Maintenant #45 – Aleš Šteger
Undeniably one of the most engaging and enjoyable poets currently writing in Europe, Aleš Šteger is a cultivated and often brilliant poet whose work demands rereading for its fluency and lumination. He maintains an air of philosophical sophistication while imbuing his work with a laconic satire and aberrant minimalism that makes it distinct in the memory. A leading light in the rich Slovenian poetry community, we are very pleased to introduce Aleš Šteger as Maintenant edition Forty Five.
Accompanying the interview are nine of his poems.
Special thanks to Jan Wagner for his assistance with this interview.
Reillumination #5 – Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
The fifth of the bi-monthly article series with Nthposition.com focused on unjustly overlooked European poets.
This edition is focused on the German Dadaist icon Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Also featured, three poems by Freytag-Loringhoven
Reillumination #1 – Gunnar Ekelöf http://www.nthposition.com/amiracleworkingicon.php
Reillumination #2 – Daniil Kharms http://www.nthposition.com/reilluminationii.php
Reillumination #3 – Kostas Ouranis http://www.nthposition.com/reilluminationiiikostas.php
Reillumination #4 – Lucian Blaga http://www.nthposition.com/reilluminationsiv.php
Openned Zine #4
- Mackenzie Carignan & Marthe Reed on The Dusie Kollektiv
- Tony Trehy exploring the possibilities for Text Festival 2011
- Will Montgomery describing POLYply
- Posie Rider’s guide to poetry in Edinburgh
- Arabella Currie & Thomas Graham explaining halfcircle
- Sara Wintz outlining poetry in New York
- Tom Jenks telling us what zimZalla is
- Steven Fowler describing the Maintenant series and outlining The Workshop, a new new project on Writers Forum in conjunction with Openned
- Edmund Hardy reading four lines of poetry
- Simon Howard describing Department
- Part 2 of Lara Buckerton’s essay on The eBook Nova
Plus regular features:
- Bird Puke
- Bookface
- Logbay
- @sinclairinruins* (new)
- Photography: in this issue, Georgie M’Glug, Nat Raha and Sharon Borthwick
Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version, here.
Ken Edwards – Millions of Colours
Crater Press announces Crater 10, Ken Edwards’s Millions of colours:
Millions of colours is the final part of Bardo: forty-nine prose pieces over seven days, a modern rewrite of theBardo Thodol, the devotional work known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. “Bardo” means an interval or a transitional period. The setting here is the port and old town of Hastings, on the south coast of England. Previous parts of the work in various versions have appeared as Red & green, a pamphlet from Oystercatcher Press (2009), and also in the journals and e-journals Cannibal Spices, Pages, 10th Muse and Veer Away. It is hoped that the whole work will be published before too long.
Ken Edwards is the editor and publisher of Reality Street. His most recent book is Songbook (Shearsman, 2009).
It’s £5; available from www.craterpress.co.uk
Lucy Harvest Clarke – World Banner
“A series of 12 poems of 12 lines each overlaid on card globes each line for each 12 lines of latitude where 12 different correspondents are simultaneously creating one poem in a single globe and the work to be titled “World Banner” also consisting of a legend of all the poems included in the purchase price of £12 per globe.”
Available now via zimZalla.
Preview of The Other Room February 2nd reader Jow Lindsay
Preview of The Other Room 22 (February 2nd) reader Jow Lindsay. Next week Posie Rider:
Blog
Reading at Rust Belt Books
Ben Gwilliam and Philip Davenport
Technical difficulties delayed the uploading of this, but footage of Ben Gwilliam and Phil Davenport’s August 2010 performance for The Other Room is now available:
Maintenant #44 – Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Simply one of the most substantial and powerful poets emerging from Europe as a whole, Tadeusz Dąbrowski is a figure who is climbing toward worldwide prominence. An essayist, critic and editor (of the literary magazine Topos) he has authored five poetry collections and won the Hubert Burda Prize and, from Tadeusz Różewicz himself, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture. His poetry has been translated into thirteen languages. Maintenant, as a series, hopes to be a platform in which readers will be able to come across poets who might grow into the stature of their most reputed and iconoclastic forebears. Perhaps with Tadeusz Dąbrowski we have arrived too late. Fundamentally a product of his generation, and quite definitively, the literary culture of Poland in general, Dabrowski’s is a voice both singular and alert, both wry and contemporary. He is a poet who should, and does, speak for himself.
