Part of the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre readings series. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD. 7:30-9:00pm – all welcome.
Paula Claire’s Other Room Interview
Paula Claire’s interview in The Other Room Series
Chris McCabe: The Restructure
“THE RESTRUCTURE tells the story, through a series of poems, of the circumstances leading to the conception of a boy and his delivery into a difficult world. Born with a condition that requires long stretches in hospital the author attempts to view the world through the senses of the boy who is yet to learn language. This play of words presents the challenges of the world in a new light. The backdrop of the book is social unrest, but the author and boy – who has 40 different pseudonyms – push back against the monotone order of THE RESTRUCTURE (the all-controlling voice that appears throughout as a public service announcement) through the surreal inventions of words and games. This is a gripping book of contrasts, conjuring a life of extreme polarities that is always striving for a resolution, towards a restructured world.”
Out now from Salt Publishing.
Rebecca Cremin reading at The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Rebecca Cremin reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Contemporary Poetry and Source Conference
18th May 2012 – 20th May 2012 at Plymouth University.
“This conference aims to explore the use of source material in contemporary poetry. The term ‘source’ should be given a wide remit, incorporating ‘origin’, ‘subject’ and ‘method’. Contemporary poetry, here, refers to writers working post – 1950, but of course thier sources may well be historical. We invite single author studies as well as papers which speak to the sources which are defining our poetic zeitgeist; we also invite creative practitioners to explore their own sources with a framework or context. Some topics for panels include: visual arts, music, nature, the personal, the impersonal, found material, the documentary, the trans-Atlantic exchange, influence, language, literature, biography, history, politics, philosophy and translations. Papers on or inspired by the work of our plenary speakers are very welcome.”
Includes a paper by Mark Leahy on Opposable Dumbs by Other Room reader Tina Darragh. You can watch part one of Tina’s reading below and find the other parts here.
Holdfire Press Launch
Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, L2 2JH. Thursday, 31 May 2012, 20:00.
Readings by JT Welsch, Steve Van Hagen, Catherine Woodward, Luke Kennard, Richard Watt, Jess Green and Colette Sensier to launch Holdfire‘s first 8 pamphlets by these seven writers, plus Emily Critchley.
Shearsman Reading: Laurie Duggan & Paul A. Green
Laurie Duggan & Paul A. Green will be officially launching their new Shearsman titles: The Pursuit of Happiness and The Gestaltbunker, respectively. Also being launched on the evening is The Complete Poems of César Vallejo, translated by Michael Smith & Valentino Gianuzzi. There will be a short reading by Valentino Gianuzzi and Tony Frazer from the volume. Click on the covers for more information.
The reading venue is:
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Admission free.
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 mins’ walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 mins), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 mins). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, beneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it should be required.
Further details here of the venue:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html
Poems For Many Voices
Thursday 7 June, 1.00-2.00pm
St Michael at the North Gate , Cornmarket, central OXFORD
Join Oxford poet Paula Claire in a communal performance of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Cobbing and herself that she has arranged for groups of interactive voices, part of her Dreaming Spires Online initiative. Free admission, family friendly.
This is part of OXFRINGE 2012
Tony Lopez: Sounds New Poetry Festival
Recent Other Room reader Tony Lopez is reading with Steve Collis at this year’s Sounds New Poetry Festival in Canterbury. Details below:
Wednesday 9th May 6pm, Peter Brown Room, Darwin College, University of Kent.
Reading: Found Text
Working with the idea of the found text, Steve Collis and Tony Lopez present poems that explore borrowing and appropriation in art. Like John Tavener in The Veil of the Temple, Collis and Lopez work with and through mixed sources to open the possibilities of collective expression.
New books from Reality Street
Paul Brown: A CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS
Poet, editor, publisher and translator Paul Brown has been absent from the poetry scene for some years. This complete collection of his poetry from the 1980s, the lost third of a trilogy (the first two books were Meetings & Pursuits (1978) and Masker (1982)), is long overdue.
For more information and to buy, click here.
May 2012, 978-1-874400-56-1, 108pp, price £9
Maggie O’Sullivan: WATERFALLS
At last the paperback version of a book only previously available as a limited edition from Etruscan Books. Five visually rich text sequences originally dating from the 1990s.
For more information and to buy, click here.
May 2012, 978-1-874400-57-8, 82pp, price £9
Establishment
James Mc Laughlin is editing the Knives Forks and Spoons online magazine ‘Establishment’. Submissions of poetry reviews and essays on poets and poetics are invited to establishmentmagazine@hotmail.com.
The Future of Poetry: UCL – French Embassy
9 May 2012, 6pm, followed by reception.
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.
The massive growth in creative writing courses in recent years has meant that there are probably more practicing poets at work now than ever before. Yet the position of poetry in relation to the public sphere at large seems to grow increasingly opaque. Is poetry merely a minority leisure activity, or can it still claim to be, as it was for Milton and Wordsworth, a means of understanding the world unrivalled both in its scope and its complexity? With so many new media changing the ways in which we produce and consume texts of all kinds, what is the future of poetry?
Participants include Other Room reader Keston Sutherland. More at the UCL site.
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – Salford reading
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks will be reading at The Angel Centre in Salford on Sunday 6th May at 3.30 pm as part of the Sounds of the Other City festival. In addition to individual sets, they will be performing both of their Camarade collaborations in full. Here is a film of the first, read at the Rich Mix in London in October 2011.
All Sensation is Already Memory
A compilation of sound art, drone, improvisation, noise, spoken word, sound poetry and other sonic experiments, from experimental label OSG. Contributors were asked to respond to Henri Bergson: “…In truth, all sensation is already memory.” The release is compiled either to play as a continuous album, or in three separate LP length sections; tracks are numbered accordingly. Free download at http://archive.org/details/VariousArtists-AllSensationIsAlreadyMemory
Includes Matt Dalby, Philip Davenport and lots more
Tony Lopez videos from The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Tony Lopez reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Polyply 19: Administration
POLYply > 19: ADMINISTRATION
cris cheek Ruth Maclennan Sue Tompkins Tracy Ryan
Thursday 10 May, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
http://polyply.wordpress.com/
cris cheek Ruth Maclennan Sue Tompkins Tracy Ryan
Thursday 10 May, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
http://polyply.wordpress.com/
Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery Seminar
CONTEMPORARY INNOVATIVE POETRY RESEARCH SEMINAR
Poetry, Parapoetics and Architecture
Karen Mac Cormack: “Enmeshed Tessitura”: Poetry & Architecture
Steve McCaffery: Parapoetics & the Architectural
All welcome
Details on the Institute for English Studies website
Friday 25 May at 6.00 in the University of London Senate House, Russell Square, WC1
Otoliths issue 25
Out now on the Otoliths site, including Other Room reader SJ Fowler.
Addition to June line-up
Peter Jaeger will be our third performer at our June 12th reading. Please note that this will be at another new venue: The Castle on Oldham Street, Manchester, which we hope will be our home for the forseeable future. Please also note that 12th June is a Tuesday rather than our previously usual Wednesday. To help the next six weeks pass a little quicker, you can enjoy this film of Peter performing his collaboration with Marcus Slease at February’s Camarade II event at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London.
Department: Neil Addison
3 poems by Other Room reader Neil Addison at Richard Barrett and Simon Howards ever-growing and always interesting Department. And if you’re so minded, you can listen to the man below.
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