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Sean Bonney: two new books
Out now:
The Commons
http://www.openned.com/print/category/sean-bonney
“The work was originally subtitled “A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle”, wherein voices from contemporary uprisings blend into the Paris Commune, into October 1917, into the execution of Charles 1, and on into superstitions, fantasies of crazed fairies and supernatural bandits //// all clambering up from their hidden places in history, getting ready to storm the Cities of the Rich //// to the bourgeois eye they may look like zombies, to us they are sparrows, cuckoos, pirates & sirens //// the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs, cracking the windows of Piccadilly //// or, as a contemporary Greek proverb has it, “smashing up the present because they come from the future”.
Out soon:
Happiness – Poems after Rimbaud
http://www.unkant.com/p/publications.html#rimbaud“It is impossible to fully grasp Rimbaud’s work, and especially Une Saison en Enfer, if you have not studied through and understood the whole of Marx’s Capital. And this is why no English speaking poet has ever understood Rimbaud. Poetry is stupid, but then again, stupidity is not the absence of intellectual ability but rather the scar of its mutilation ////// Rimbaud hammered out his poetic programme in 1871, just as the Paris Commune was being blown off the map. He wanted to be there. It’s all he talked about. The “systematic derangement of the senses” is the social senses, ok, and the “I” becomes an “other” as in the transformation of the individual into the collective when it all kicks off. It’s only in the English speaking world you have to point simple shit like that out. But then again, these poems have NOTHING TO DO WITH RIMBAUD. If you think they’re translations you’re an idiot. In the enemy language it is necessary to lie.”
Out soon:
Crossing the Painted
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September, 3.00 pm
at Whitechapel Art Gallery, Art Book Fair
Readings of new work from poets in a collaboration between Painted, Spoken magazine and the Crossing the Line live poetry series. For two events only, six poets read individually, prefaced and ‘afterworded’ by a rules-based group work. Although representing a vast range of poetry practice the poets all come from modernist traditions with art practice selfconsciousness: hear how their work diverges and overlaps, creating a unique live event. Vahni Capildeo, Giles Goodland, Jeff Hilson, Francesca Lisette, Richard Price and Simon Smith.
Free. Presented at the The Portable Reading Room, the Wild Pansy Press stand. For more information see: www.wildpansypress.com
ΠΟΕΤΡΥ issue 2 launch
You are cordially invited to the launch of Friary Road House second experimental journal “ΠΟΕΤΡΥ”.
This anthology is limited to 100 copies available on the night and features written pieces by the following persons:
Boris Jardine
Nathan Cash Davidson
Nikola Tosic
Caleb Klaces
Dominic Walker
Bobby Dowler
William Kherberk
Danny Adams
Tristram Bellotti
Vincent Clay
James Balmforth
Octavia Lamb
Thomas Brock
Joseph Waller
Alexander Nemser
Edited by Louis Eastwood and with artworks by Sofia Stevi.
The launch will happen at the Hannah Barry Gallery
Unit 19
Copeland Rd
Industrial estate
133 Copeland Rd
SE15 3SN
on the evening of Wednseday 14th of September 2011 from 6.30pm.
We hope you can join us!
Note: We will be launching this book in the gallery at the same time that the following three solo shows will be opening:
James Capper ‘FLEET’,
Bobby Dowler ‘ODD PAINTINGS’,
Viktor Timofeev 12.168.13[MONSTROcity]
http://friaryroadhouse.blogspot.com/2011/09/launch-of-second-issue.html
The Emblem of My Work
Opening at Shandy Hall on the afternoon of Sunday September 4th, The Emblem of My Work celebrates the 250th anniversary of the marbled page (page 169) in Volume III of Tristram Shandy and has largely been put together by chance. 169 artists are participating, including Other Room reader Alec Finlay. More at the dedicated site.
Mark Cobley: Andrew Seems Popular
Out now on The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
the modernist – issue 2
Issue 2 of the modernist magazine will be launched at at 6pm on Thursday 15th September at Manchester’s Cornerhouse.
The Other Room 27 – Tonight
Otoliths – new issue
Issue 22 of Otoliths is out now, including poems from Mark Cobley, Grzegorz Wróblewski and Other Room reader Lisa Samuels.
James Davies and Carol Watts on Radio 3
James Davies and Carol Watts, authors of the two most recent Reality Street titles, will be on BBC Radio 4’s The Verb next month. More on Ken Edwards’ blog: http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/kens-blog/reality-street-on-the-verb
The Other Room 25 – Manchester – Tonight
The Other Room 24 – Leeds – Tonight
Flarf is 10
“In 10 years, the 30-odd people who wound up coming and going on the list published dozens of books and chapbooks, held a number of festivals in New York, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore and elsewhere, and put on high-profile readings at the Denver Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center and the Whitney (with our rivals and closest peers, the Conceptual Writers). Collections of flarf appeared in the online magazine, Jacket, and—scandalously—in Poetry magazine, our second and last appearance with the Conceptual Writers before their attempted hostile takeover. We were written about in numerous alt weekly papers, as well as in Poets & Writers and the Wall Street Journal. The BBC, Wired and NPR covered our activities—as well as the anger our very existence seemed to incite.”
