (rv252@cam.ac.uk <mailto:rv252@cam.ac.uk>) or Janani Ambikapathy (ja555@cam.ac.uk <mailto:ja555@cam.ac.uk>) for further details.
Hope Alt Delete by Nikki Dudley
Nikki Dudley’s HOPE ALT DELETE is out now at http://knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/hopealtdelete.html
Yellow Lines Drawn on Sheets of A4 Paper and then Placed in a Box – Episode 4
The 4th tape of poet James Davies making and describing his work ‘Yellow Lines Drawn on Sheets of A4 Paper and then Placed in a Box’
Pedicure by Tom Betteridge from Sine Wave Peak
P E D I C U R E
a new book of poems by Tom Betteridge
published by Sine Wave Peak
January 2017
“Pedicure remains a pleasure, read at any speed or hovered over. Filtered through a fairy feller’s garden of delights, music layers merge as language zooms through thought to focus bracketed by timed description. Pages twitch body pollen mist to drift across purls in wine. All this under a Gulley Jimson foot: on record, grateful.”
– Tom Raworth
hand-sewn paperback with French folds and a foil-embossed cover, edition of 250
The O and the Owl by Leanne Bridgewater
The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “The O and The Owl” by Leanne Bridgewater
Description:
An eco-sound-poem in 50 parts
“The O and The Owl” is about a play on letter ‘o’ and the ‘owl’ as a word, phonically, but also metaphorically: environment; animal instinct; nature. We have become so dependent on having to know what everything means, we ask it too much. The O and The Owl – what does it mean? It has no formal meaning but it asks you ‘what do you think / what do you see / do you see the play on word / do you see the oblong rhythm / do you see the hidden politics / do you feel tongue-twisted / do you see the micro-meanings instead of ‘what is the true meaning of this?’ – Language’s seatbelt has become unfastened, landing face-down in earth where the tongue licks and sniffs at it in a playful manner – and then the owl comes!
Available as a free ebook here:
http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THE%20O%20AND%20THE%20OWL.pdf
Full Argotist Ebooks catalogue here:
New MATERIALS Books: Okulu // Calton // Chalmers // Weber
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GIZEM OKULU– TOO SLICED FOR LANDING
Published January 2017
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Gizem Okulu’s first book is a sequence of 31 poems which, in broken and extended lines, explore the terrifying possibility of lack of speech, of blocked communication: a poetry written between languages and countries which both bridges and attests to the gap, the chasm that “opens / up / isolated / and / frightened”. These are poems haunted by political catastrophe: poems about wandering, fleeing, fogs and rivers, conditions of exile and danger, marked at times by flashes of biting humour and throughout by intense commitment.
“I do not belong here nor there I say but here I want to make you a house from the memories of every woman you ever had before like the resistance of senses meeting for one last time in the mirror we slept between the rivers and smokes in earthquake lights all day and night in the cities against the sun.”
Gizem Okulu is a poet who has published poems in Datableed, Intercapillary Space, &c. and is studying for a Ph.D at Royal Holloway. She lives in London.
38 pp, card covers (red), side stapled.
Errata. [11] For ‘Anotolia’ read ‘Anatolia’.
[29] For ‘women’ read ‘woman’.
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STUART CALTON – WIMPY AND ANDRÉ
Published January 2017
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A poem in ten sections, setting forth the interrelations between protagonists Wimpy, Climpy, Sandy and André, in a potentially infinite selection of mixed scenarios. Amongst other sounds, the poem includes the sounds of a car alarm, the thin barking of a radically rationalised trick poultice, a shout, a voice, silence, static, galloping and The Lark Ascending played triple-speed nine octaves up like rain on a steel bin-lid over a rave synth line. You need to read it.
“Just too big. Firstly way too big. And then just right.”
Stuart Calton is the author of the following books: Blepharospasms (2016), Live at Late Dilated Ileum (2015), The Torn Instructions for No Trebuchet (2013), Three Reveries (2010), The Corn Mother (2006), The Bench Graft (2004), United Snap Up (2004), and Sheep Walk Cut (2003). As a musician, he is the incomparable dictophonist TFH Drenching.
