Featuring:
- Sean Burn
- Steven Fowler
- Howie Good
- Katherine Holmes
- Katia Kashchavtseva
- James Stamford
- Thomas Wingfield
Read it here.
FRESH 2011
An evening of performance, poetry and visual text showcasing work from the Drama and Creative Writing programmes at Salford University.
Click here for the flier.
In Utero: Intercapillary Places Poetry @ Parasol Unit
23 June · 19:00 – 20:30
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
*** Free Drinks & ‘Interior Ears’ hand-out for all ***
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£3 / £1.50 – for booking details see below
More info see: Intercapillary Places website https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/
Parasol Unit: http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php
Important: As the capacity for the event is limited, please book in advance by emailing Charlotte Jones at events@parasol-unit.org or calling on 020 7490 7373 ext 20. Please be aware that if you haven’t booked in advance and turn up on the night, this is fine but if capacity is reached you may not be allowed in.
About the Speakers
Carol Watts is Reader in Literature and Poetics, Birkbeck, University of London; Co-Director, Birkbeck Centre for Research in Contemporary Poetics. She has published a study of Dorothy Richardson (Northcote House, 1995) and The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years War and the Imagining of the Shandean State (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007). Her poetry publications include Wrack (Reality Street, 2007), brass, running (Equipage, 2006), When blue light falls (Oystercatcher, 2008) and alphabetise (Intercapillary Editions, hardback edition 2011). She is currently researching the transatlantic culture of loyalism during the American Revolution.
Marianne Morris was raised in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge, and was the recipient of the Harper-Wood Studentship for Creative Writing from St. John’s College in 2008. She is now researching for a PhD in contemporary poetry at Dartington (University College Falmouth). She founded Bad Press in 2002. Publications include: Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011); Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2008); A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006); with Bad Press: Cocteau Turquoise Turning, Fetish Poems (2004); Gathered Tongue, Memento Mori (2003); Poems in Order (2002). Who Not To Speak To and Iran Documents are forthcoming from Acts of Language and Openned Press respectively.
‘Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol Unit’ is organised by Edmund Hardy and Felicity Roberts
More here.
New Grasp chapbook
Poems, written between October and December 2010…
by FRANCESCA LISETTE, JONNY LIRON, JOE LUNA, and TIMOTHY THORNTON
Xing The Line
Xing The Line/CPRC Birkbeck presents: Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery, Bill Bissett and Adeena Karasick. Thursday 02 June 2011, 7.00pm start, 32 Tavistock Square, London WC1. More here.
Maintenant Slovakia
Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications
June Saturday 18th 2011 – 7pm – Entrance Free – The Rich Mix arts centre. London
Ivan Štrpka – Mila Haugova – Marcus Slease
Tamarin Norwood – Jonty Tiplady – Colin Herd …
Slovak poets Ivan Štrpka and Mila Haugova will be joined by a half dozen London-based poets to celebrate the sixth event in the Maintenant series held at the Rich Mix arts centre in London’s Brick Lane. As ever, the Maintenant series will advocate a diverse selection of poetic methodologies, ages & nationalities – collecting together some of the most interesting performers Europe has to offer. Further details to follow…
http://www.maintenant.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/maintenantpoetry
http://soundcloud.com/maintenant
Maintenant #62: Pekko Käppi
Pekko Käppi is a balladeer, in the very purest sense a poet. A linguistic artisan and communicator, Käppi’s practise serves not only to preserve elements of his heritage, through his repatriation of Finnish ballads and folk songs and his mastery of the Jouhikko, but to explore the newest and most exciting areas of the sonic, and vitally, the linguistic. His poetry and music cannot be limited to a single genre as it cannot, should not, be limited to a single medium. A vital representation of Maintenant’s aim to display all forms of poetic, with Pekko Käppi and our 62nd edition we are perhaps returning to the very root of poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-62-pekko-kappi/
Accompanying the interview is a unique sample of Pekko’s work. Three sound files of his songs Mariainen, Sonja & Vuonna 86 are available to play along with their text in both Finnish and English, and an introduction to the song’s meaning and historical context by Pekko himself.
