Issue 47 is now live.
This issue features: Sanjay Bheenuck, David Felix, A. Marie Kaluza, Adam Phillips and Phil Wood.
Here is the link to the issue: http://www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html
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From the vaults – Alex Middleton
June 2008
The Other Room – Tonight
Chris McCabe’s The Real Southbank
Fantastic event! Book now.
What makes us love our city?
Three pioneering poets and writers of London life and history delve into the reality of the South Bank. They weigh up the story of the area, from its beginnings as a marshland to its 20th-century transformation into the city’s cultural quarter.
Hosted by Peter Finch – poet, writer and the editor of Seren’s Real Series? – this evening launches the book Real South Bank by Chris McCabe. Also in attendance is Iain Sinclair, who reads from his own work to help illuminate the past and present of the area. Sinclair has written about the South Bank in Lights Out for the Territory, and about the Thames in Downriver.
Together, these three writers explore the South Bank’s historical associations with criminality and outsiderness, and its appeal to poets like Blake and Rimbaud. Finally, they discuss what makes the South Bank so distinctive in the landscape of contemporary London.
Chris McCabe’s Real South Bank covers the area between Blackfriars Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge, and as far south as Elephant and Castle. The book includes chapters on Shakespeare’s original Globe, a night walk in the footsteps of Dickens, a stroll along the River Neckinger that runs beneath the streets of London and a visit to the site of ?the most notorious of the Elizabethan bear fighting pits. There are chapters on Southbank Centre and Royal Festival Hall, and a new series of poems about the broader South Bank entitled Liquid City.
6pm – 7.30pm
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
£10 includes wine
More here- LINK
From the vaults – Clive and Robin Fencott
July 2014
Martin Palmer – A Preview
Our next event takes place on 23rd June and features Sam Riviere, Sarah Kelly and Martin Palmer. Click HERE for more details.
Martin Palmer is based in Morecambe. A graduate of the Edge Hill Creative Writing programmes, his Deconstructivist poetry has featured on Robert Sheppard’s Pages, and in Question Mark and other works have been performed at events in Liverpool and Manchester. He blogs at Blogtastic.
Sarah Kelly – A Preview
Our next event takes place on 23rd June and features Sam Riviere, Sarah Kelly and Martin Palmer. Click HERE for more details.
Sarah Kelly is a poet and artist currently based in London. She is the author of Ways of Describing Cuts (with Steve Fowler) (KFS, 2012) and Locklines (KFS, 2010) and has published work in various journals, magazines and anthologies including Dear World and Everyone In It (Bloodaxe). Her recent work is primarily focused on the visual and textual and centres around her practice as a hand paper-maker and she featured in the Haywood anthology The New Concrete. She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally and was the 2015 poet in residence at the University of Loughborough. She has co-edited the Spanish language poetry journal Alba Londres and is the director of Molino Editions. She is currently completing AHRC post graduate research into ‘the page’ at the Royal College of Art. www.sarahelizakelly.co.uk
From the vaults – Helmut Lemke
June 2016
Storm and Golden Sky
Storm and Golden Sky at the Caledonia FRIDAY 24th June 2016
Rachel Sills and Mark Greenwood
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool,
£5, 7.30 pm spot-on start!
Rachel Sills lives in Manchester. She is a co-organiser of the Manchester-based poetry reading series Peter Barlow’s Cigarette, and has books and objects published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press, zimZalla and Red Ceilings Press.
Mark Greenwood is a performance artist/ writer originally from Newcastle but now based in Liverpool. He has presented work across the U.K, Europe and the United States as well as curating the RED APE; a performance platform dedicated to the preservation and legacy of provincial performance art practice in the U.K. Utilising indefinite durational practice and minimal actions as art forms, Greenwood’s interests lie in anthropomorphic puzzles and inter-textual folds.
Storm is run by Nathan Jones, Eleanor Rees, Michael Egan and Robert Sheppard.
Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment
Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment – 14-15 October 2016, Southampton
The Call for Papers in now live for Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment, which will take place on 14-15 October 2016, hosted by the University of Southampton and Winchester School of Art.
Proposals are due by June the 29th.
About the conference
When the object comes to itself, abstracting can end, and so can expressiveness. This is one of the thoughts underpinning minimalism in art, but far from the only one, as minimalist sculpture, in particular, began reconfiguring the gallery space, or even the space in which art could happen. The minimalist impulse is to drive creativity into forms so simple, or more accurately, so formal they had to reflect upon themselves while reflecting the viewer in a specular frenzy under cover of nothing happening. The paradoxes of minimalism suggest an equal possibility of de-formation, of formless process. For some time, critics were not happy, understandably, given the rejection of reflection that the radically simplified objects presented. But a consensus has emerged, one that focuses on, and repetitively/compulsively reproduces, a unifying vision of American key artists (Judd, Morris, Flavin, Andre…) of the 1960s. Likewise, a seamless tie binds this art with American minimalist music (Glass, Reich, Adams); but the reality of artistic production across media and forms was far more varied and geographically widespread.
