Two films from Other Room performer Steve Boyland, part of his research at University of Limerick with musicologist/ Early Music specialist Oscar Mascarenas.
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WF(N) flash mob meeting
An additional, impromptu WF(N) workshop is happening Saturday 18th July, in the café of Manchester Central Library, St. Peter’s Square, 2 – 4 PM. Bring photocopies of a poem by someone else you like and one of your own.
Poetry is Vol II
A superb new film by George Quasha. Volume I and links to art is and music is are HERE
Vol. II is in 3 parts comprising the following poets in order of appearance:
Part 1
Mark Mirsky, Michael McClure, Maryrose Larkin, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Robert Kelly, Elaine Equi, Charles Amirkhanian, Charles Stein, Nancy Kuhl, Maria Damon, Vyt Bakaitis, Debrah Morkun, Eleni Stecopoulos, Lamont Brown Steptoe, Nada Gordon, Sam Truitt, Elizabeth Bryant, Carlos Soto-Roman, Jena Osman, Vincent Katz, Tinker Greene, Gerard Malanga, Alana Siegel, Jeffrey Robinson, Dorota Czerner, Barbara Blatner, Kenneth Irby
Part 2:
Jonas Mekas, Don Byrd, Jennifer Scappettone, Mark Mirsky, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Sara Larsen, Lori Anderson Moseman, Ryan Eckes, Geof Huth, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Chris Funkhouser, Elaine Equi, Anna Moschovakis, Clark Coolidge, Jesse Glass, Rochelle Owens, Jerome Sala, David Brazil, Richard Deming, Rae Armantrout, Jacques Roubaud, Maureen Thorson, Joan Murray, Anselm Berrigan, David Wolach, Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner
Part 3
Michael McClure, Amy Catanzano, Basil King, Jennifer Bartlett, Nancy Frye Huth, Marilyn Stablein, Michael Slosek, Robert Mittenthal, Bob Perleman, Deborah Poe, Chris Piuma, Kimberly Lyons, Frank Sherlock, Rachel Levitsky, D. H. Melhem, CAConrad, Patricia Spears Jones, George Economou, Lynn Behrendt, Julian Semilian, Rebecca Wolff, Robert Kelly, Will Alexander, Alana Siegel, Barbara Kremen, Kythe Heller, Torben Ulrich
RWF/RAF (Stinky Bears Hit the Port)
9 August, 13:00. News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4HY.
Readings in the best bookshop ever from all three bears; Mendoza, Pascal O’Loughlin and Sarah Crewe,plus the North West launch of RWF/RAF, the fourth pamphlet from Stinky Bear, based on the lives of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Ulrike Meinhof. It will be super fantastisch. Goldilocks not invited.
Found Poetry Review Volume 8
The Found Poetry Review celebrates the poetry in the existing and the everyday. Issue 8 out now.
Fat Roland: Kratwerk Badger Spaceship
More at the LINK
Cardiff Poetry Experiment – Peter Finch, Ashley John Long, EEF
The next Cardiff Poetry Experiment is WEDNESDAY, 24th June
Featuring:
JOHN CAGE’s ONE^7 performed by EEF
followed by:
PETER FINCH AND ASHLEY JOHN LONG VISIT LIDL performed by PETER FINCH (author of Zen Cymru, Selected Later Poems, and hammer lieder helicopter speak) and bassist ASHLEY JOHN LONG
Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions
Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library at the Arcade gate entrance)
Eef is a freelance screen and stage actor based in Cardiff: http://eefbonnet.net/
Peter Finch is a poet is a full-time poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. He has published more than twenty-five books of poetry including Zen Cymru, published by Seren Books, and The Welsh Poems from Shearsman in 2006. His Selected Later Poems was published by Seren in 2007. A recent work is hammer lieder helicopter speak, a sonic history of twentieth century music published by p.o.w. ( poetry / oppose / war ).
Ashley John Long is a double bassist active internationally as a soloist and ensemble performer. Recent albums include “Back in your own Backyard” with Chris Hodgkins and “The Ripefruit Session” with Tom Jackson.
Sophie Herxheimer The Listening Forest launch
Sophie Herxheimer London launch of The Listening Forest
Wine, snacks, books, prints, a short reading at around 7.30, & a window exhibition of some of the work made over the last 10 months during Sophie’s residency with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
Bookartbookshop at 17 Pitfield Street, N1 6HB in Hoxton 18th June 6.30-9PM
five minute walk from Old Street tube
The Other Room Tonight
Litmus III launch
30th July, 7pm. 3MT, Afflecks Arcade, 35-39 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JG. Tickets £3.
Join us for the launch of our haematological issue, edited by Sarah Crewe, Elinor Cleghorn and David Rees. Featuring readings from Sophie Mayer, Melissa Lee Houghton, Pascal O’Loughlin, Tom Jenks, Dorothy Lehane, Elizabeth Treadwell, Patricia Farrell and Eleanor Ward. No actual blood donations required.
