Readers

Linda Kemp: a preview

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Linda Kemp will perform at the next Other room on Wednesday 13th April, 7 pm start. The other performers will be Stuart Calton, Gary Fisher and Rosanne Robertson. Scroll down for a preview of Stuart and check back here over the next couple of weeks for previews of Gary and Rosanne.

Linda Kemp works with poetry. Publications include Immunological (2014) and Blueprint (2015) and an album, speaking towards (2015) with enjoy your homes press. Recent work can be found in Blackbox Manifold, Datableed, e∙ratio, Gorse, Lighthouse, M58, and Shearsman. As a free improviser her work can be heard as one third of the trio Piggle, one half of the duos soft architecture and Thermal Threshold, with other improvisers and solo. More here.

Stuart Calton – a preview

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Stuart Calton will perform at the next Other Room on 13th April. For a flavour of his work, listen to Blepharospasms, above with more information about Stuart below and on his own website. The other performers are Gary Fisher, Linda Kemp and Rosanne Robertson. Previews of all three will appear here over the next few weeks.

Bio.: Stuart Calton is a poet based in Manchester.  He is also the musician THF Drenching.  His first few books were published by Barque Press in Brighton.  The best Barque ones are “Three Reveries” (2010) and “The torn instructions for no trebuchet” (2013) which are kind of love poems that deal with clams, Goethe, Amiri Baraka, sex, Melanie Klein, the repetition compulsion and loss.  His latest two books are self-published on own his imprint Drentpaper, part of his record label Council Of Drent. They are “Live At Late Dilated Ileum” (2015), a sequence about hernias, St Lucy of Syracuse, anality, a marmoset and several imaginary pubs, and his latest “Blepharospasms” (2016), which deals with dream interpretation, masochism, masculinity, Henri Rey, reparation, mania and 2Pac becoming a jellyfish.  It also features an ill-tempered stream of abuse directed indiscriminately at all drone music.  ENJOY HIS WORK.

Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt: February Preview

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At our next event on February 17th Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt’s collaborative written work The Fundamental Questions will be performed by members of the audience. Bennett & Weichbrodt won’t be present on the night but we’ve put together a couple of tasters to show where they’re coming from and it’s a good good place. The Fundamental Questions is available either as a pdf download – HERE or as a print book – HERE 

You have 7 days left to listen to BBC Radio 3’s The Late Junction featuring Bennett’s main project People Like Us  – HERE. People Like Us is at http://peoplelikeus.org/

We’ve featured Weichbrodt’s Google translation of Kerouac’s On the Road on our blog before. Check that out and other great things at http://ggor.de/

As usual the event is at the magnificent Castle Hotel on Oldham Street, Manchester. See the flier in the middle column for further details. Our other performers are Will Montgomery and Mark Leahy.

derek beaulieu: The Unbearable Contact with Poets

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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.

LINK to book’s page

Chris Pusateri: a preview

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Chris Pusateri will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 7th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 PM start, free entry. The other readers will be Robert Hampson, Alistair Noon and Michelle Naka Pierce. Read more about Chris here.

Robert Hampson: a preview

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZh_DAf8Zo

Robert Hampson will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 7th October. For a flavour of his work, try this clip of him reading at the 2013 Camaradefest. Full bio, for Robert below. The other readers are Michelle Naka Pierce, Alistair Noon and Chris Pusateri.

Robert Hampson has been involved in poetry and poetry publishing since the 1970s, when he co-edited Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards. His selected poems, Assembled Fugitives, was published by Stride in 2001. More recent publications include an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), reworked disasters (KFS, 2013), which was longlisted for the Forward Prize, and sonnets 4 sophie (pushtika, 2015). His best-known work is Seaport (1995), which was re-issued by Shearsman in 2008. He is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches on the Poetic Practice pathway of the MA in Creative Writing.

Rachel Sills: A Preview

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The next Other Room takes place on August 19th at 7pm at The Castle Hotel. See the middle column for more details.
Below is a sample from Rachel Sills’ collaboration with Richard Barrett Endless/Nameless:

Oblivion. Nothing: side-by-side on a bookshelf
Above a bookshelf. Where I keep last year’s diary
Volumes I – III and VI – VIII
They are not a legal proof, dreams
They melt into dark praline shadows
It’s your birthday tomorrow so “best wishes”
Or alternatively “bon voyage”
None of this matters of course (still I worry)
Note: avoid ledges, edges, suspension bridges
One room is not the house taken over
After this the conversation flags, imagining
(Easier to) the end of the world than the end of capitalism
And prefers his seascapes to be stormy
Meaning re time and motion: a different concept entirely

Stephen Emmerson Family Portraits out now from if p then q

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Family Portraits
Published July 2015
104 pp
£12.00 including postage and packaging UK
£19.00 including postage and packing worldwide

About the book
Stephen Emmerson’s Family Portraits is a series of blank canvases which ask the reader to fill in the blank(s) or leave the canvas just the way they see it. The book includes 9 portraits of each of the following types: Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Son, Daughter, Lover, Self-Portrait. The book also contains 8 lactose pills which can be taken to help see the portraits. Family Portraits is published as a lush hardback edition.

About the author
Stephen Emmerson’s publications include: ‘A never ending poem… (Zimzalla), Telegraphic Transcriptions (Dept Press / Stranger Press), No Ideas but in Things (Dark Windows Press), Albion (Like This Press), The Last Ward (Very Small Kitchen), Pharmacopoetics,(Apple Pie Editions) Stephen Emmerson’s Poetry Wholes (If P then Q), All my Pornography (The Red Ceilings), and Comfortable Knives (KFS).

samples and purchase details at the if p then q website HERE