34 pp, card covers (pink), side-stapled.
Listen! to Stuart reading a footnote to the book (“In the air above the abyss…” — The First Manifesto of Inter-Subjective Bureaucratic Pointillism, an unintegrated footnote to Wimpy & André (Calton, S. (2016). Wimpy & André. Cambridge: Materials Press). Your foot.): HERE.
Read! a review of Live at Late Dilated Ileum: HERE.
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CHRISTINA CHALMERS – WILLINGNESS
Published January 2017
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A collection of work written between 2013 and 2015, this is Christina Chalmers’ second book, and her first since Work Songs (2013). Divided into three sections, and containing poems such as ‘The International’, ‘The Arms Left Over’ and ‘Dragonfly Abattoir’.
“My German is
bad. My bed is a beautiful green lido. I drink
to municipal menthol. I grow more
sad.”
Christina Chalmers was born in Edinburgh, studied in Cambridge, lived in London, and has recently relocated to New York. Her poetry has been published widely in such on- and off-line venues as:Datableed, Materials, Sundial, and Rivet.
38pp, covers in gold paper, side stapled.
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NAOMI WEBER – VERY LONELY ANIMALS
Published November 2016
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Naomi Weber’s lyric sequence Very Lonely Animals sprawls across its pages in slabs of delicate observation, working through the condition of innerness and outerness, fragmentation and totality. The locations of these poem are wide open, seas and coasts, rooms in which people nestle and seek protection, but from which they pereptually seem to be on the verge of leaving: the line ripens in sounds unfolding within and across the break, lulling or obscuring.
This is poetry that sings it own song, almost to itself, from just off-centre.
“This world we love and keep our love in keeps
Tearing our hands
The shreds around nails dragging behind
Looking around for gazes to meet
Digging bone to neighbourly flesh
God help me I am trying to be kind
But what other worlds have you given us
To serve, says a secret prayer”
Naomi Weber is a poet who has published poems in Datableed, No Money, &c. She has another new book forthcoming from Tim Thornton and Verity Spott’s The Winter Olympics Press.
14pp, card covers (purple), side-stapled.
Veer Launch (Ashford, Cobbing, Harvey, Terry)
Dear All – notice of the upcoming Veer Launch at Iklectik.
Veer Launch (Ashford, Cobbing, Harvey, Terry)
Tuesday, 7th February@ Iklictik Art Lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo, London SE1 7LG, UK, 7pm.
With readings from David Ashford, launching SEDITION-MACHINES, and Philip Terry launching Bad Times.
We will also be launching the new Complete Poems by James Harvey, edited by David Miller, Keith Jebb and Antony John, who will read on the night, along with Matt Martin, and alongside recordings of James Harvey.
We will also be launching the new edition of Jennifer Pike Cobbing’s Computer Dances. As you’ll know Jennifer sadly passed away on December 11th last year, while the book was in preparation. We are very happy to be able to launch it nonetheless and to celebrate Jenny’s extraordinary work on the night. Reading and speaking on the night will be Adrian Clarke, Ulli Freer, William Rowe, Elizabeth James, cris cheek, montenegrofisher, Steve Willey and Becky Cremin.
New look Reality Street website
The Reality Street website has had a complete makeover for 2017. There’s a new banner, showing all the books currently in print, and we’ve tried to make the design more internally consistent and cleaner.
Most importantly, it’s now, at long last, optimised for smart phones and tablets, so it no longer looks rubbish on these devices.
We’ve also made an attempt to weed out errors, out-of-date links and other anomalies. Please take a look, and let us know if anything is still not quite right.
Finally, many prices have been brought down, so you may find a bargain or two here.
