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A note on Reality Street from Ken Edwards

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The two presses recognised a common interest in publishing the poetry of what I once termed the “parallel tradition”: its various formations in the UK being the British Poetry Revival (Eric Mottram’s term), the Cambridge diaspora, and what has sometimes been called “linguistically innovative” poetry – all overlapping categories. There was also a common interest in post-New American Poetry, Language Writing and related North American fields, as well as adventurous poetry in other English-speaking regions and from other languages and cultures.

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Iain Morrison – A Preview

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Iain has a frequently collaborative practice as a writer and performer, working within live literature and live art contexts. Projects have included sung staging of texts by women Beat Generation writers, a lecture presentation and performance with classical musicians for New Media Scotland’s Syndicate series, and Subject Index a durational installation of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson developed in residency at Forest Centre+ and toured to Berlin’s SOUNDOUT! New Ways of Presenting Literature Festival in May 2014. Publishing includes poem-responses to fin de siècle Vienna included in the Kakania anthology (2015), published by Austrian Cultural Forum London and edited by S.J. Fowler and work in serial publications such as HOAX, Soanyway and Scree Magazine. In his role as Enterprise Manager at The Fruitmarket Gallery, he works within a commercial framework to grow new audiences and bring them into dialogue with the Gallery’s exhibitions programme through events and other activity.

Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.

 

The Start of Sentences

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James Davies’ experiences of reading Robert Grenier’s Sentences in Bury’s Text Art Archive:

I don’t want to go into individual poems so much here as to explain the joy of reading Sentences as archived material, in the archive, and the processes of reading the poems in accordance with the way Sentences is catalogued. The copy of Sentences at Bury, “The Bury Sentences” as I now call it, is a like a “bootleg” record — just as cool as the original but with minor differences to interest the aficionado. I’ll explain why.

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Sarah-Clare Conlon – A Preview

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Sarah-Clare Conlon’s prize-winning work is published by Salt, Comma, Stand andFlash, who called her “one of the most interesting and inspiring authors writing flashes today”. She was long listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. A former journalist on ELLE, with a Creative Writing MA, she edited The Manchester Anthology, writes for The Manchester Review, The Skinny, Creative Tourist andConfingo, and runs popular Manchester live literature night Verbose.

Our next event takes place on 20th July with Kimberly Campanello, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Geraldine Monk and Iain Morrison. Start time is 7pm at The Wonder Inn and as always is free entry. We hope to see you there. More on the events page.

Summer Sundays Sounds

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Some excellent summer concerts in Todmorden arranged by Other Room performer Helmut Lemke.

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2 PM – 4 PM

sounds / improvisations / new music

three concerts for the summer
watch for special guests, tickets and further info

the JULY event will be an after lunch concert
starting at 2pm / Cakes provided

the Long & the Short of it
John Jasnoch & Helmut Lemke
Guitar, Oud & long strings

Following a chance meeting at a solo John Jasnoch Concert in Germany in 1994, Lemke and Jasnoch first performed together in Sheffield in the Summer of that year. Since then they have developed a style of performance which incorporates improvised music, audio-visual installation and sound sculpture.

The music which results includes the split-second intuitive interactions characteristic of free improvisation and more spaceous, multi-layered material. These performances are largely about strings, from the short scale of Jasnoch’s mandolin to the room length wires of Lemke’s installations. The music is also produced by the creative use of conventional instruments, electronics, taped sounds and by utilising specially constructed sound producing devices.

THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT have performed widely in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Their work is documented on the CD “the Long & the Short of it” on the edition el C. label.

TICKETS £5.00 waged / £3.00 unwaged

more details on the Facebook page  – HERE

 

Joanne Ashcroft and Peter Larkin at The Blue Bus

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading of poetry on Tuesday 19TH JULY at 7.30 by  Joanne Ashcroft and Peter Larkin at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the 114th  event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For the next reading in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.

Joanne Ashcroft has poems published in a variety of magazines and journals including The Wolf and Litter and a set of poems due in Litmus and a sonnet sequence made in collaboration with Patricia Farrell due in Poetry Wales. Her first pamphlet was published by Knives Forks and Spoons press. Joanne won the Poetry Wales Purple Moose in 2013 and her pamphlet Maps and Love Songs for Mina Loy is published by Seren. Joanne is currently a research student at Edge Hill University where she has also taught poetry and fiction. Her research explores sound and oppression in the work of Maggie O’Sullivan, Bill Griffiths and Geraldine Monk.

Peter Larkin works in the area of innovative ecological writing with a special interest in woodlands and plantations.  His poetry also attempts to explore the idea of scarcity in its phenomenological aspects.  Collections of poetry include Terrain Seed Scarcity (2001),Leaves of Field (2006), Lessways Least Scarce Among (2012), and Give Forest Its Next Portent (2014).  He contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. HarrietTarlo (2011).  City Trappings (Housing Heath or Wood), a poetic investigation into the status of countryside contained within the Birmingham conurbation, is due out in 2016.

Nathan Walker and Lauren De Sa Naylor at Storm and Golden Sky

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Friday, July 22 at 7:30 PM, Caledonia Liverpool
22 Caledonia Street, L7 7DX Liverpool

Join us for our nth Storm and Golden Sky reading pairing at the Caledonia Liverpool. Bringing together two very different contemporary stylists writing at the art-language-body seam.

