Films from the first of the four events in the Kakania project, in which contemporary writers and artists respond to the work of key cultural figures in Habsburg Vienna, are now online, Above is Marcus Slease on painter Max Kurzweil with a full list below.
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 FinitumandPer 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.
Explore the expansive modern tradition of British experimental poetry, as S J Fowler presents a necessarily idiosyncratic insight into the vibrant innovative poetries which have sought originality in the UK over the last 50 years. The sessions will explore the distinctive qualities of the British avant garde and chart a course through an enormous field of writing. Not formed by generation, region or faction, Vanguard explores characteristics that are possessed by, but in no way encompass, the work of many great British poets.
Week 1 – October 23rd – Rapidity
Exploring immediacy, alertness; quickness; celerity, concision. Scalpel cuts at smugness / pomposity, seeking the fragmentary whole. Drawing from the work of Tom Raworth, Maggie O’Sullivan, Denise Riley, Barry MacSweeney, Andy Spragg, Frances Kruk & others.
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 Leslie Scalapino Award for innovative women performance writers. The winner will receive a $2,500 cash prize, print publication of the winning text by Litmus Press, a staged reading of the piece this autumn at the The New Ohio Theatre in New York, by Fiona Templeton’s company The Relationship; and a full production of the work in the following year. Deadline 4th July. More here.
Across 2014, the poet SJ Fowler will be in residence with the award winning Landscape Architecture & Urban Design practise, J&L Gibbons. The greener infrastucture site will document the poetry, reportage and various engagements of that residency.
After some weeks out of action, the Archive of the Now is back online. The Archive of the Now is a digital collection of poets performing their own work. Based at Queen Mary University of London, it hosts many specially commissioned recordings unavailable anywhere else, all of which can be downloaded free of charge.
Flux magazine continues to explore The Dark Would. In on, in, and out – Artist’s text on textArtRichard Barrett, James Davies, Steve Giasson, Vanessa Place & Nick Thurston explore the work of Arthur and Martha, Fiona Banner, Rob Fitterman, Simon Patterson & Lawrence Weiner. You can read the articles HERE.
Two images from two noses of two bombers, each carrying a message that betrays the anxiety of the messenger. In Bollocks, the “unfeasibly large testicles” of one Buster Gonad prove a crippling load, engulfing the phallus that charged with discharging it. Bollocks, in other words, are a load of bunk. In Sperm, thirty missile silhouettes mark the plane’s partial payoff, denoting the fact that most seed simply spills.
(a poem committed against purity, precision, perfection) (a sequence of 100+ poems, following stochastically governed sequences of widely varied forms/constraints/recipes, with various repetitions of vocabulary, and varying openness to external language events) (a poem by Peter Philpott), here.
Frances Presley will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 5th February, 7 PM start, free entry. The clip above is of Frances reading at Xing the Line in July 2012. For more information about her work, try her author page at Shearsman, or this interview with Matilde Christensen. The other readers are Gavin Selerie and Chris Stephenson, with a preview of Chris to follow soon.
Bio.
Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset, and lives in London. She studied literature at the universities of East Anglia and Sussex, writing dissertations on Pound, Apollinaire, and Bonnefoy. She worked as a library and information specialist, in community development and anti-racism, and at the Poetry Library. Publications of poems and prose include The Sex of Art (North and South, 1988), Hula Hoop (Other Press, 1993), and Linocut (Oasis, 1997). She collaborated with Irma Irsara on a project about the fashion trade, Automatic Cross Stitch (Other Press, 2000); and with Elizabeth James in an email text and performance, Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books, 1999). Somerset Letters (Oasis, 2002), with drawings by Ian Robinson, explored community and landscape. The title sequence of Paravane: new and selected poems, 1996-2003 (Salt, 2004) was a response to 9/11/2001, and the IRA bombsites in London. Myne: new and selected poems and prose, 1976-2005, (Shearsman, 2006) takes its title from the old name for Minehead in Somerset. Lines of Sight (Shearsman, 2009) features Neolithic stone sites on Exmoor, and is part of a collaboration with Tilla Brading, Stone settings (Odyssey, 2010). Her latest book is An Alphabet for Alina (Five Seasons, 2012), a collaboration with artist Peterjon Skelt. Presley has written various essays and reviews, especially on innovative British women poets. She has co-translated the work of two Norwegian poets, Hanne Bramness and Lars Amund Vaage. Her work is included in the anthologies Infinite Difference (Shearsman, 2010), and Ground Aslant: radical landscape poetry (Shearsman, 2011). She has also contributed to a collection of poetic autobiographies, Cusp (Shearsman, 2012).
This previously unpublished Mac Low piece is now available via Jerome Rothenberg on Jacket2. The complete Light Poems will be published later this year on Chax Press.
Gavin Selerie will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 5th February. 7 PM start, free entry. The other readers are Frances Presley and Chris Stephenson, with preview of both to follow in the next few weeks. For a flavour of Gavin’s work, watch this clip of his reading at Xing the Line in July 2012, browse his page at Archive of the Now, or his author page at Shearsman.
Bio.
Gavin Selerie was born in London, where he still lives. He taught at Birkbeck, University of London for many years. His books include Azimuth (1984), Roxy (1996) and Le Fanu’s Ghost (2006)—all long sequences with linked units. Music’s Duel: New and Selected Poems 1972-2008 was published by Shearsman in 2009. This includes a good deal of fugitive material, besides more widely available work. Selerie has collaborated with the writer and artist Alan Halsey, notably in the book Days of ’49 (1999). His work has appeared in anthologies such as The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British & Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008). His poems generally involve a layering of voices through history and landscape. He has written extensively about London, reflecting his roots (an Italian family in Soho and an English family of wood-carvers). He has been a core member of the London poetry scene since the 1970s. There is frequently a concrete dimension to his work and he was featured in the recent Visual Poetics exhibition at the Poetry Library, London. Selerie is currently working on a large project, Hariot Double, which juxtaposes renaissance and modern elements. He sometimes performs with musicians, and this work-in-progress deals partly with the British jazz scene.
Includes CLOSE READINGS: Florence, Flores, Huber, Kozak, Upton; REPORTS on E-Poetry’s TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, E-Poetry 2011 plus Digital Poetry & Dance, 2012, featuring works by numerous distinguished members of our list. Many great gems here, reflections, high-quality videos, documentation of the “Language to Cover A Wall: Digital Poetry Component” exhibition, a major exhibition for digital poetry held in Buffalo last year and more.
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