From the vaults. We’ve finally archived Carrie Etter’s videos. You can find them in the middle column for future use.
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LUCY HARVEST CLARKE & STEPHEN EMMERSON: WITH ALL WINDOWS A NET CAST DYES THE WORLD
A collaboration is now available at Very Small Kitchen, HERE
Helmut Lemke – a preview
Helmut Lemke will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 12th June at The Castle in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. For a flavour of his work, try this film of a performance in Sheffield last year or visit his site for much more. The other performers will be Ira Lightman and Peter Jaeger.
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – Postcards
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks’ collaboration enters its third phase with a collection of digital postcards, featuring John Betjeman, Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin jostling for position with Sid James, Kenneth Williams and an outsize anthropomorphised sausage. These postcards will be unveiled live at the next of SF Fowler’s Camarade events on 7th July at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London. They will also be part of their July 19th performance at The Other Room’s extra summer event in Leeds. More details of this to follow in due course.
The Other Room July update
We can confirm the performers for our July gig at Leeds Gallery (not Leeds Art Gallery). A very special visit from Hazel Smith, Ryan Ormonde coming from London and The Other Room’s Tom Jenks’ and Chris McCabe’s uproarious shindig collaboration Gnomes; now in its third guise. Before that of course at our new home in Manchester, The Castle, we welcome Peter Jaeger, Ira Lightman and Helmut Lemke on June 12th, details in the column to the right. August 14th in Manchester sees Frank Kuppner, Nathan Jones and David Gaffney whoop it up.
Ira Lightman: a preview
Ira Lightman will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 12th June at The Castle in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. For a flavour of Ira’s work, try this film of a recent reading at JibbaJabba, Ira’s own site, some poems at Salt Publishing or some more poems at Peony Moon. His most recent book is PHONE IN THE ROLL, is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons press.
Performing with Ira will be Peter Jaeger and Helmut Lemke. Previews of both to follow soon.
Matt Dalby: Chevassut/Waking
Other Room performer Matt Dalby has two recent free net label sound releases. The first, Chevassut, is available on osg and the second, Waking, is available on electronic musik. Lots more can be found on Matt’s own site, Santiago’s Dead Wasp.
Maintenant Croatia: films online
Films of Maintenant Croatia, where five Croatian poets read alongside an assortment of British writers at Europe House, in Westminster, are now online. They include this performance by Other Room reader Jeff Hilson.
Eléna Rivera reading and interview at The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Eléna Rivera reading and interview below
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Jennifer Cooke: Scenes of Intimacy
Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature, edited by Other Room reader Jennifer Cooke.
Scholars from a range of critical perspectives explore representations of intimacy in contemporary writing, from fiction to autobiography.
Out May 16th on Continuum.
You can watch Jennifer’s October 2011 reading at The Other Room below.
Tony Lopez: Sounds New Poetry Festival
Recent Other Room reader Tony Lopez is reading with Steve Collis at this year’s Sounds New Poetry Festival in Canterbury. Details below:
Wednesday 9th May 6pm, Peter Brown Room, Darwin College, University of Kent.
Reading: Found Text
Working with the idea of the found text, Steve Collis and Tony Lopez present poems that explore borrowing and appropriation in art. Like John Tavener in The Veil of the Temple, Collis and Lopez work with and through mixed sources to open the possibilities of collective expression.
Addition to June line-up
Peter Jaeger will be our third performer at our June 12th reading. Please note that this will be at another new venue: The Castle on Oldham Street, Manchester, which we hope will be our home for the forseeable future. Please also note that 12th June is a Tuesday rather than our previously usual Wednesday. To help the next six weeks pass a little quicker, you can enjoy this film of Peter performing his collaboration with Marcus Slease at February’s Camarade II event at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London.
Carrie Etter and Ira Lightman on Radio 3
Other Room reader Carrie Etter and future Other Room reader Ira Lightman were both on Friday 27th April’s edition of Radio 3’s The Verb, which you can catch on the BBC site for another week.
Matthew Welton – Waffles
A recently released pamphlet by Matthew Welton from Egg Box and an early version of part of the poem read at The Other Room in 2010.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
nick-e melville: Editorial
New e-book by nick-e melville published by Very Small Kitchen.
Available at the LINK
nick-e melville, Videos From February’s The Other Room
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Andrea Brady, Videos From February’s The Other Room
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The Other Room 4th birthday – Lopez, Cremin, Claire, Rivera
Our 4th birthday takes place with one stonking event on Thursday 19th April, 2012, 7 pm. Aside from the 3 fabulous performances on the night, other highlights will include a video from sound poet Paula Claire, the launch of The Other Room anthology 2011-12 and jelly and ice cream (or something like that).
The event as ever is free entry and is at our temporary home, The Deaf Institute in the Basement bar (arrive early to get a seat). The Deaf Institute is located in central Manchester, just off Oxford Road.
MAP HERE
LINK TO DEAF INSTITUTE
Previews of all our performers will follow shortly. You can book a ticket via Eventbrite. This will let us know you are coming and put you on our mailing list. Eventbrite will also give you updates and reminders relating to this event.
We hope to see you there.
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Tony Lopez: False Memory 2nd edition published by Shearsman
Tony Lopez’s landmark collection False Memory has been made into a second edition with a new introduction by Robert Hampson.
“[…] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez’s False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge.” —Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003.
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