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Eileen Tabios – The Opposite of Claustrophobia
Startling, not just for the method but for the lines of breathtaking beauty resulting from it. These poems are tender, wistful and humorous, an incantatory catalogue that is spiritually tethered to the body and the earth, where everything is vital and important, and incites wonder, melancholy, and gratitude.
— Eric Gamalinda
While Georges Perec famously gave us a work of literature that began “I remember…”, Eileen Tabios gives us a very human sounding algorithm that lists for us what “I” has forgotten. In the backgrounds of paintings like those of Lucas Cranach, Bosch, Durer, Da Vinci, are castles, ruins, caverns. Each one is an invitation, a window into which I’d like to peer. In just such a way each of the lines of Tabios’ new work is an invitation to seek within the sfumato for a miniature clarity—sometimes the blinding light of a furnace, sometimes an old movie set swarming with quotation marks, sometimes lines that, with their specificity, invite us to linger and to imagine the margins full of novels, short stories, memoirs of: “Marisa peeling the skin from a blue-boned fish…Luisa who squatted beside betel-chewing crones with crooked front teeth, and Marjorie who swallowed the scarless sky over Siquijor.” Some lines are mere rungs for the hands and feet of angels and these I recommend to you most of all.
— Jesse Glass
Out now on KFS.
Otoliths #43
The southern spring 2016 issue of Otoliths is now live, featuring work in a variety of styles & a variety of media from Jesse Glass, El Habib Louai, Scott MacLeod, Maria Damon & Alan Sondheim, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cecelia Chapman, Pete Spence, Kyle Hemmings, Heath Brougher, Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Nicole Pottier, John J. Trause, Sanjeev Sethi, Ian Ganassi, Jim Leftwich, Willie Smith, Philip Byron Oakes, Mary Claire Garcia, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, AG Davis, Peter Ganick, differx (Marco Giovenale), Jim Meirose, Mark Roberts, Olivier Schopfer, William Repass, Texas Fontanella, Michael Gottlieb, John W. Sexton, Edward A. Dougherty, Eric Hoffman, hiromi suzuki, Simon Perchik, John M. Bennett, Ivan Argüelles, Scott Helmes, John Xero, Pat Nolan, Andrew Topel, Daniel John Pilkington, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Raymond Farr, Lakey Comess, Bill Dunlap, Christopher Barnes, Robert Okaji, Jeff Bagato, Nico Vassilakis, Mitchell Garrard, Keith Higginbotham, Fabrice Poussin, Richard Kostelanetz, Sabine Miller, Meeah Williams, sean burn, Louise Landes Levi, Brendan Slater, Oscar Towe, Tom Beckett, Mark McKain, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Jorge Lucio de Campos, Eileen R. Tabios, Andrea Mason, Joe Balaz, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Jacqueline M. Pérez, Owen Bullock, Roger Mitchell, Steve Dalachinsky, Jeff Harrison, Aurélien Leif, Holly Day, Stephen Vincent, Carol Stetser, nick nelson, Seth Howard, Taylor Leigh Ciambra, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Hamish Spark, Márton Koppány, Alicia Cole, Cara Murray, bruno neiva, Jack Kelly, Mark Cunningham, Massimo Stirneri, Matt Dennison, Olchar E. Lindsann, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Darren Marsh, Nika & Jim McKinniss, Natsuko Hirata, Tony Beyer, Edward Kulemin, John Pursch, Irene Koronas, Darren C. Demaree, nick-e melville, Josette Torres, Shloka Shankar, Piotr Kalisz, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Bob Heman, Garima Behal, Paul T. Lambert, J. D. Nelson, Michael Brandonisio, Eddie Donoghue, Katrinka Moore, Indigo Perry, & Marilyn Stablein
The Diagram – Erasure issue
Interesting issue of Diagram webzine on Erasure is HERE
From the vaults – Leanne Bridgewater
July 2014
Kerry Morrison – A Preview
The next Other Room takes place on December 7th 2016 at The Castle Hotel, Manchester and as always is free entry. It features Kerry Morrison, Wayne Clements & Cathy Butterworth. More at the EVENTS page.
Kerry Morrison – Kerry is an experienced environment artist and ecologist. She has worked throughout the UK, including commissions for Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, and Grizedale Forest. Kerry has also worked in forests in Japan and Korea, parks, wilderness and farms in Germany, neighbourhoods in America, and urban streets in Finland. Her work is often performative and since 2006 she has endeavoured to create art without creating demands on natural resources.
Here is an example of her work, ‘Bird Sheet Music’ as featured on the BBC and at The Tate Gallery
From the vaults – Mike Chavez-Dawson
October 2013
Words on the Move
Words on the Move: A Day of Talks and Performances across Languages, a collaboration between the Stories in Transit project, the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) at Birkbeck and www.watadd.com.