Please visit http://www.realitystreet.co.uk
Rachel Blau DuPlessis in Sheffield
The Centre for Poetry & Poetics presents a poetry reading with: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Theatre Workshop, 4a Sherwood Road, S10 2TD University of Sheffield
Friday 20th January 2017, 17.45pm
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and essayist, feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. She is the author of the multi-volume long poem Drafts, (1986-2012), from Salt Publishing and Wesleyan called “one of the major poetic achievements of our time” by Ron Silliman. Post-Drafts books include Interstices (Subpress, 2014),Graphic Novella (Xexoxial Editions, 2015), the collage-poem Numbers (in press) and a companion long poem, Traces. She has written a trilogy of critical essays on gender and poetics: The Pink Guitar, Blue Studios and Purple Passages, several other critical books, as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). http://rachelblauduplessis.com/
EMMA COCKER TRANSMISSION LECTURE AND BOOK LAUNCH
TUESDAY 24 JANUARY
Join us on for an evening with Sheffield artist Emma Cocker.
From 4.30pm – 6pm, Emma will give a lecture about the wider context of her practice as a writer-artist, as part of the Transmission Lecture Series, a series of free art lectures produced by Site Gallery in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University’s Fine Art Department.
Following the lecture at Sheffield Hallam University, join us at Site Gallery from 6pm for the launch of Emma’s first collection of writing – The Yes of the No (published by Site Gallery in 2016). Emma will read from the book at 7pm.
Existing in the space between imaginative proposition and a call to action, The Yes of the No is an assemblage of provocations, proposals and potential ways of operating — ranging from navigating the city and inhabiting the margins to errant acts of reading; from preparing for the unexpected to learning how to ‘not know’, from minor acts of singular sedition to collective expressions of an insurgent ‘we’.
Emma Cocker is a writer-artist based in Sheffield and Reader in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Cocker’s work often addresses the endeavour of creative labour, focusing on models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist the pressure of a single, stable position by remaining wilfully unresolved. Her recent writing has been published in Failure (2010); Stillness in a Mobile World (2011); Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought (2011); Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art (2012); On Not Knowing: How Artists Think (2013); Reading/ Feeling (2013) and Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2017).
SJ Fowler: new for 2017
Some new books / plays / courses / exhibitions / events for the first half of the year upcoming.
New Publications
The Guide to Being Bear Aware : a new poetry collection published by Shearsman Books. Launched at York Literature Festival on March 29th, Kingston Writing School April 5th, Arnolfini in Bristol on April 6th and in London, at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, on April 11th www.stevenjfowler.com/bearaware
I fear my best work behind me : my debut art book – art brut portraiture, abstract illustration and handwritten poems, published by Stranger Press. May 2017. www.stevenjfowler.com/ifear
Subcritical Tests with Ailbhe Darcy – A full length collaborative collection of poetry and one of the first titles, and the very first poetry book, to be published by Gorse. Summer 2017. www.stevenjfowler.com/subcriticaltests
The Words Moving : poems on cinema – Limited edition poetry collection, each poem responding to a film, from The Devils to Angel Heart, from Salo to Jurassic Park, published by Pyramid Editions. Summer 2017 www.stevenjfowler.com/wordsmoving
Theatre
Mayakovsky As part of Rich Mix’s programme exploring the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new experimental play on Vladimir Mayakovsky. Performed alongside new works by playwrights Petra Freimund, Larry Lynch and others. www.stevenjfowler.com/mayakovsky
Courses
Inventing Rauschenberg at Tate Modern – Exploring the life and legacy of Robert Rauschenberg, with a course following his innovative and wide ranging practise connected to the exhibition ongoing. 20 Feb – 20 March – Monday evenings : 18.45–20.45, in the galleries at Tate Modern. Booking here.