Robert Sheppard: Words Out of Time
Words Out of Time deforms and reforms a story of Sheppard’s life as an othering, an ‘autrebiography’, in modes that include what he calls ‘unwriting’, working through and transforming diaries and journals. The Given tells it in four different ways, from a litany of what hasn’t been remembered, to an alphabetical disfigurement of its features. Arrival invents a demonic sibling, generated from the diaries, restlessly inhabiting lyrics, a short story, an essay and footnotes. In When Sheppard goes conceptual with ‘With’, while ‘Words’ weaves abandoned (found) texts to shake up this history; ‘Work’ distends temporality, reverses standard autobiography’s fascination with origins, slows down time to show how work works its way into a life. Out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Shakespeare Sonnet Generator
Dave Mourice and Tristran Miller designed this random generator which writes new sonnets from Shakespeare’s original lines – LINK
Junction Box 7
A new issue of Junction Box which: wants to provide a space for poets, primarily, but also for other kinds of creative and critical practitioners, to talk about the world, themselves and the others, in a free and category-open fashion. We declare a bias in favour of the exploratory, the reactive, the immediate, what one might call a spirit of unprepossession, as against reflections in tranquility on carefully packaged residues of experience. By means of essays, reviews, improvisations, anecdotes, eruptions, interviews, manifestoes and the like, Junction Box will attempt to get under the skin of a small portion of the cultural universe, to reveal the swarming inter-cellular activities that make it glow.
Featuring: Sophie Mayer, Felicity Allen and Simon Smith, Kat Peddie, Tilla Brading, Allen fisher and Anthony Mellors, David Greenslade, Penny Hallas, James Davies, Helen Moore, Doug Jones, Alan Halsey and Lyndon Davies
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
TUESDAY 12th MAY
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
http://cardiffpoetryexperiment.blogspot.co.uk
Featuring:
Samantha Walton
D. E. Oprava
Peter Jaeger
Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, with discussions. Refreshments, cake available at the Teahouse.
Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)
Samantha Walton is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Amaranth, Unstitched (Punch Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Animal Pomes from Crater Press. She’s read at events including the UEA Poetry Festival, Surrey Poetry Festival, Lit Live at Goldsmiths and as part of Enemies collaborations in London, Edinburgh and Wales. In 2015 Samantha will be Poet in Residence at the SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word in Cork, Ireland. Tweets @samlwalton
D.E. Oprava is an American-born writer who has lived in Wales for almost two decades. He has published six collections of poetry, the latest of which, The Last Museum of Laughter, was highly commended by the 2014 Forward Prizes for Poetry and he recently won the 2015 London Book Fair Poetry Prize for Haiku. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University and has work forthcoming from Red Hen Press and Pighog Press in 2016.
Peter Jaeger is a Canadian text-based artist, poet, and literary critic now living in London. He is the author of eleven books, and his most recent publications include John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics (Bloomsbury 2013), 540493390 (Veer Press 2014), and A Field Guide to Lost Things (forthcoming this year from If P then Q Press). Jaeger is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University in London.
Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
Steve Boyland: A Preview
Steve will perform at The Other Room 7th birthday, 30th April.
For more details of the night see the poster in the middle column.
Future Dust
A collection of Selected Englyns, Haiku, and Haiku Collaborations, out now on Original Plus.
JR Carpenter: A Preview
I always start with a story. Even if the story is a poem. I almost never know what the final form of the piece will be. Even if the piece has been finished for some time. Some stories just don’t seem finished, even after publication. I wrote the text of Entre Ville by hand on a hammock in Vermont. It was published in an online journal in 2005 Then I shot the video. Then I was commission by the Conseil des Arts de Montreal to create a piece for their 50th anniversary. Then I edited the video at OBORO, which took a month. Only then did I begin the web integration. The main interface was built around a line drawing I had made in a note book in 1992. I used pop-up windows because there were so many images of windows in the piece. There is nothing particularly complicated about the programming of the piece.
Read more of this interview in the Huffington Post HERE or visit JRs website HERE
JR will read at The Other Room 7th birthday, 30th April.
For more details of the night see the poster in the middle column.
Lou Rowan: A Preview
LR: In my single-digit years I’d sit on the floor by the supermarket magazine rack reading comics. I felt that Superman and Superboy were more “real” and “normal” than the Marvel Comics heroes. The Superman movies I’ve found pretty average, but liked the Lois character, except for the sanctimonious Lois in the latest movie. The novel uses the basic knowledge any American might have of our primary superhero.
Read the rest of this interview at Lou’s website HERE
Lou will read at The Other Room 7th birthday, 30th April.
For more details of the night see the poster in the middle column.
Wrogowie
Films from SJ Fowler’s Anglo-Polish collaborative project are now online, including this by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese and Scott Thurston. They’re all available at the Enemies site.
Shadowtrain 43
April-May 2015
Kate Ashton romps through slipping seasons; Tom Snarsky shakes a tattered image of himself; David Spittle remembers to leave the door open; Anne Gorrick is sleepless and heartbroken; Katherine Holmes meditates on window-wordless birds; Tim Allen finds a lost ticket for the stars; Sarah James drinks it with down with black medicine; Neil Fulwood admires a small, discreet tattoo; Patricia Farrell pushes to the absolute end; Ian Seed rifles through Tom Jenks’ Items. Board here.
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