1 November, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square (1-7pm)
Book your place for free via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-on-the-move-tickets-28695709640
Animating Questions
1. Can culture, and specifically storytelling (in any form) provide shelter for people who have lost their homes? Can a tale become a home? Can a poem? Can a memory of literature and the process of making it over and over again build ‘a country of words’ (Mahmoud Darwish)? Can narratives build a place of belonging for those without a nation?
2. How do experiences of conflict and forced migration place pressure on narrative form? How might artists and writers respond or register these pressures in their creative work? What are the possibilities for creative collaboration in this context?
3. What methods and processes can be developed together to allow the unfolding and generation of stories? What role can imaginary narrative and non-narrative form play in contemporary conditions? In what ways can the ancient human capacity to tell and pass on stories help in the present crisis?
4. What are the best uses of contemporary media for supporting exchanges of stories across borders and to ease and/or explore communications between languages and cultures? How might we talk about and make texts that work across multiple languages (including non-verbal languages such as dance, music and visual art)?
Programme
1pm — Professor Marina Warner (Birkbeck) Introductory Remarks
1:15pm — Dr Steve Willey (Birkbeck) ‘Multi-Lingual Workshops’
1:30pm — Keynote Address, Dr Caroline Bergvall ‘Methods of Engagement’
2:30pm — Dr Camilla Nelson, (Schumacher College) ‘Performative Reflections on “Reading Movement” in Palestine’
4pm — Paula Claire, ‘Yet More War…and Peace’ (performance inviting creative response)
5pm — Dr Atef Alshaer, (University of Westminster) ‘Individual and Collective Voices in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish’
5:30pm — Fuensanta Zamrana Ruiz ’The Language of Violins: Teaching at the Baremboim-Said Foundation’
6pm — Roundtable, Chair: Professor Matthew Reynolds (St Anne’s College, Oxford University)
Organisers
Professor Marina Warner, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Professorial Research Fellow, SOAS, 2014-2017
Dr Steve Willey, Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette – Calton, Maurer-Alvarez, Horrex, McDonnell
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #20 – ft. Stuart Calton, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Katherine Horrex, Fokkina McDonnell
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An afternoon of alternative poetries
12th November
4.30 – 6.30 Waterstones Deansgate
Free entry
Refreshments provided
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STUART CALTON ~
Having undergone a difficult breast-feeding experience as an infant, Stuart Calton grew up to write poetry with an obsessively devouring oral character. He’s written a load of it, most recently “Blepharospasms” (Drentpaper, Manchester, 2016) and “Live At Late Dilated Ileum” (Drentpaper, Manchester, 2015). His new one “Wimpy & Andre” is forthcoming later this year. He is also the musician THF Drenching. “A totally unacceptable gridlock of teeth and intestines.. A monstrous warp.. A singular examination of dream and its bedrock of extra-terrestrial punctuation.. wildly improvisatory and fantastic” (Keston Sutherland)
PANSY MAURER-ALVAREZ ~
was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and emigrated to Switzerland in 1973. She began writing poetry as a teenager and completed 11 years of literary studies at universities in the US, Spain and Switzerland, where she worked for a short time as a teacher and translator. Upon moving to Paris in 1991, she abandoned plans for furthering her academic career in order to devote herself to poetry full time. Her poems appear regularly in publications throughout Europe and the US, and she has work in anthologies including: Ladies, Start Your Engines; Final de Entrega; and Visiting Dr. Williams. Her poems have been translated into French, German and Spanish. She is a contributing editor for Tears in the Fence, and curates the Poets Live reading series in Paris.
KATHERINE HORREX~
has recently completed her MA at the Centre for New Writing in Manchester. Her poems have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, Morning Star, Poetry Salzburg Review and are due in PN Review. She has worked as a warehouse assistant, a data processor and proof reader but currently works as a potter. Her songs have been played on 6music and XFM and the album she wrote and recorded is available at www.stickpin.bandcamp.com
Louis Armand & Richard Makin LIVE in London
Equus Press proudly presents, for one show only, LOUIS ARMAND & RICHARD MAKIN Live at Conway Hall, London. Join us at this year’s the Small Publishers Fair on Red Lion Sq for the (2nd edition) launch of Louis Armand’s Not-the-Booker Prize shortlisted novel, THE COMBINATIONS, & Richard Makin’s MOURNING. Readings, book signings & refreshments. Equus, in partnership with Litteraria Pragensia Books, will be manning a stall throughout the fair, throughout Friday 4th & Saturday 5th November, with a wide range of exciting new titles and selections from our backlist. Check out our catalogue at www.equuspress.com &www.litterariapragensia.com Free event! Everyone welcome.