In Utero: Intercapillary Places Poetry @ Parasol Unit
23 June · 19:00 – 20:30
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
*** Free Drinks & ‘Interior Ears’ hand-out for all ***
…
£3 / £1.50 – for booking details see below
More info see: Intercapillary Places website https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/
Parasol Unit: http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php
Important: As the capacity for the event is limited, please book in advance by emailing Charlotte Jones at events@parasol-unit.org or calling on 020 7490 7373 ext 20. Please be aware that if you haven’t booked in advance and turn up on the night, this is fine but if capacity is reached you may not be allowed in.
About the Speakers
Carol Watts is Reader in Literature and Poetics, Birkbeck, University of London; Co-Director, Birkbeck Centre for Research in Contemporary Poetics. She has published a study of Dorothy Richardson (Northcote House, 1995) and The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years War and the Imagining of the Shandean State (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007). Her poetry publications include Wrack (Reality Street, 2007), brass, running (Equipage, 2006), When blue light falls (Oystercatcher, 2008) and alphabetise (Intercapillary Editions, hardback edition 2011). She is currently researching the transatlantic culture of loyalism during the American Revolution.
Marianne Morris was raised in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge, and was the recipient of the Harper-Wood Studentship for Creative Writing from St. John’s College in 2008. She is now researching for a PhD in contemporary poetry at Dartington (University College Falmouth). She founded Bad Press in 2002. Publications include: Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011); Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2008); A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006); with Bad Press: Cocteau Turquoise Turning, Fetish Poems (2004); Gathered Tongue, Memento Mori (2003); Poems in Order (2002). Who Not To Speak To and Iran Documents are forthcoming from Acts of Language and Openned Press respectively.
‘Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol Unit’ is organised by Edmund Hardy and Felicity Roberts
More here.
Fluxus reader
A free pdf has been made available of essays edited by Ken Friedman:
Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus has become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic exprmentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as ‘the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s’, Fluxus challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for over four decades. It had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms. The Fluxus Reader offers the first comprehensive overview on this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe and the United States.
Crater Spring Event
Monday, May 16 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location The Old Red Lion Pub, Kennington
This is the latest Crater seasonal event – Ken Edwards, Gareth Farmer, Gregorio Fontaine, Rob Holloway and Joseph Luna will showcase their wares in a free and easy poetry enviro. Turn right outside Kennington tube, it’s 100yds on your left. No charge, no dress code.
Salford MA funding
A funding opportunity is available for the Creative Writing MA at Salford University, UK, run by Dr. Scott Thurston. Check here for more information. Deadline for applications is Friday 20th May.
Polyply 10 > Voicings
Christian Bök
Frances Kruk
Dan Scott
Emmanuelle Waekerle
Lydia White
Wednesday 4th May, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
the modernist magazine
From the manchester modernist society:
the modernist magazine is a quarterly magazine published for the North West of England by the manchester modernist society, a not for profit organisation dedicated to championing architecture of the twentieth century.
The writing of our launch issue is well under way and will be hitting the news stands in June. Get your copy delivered straight onto your door mat by subscribing on-line. With free postage and a chance to win some lovely books, why wouldn’t you? If you subscribe before the end of April, you have a chance of winning the fabulous Facismo Abbandonato or the gorgeous CCCP. Check out the modernist website and keep your eyes peeled for our launch event at CUBE Gallery as part of Architecture Festival NW.
Annual subscription £15 (inc postage)
Individual issue £3.75 (plus postage)
James Davies and David Gaffney book launches
An invitation to celebrate the launches of
David Gaffney’s The Half-Life of Songs published by Salt (www.saltpublishing.com/books/smf/1844712923.htm)
and
James Davies’ Plants published by Reality Street (www.realitystreet.co.uk)
May 10th, 6.30pm
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street, Manchester
This is a FREE event
David Gaffney lives in Manchester and Durham. He is the author of Sawn Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), Buildings Crying Out, a story using lost cat posters (Lancaster litfest 2009), 23 Stops To Hull a set of stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth festival 2009) Sawn off opera a set of operas with composer Ailis Ni Riain (Radio Three, RNCM, Liverpool philharmonic and tete a tete festival London 2010 ) Destroy PowerPoint, stories in PowerPoint format for Edinburgh festival 2009, the Poole Confessions stories told in a mobile confessional box (Poole Literature festival 2010) and he has written articles for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect magazine. His new collection of short stories, The Half-Life of Songs, is out now, and look out for his current project, Station Stories, in which six writer linked to the audience with wireless headphones, perform short stories in Manchester Piccadilly railway station. See http://www.davidgaffney.org for more.
James Davies is the author of Plants (Reality Street), The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit); with Simon Taylor, as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, aRb (if p then q) and Absolute Elsewhere (Knives Forks and Spoons). He edits if p then q (www.ifpthenq.co.uk) and is one of the organisers of The Other Room poetry night and website (www.theotherroom.org)
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