The next phase of the innovative Cutting Room Experiment has been announced, with the winning ideas and schedule going up on the website.
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An evening of poets and texts
- what: An evening of poets and texts
- when: Friday 12 June 2009, 07:30
- where: Bury Art Gallery, Moss St., Bury
An evening of experiment and challenge in the company of Japan-based Jesse Glass, Nick Thurston, Sarah Tremlett and Judy Kendall.
Matt Dalby
Two tasters for Matt’s performance at The Other Room on 3rd June: watch the clip below of Matt recorded at Poets and… in April 2009 or click here to listen to Matt at Freed Up Poets in July 2008.
Croy Devenish-Phibbs
Mackerelling – James Harvey
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Other Room VIII – the readers
The next Other Room is on Wednesday 3rd June. Here is some information about the three great writers who will be performing. Hope to see you there.
THE OTHER ROOM VIII
MATT DALBY started to explore the possibilities of sound poetry just over a year ago. He is part way through a project to release a CD-R of sound poetry a month throughout 2009. His work has featured on Wordsalad broadcasts. He is currently engaged in a variety of sound collaborations and has two full length records due out on limited edition imprints in Canada later in the summer.
ALEX DAVIES is 25, lives with his girlfriend Gemma in Wigan and is currently working a series of excruciatingly dull jobs while he seeks worthwhile employment. Hunter S Thompson and Kenneth Goldsmith are his best his friends on Facebook and Myspace. He is working on his magnet opium, a beastly collection called LONDONSTONE. His work is featured in ‘veer off’ (Veer Books, 2008) past simple 6 and City State: New London Poetry (Penned In The Margins, 2009).
ALLEN FISHER has been writing since 1962. He has published over 140 publications of art documentation, conceptual work and poetry. He employs interdisciplinary techniques in performance and installation works, drawing mainly from poetry and visual art. Part of his processual work is in the Tate Collection and his painted work is owned by museums in Hereford and Iceland, the King’s College Archive and private collections in America, Australia and Britain. His last one-artist show was at the Kings’ Archive in 2003. His most recent publication is PLACE (Reality Street, 2005). He currently lives in Hereford and Crewe and ‘in transit’
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine
Complete archive of this key magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein and running between February 1978 and October 1981. All thirteen issues are now available online and are well worth your attention.
Poet, husbandman and tunemaker
Michael George Gibson, prospective Oxford Professor of Poetry, has things to say about people like us.
Jeff Hilson at Edge Hill University
Thursday 23rd April 2009, 6.30-8.30 E24 at 6.30-8pm. (upstairs) FREE.
Fresh from his brilliant reading of Bird Bird at the Runnymeade Festival:
Jeff Hilson will be talking about his work.
Jeff Hilson’s works include A Grasses Primer (2000), Stretchers (2007), Bird Bird (2009), and In the Assarts (ongoing). He teaches at Roehampton University, London. With Sean Bonney and David Miller, he co-founded Crossing the Line, a reading series based in London.
Sampled in various small press editions over recent years and aired in live performances in London and elsewhere, Jeff Hilson’s Stretchers comprise three fast moving sequences of (more or less) 33-line poems. “Each stretcher contains a story, and each story contains other stories.” “A stretcher mis-uses that which it stretches into. Reading down the column, which stands immaculate among the ruined vocabularies. The idea of a stretcher works so well that every reading simply multiplies – by dint of new stretcher-ideas – whatever Hilson scraps together. How far can a lie stretch?” Edmund Hardy, Intercapillary Space
He is also the editor of the well-received and controversial Reality Street Book of Sonnets With no fewer than 84 contributors, this is a truly groundbreaking anthology. There are plenty of modern sonnet anthologies around; but none that have delved so thoroughly into the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the venerable form, including visual and concrete sonnets. We take as our time frame 1945 to the 21st century, with poets ranging from Edwin Denby (b. 1903) to those currently in their twenties. Jeff Hilson, the editor, contributes an introductory essay.
Via Robert Sheppard
Penn Sound Stats
PennSound stats:
PennSound users downloaded 4 million mp3 sound recordings and related media files in the past month.
At this point, we are projecting 50 million downloads for 2009.
Good runnings.
via Charles Bernstein
Readings – New Issue
Writing a long poem has an interwoven private and public temporality. Because of the number of variables set in play, one has (as a producer) deeply to desire that kind of activity in time. It’s a kind of erotic charge as well as an ambition—both expressing excess and desire—a longing and a sense of a vow. That is, long poems are a passionate activity, working inside time, constituted to engage various personal and historical necessities via poesis. It isn’t so much making a big Thing, but entering into a continuing situation of responsiveness, a compact with that desire.
New issue including:
Rachel DuPlessis
Will Rowe
Lawrence Upton
Johan de Wit
and more
via Carol Watts
Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk Benefit Reading
A benefit reading for poets Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk was held on 5th June 2008 at the Leather Exchange, London. Stephen Willey recorded the entire event. This project presents 32 videos of the poets that read, in chronological order.
Via Openned
Ed Moore’s Escalation
One time professional bookseller Ed Moore, who did a very kind guest performance on the bookstall at The Other Room 5, has a new video out commissioned by The Rogue Element. See here.
A Small Eternity: The shape of the sonnet through time
Using sumptuously illuminated books, rare and early printed editions, unique literary manuscripts and writers’ letters, this exhibition traces some of the stories told by the sonnet and explores why poets have felt compelled to write them.It contains examples of the work of a diverse range of sonneteers from Petrarch to Vikram Seth and Wilfred Owen to Lorna Goodison who have employed the form to speak of love-lost, found and forbidden, solace in war, and the nature of being and belonging in a complex world.
Starts February 26th at The John Rylands Library
Text Festival 2009
The Text Festival occupies the boundaries between art and poetry, examining the response of text artists and poets to the substantial ambiguity of language. A 12 week programme of events held in Bury, Lancashire, featuring exhibitions, public art commissions, publications and performances by internationally recognised practitioners and some of the newest talents in the field.
Poets include Ron Silliman and Geof Huth. Put it in your diary. See link below.
Alex Middleton reads the Matchbox 12
Each Matchbox is devoted to one poet and contains:
POEMS
A FREE GIFT
Matchbox came out every two months between March 2006-2008
It is archived at:
Buffalo University (Buffalo, USA)
Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall, London)
UCL (London)
Happy New Year
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