Poetry / Music: Cambridge – Friday 24th Feb

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  •  JUSTIN KATKO
  • OUT TO LUNCH
  • LASH + STENT
  • DRACHMAE LUCKY STRENGTH
+ There will be readings from Justin Katko and Out To Lunch (Ben Watson), as well as music from the duo of Dominic Lash & David Stent (double bass + guitar) and the electronic trio Drachmae Lucky Strength. Books & CDs will be available.
Friday 24 February, 7.30pm. Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.

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Poetry by:

Morgan Harlow, Candy Shue, Jan Lauwereyns, Doris Neidl, Tim Trace
Peterson, Jen Besemer, Sheila Squillante, Lisa McCool-Grime, Natalie
Watson, Julie Wood, Kristina Marie Darling, Felicia Shenker, Scott
Bentley, J. Crouse, Bob Heman, James Davies, Dylan Harris, Michael
Sikkema, Kent Leatham, Parker Tettleton, Bobbi Lurie, Lauren Marie
Cappello, Erin Heath, Wynne Huddleston, Jane Olivier, Elise, Nathan
Thompson, Tim Wright, Tim VanDyke, Iain Britton, Ian Hatcher, C. Brannon
Watts, Seth Tyler Copeland, Rich Murphy, J. D. Nelson, Howie Good, Monty
Reid, Dave Shortt, Billy Cancel, John Clinton, Thomas Fink, Larry Ziman,
Valery Oisteanu, Michael Crane, Jon Cone, Mark Cunningham, Rick Marlatt,
Nikolai Duffy, Alessandro Cusimano, Jacob Russell, Corey Wakeling, Stephen
Nelson, Steve Gilmartin, James Valvis, Greg Cohen, Derek Henderson, Travis
Cebula, Sean Howard, Walter Ruhlmann and Márton Koppány

and featuring

The Mallarmé Project, an examination of a yearlong series of art and
writing in Seattle by Joseph F. Keppler

and

The Susan Bee Interview

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Denise Riley: Time Lived, Without Its Flow

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This essay reflects on how perceptions of time may be altered after the sudden death of a child, and why inhabiting this sharply new temporality stops one’s habitual modes of telling. Neither tearful memoir nor testament of hope, the essay charts a vivid experience of such a suspended time and discovers an unsuspected intimacy between time and language. Although a life inside this ‘arrested’ time resists being described, it is neither exceptional or pathological; to outlive one’s child is historically common enough. But, because of this felt suspension of the usual flow of time which enables narration, it leaves few literary traces.

Published by Capsule Editions as an 80-page pocket book, this is the first in a series of stand-alone literary essays by leading contemporary thinkers and writers.

Order it here: http://capsuleeditions.com/denise-riley-time-lived-without-its-flow/

Maintenant: the Camarade project ii

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Featuring…

  • Andrea Brady & Maria Fusco
  • James Davies & Stephen Emmerson
  • Sam Riviere & Sophie Collins
  • Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe
  • Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry
  • Katerina Kashchavtseva & Lucy Harvest Clarke
  • Carrie Etter & Tim Atkins
  • Colin Herd & Patrick Coyle
  • Nathan Jones & Richard Barrett
  • Marcus Slease & Peter Jaeger

Out now from The Red Ceilings Press. You can also view films of the London launch event on February 11th by following the links below:

McCabe & Jenks – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99xcgyjTqZw

Clarke & Kashchavtseva – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAQcXF8QdKo

nick-e melville: a preview

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nick-e melville will be performing at the next Other Room on Wednesday 29th February. You can read 13 of his poems at the minimalist concrete poetry site,  some tippexed sonnets in Blackbox Manifold and a review of his 2011 collection of found poetry Stuff at 3AM Magazine. Try also an alphabet sequence on otoliths and another on logolalia. For some AV action, check out the video for Get On The Increase by Nicky’s poetry band Shellsuit Massacre.

The other readers will be Tim Allen and Andrea Brady. A preview of Andrea’s work can be found in our previous post. A preview of Tim’s work will follow next week.

The Claudius App

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The second issue of The Claudius App: a journal of fast poetry is now online at www.theclaudiusapp.com.

Contributors in the new issue include Sara Deniz Akant, Brian Ang, Jerimee Bloemeke, Feng Sun Chen, Amy De’Ath, Emily Dorman, Patrick Dunagan, Purdey Kreiden, Pierre Klossowski (trans. Reena Spaulings), Ben Lerner, Mark Levine, Joe Luna, Anthony Madrid, Jessica O Marsh, Chris Martin, Jeff Nagy, Tim Shaner, Josh Stanley, Jonty Tiplady, Catheringe Wagner, and Elisabeth Workman.

Like This Press

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Another new Manchester based press. This time Like This Press

Like This is a new and independent press based in Manchester committed to publishing high quality and beautifully designed books that do things just a little bit differently.
We are particularly interested in poetry, prose poetry, fragments, stories (the more curious the better), interviews, essays, and books as objects. There is an editorial leaning towards experimental traditions. We want work that is formally unusual, questioning, unexpected, and challenging; work that is interested in thinking about the hows and whys of literary practice, the place of books in the world, the relationship between writing and living, art and life, between literature, art, philosophy, religion, science, history, medicine. We especially like work that blends innovation with accessibility and wonder.

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Tony Lopez: False Memory 2nd edition published by Shearsman

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Tony Lopez’s landmark collection False Memory has been made into a second edition with a new introduction by Robert Hampson.

“[…] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year    [was] Tony Lopez’s False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging    and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes    hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge.” —Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003.

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