December 9 from 6:30pm for a 7pm start for an evening of the best in contemporary poetry.
A one off-meeting of WFN sees MadLab’s monthly experimental poetry workshop play host to a reading line-up of three specially invited guests:
Entry is free and drinks will be available by donation before the reading and during the interval.
Available now from Crater Press.
Richmix, 37-45 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Saturday 19 November, 7.30pm, £5
Box Office: 020 7613 7498
http://www.richmix.org.uk/
Riot Acts presents four new works in development, written in response to the August riots.
Stand-up poet Luke Wright‘s Revolt is a tale of corruption at the top, combining contemporary social satire with the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Performance artist and theatre maker Greg McLaren of STK International conducts A Score for a Riot, asking the audience to consider who is responsible for what they are doing, and who put them there in the first place. Sophie Woolley‘s futuristic monologue Stratford City 2013 is a confessional about a bickering couple accidentally caught up in the riots of a beautiful giant shopping mall filled with lovely things. And theatre collectives The Hurly Burly & Circus Kinetica join forces to create Birdy, a modern take on the Icarus myth set in a burning building.
Friday 11th November, 7.00pm the Cinema Room at the Contemporary Urban Centre as part of Liverpool Music Week Closing Party.
Nathan Jones and Mercy are teaming up with Samizdat and La Racaille for a new music/language/art event exploring trance, mantra and the loop. The event features a new commission from Other Room reader Steven Fowler and a new setting of Dustin Wong’s Infinite Love album for guitar orchestra by Jon Davies.
The Apple Tree (upstairs), 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
Wednesday 16 November, 8:00pm
This will be the official launch of Johan de Wit’s Gero Nimo
admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)
Cambridge poets Connie Scozzaro, Ian Heames and Ryan Dobran will read their poetry on Friday 11 November, at 7:30pm in the Judith Wilson Drama Studio at the Faculty of English to celebrate the publication of *Confection* by Ryan Dobran and *Gloss To Carriers* by Ian Heames. There will be free wine and a generous book table. http://crs0hq.tumblr.com
New limited edition chapbook – Slip by James Mclaughlin and recently released – A Kind of Awe by Joshua Jones. Available now from The Red Ceilings Press.
Other Room reader Phil Hall’ collection Killdeer has been nominated for the prestigious Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. The Governor General’s Literary Awards (the GGs) honour the best in Canadian literature. The winner will be announced on 15th November.
Poems by:
Essay and commentary by:
“the art work had to be us after we had left”
More at the nine dots site. Read about Alec’s many other projects at his own site.
Though his work is utterly modern and could only be of the now, Damir Šodan, as a man, recalls a different age. Cosmopolitan, engaged, political, satirically adept and poetically versatile, he is a poet who defines and embodies one of Europe’s great, surging contemporary traditions, that is Croatia since the turn of the millennium. One of the most active and veracious translators and editors on the continent, he has won international awards for his plays and finds employment at the Hague, as a translator for the United Nations War Tribunal. This is beside his reputation as a poet, which is considerable and deservingly ever growing. His work is striking for its elasticity, its precision and its ability to retain power amidst a wit rarely found in modern letters. In a typically generous and eloquent interview, discussing everything from war crimes tribunals to the Croatian poetic tradition, we present a locus of modern European poetry, Damir Šodan.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-78-damir-sodan/
I’m very pleased to say we have published ten of Damir’s poems in English alongside the interview
J.H. Prynne’s updated bibliography, maintained by Michael Tencer, is now up online, at http://prynnebibliography.wordpress.com
RunAmok’s poetry magazine ‘Foma and Fontanelles’ , edited by James Cummins, Sarah Hayden, Niamh O’Mahony and Rachel Warriner is now looking for submissions for issue two.
runamokpress@gmail.com
http://runamokpress.blogspot.com/p/magazine.html
Issue 23 of Otoliths is out now, featuring a wide range of writers, including recent Other Room reader SJ Fowler.
Timothy Thornton’s ‘Jocund Day’ will be launched with readings in London on Thursday 3 November, and in Cambridge on Friday 4 November. Further details are below.
London launch
Thursday 3 November, 8pm
The Situation Room (http://sitroom.blogspot.com/)
Timothy Thornton, Tomas Weber, and others will be reading.
Cambridge launch
Friday 4 November, 7:30pm
Judith Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English (http://crs0hq.tumblr.com)
Timothy Thornton, Simon Jarvis and Tomas Weber will be reading.
New from Crater Press: WORKS ON PAPER by Tony Lopez At the apex of modernism in the early twentieth century, Bury in Lancashire was the world centre of industrial paper manufacture. Works on Paper by Tony Lopez is a serial poem looking through the history and language of that technical innovation and place of trade. The poem was written in 2008, first performed at the Text Festival in 2009, and printed on (130gsm) Hahnemuhle old antique laid by Richard Parker in October and November 2011, limited to 100 copies at £4.
Copies are available now at http://www.craterpress.co.uk
zimZalla object 011 is Deuter Kelner, a set of post-punk visual poetry ceramic tile coasters by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Each coaster measures 9cm x 9cm. Available individually or as a set of six.
SJ Fowler’s project in which contemporary poets read work that has inspired them, now has a new dedicated site where you can watch all the films so far. As a taster, here is Colin Herd covering Maggie O’Sullivan, recorded at the last Other Room. Film of Colin’s reading, together with films of the other two readers, Jennifer Cooke and SJ Fowler, will be published soon.
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