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The Other Room 15 in photos

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Photos of Ian Davidson, Zoe Skoulding, Matthew Welton and poetry chocolate Easter eggs. These eggs were devoted to one of each of last year’s readers and had a line attached from one of their poems in The Other Room Anthology. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

Ian Davidson

Ian Davidson in mirror

Zoe Skoulding

Zoe Skoulding

audience

Matthew Welton

eggs

Frances Kruk’s egg

Tim Atkins’ egg

Becoming Post Avant

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The thoughts of Steve Waling:

“It was a pressure in my head that made me finally admit that I was whatever kind of poet it is I think I’ve become. I had a failing poem that annoyed me so much, as a last resort, I cut it up. Lo! A light came down from heaven illuminating the path I must follow… or something… Rather, I discovered that I didn’t have to do the whole thing straight, that going the crooked route was just as interesting.”

More here. See Steve’s reading for The Other Room in February here.

Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions: Fact Sheet

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Fact sheet below.

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Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions:

Fact Sheet

“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.” –Franz Kafka, Diaries

“In my life the furniture eats me.” –William Carlos Williams, Spring & All

EMBLEM

Invented in 1531 by a Florentine legal scholar named Andrea Alciato, the emblem is a tripartite structure composed of a motto or epigram (generally moral in theme), an icon (often referred to as the emblem’s ‘body’) and a commentary on the two in prose or poem form. Many emblems made variations on this formula.

ARMCHAIR EMBLEM

The upholstered emblem or armchair emblem incorporates only the epigram/motto and image tension of the Renaissance emblem but retains its conceptual gist and glyphic structure.

PROSTHETIC MOTTO

An aspirational embodiment or transcorporation for the body-image. “Building the muscles of mind’s legs.” Enhanced mobility via an ingested foreign body.

TRANSCORPORATION

A translation from one body to another. An ingestion or introjection.

WALKING DEFINITION

An indoor walking stick that defines constituents of the built interior as allegories of mind. A measure. A ‘getting underway’ instrument, frequently ‘left around.’

BUILT INTERIOR

An indoor pedestrian structure comprised of mobile furniture for the solicitation of thinking. An allegory of mind.

SOLICITATION

The directed rousal of thinking through upholstered didactic prompts or forms (an intelligent furniture).

FORMS

Ornaments of thought. Including: the glyphic (static—the emblem); the mnemonic (transcorporable—the prosthetic); the definitive (the Walking Definition).

FURNITURE

What is lived with. “The relation of with.” Any instrument or form housing information intended to be absorbed by accompaniment.

–THOMAS EVANS

The Snow Man

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One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is

Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’

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In its festive merriment, and review of the culture of the decad,e The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.

1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10. Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets

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