Sound and Dark: Geraldine Monk, Adeena Karasick, bill bissett, Iris Garrelf
The Text Festival rounds off its performance series with Sound and Dark (2)
Featuring Geraldine Monk (UK), Adeena Karasick (USA), bill bissett (CAN), Iris Garrelf (UK)
@ The Met Arts Centre
Market Street,
Bury, BL9 0BW
3rd June 2011 / 7.30pm
Continuing the Festival’s unique mix of sound and poetry with an evening:
Adeena Karasick is a poet, media-artist and the award-winning author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory. Marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges normative modes of meaning production, and engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, her work is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John’sUniversityin New York.
Geraldine Monk is one of the most exciting and provocative writer-performers on the British scene. Her readings a witty, warm and dynamic drawing on a prolific career which has spawned fourteen major works in the last twenty five years.
bill bissett is a famously anti-conventional Canadian poet with more than 60 books to his (uncapitalised) name immediately identifiable by the incorporation of his artwork and his consistently phonetic (funetik) spelling. As an energetic “man-child mystic,” bill bissett is living proof of William Blake’s adage “the spirit of sweet delight can never be defiled.” His idealistic and ecstatic stances frequently obscure his critical-mindedness, humour and craftmanship.
Iris Garrelf is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magzine put it.
A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity.
Ticket Prices:
£8 / £4
D A D A D O L L Z
POETRY READING – BOOK LAUNCH – PERFORMANCE – MUSIC
Astounding, Ground-Breaking, Subversive: a Celebration of the DADA dolls & art of Emmy Hennings, Hannah Höch, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
CHRISTINE KENNEDY
Hobby Horse: A PUPPET PLAY FOR CABARET VOLTAIRE
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DAVID ANNWN, MICK BECK & JOHN COWEY
RunDADAnella: A ROUND DANCE POEM WITH MUSIC TUESDAY 24th May
£5.00 (Waged) & £3.00 (Unwaged) – Wine provided
8.00pm for 8.30 start
Over the Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge, SHEFFIELD S11 9AU Access by 22 or 10 buses, near the Union pub. Easy parking.
ABOUT DADADOLLZ
The Over The Top music series hosts this evening of poetry with performance and music as the Sheffield launch of the publication of Dadadollz. Dadadollz celebrates the women Dada artists of the Cabaret Voltaire at the great moment of flowering of modern and radical art during the years of the First World War. Dada artists, Emmy Hennings, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hannah Hoch made and exhibited dolls for plays, revue catalogues, posters and photographs. ‘The Stag King’ was a Puppet play for Dada Zurich. Hoch’s photo-collages also featured myriad dolls.Dadadollz is a collaboration where Christine Kennedy and David Annwn have created new doll works and images: a Puppet play and a RunDADanella, or round-song and live music, to celebrate these women’s achievements. The Hadron Collider and Elle are just two of the artifacts drawn into the vortex.
Dadadollz is published in 2010 by ISPress ISBN 0-9533897-5-8
Copies are available at the Sheffield event on 24th April, and by post from ISPress, 3 Westfield Park College Grove, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England WF1 3RP
Christine Kennedy is a writer and artist based in Sheffield, and David Annwn is a poet based in Wakefield. David’s live project also involves haunting and playful neo-Dadaist collaboration with saxophonist Mick Beck and guitarist John Cowey.
These innovative musicians gleefully take the RunDADAnella apart from the inside, Mick’s magisterial, unpredictable free-form and John’s skilful feel for cabaret folk opening new musical perspectives, sparring and combining in irrepressible high spirits. This is a real first for poetry and music, in Sheffield & everywhere.
Lucy Harvest Clarke – The Other Room interview series
Lucy Harvest Clarke takes The Other Room interview in the garden at zimZalla HQ.
Lucy Harvest Clarke – The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.
