More info on these dates in the next few months but for now put these on the calendar!
14/06/2017: Thomas A. Clark & Matthew Welton at the Castle Hotel, 7pm
19/07/2017: Icelandic night at the Castle Hotel, 7pm
23/08/2017: Robert Sheppard presents EUOIA at the Castle Hotel, 7pm
Subject to Gesture by Mark Leahy (Featuring Benjamin D. Duvall) & Changing Piece – An Epic Saga Against the Odds by James Davies are out now from Dock Road Press priced at £3 each.
House of Hysteria presents –
Dec0rative D0rmit0ries f0r Sleep W0rkers
Exhibition open:
29.4.17 – 21.5.17
Sat. – Sun. 12:00 – 18:00
Private view:
Thursday April 27th, 19:00 – 21:00
House 0f Hysteria with Ami Clarke, Kirsten Cooke, Annabel Frearson, Dale Holmes, 0rphan Drift, Michael Iveson, Tina Jenkins, Sharon Kivland, Mark Nader and Nicola Woodham
Performances:
27.04.17 Opening Event | 19:00 – 21:00:
Ami Clarke will be reading from her on-going script: Error-Correction: an introduction to future diagrams – take 7.3582701: code for the numbers to come with Low Animal Spirits (2017) an HFT algo dealing in world news by Ami Clarke and Richard Cochrane.
20.05.17 Closing Event | 19:00 – 21:00:
Sharon Kivland turns over the record of her work titled, To Dream by the Book, read by a hundred readers (2017), a work that lasts for forty minutes.
Nicola Woodham performs Garg (2017) a shapeshifting vocal ritual.
A roll call for last year’s poets who are published in our annual anthology HERE
Sat 22 April 2017, 10:00 – 13:00. Lincoln Room 2, Central Methodist Buildings, Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JQ.
An introduction to the art of writing short stories by Neil Campbell.
This three hour workshop will introduce participants to the essential ingredients and structure of a well crafted short story. Beginning with reading an existing text and identifying key features in a group setting, participants will then have the opportunity to have a go writing their own individual short story with the support of an expert in the genre. The workshop will culminate in a reading of the stories created and the opportunity for instant feedback. More here.
Readings by Iris Colomb, Chris McCabe and Lars Palm
Iris Colomb : Chris McCabe : Lars Palm
Thursday, April 20 at 7:30 PM
Iklectik, Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG London
Gramophone Raygun number 6
A night of experimental poetry and sonic art with performances from Mark Leahy/Benjamin D. Duvall, Patricia Farrell and James Davies.
Thursday, April 27 at 8 PM – 11 PM
Everyman Bistro, Liverpool
LINK to Facebook page
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #22 – ft. Cathy Butterworth & Mark Greenwood, Lyndon Davies, Gloria Dawson, Jazmine Linklater
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An afternoon of alternative poetries
4.00 – 6.00, Gullivers *note the change of location*
Free entry
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CATHY BUTTERWORTH ~
is an artist who makes work at the intersection of writing, performance and visual art. Her recent pamphlet Cimmerian was published by Dock Road Press. Performance actions, writing and visual art projects include: Sketches for Britain (Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, 2010), 22 Mondays (durational performance with Mark Greenwood, 2015), Everyone in Your Life is a Figment of Your Imagination (Delhi, 2015), Elective Affinities (Tate Liverpool 2016) and True Blue: 26 Lost Performances (2016). Her literary object, Fortunate, was published by zimZalla in December 2016.
MARK GREENWOOD ~
is a performance writer from Newcastle but now based in Liverpool. His first poetry collection White Mice, All Colours was published in 2010 and he has performed his works internationally as well as appearing on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb in 2015. His poems mediate on labour, endurance and defunct working-class rituals using a Northern, punk vernacular. Mark received a doctorate in 2013 from Kingston University for his thesis and 48-hour performance, Lad Broke: The Performing Body in the Event of Writing. He has also taught Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts.
LYNDON DAVIES~
has published three collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006), Shield (Parthian Press 2010) and A Colomber in the House of Poesy (Aquifer 2014). He runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature and art, and set up Aquifer Books, which publishes mainly poetry-centred writing with an experimental bias. He also edits an online magazine of art and literature called Junction Box.
