Joanne Ashcroft will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 11th February at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD, 7 PM start. The above film is an experimental, stylised reading of Joanne’s What the tree saw sequence, which incorporates elements of the early Medieval Ogham alphabet. For more about Joanne, visit her own webpage or her entry at Robert Sheppard’s 25 Edge Hill Poets.
Robin Fencott has reflected on last year’s performance at The Other Room. You can see the performance in our archive in the middle column of this website.
The second piece, titled ‘Schläfli {5,3} Arduino Bluebird’ is based around typewritten text attached to the faces of a dodecahedron. I constructed the dodecahedron specifically for this performance and installed within it an accelerometer and wireless transmitter broadcast orientation information. During performance, rotating the dodecahedron caused changes to a range of live vocal processing and sound synthesis.
More HERE
SEMINAR
Creative Translation
Speaker: Peter Manson
18.30-20.30 in Room 246, Senate House (second floor), London
Contact: noelia.diaz-vicedo@qmul.ac.uk
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Tim Atkins and Philip Terry on Tuesday 20th January from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninety-sixth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex. He is the author of the lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors, and the poetry collections Oulipoems, Oulipoems 2, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets. His translations include Raymond Queneau’s last published book of poetry, Elementary Morality. Recent publications include the novel tapestry from Reality Street (2013), and Dante’s Inferno from Carcanet Press (2014).
Tim Atkins is a widely-translated and published poet, his work having appeared in The USA, Canada, France, Mexico, Catalunya, and the UK. Titles include Horace (O Books),The World’s Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt–a play (Stoma), 1000 Sonnets (if p then q), Honda Ode (Oystercatcher), Petrarch (Book Thug), and 25 Sonnets (The Figures). The Complete Petrarch — published by Crater — was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year for 2014 and was a book of the year in the American arts magazine Salon. A recent Summer Faculty member of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, h e is also editor of the online poetry journal onedit, and London correspondent for Lungfull poetry magazine.
Steven Fowler new and expanded website, with details of his many projects is online now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qBZD-84s-o
Claire Potter will perform at the next Other Room on Thursday 29th November, The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 PM start, free entry, book stall. The other performers are Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery.
The clip shows Claire performing at X Marks the Bökship in Bethnal Green, London. For more about Claire, visit her site.
Manson reveals English words hiding within the original French text of Mallarmé’s poems.
‘These pages are strewn with shreds of words: unevenly dispersed, semantically uncomfortable in each other’s company, they stumble together to make momentary meaning before drifting apart on the white space of the page.’
Sam Riviere and Robert Sheppard are both reading as part of the MIRIAM ALLOTT VISITING WRITERS series.
The reading is for The Centre for New and International Writing in the School of English, which is at University of Liverpool, 19 Abercrombie Square – in the School of the Arts Library on the first floor.
Wednesday November 26th 5pm
This is a FREE public event followed by wine reception.
Please sign up beforehand at www.miriamallottseries.eventbrite.co.uk
25/11/2014: VANESSA PLACE
Chair: Sharon Kivland
N.B. this will begin at 4 o’clock, ending at 5 o’clock
The Boston Review called Vanessa Place ‘the spokesperson for the new cynical avant-garde’, the Huffington Post characterised her work as ‘ethically odious’, and Dazed called her ‘the super cynical dark overlord of the poetry world’, while philosopher and critic Avital Ronell said she is ‘a leading voice in contemporary thought’. Vanessa Place was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial; a content advisory was posted. Place also works as a critic and criminal defense attorney, and is CEO of VanessaPlace Inc, the world’s first poetry corporation.
Site Gallery studio, Tuesday 25 November, 2.00 p.m, to 3.30 p.m.
Vanessa Place will give a workshop on conceptual poetics, open to fifteen students, in which various practices will be discussed and what makes something ‘conceptual’ versus simply having a concept. To book a place on the workshop, please email: S.Kivland@shu.ac.uk
New out from if p then q is Encyclops. by seekers of lice
40 pp
£4.00
About the book
A version of Encyclops. was handwritten on 142 paper bags with photographs and drawings. This work was exhibited at news of the world gallery, Deptford, London, November-December 2013. In this print version published by if p then q writing (encyclopedic bugs) is presented alphabetically. There is a sense of the style of Gertrude Stein of Tender Buttons & eroticism, perhaps a theme yet also a method used to intuit. Images and ideas are immediately in view then drift out again, just as fast, leaving the reader to return to the poem without knowing whether the experience is being repeated. It’s good good stuff.
About the author
seekers of lice is an artist and writer. Recent works include THEATRE OF OBJECTS 2012 (VerySmallKitchen) and Limber 2013 (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press).
Inman’s Written 1976-2013 is published today by Manchester publisher if p then q. The book is available for £20 and good postage rates are available both in the UK, USA and other locations.
The volume offers an incredible introduction and reappraisal of the work of one of the twentieth and twenty first century’s most outstanding poets. It includes the collections: Platin, Ocker, Uneven Development, Think of One, Red Shift, Criss Cross, Vel, at. least., amounts. to., Ad Finitum and Per Se in ‘final’ versions, as well as a number of other previously uncollected poems.
The volume also includes a sumptuous, lengthy essay by Craig Dworkin covering Inman’s career to date.
Without a doubt it is essential reading.
This is what Michael Golston has to say about the collection:
The collected P. Inman! It’s about time—and a lot of other words—many of which have never been seen or heard before. Inman’s half-century project of the complete dérèglement de tous la langue marks one of the endpoints of the great arc of American poetry, where the bow bends all the way to touch the ground. You’ll find a pot of linguistic gold there: Written is writing written at the limits of written writing. Accompanied by Craig Dworkin’s fantastic introductory essay, this book is sure to become a classic in the ongoing history of the avant-garde.
A Reality Street event.
2.30-3.00 pm (dead on)
6th of September 2014
Conway Hall Gardens, Red Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
This is part of a bigger programme at Free Verse
2.00-2.30 pm (dead on)
6th of September 2014
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
This is part of a bigger programme at Free Verse
A new issue of the online Shearsman Review edited by Ben Hickman features reviews of books including Chrissy Williams, Tony Lopez, Marianne Morris, Ken Edwards & Bill Griffiths.
The next Other Room takes place on August 13th at The Castle in Manchester and starts at 7pm: see the middle panel for more. Readers are Gareth Twose, Alison Gibb and M J Weller. Hope to see you there.
The next Other Room takes place on August 13th at The Castle in Manchester and starts at 7pm: see the middle panel for more. Readers are Gareth Twose, Alison Gibb and M J Weller.
Here’s a preview – part nine of his sequence Top Ten Tyres Ltd published by Red Ceilings Press
More details HERE
Out now from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press
otherroom.org 