LVRS
JL / LVRSLVRSLVRSLVRS / 24 A4 pp. w/pink cardstock photocopied covers / contents: FUCKING HELL, TRANSIT, LIFE, OVERLOVE, NINE LINES FOR STREET VIEW / ed. 2.0 / £4.50 postage paid / hizeroreadings@gmail.com
David Berridge, Black Gardens
David Berridge’s Black Garden’s has been published as a free e-book by The Red Ceilings Press. david will perform at The Other Room in August
Marco Giovenale, some texts
Some pdf texts of the first performer at The Text Festival Marco Giovenale:
Preview of The Other Room June Readings – Geraldine Monk
Some links to June 7th (Leeds) reader Geraldine Monk. See middle bar for more details and this POST. Next time Karen Mac Cormack
Poems online
Reading
The Text Festival 2011, Opening Performances
The Other Room was asked to film the opening performances of 2011’s international Text Festival. This represents less than a quarter of the events took place.
On Saturday 30th April The third international Text Festival opened. The montage at the beginning shows a small percentage of the art on display in three galleries around Bury, Manchester. There are performances here by Marco Giovenale, Helen White & Moniek Darge, Marton Koppany, Helmet Lemke & Hans Specht and Sarah Sanders. The Lemke/Specht performance was a durational piece of four hours. What is captured here is only a small portion of that fabulous piece.
The Text Festival 2011 Opening Performances from The Other Room on Vimeo.
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Maintenant #61: Marcus Slease
Though the Maintenant series tries not to overstate the importance of the poet’s origin, practicality alone demands an attempt to show the range of European poetries with a representative range of nations. However in actually seeking out those poets creating exciting, original, genuinely evolutionary work, we find many cannot be tied to one single nation – they are migratory, multi-lingual – pan-European if not pan-global. Marcus Slease fits this archetype more than most. By birth he stands as the first Northern Irish poet to feature in our series. However by experience he is a poet of England, America, Poland, Italy, Turkey. Unsurprisingly he is an adroit and worldly writer, defined by his ability to remain elastic and fluid, and utterly unpretentious in his idiom, and yet fulfilling and resonant in his tone. His poetics are extremely contemporary, and yet they seem to maintain the confidence and solidity of time past. A major feature of the current London scene, we are pleased to introduce Marcus Slease as the 61st edition of Maintenant.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-61-marcus-slease/
Accompanying the interview are six of Marcus’ poems.
Commitment by Marianne Morris
Published May 2011, in collaboration with Bad Press
Limited edition has two-tone stencil cover and sparkly endpapers
Jonty Tiplady on Commitment:
Un dolce amaro, un si e no mi muovi: it is not enough to not commend. Reading this book, you are witness to what Pater calls ‘the struggle of a desolating passion, which yearns to be resigned and sweet and pensive’, and which then unaccountably is. Speed is not good enough, neither is poetry, the era of climate change is an error. I think of Prince confused by his experiments with ecstasy, he made Lovesexy. Morris knows that the psychic thing-cruelty of the art-thing is only almost unavoidable, and so the image-tail wags. Too too tout autre muse. Out of the strong came forth more sweetness. Not only should you read it, you should read it again slowly, and think on.
More here.
Neu Reekie!
Neu! Reekie! is a night of avant-garde poetry, music and film fusions.
The night promises to shock and stun, playing host to the abstract and abstruse, the sinister and sanguine.
Post four suitably seismic shows, Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson bring you the fifth part in the N! R! movement.
This is a a collaborative night with Darran Anderson of 3:AM Magazine who are putting up three literature heavyweights as readers!
Also includes a Raffle of the Absurd; Avant-garde Animations; House Band Emelle, plus Pete the Barman and his £2 tonics.
Friday, May 27 · 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Location Edinburgh
Scottish Books Trust, Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Preview of The Other Room June readings – Steve McCaffery
Some links to June 7th (Leeds) and June 8th (Manchester) reader Steve McCaffery. See middle bar for more details and this POST. Next time Geraldine Monk
Sound
Free e-book
department #4
A magazine in print for innovative poetry & poetics, for cultural theory & social performance / cultural performance & social theory. A magazine dead set against the dead hand & deadly hands of instrumentalist reason & the banalisation / terrorisation / commodification of everyday life. A situation.
More here.
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