One of the purposes of this Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment is to expand our conception of what minimalism was, where it happened, who was making it, why, and how it extends through time until now. It is clear that the minimalist impulse happened in cross-national encounters (such as the 1967 show Serielle Formationen in Frankfurt) and that Europe was fertile ground for explorations in serial works, in playing with the prospect of singular forms and systematic thinking. Admitting the significance of the naming of the idea of minimalism in the 1960s, we want to look back to earlier versions of the reductionist, repetitive, singularising or multiplying intents of core minimalist endeavour. In short, we wish to see what an expanded field of minimalism looks like, sounds like.
Confirmed keynote speakers
Dr Renate Wiehager (Head of the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin)
Professor Keith Potter (Reader in Music, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Professor Redell Olsen (Professor of Poetics, Royal Holloway, University of London) (Keynote Performance Lecture)
Call for papers
We want to hear about literature (& writing ABC), dance, building, interior design (& Good Design), gardens (& total fields), science, cybernetics, philosophy, painting, politics, installation, video, cinema, bodily exercise. We want to think about minimalism’s relation to modernism, and how exactly post-minimalism works. We want to think about the softening of minimalism in the 1980s, a twisting of modernist ideals into décor-discipline. We want to recognise the broad scope of projects of reduction, of elimination of the conformities of difference in favour of radical recurrence and stasis.
Contributions are sought from all disciplines; collaborative, creative and cross-media proposals are welcome.
Please send an abstract of under 300 words to minimalismLAM@gmail.com by June 29th 2016.
The conference is onceived and curated by Dr Sarah Hayden (English, Southampton), Professor Paul Hegarty (University College Cork) with Professor Ryan Bishop (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton).
Forms of Criticism Conference
In the Editorial for the first issue of Art-Language (1969) Terry Atkinson raised questions about a possibility of combining creative and critical practice: ‘can this editorial,’ Atkinson wrote, ‘in itself an attempt to evidence some attributes as to what “conceptual art” is, come up for the count as a work of conceptual art?’ Forms of Criticism takes Atkinson’s idea as its starting point to engage with issues of criticism and form and interrogate limits between creative and critical practice during a one day event on 30th June 2016.
In poetry, fine art, film making, performance – in the creative sector – we are familiar with and applaud – or tolerate, in the very least – experiments which blur or transgress boundaries of genre, form, or creativity. Similar possibilities of formal experimentation remain significantly underexplored with respect to critical practice, although a growing interest in probing the limits of criticism can currently be observed. Forms of Criticism proposes to think about critical practice as a creative experiment with form in its own right and invites a re-examination of the relationship between research and forms adopted for presenting, communicating, and disseminating it. By considering diverse sites of critical and creative production the project focuses on experimenting with modalities of criticism and ways of addressing formal critical-creative hybridity.
The event brings together artist, curators, writers, critics and scholars addressing questions of creative-critical hybridity in theory and practice through talks, performances, screenings, readings and installations.
Forms of Criticism is organised by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster and hosted by Parasol Unit.
Participants: Peter Jaeger, Simon Morris, Nick Thurston, Kate Briggs & more
Parasol Unit
30th June 2016
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
More HERE
Sam Riviere – A Preview
Our next event takes place on 23rd June and features Sam Riviere, Sarah Kelly and Martin Palmer. Click HERE for more details.
Sam Riviere’s books include Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (Faber & Faber, 2015), Standard Twin Fantasy (Eggbox, 2015) and 81 Austerities (Faber & Faber, 2012), which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design, and holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA and was a recipient of a 2009 Eric Gregory Award.http://samriviere.com/
From the vaults – Holly Pester
February 2010
Blue Bus – Giles Goodland, Alistair Noon, Juliet Troy
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading of poetry on Tuesday 21st June at 7.30 by Giles Goodland, Alistair Noon and Juliet Troy at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the 113th 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.
Giles Goodland has published several books of poetry including A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), What the Things Sang (Shearsman, 2009), Gloss (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2011) and The Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and in collaboration with Alistair Noon) Surveyors’ Riddles, Sidekick Books.
Alistair Noon’s most recent publications are The Kerosene Singing (Nine Arches Press, 2015) and Surveyors’ Riddles (Sidekick Books, 2015), a collaboration with Giles Goodland from which they’ll be reading at this event. He has also published a dozen chapbooks of poetry and translations from German and Russian from various small presses, and appeared in anthologies including Sea Pie, Lung Jazz and The Best British Poetry 2013. His hobby is translating Osip Mandelstam. He lives in Berlin.
The Kerosene Singing available from Nine Arches Press
http://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/thekerosenesinging.html
Surveyors’ Riddles, with Giles Goodland, available from Sidekick Books
http://www.sidekickbooks.com/surveyorsriddles.php
Juliet Troy is an anglo/guyanese poet and one of the organisers of the Blue Bus. Her work includes Rhythm of Furrows across a field, 2013 – Kater Murr and Motherboard, 2015 – Knives Forks and Spoons – one of these poems was displayed in last Autumn’s Blackpool illuminations. She has had work published most recently in Snow Lit Rev, Spring 2016 – Allardyce, Barnett.