Accompanying the interview are seven of his poems.
Special thanks to Izabela Banasik for her assistance with this interview.
UPSCO publisher’s fair in Edinburgh, 23rd June 2011
VENUE: The Old Ambulence Depot in Edinburgh, for our first book-fair on the 23rd of July 2011.
Tables are FREE
After party.
All that publishers need to pay for is transport, a bed, food.
We STILL NEED volunteers for the event
If you would like to volunteer, please contact alecnewman@hotmail.com. WE NEED YOUR HELP.
To book your FREE table, contact alecnewman@hotmail.com.
About The Old Ambulence Depot
The Old Ambulence Depot is just 10 minutes walk from Waverley Station, the main station. It is owned by the award winning New Haven advertising agency, and it is a regular venue for arts exhibitions and literary events. So, there will be a heavy footfall of likely punters.
Publicity
We have already made contacts with local literary groups, the local media, and at Edinburgh University. Knives Forks and Spoons are donating A3 & A4 posters (as many as are required), and as many flyers as they can print, which will be distributed by a growing team of Edinburgh volunteers around poetry venues and bars. Many thanks to those kind people.
USPCO,
122 Birley Street,
Newton-le-Willows,
Merseyside,
WA12 9UN.
Alec Newman
Lee Machell – Drawings & Matches
Drawings & Matches is a series of drawn studies by Manchester-based artist Lee Machell. Synthesizing elements from a practice that incorporates sculpture, installation, and performative elements in a series of works on paper, Drawings & Matches presents Machell’s experiments with matches as a drawing media, as well as pencil studies of the artist’s sculptural work.
Works such as Bag and Kerbstone (2010) are delicate pencil drawings of Machell’s sculptural works. Stripped of their three-dimensional context, Machell depicts the essential formal characteristics of the original works in a two-dimensional space.
In Bag, a brown paper bag leans against a wall, balancing precariously atop a thin wooden pole. Rendered as a drawing on paper, Bag appears to float without a wall for support, defying gravity as it stands alone surrounded by a white mass of paper.
Kerbstone is a sculpture divided by a charred suture of marks, a horizontal line left by the ignition of adjoining matches. As a pencil drawing on paper, Kerbstone is removed from its context as a floor-based sculpture.
Machell’s use of matches to delineate various found objects is a process developed in site-specific works in which the residuum of a line of matches set ablaze creates an ephemeral vestige to a process conditioned by its impermanence. In Drawings & Matches, Machell arranges matches around quotidian, mass-produced objects such as an audio cassette and scales, and construction waste such as a piece of tarmac and eroded concrete. A thunderous riot of sparks on paper results in corpse-like traces, an asymmetric negative space framed by scorched shadows:
Lee Machell studied at the University of Salford, where he received his BA (Hons) Visual Arts in 2005. After graduating, Machell’s first solo exhibition, Workings (2006) took place at the Chapman Gallery, Salford. Machell has exhibited in group exhibitions in France, Italy, and the UK. Scheduled for November 2011 is a residency at 501 Artspace in Chongqing, China.
http://www.untitledgallerymanchester.com/exhibitions/drawingsandmatches.htm
Maintenant #43 – Christodoulos Makris
A scrupulous and gifted writer, Christodoulos Makris is a poet of language over territory, a poet of semblance over culture. Twenty years removed from his home nation of Cyprus, he has developed a reputation in both the UK and Ireland, his current place of residence, as a vital and astute poet. In a generous interview he discusses his knowledge of the poetry scene in Cyprus given its political constitution, how his own work is conceived, and how it has grown in the country he has chosen to live. In the very first Maintenant interview of 2011, we present Christodoulos Makris.