GLORIA DAWSON ~
writes poetry, essays, and work for performance, and is recently published in Zarf, Datableed and The Literateur. Her work has been shown at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and anthologised in Remembering Oluwale (Valley Press, 2016). She lives in and interferes with Leeds. http://cargocollective.com/gloriadawson
JAZMINE LINKLATER ~
is a poet and writer based in Manchester, currently studying towards her MA at Salford. Work can be found in Datableed; The Literateur; Paratext; Zarf. Work is forthcoming in Epizootics! http://jjhlinklater.blogspot.co.uk/
Arvon Experimental Poetry Course
With Scott Thurston and Harriet Tarlo, & Maggie O’Sullivan as guest reader
Sep 18th – Sep 23rd 2017
Suitable for new poets and more experienced writers who would like to explore innovative poetic techniques, throw over old habits, or push their work further. You will be encouraged to explore a diversity of poetic forms and uses of language, such as open form, collage and juxtaposition. We will bring to bear our background in what is often referred to as the UK’s ‘innovative’ poetry scene, introducing you to the approaches of British and American experimental poets as a means of encouraging you to play and take risks in your own work.
More at the LINK
Poster by Maja Fagerberg Ranten
Call For Papers: On the Theme of “Endings”
The editors of BSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal request academic papers, essays, interviews, creative works or remembrances on the theme of endings. Johnson’s novels featured a range of innovative endings; from the “almighty aposiopesis” of Albert Angelo, to the unexploded bomb in Christie Malry, to the metafictional imposition of the House Mother in House Mother Normal. In the interests of exploring endings and the ways in which they can define, fix or unsettle the meaning of texts, we are seeking submissions that engage with our theme; be it a creative piece with an interesting ending, a theoretical engagement with Johnson’s work, or an interpretation of the wider connotations of the theme: limits, finality, death.
We welcome academic papers of between 6,000 and 8,000 words and essays of between 500 and 2,500 words (papers will be thoroughly peer-reviewed and must conform to academic standards, essays do not need to meet these requirements and are usually more journalistic or personal in style). Short stories, poetry and innovative forms are welcome at any length, short or long. Suggestions for reviews may also be made to the editors, but making contact first is recommended to avoid reviewers overlapping. Although submitted work need not be directly about B.S. Johnson, the journal aims to promote his legacy and therefore favours work that display a commitment to truth, formal innovation or working class modernism.
Zarf magazine presents (the second Zarf reading in Leeds) –
P O E T R Y (and similar)
readings by
NAT RAHA
and
GLORIA DAWSON
and
JAZMINE LINKLATER
Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh,
Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections: countersonnets
(Contraband Books, 2013), and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous
pamphlets including ‘£/€xtinctions’ (Sociopathetic Distro, 2017), ‘[of
sirens / body & faultlines]’ (Veer Books, 2015), and ‘mute exterior
intimate’ (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She’s performed and published
her work internationally. She is undertaking a PhD in Creative &
Critical Writing at the University of Sussex. Nat’s essay titled
‘Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism’ is due for
publication in the South Atlantic Quarterly this spring, and she has
recently started working with Scottish PEN on the Many Voices project.
Jazmine Linklater is a poet based up north, currently studying towards
her MA at Salford. Work can be found in Datableed; The Literateur;
Paratext; Zarf. Work is forthcoming in Epizootics!
http://jjhlinklater.blogspot.co.uk/
Gloria Dawson writes poetry, essays, and work for performance, and is
recently published in Zarf, Datableed and The Literateur. Her work has
been shown at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and is anthologised in
Remembering Oluwale (Valley Press, 2016). She lives in and interferes
with Leeds. http://cargocollective.com/gloriadawson
Wharf Chambers (downstairs)
7 for 7.30, finish 9pm
FREE but donations for poet costs are welcome and there will be a
book, pamphlet, zine and whatever else table!
NOTE: Wharf Chambers is a members’ co-operative, You do not need to be
a member or guest of a member to attend this event UNLESS you wish to
buy things the bar. Joining is £1, takes 48hrs to process and is very
much encouraged.
Here’s a taster of William Rowe who’ll appear soon at our 9th birthday.
The Other Room
9th birthday and 9th anthology launch
Erkembode, Juxtavoices, William Rowe
Wednesday 5th April, 2017, 7pm
The King’s Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford, M3 6AN
Free Entry
www.otherroom.org
Other Other Room interviews are HERE
Here’s a taster of Juxtavoices who’ll appear soon at our 9th birthday.
The Other Room
9th birthday and 9th anthology launch
Erkembode, Juxtavoices, William Rowe
Wednesday 5th April, 2017
The King’s Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford, M3 6AN
Free Entry
www.otherroom.org
Early notice on this splendid looking event.
Here’s a taster of Erkembode who’ll appear soon at our 9th birthday.
The Other Room
9th birthday and 9th anthology launch
Erkembode, Juxtavoices, William Rowe
Wednesday 5th April, 2017
The King’s Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford, M3 6AN
Free Entry
www.otherroom.org
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