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Tengen
Tengen is a creative writing magazine, started at UCL in 2009. The title comes from the Japanese game ‘Go’, where ‘Tengen’ is the central point, the “moment in space from which patterns arise”
LINK to read more
Current issue is HERE and includes:
Interview with Tom McCarthy – Exclusive artwork from Kanitta Meechubot – Poetry by Joseph Kerridge, Steve Willey, Rupert Cabbell Manners, Olivia Ho, Umar Hassan, Stephen Mooney, Jow Lindsay and Justin Katko – Prose from Maru Rojas, Sean Bonney, Kyle Robertson and Louisa Little with Khalid Tetuani – Visual work from Erika Altosaar, Johanna Torell, Lara Kamhi, Poppy Whatmore and Sarah Pickering – Q&A with Steve Willey on Poetry and London – Interview with Zaheer Ali on the reinvention of Malcolm X – Film reviews and more!
Paper Nautilus issue 3
Poems by:
- Francesca Lisette
- Ariana Reines
- Lisa Robertson & The Perfume Recordist
Plus commentary by:
- Francesca Lisette
More at the Paper Nautilus site.
if p then q readings London
Advanced notice of a stunning if p then q event happening in London in early September.
if p then q presents: Tim Atkins, Michael Basinski, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Tom Jenks, Holly Pester & Philip Terry at The Betsey Trotwood, London.
The event is free and starts at 7pm on Saturday, September 8th, 2012
See more at www.ifpthenq.co.uk for details of publications with if p then q
* not suitable for domestic sublimation – Jennifer Cooke
not suitable for domestic sublimation is Jennifer Cooke’s first poetry collection and features poems written over the last six years that engage in various ways with radical politics; gender norms; personal and corporate self-actualisation (and Cooke’s hatred of such discourses); sexuality; town centres; and some of the ideas of the French Freud, Jacques Lacan.
The books includes “Steel Girdered Her Musical: in several parts”, originally made for performance with music by Adam Robinson. This twelve-part poem-sequence at the heart of the collection centres on the possible impossibility of a revolution beginning at South Mimms Service Station, a motorway convenience situated on the M25 and the A1 (M) near London. Passionately, irreverently, obliquely, it explores the relationships between theory and praxis, art and revolution, anonymous space and potential resistance, and the force of rhetoric operating within these fields, themes that are also echoed by other poems in the book.
Available now from Contraband Books.
Experimental Sonnet Writing – Online Course
James Davies will be teaching an online course for The Poetry School
Experimental Sonnet Writing
Tutor: James Davies
Day / Time: Thursdays, fortnightly, 7pm UK Time
Duration: 5 sessions
First Live Chat: 4 October
Price: £76, £67, £60
Level: open to all
The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading a small amount of the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will write your own 14 liners. Tasks will be based around sonnets written in the last hundred years or so (with a particular focus on the last fifty years).By the end of the course you will be inventing your own methods and processes and adding to this rich tradition. Students should have 5-10 of their own poems ready to work on which they are prepared to treat and manipulate; these need not be sonnets nor in any way complete.
We will be thinking about poets including: e.e. cummings, John Berryman, Man Ray, Matthew Welton, Ted Berrigan, Derek Henderson, Philip Terry, Jen Bervin, Tim Atkins, Tony Lopez, Juliana Spahr, Sarah Riggs
See www.poetryschool.com for more
The Camarade Project: Edition III
Dash Booked a Builder by Ollie Evans
Out now from Red Ceilings Press. Ollie Evans is a poet and performer from London. He has been making experimental ventriloquist theatre as a soloist and with his group, Dummy Company, since 2008. His first booklet, Stutter Studies (2011) was published by Department Press. He has had poetry printed in the International Egg & Poultry Review (2011), Depart (2012) and Anything Anymore Anywhere (2012). A book of poems after Dante, The Comedy, is due out through Holdfire Press in October 2012. He is also studying for a PhD on ‘Performance and Finnegans Wake’ at Birkbeck College.