The next reading at the Blue Bus will be by Peter Larkin, Joanne Ashcroft and tbc on Tuesday July 19th at 7.30.
Enjoy Your Homes Press 2nd event with Stuart Calton, Sarah Crewe and Becoming Debbie
More at The Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/events/880393688737100/
The Other Room website rebooted!
The Other Room website has been running the whole duration we’ve been running our nights and has started to bulge and bulge. So we decided to do a bit of a spring clean in order to make it easier to navigate. We’ve also tidied up all those inevitable missed links which Mick Weller celebrates HERE.
If you’re old or new to the site have a look around our massive archive of blog/news posts, video archive from most of our readings, video and print interviews, book reviews, reviews of our events, poster archive and photos. Don’t forget of course to check out our upcoming events and annual anthology.
James, Scott & Tom
States of Mind
Three events at the Wellcome Collection organised by SJ Fowler:
The Poetry of Consciousness
Thursday 7 July, 19.00-20.30
FREE | TICKETED at Wellcome Collection
From the perspective of the neuroscientist, the poet, the translator – a discussion of the role of language in constituting our consciousness, presenting talks and newly commissioned works for performance on the night.
Featuring: Daniel Margulies, SJ Fowler, Noah Hutton & Jen Calleja.
The Sound of Consciousness
Thursday 14 July, 19.00-20.30
FREE | TICKETED at Wellcome Collection
This event asks what role sound takes in shaping our experience and understanding of consciousness and offers artist’s reflections on the pivotal role sound has in the firmament of our daily lives, drawing from the worlds of neuroscience, anthropology, film, composition and sound poetry.
Featuring: John Gruzelier, Nick Ryan, Vincent Moon & Maja Jantar.
The Narrative of Consciousness
Thursday 21 July, 19.00-20.30
FREE | TICKETED at Wellcome Collection
Within and without language, how does the notion of narrative define our experience of the world through consciousness? An event featuring some of the most dynamic contemporary artists, neuroscientists and writers, exploring how narrative interacts with consciousness and what happens when this begins to break down, whether through trauma or conditions like aphasia.
Featuring: Lotje Sodderland, Srivas Chennu, Sam Winston and Barry Smith.
Sophie Mayer and Jeff Hilson at Storm and Golden Sky
Storm and Golden Sky at the Caledonia FRIDAY 27th May 2016
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7.30 pm spot-on start!
Sophie Mayer and Jeff Hilson
Sophie Mayer is a writer, editor and educator. Her poetry has been translated into Russian, Greek, Dutch, and Japanese, and has appeared on poster hoardings in Dublin and as part of Yoko Ono’s Meltdown 2013. With Mark Burnhope and Sarah Crewe, she developed the recent wave of UK poetry activism, including the Sabotage Award-winning Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, Binders Full of Women, and Morning Star award-winning Fit to Work: Poets against Atos. She works with English PEN, and was the Archive of the Now’s first Poet in Residence. Previous collections include Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009), The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011), Kiss Off (Oystercatcher, 2011) and signs of the sistership(with Sarah Crewe, KFS, 2013). (0) is published by Arc.
Jeff Hilson has written stretchers (Reality Street 2006), Bird bird (Landfill 2009) and In The Assarts (Veer 2010). He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street 2008). He is currently working on a sequence called “Organ Music” parts of which will appear in a comprehensive selection of his poems to be published by Egg Box in 2016. He runs the reading series Xing the Line and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton, London.
More here: http://www.modernpoetry.org.uk/introjh.html
Servant Drone book launch
Portugese launch of Servant Drone by bruno neiva and Paul Hawkins, published by KFS.
Harriet Tarlo and Geraldine Monk reading in Sheffield
Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents: a poetry reading with
Harriet Tarlo and Geraldine Monk
Lecture Theatre 5, Hicks Building (Hounsfield Road, main entrance and downstairs), University of Sheffield
18.00, 24th of May, 2016
Geraldine Monk’s poetry was first published in the 1970’s. Her main collections include Noctivagations and Escafeld Hangings both published by West House Books andSelected Poems by Salt Publishing. In 2012 she edited Cusp: Recollections of Poetry in Transition, Shearman Books. Her latest book They Who Saw The Deep was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Edition in April 2016. She is an affiliated poet at the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, The University of Sheffield.
Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic. Publications include Poems 1990-2003(Shearsman 2004); Nab (etruscan 2005); Field (forthcoming) and, with Judith Tucker,Sound Unseen and Behind Land (Wild Pansy, 2013 and 2015). She is editor of The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011). Recent critical and creative work appears in volumes published by Edinburgh University Press., Salt, Palgrave, Rodopi and Bloodaxe and in the following journals: Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English and the Journal of Ecocriticism (JoE). Her collaborative work with Judith Tucker has been shown widely, at galleries including the Catherine Nash Gallery Minneapolis, 2012; Musee de Moulages, Lyon, 2013; Southampton City Art Gallery 2013-14; The Muriel Barker Gallery, Grimsby; The Scott Gallery, Plymouth, 2014 and New Hall College Art Collection, Cambridge, 2015. She teaches at Sheffield Hallam University where she is Reader in Creative Writing.
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