Louis ARMAND will be reading from his recent Prague magnum opus, THE COMBINATIONS, praised by Richard Marshall as “an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience” and as “a ‘great novel’ — long and complex […] exemplifying remarkably the possibilities of the genre and contradicts the contemporary obsession with its decline and commodification” by Jean Bessiere. https://equuspress.wordpress.com/the-combinations/
Richard MAKIN will read from MOURNING, the final part of his trilogy (begun with WORK & DWELLING), described by David Caddy as “an extraordinary and distinct achievement. It is a demanding and enriching read characterized by highly wrought sentences, which cover a range of discourses and fictional events.” In the words of Iain Sinclair, “The writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” https://equuspress.wordpress.com/mourning/
Readings & authors introduced by David VICHNAR.
All welcome!
Saturday, November 5 at 4:30 PM – 5 PM
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL London, United Kingdom
Allen Fisher : Anthony Mellors : Nancy Miller at Xing the Line
Friday, October 21 at 7:30 PM at Iklektic Studios, Waterloo, London
Theatre/Poetry – Lisa Jeschke/Lucy Beynon, Linda Kemp, Gloria Dawson, others
The Brunswick
82 North Street, LS2 7PN Leeds
Friday, October 21 at 7 PM – 10 PM
Not very invested in either theatre or poetry, we are doing these things.
– Gloria Dawson says poems, recent
– Linda Kemp, does the same, or not the same (poetry)
– Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon perform THE TRAGEDY OF THERESA MAY
– Plus OTHERS to be confirmed
No tables will be harmed in the making of this event.
Cost: No cost
Time: 7 for 7.30, we start at 7.30
Access: Please note that the performance room is up a narrowish flight of stairs and therefore of limited access for people with certain mobility needs [This wasn’t the first choice of venue, which is far more accessible in this regard] There will also be amplification and some shouting.
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INFO/ LINKS
https://soundcloud.com/user-189188267/untitled-4-parts-7th-october-2016
https://eyhpress.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPmTY8YzFfo
http://lisajeschkelucybeynon.blogspot.co.uk/
http://theclaudiusapp.com/6-beynon-jeschke.html
KFS at The Blackpool illuminations
The Blackpool illuminations contain poems by many Knives Forks and Spoons poets.
Here are a couple of images and below are dates you can visit and a link to their location in Blackpool. It runs until November 6th.
http://www.blackpool-illuminations.net/2016/dates.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Knives-forks-and-Spoons-Illuminations/100219703767234
READING AND BEING READ
Come along to this great event. Date below. More details HERE
READING AND BEING READ
with Comma Press, If P Then Q, Michelle Green, Holly Pester &ZimZalla
MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY
Performance Room, Ground Floor
St Peter’s Square, City Centre, M2 5PD
11am to 4pm, 12 November 2016
Aram Saroyan, Light – out from sine wave peak
Aram Saroyan, ‘light’
‘light’ is a poem-card intended for display. A single word, light, is debossed onto black card – literally made of light. When there is no light to catch it, the word vanishes. It is revealed only from angles around the room when light, pooling briefly in the furrows of the word’s impression, speaks. As a new work by the author of the controversial poem ‘lighght’ (1965), ‘light’ (2016) – an unprinted poem on a black page – is also a gentle nod back, a witty return, a final condensation.
Contraband Live
Contraband Live! The first in a new series of poetry events, brought to you by poetry publisher Contraband + the Charterhouse Bar.
Featuring poetry by Linus Slug and Andrew Spragg, the launch of Stephen Mooney’s trilogy of poetry books and a performance by Special Guest Stars montenegrofisher!
Bring a poem with you to read in our Open Mic slot!
Readings to be followed by music + dancing into Friday morning!
Thursday, October 13 at 7 PM – 2 AM
Oct 13 at 7 PM to Oct 14 at 2 AM
Charterhouse Bar
38 Charterhouse St, EC1M 6 London
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Robert Vas Dias – Black Book launch
You’re invited to the launch on Wednesday 19 October at 7.00 pm of Black Book: An Assemblage of the Fragmentary (Shearsman Books), by Robert Vas Dias, in collaboration with the artist Julia Farrer, to take place at St. James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL. Author and artist will be present to sign copies of the book, and refreshments will be served. Admission is free.
Black Book is the first major collaboration between a poet and artist reacting to the worst humanitarian crisis of our times since the second world war. This stunningly produced book “confronts us with what has become our common world since the initiation of the ‘war on terror’… and is as up-to-date as this morning’s news,” writes Robert Hampson.
Mel Gooding writes: “Vas Dias is an experimental poet whose language is always simple and direct, who does not beat around the bush, except to flush out a startling truth, transform the familiar to a strangeness. Farrer is an artist for whom the abstract is a means to the controlled expression of the deepest and most sharp feelings, to a refinement of poignancy, a stoic poise.”
And the Revd. Lucy Winkett: “Listen to this black book bringing cruel comfort to a world as it is.
And still dreaming of how it could be.”
Remains – Stephen Emmerson
Have a look at poems in limited editions, like the one below, by visiting Stephen Emmerson’s site. Beautiful.
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