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Lauren de Sa Naylor lives and works out of Todmorden and Anglesey, where she variously mothers, lovers, housekeeps and writes. Her poetic practice is oriented around the dream, inter/intra-personal desire and resistance. Her critical writing deals with maternal and neoliberal subjectivity, place/precarity and forensic examinations of maternality and carnality. WOrk can be found in forthcoming editions of E.R.O.S. and Gorse journals. laurendesanaylor@blogspot.co.uk

Nathan Walker is a performance artist and poet based in York. His work considers language as an action through phonic, sonic and visual forms of writing. His research explores the relationships between sound poetry and performance art. He has performed internationally at galleries, festivals and text events, most recently: Experimentica, Chapter Arts, Cardiff; Drafting, Baltic 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne; The Other Room, Manchester; Performance Space, London; and Shady Dealings with Language, Bökship / Matts Gallery, London.

Miles Champion & Ian Heames at Xing the Line

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Rare London reading for Miles Champion. Carcanet Press published his first book, Compositional Bonbons Placate, in 1996. His recent books include How to Laugh (Adventures in Poetry, 2014) and an illustrated interview with the English artist Trevor Winkfield, How I Became a Painter (Pressed Wafer, 2014). He also recently edited the late Ted Greenwald’s The Age of Reasons: Uncollected Poems 1969-1982 (Weslyan University Press, 2016). He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.

Ian Heames is a poet and editor of Face Press publishing among others Nine Plays by Will Stuart (2014), J.H. Prynne’s Al-Dente (2014), Average Cabin by Tom Raworth (2015) as well as his own fantastic books of sonnets. He also edits c_c press which has published writing by Mike Wallace-Hadrill and Jefferson Toal as well as reprinting work by the late great film-maker Jeff Keen ie Urgent Film (2012) and The Artwar Reader (2012).

Thursday, July 21 at 7:30 PM
@ I’Klectik, Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG London,

Brexit Magazine

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This magazine has been put together in response to the recent referendum in the U.K. which came out in favour of the ‘Brexit’. It has been made quickly as a front against the fascist implications of ‘Leave’. Please print, photocopy and otherwise distribute widely. [D.G. + L.J. ~ July 2016]

Contents: Tom Allen, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, Richard Barrett, Sarah Crewe, Joey Frances & Will Berry, David Grundy, Jeremy Hardingham, Danny Hayward, Tom Jenks, Lisa Jeschke, Justin Katko, Robert Kiely, Ed Luker, Max Maher, Sophie Mayer, Mendoza, Nat Raha, William Rowe, Connie Scozzaro, Robert Sheppard, Rachel Sills, Verity Spott, Street Kid, Andrew Taylor, Gareth Twose, Lawrence Uziell, Collages, Flyer

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Kimberly Campanello – A Preview

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Kimberly Campanello’s previous poetry publications include Spinning Cities (Wurm Press), Consent (Doire Press), Imagines (New Dublin Press), Strange Country (Dreadful Press), and Hymn to Kālī (Eyewear). MOTHERBABYHOME, a book of conceptual and visual poetry on the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Ireland, will appear with zimZalla Avant Objects later this year. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. http://www.kimberlycampanello.com

Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.

Geraldine Monk – A Preview

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Gerladine Monk

Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has written eight major collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, was published in 2007 by Salt Publishing. They Who Saw The Deep is her new book and will have its northern launch at the event.

Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.

Bad Language with Richard Barrett

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Our headliner for Bad Language on June 29th at The Castle is RICHARD BARRETT,

Richard Barrett’s poetry collections include A Personal History of Apathy, Endless / Nameless with Rachel Sills, and HUGZ. His new collection LOVE LIFE! is forthcoming on Stranger Press. He’s currently working on The Saragossa Manuscript, which takes in the 1990s West Yorkshire rave scene, and Super Normal, described as “a non-fiction prose account of Richard’s contribution to the history of the world during the years 2013 to 2015”.

Locals may know Richard best as a mainstay of Manchester poetry night The Other Room. And when he’s not being experimental with poetry, he spends time following celebrity Twitter feuds.

Our open mic line-up is:
Ava MacPherson, Cátia Soeiro, Christopher Nosnibor, Daniel Boylan, Daniel O’Sullvan, David Scott, Leonie Ferrer, Maria Alejandra, Rob Miur, Stan Benes.

29th June, 7pm
Castle Hotel, Manchester
Free

Allen Fisher’s Gravity out now in full from Reality Street

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Allen Fisher and Bill Griffiths books are Reality Street’s final titles

From 1982 to 2005 Allen Fisher’s major work (following his previous project of the 1970s,PLACE, published in its entirety by Reality Street in 2005) was a sequence of poems that went by the overall title Gravity as a consequence of shape. Taking their titles from an alphabetical list of jazz dances, and using scientific vocabulary and collage practices – erudite, funny and expansive – they were published in several stages over the years.

Now – as with PLACE – Reality Street is publishing the entire sequence in one sumptuous paperback edition.

Charles Bernstein has described this as “a masterful work in the project of undoing mastery”.

The book is on general sale from today, 27 June. Supporter subscribers in the UK should have received their copy by now. Supporter subscribers in the rest of the world – please be patient, your copy will be on its way in the next couple of weeks.

Bill Griffiths’ Collected Poems Volume 3 was published in May. All subscribers should now have their copies.

Together, these two titles by poets we have long championed bring the Reality Street project to a fitting conclusion. The press was launched in 1993 by Ken Edwards and Wendy Mulford, and has been run for the past 18 years by Ken Edwards, who will now devote more of his time to his own writing. All current titles will be kept in print for the foreseeable future, but no new ones are planned. Many thanks for your support of and interest in the press over the years.

http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/