Accompanying the interview are five of his poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-christodoulos-makris/
Adrian Slatcher and JT Welsch reading
Preview of February 2nd Other Room reader: Andrea Brady
Preview of The Other Room 22 (February 2nd) reader Andrea Brady. Next week Jow Lindsay:
Interview
With Andrew Duncan in Argotist online
Poems
Polyply 6: the Score
POLYply 6: the Score
Thursday, 13th January, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1Z 9NG
+ Julie Brixey-Williams and Libby Worth: “The second line of long-and-short, facing” Species of Spaces
+ Alvin Lucier: Duke of York
performed by Will Montgomery and Steve Willey
+ Manfred Werder: 2010(2) (text by Francis Ponge)
+ Elizabeth Guthrie: Visemes-Portraits
+ Brigid McLeer: Vexations (based on Erik Satie’s score)
Final issue of Great Works
Featuuring:
Paul Holman, THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT: Book Six: A WALKING AGE
Ralph Hawkins, The Poems of Abakan Tartar
Maximilian Hildebrand, Kylix Poems + four poems
Daniele Pantano, Translation from the German of Seventy Eight Early Notes for a Biography of an Unknown Swiss Poet
Julie Sampson, four poems
David Bircumshaw, eight poems
Rupert Loydell, four poems
Adam Fieled, from Equations
Miffy Ryan, Dwelling + Death Rattles
Jennifer Cooke, five poems
Catherine Daly, Surplice
Stephanie Jane Robinson, Ballad of the Reading Jail
Mark Smith, five poems
sean burn, from honeysuckled
Angela Gardner, five poems
Susan Adams, five poems
Mark Dickinson, from Shadows of the Sea
Matt Bryden, four poems
Sam Howell, five poems
Chris Hardy, Short of Luck on Short Street
James Price, four poems and a drawing
Martin Stannard, five poems
Gareth Farmer, Rise to Order
Bobby Larsson, Limerick Swing —
S J Fowler, nine poems
Gerard Greenway, three poems
Austin McCarron, seven poems
Sophie Mayer, three poems
Stephen Emmerson, Power Pollution + THUD
Anthony Mellors, from Bent our of Shape
Sarah Ahmad, seven poems
Reeti Roy, five poems
Robert Atherton, six poems
Glenn R Frantz, Bridge / Lawn / Solarium
Arthur Coleman, five poems
Nicholas R Scott, The Prison Series + the Pie Series
Harry Godwin, poem for P. Philpott, read at Xmasing the Line, 3/12/09
Ekleksographia: Oulipo edition
Fantastic issue, edited by Philp Terry, featuring:
Timothy Ades
Will Ashon
Tim Atkins
Richard Beard
Christian Bök
Andy Brown
Ken Edwards
Matt Fallaize
Harry Gilonis
Jesse Glass
Paul Griffiths
Alan Halsey
Robert Hampson
Peter Hughes
Leopold Haas
Tony Lopez
Rupert Loydell
Peter Manson
Harry Mathews
David Miller
Ian Monk
Geraldine Monk
Roger Moss
Jeremy Over
Tadeusz Pioro
Robert Sheppard
Simon Smith
Ross Sutherland
Philip Terry
Tony Trehy
Alexei Vernitski
Johan de Wit
Reality Street launches ReScript
The imprint launches in January 2011 with two titles:
Dracula’s Precursors, a collection of three early vampire tales, including the neglected classic “The Mysterious Stranger” – with an introduction by David Annwn
The Ivory Gate, which includes later poems and fragments by Thomas Lovell Beddoes – edited with an introduction by Alan Halsey
More will appear in 2011. For more details, and to buy, go to
LINK
department #2 now available
THE WOMAN: A Song City Memoir by Yolanda Tudor-Bloch
A4. perfect-bound. 52 pages, £6
Buy via the USPCO page on the knives forks and spoons press website or email barrett.richard1@googlemail.com
Maintenant #42 – Aase Berg
One of the most deft and iconoclastic poets in Northern Europe, over the course of the last 25 years Aase Berg has developed, remarkably, a reputation to match her talent. One of the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group in 1986, it was during the 90’s that she came to the fore as one of the most prominent poets, theorists and critics in Sweden. In the 42nd edition of the Maintenant series she discusses the several collections of poetry she has published, some of which with the Bonnier publishing house, the largest and most prestigious in Sweden, and her thoughts in general on poetic innovation and the state of poetry in contemporary Sweden.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-42-aase-berg/
Accompanying the interview are eight of her poems, spanning four collections. Translations are published with thanks to Johannes Goransson
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