Peter Manson reviewed
Other Room reader Peter Manson’s translation of Mallarmé is reviewed in The Guardian by David Wheatley here.
Carrie Etter reading at The Other Room third birthday, April 2011
From the vaults. We’ve finally archived Carrie Etter’s videos. You can find them in the middle column for future use.
Reading
Interview
Shakespeare and the Contemporary Sonnet
A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM
SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER 2012
UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON, LONDON
Featuring poetry readings and discussion by: Tim Atkins, Heather Dubrow, Jeff Hilson, Harryette Mullen, Don Paterson, Philip Terry and Cathy Shrank.
For more details on how to book, please contact Julia Noyce on julia.noyce@roehampton.ac.uk
Homage Renga workshop with SJ Fowler
Homage Renga workshop with SJ Fowler
The Saison Poetry Library foyer, Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, London, SE1 8XX
2-4pm, Saturday 30th
Free (arrive on the day, no need to book)
“Using the poetry library as a resource, a facilitated session where those in attendance spar line to line with in concert with each other, creating series of poems in small groups while writing simultaneously to order their lines after writing, and then coming together to write one larger poem in narrative, responsive order. This Renga, but as an act of homage and theft, creating a Remix poem out of the singled, lost lines of other poets great works. A collaborative work of plagiarism, attendees will be given a set of rules with which to work and let loose.”
Poetea: Jo Langton
zimZalla object 015 is Poetea by Jo Langton: 10 hand made text teabags in bespoke felt sleeves. Available individually or as a complete set. More details at the zimZalla site.
Halfcircle 4
Out now and available at the Halfcircle site, with work from a range of great writers, including Other Room readers Peter Manson, Jennifer Cooke, Linus Slug, Posie Rider, SJ Fowler, nick-e melville, Sean Bonney, Caroline Bergvall, Frances Kruk and Steve Willey.
Tom Phillips: A Humument (Fifth Edition)
In 1966 artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an obscure 1892 Victorian novel, A Human Document, by W.H. Mallock. He titled his altered book A Humument. The first version of all 367 treated pages was published in 1973 since when there have been four revised editions and an App. It is now one of the best known and loved of all 20th century artist’s books and has become a cult classic.
This edition incorporates more than 80 new pages and, in its forty fifth year, the project continues to be a work in progress.
Ian Seed: Threadbare Fables
Out now on Nikolai Duffy’s Like This press. “Ian Seed’s mysterious Threadbare Fables equate the storytelling impulse with existential loss. Insistently sad and compelling.” – Tim Allen
The Other Room July and August 2012
Our next two events are coming up shortly. July in Leeds and August in Manchester. Previews of the readers will follow. As ever our events are free. Hope to see you there.
LUCY HARVEST CLARKE & STEPHEN EMMERSON: WITH ALL WINDOWS A NET CAST DYES THE WORLD
A collaboration is now available at Very Small Kitchen, HERE
The Blue Bus
- D S Marriott
- Sarah Kelly
- Robert Sheppard
Tuesday 19th June, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. £5 (£3 concs).
Feelings
FEELINGS film / poetry / sad disco
VOGUE FABRICS, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 (Overground: Dalston Kingsland / Dalston Junction)
14th June 2012 7:00pm to Midnight £3
POETRY Samuel Solomon (US) Linus Slug (UK) Frances Kruk (Canada) Sophie Robinson (UK) Luke Roberts (UK)
FILM Abigail Child (USA) Andrew Kerton (UK)
SAD DISCO DJ Dr. Kemp (10pm onwards)
14th June 2012 7:00pm to Midnight £3
POETRY Samuel Solomon (US) Linus Slug (UK) Frances Kruk (Canada) Sophie Robinson (UK) Luke Roberts (UK)
FILM Abigail Child (USA) Andrew Kerton (UK)
SAD DISCO DJ Dr. Kemp (10pm onwards)
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