Exhibitions
Worm Wood with Tereza Stehlikova – A collaborative exhibition at Kensal Green Cemetery Dissenter’s Chapel and Gallery running 100 days from May to September 2017. Featuring new works of video, text art and installation, the exhibition will feature an event programme, including guided walks and workshops, exploring disappearing west London. www.stevenjfowler.com/wormwood
Visual Poetry at Museum of Futures : February 18th to March 5th. A group show of new visual and concrete poetry, text art and avant-garde sculpture, drawing in artists and poets from South West London for the exhibition in Surbiton. http://www.theenemiesproject.com/futures
Curatorial
North x North West Poetry Tour : Visiting six cities across January and February, this tour of collaborative ‘Camarade’ events will draw in dozens of poets from across the region, endemic of the resurgence of avant-garde and literary poetry in the north of England in the last decade plus. New collaborations between myself and Chris McCabe, Amy Cutler, Nathan Walker & more. Curated with Tom Jenks. Supported by Arts Council England. www.theenemiesproject.com/northwest
Fiender: Swedish Enemies – January 28th at Rich Mix: Free
20 poets present 10 brand new collaborations to celebrate the visit of some of Sweden’s, and Europe’s most interesting writers. A new collaboration with Aase Berg, alongside poets including Elis Burrau & Holly Corfield Carr, Kathryn Maris & Patrick Mackie, Annie Katchinska & Mark Waldron. Curated with Harry Man. Supported by Arts Council Sweden. www.theenemiesproject.com/fiender
University Camarade II – February 25th at Rich Mix: Free
The University Camarade asks pairs of creative writing students from different Universities in the UK to collaborate on short new works of poetry or text, for performance. The second event in the series features students from Kingston University, Oxford Brookes, York St John, Kent, Essex, York and Royal Holloway www.theenemiesproject.com/unicamarade
English PEN Modern Literature Festival – April 1st at Rich Mix : Free
30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world. The festival continues English PEN’s relationship with innovative contemporary literature over an extraordinary day. The 2017 festival will feature Denise Riley, Hannah Silva, Sandeep Parmar, Vahni Capildeo, Luke Kennard, Nathan Jones, Tony White, Matthew Welton, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Sasha Dugdale & many others. www.theenemiesproject.com/englishpen
Integration Alone Is Not Enough – Concrete poetry exhibition
Curated by Andrew Hunt
3 February, 2016 – 24 March, 2017
Richard Saltoun 111 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 6RY
Richard Saltoun is pleased to present an exhibition of works of concrete poetry rarely seen in the UK, including artists Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Tom Edmonds, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Peter Mayer, Charles Verey and Edward Wright.
Wayne Clements video from The Other Room December 2016
Kerry Morrison video from The Other Room December 2016
Galatea Resurrects’ 2016 Poetry Recommendations
A long and interesting list, with mentions for Other Room readers Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Peter Hughes, Alistair Noon, Michelle Naka Pierce,.Eléna Rivera and Rachel Sills. More here.
Tripwire issue 12
TRIPWIRE 12 :
AKA VANCOUVER: WRITING FROM THE UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES
featuring Mercedes Eng * Anahita Jamali Rad * Amy De’Ath * Cecily Nicholson * Danielle LaFrance * ryan fitzpatrick * Roger Farr * Sonnet L’Abbe * Phinder Dulai * Jordan Abel * Rita Wong * Stephen Collis * Andrea Creamer * Fred Wah * Jeff Derksen * Christine Leclerc * Carolyn Richard * Donato Mancini * Renée Sarojini Saklikar * Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite * Tiziana La Melia & Vanessa Disler * Danielle Lafrance & Anahita Jamali Rad on About a Bicycle * Natalie Knight on Cecily Nicholson * Jules Boykoff on Mercedes Eng * Gregory Betts on Lisa Robertson * Louis Cabri on Catriona Strang * Deanna Fong on Jordan Scott * Rob McClennan & Julia Polyck-O’Neill on Jordan Abel * Cameron Scott on Colin Smith, plus a special Peter Culley tribute, with work from Peter & Elisa Ferrari * Colin Smith * Rolf Maurer * George Bowering * Lisa Robertson * Chris Nealon * Lee Ann Brown * Stephen Collis * Jonathan Skinner. Cover by Andrea Creamer. 300+ pages. $15
Also: for the month of January, I’m running a special, with all proceeds going to the Bay Area AntiRepression Committee. Get issues 10 (CAConrad feature), 11(¡POP!), & 12 for $30 (plus shipping). That’s close to 1000 pages of new writing! Details at tripwirejournal.com
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