Maintenant #38 – Volya Hapeyeva
A figure of youthful prominence in Belarus, Volya Hapeyeva is at the very forefront of emergent poets reaching their notoriety in Eastern Europe. A lauded playwright, critic and linguistic philosopher, as well as a poet, her depth and zest have marked her out as one of the most agile stylists writing in Europe at large. Her work is marked by a sensitivity and care that many would find incongruous with her rigour and methodological pragmatism. She makes the conflagration of lyrical poetry & collaborations with Belarussian techno DJ’s seem effortless. We are happy once again to introduce another fantastic young poet as the 38th edition of the Maintenant series.
Accompanying the interview are seven of her poems. It is the first time her work has appeared in the English language.
We are indebted to Chris Michalski for his translations.
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Change of line up for tonight
Unfortunately, weather conditions have forced Ken Edwards to withdraw from tonight’s reading. Richard Barrett will be reading instead. Richard’s first collection, Sidings, was published by White Leaf Press this year. He is the editor of DEPT magazine and co-organises the poetry and performance series Counting Backwards.
The Other Room 21 tonight
UNFIXED
Flat Time House is pleased to host a weekend of events organised by Reading for Reading’s Sake with:
David Berridge, Maurice Carlin, Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker, Patrick Coyle, Ella Finer, John Hill, Helen Kaplinsky and Stefan Sulzer
UNFIXED is a series of events developed by Reading for Reading Sake (RfRS)
Flat Time House, John Latham Foundation and Archive, London
2-4 December
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Ghosts move about me patched with histories
Philip Davenport and Nicola Smith
Chinese Art Centre, Manchester 9 – 17 December
Artists’ Talk: 9 December 5.30- 6.30pm
Preview Evening: 9 December – 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Tour dates: 9 – 11 December
Ghosts move about me patched with histories is an immersive text/art experience, designed by poet Philip Davenport and performance artist Nicola Smith. Both have previously taken part in artist residencies in Chongqing and will use the exhibition to reflect on their experiences in China. The exhibition counterpoints the freedom of being in a strange environment with the limits imposed by social control.
Davenport’s text installation is a poem written into wallpaper, covering one side of the gallery. Nicola will act as a deliberately misleading tour guide, taking visitors through the environment created by the pair, including a pause for snacks, some trashy TV and a computer that rewrites Davenport’s words with infinite variations, programmed by poet Tom Jenks. A live chicken will be ‘resident’ in the space.
The artist talk is free but booking is required: please follow the link below for tickets: http://whisper-residency-artists-talk.eventbrite.com/
The tours are free and running as part of the open studio as follows:
9 Dec – 7pm 10 Dec – 1.15pm and 3.30pm 11 Dec – 1.15pm
Special thanks to Tom Jenks and Leftfield, School of Art & Design, University of Salford www.salfordleftfield.co.uk for their support.
NEW Books from Knives Forks and Spoons
Flylight by Stephen Nelson & Aeido by James McLaughlin.
See samples at www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
C’est mon dada
Red Fox’s cool series hits its 50th publication with Klaus Groh “Frutas y Terra”
Visaul poetry / Collages on Spanish fruit and vegetable packaging.
A6 format – 48 pages – laser printing.
Thread and quarter cloth binding
November 2010
price: 15 euro / 20 US $ / 13 UK Sterling
Preview of The Other Room 21 performer: Louise Woodcock
Her blog is HERE. Check it out. Next week of course is The Other Room 21.
“Bibliocidal Tendencies”: British Publisher Information as Material Tears Into Literature for Art’s Sake
“Conceptual writing is a fusion of art and literature. This process-based practice involves works where the idea is the writing and the writing is the idea. It is a non-expressive poetry, a poetry of intellect rather than emotion. Non-conceptual writing involves old-fashioned ‘creative’ prose and there’s more than enough of that material in the world already. Conceptual writing appreciates the wealth of text in the world — from the highfalutin to the everyday — understanding that new meaning can be generated through re-framing extant material. Conceptual writing produces a critical relation to non-conceptual writing, and in so doing opens a space of possibility for new forms of readership. We write through the work of others, comfortable in the knowledge that all writing draws on a host of influences. As James Joyce famously remarked: “I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.” In conceptual writing the references are explicit rather than implicit.”
More here.
The Papers of Bob Cobbing at the British Library
An article by Chris Beckett on the Bob Cobbing papers at the British Library. More here.
Preview of The Other Room 21 reader: Ken Edwards
Preview of 1st December The Other Room reader Ken Edwards. Next week Louise Woodcock
Interview
Publishing and blog
Poems
Lucy Harvest Clarke
A new blog from Other Room veteran Lucy Harvest Clarke, here.
Counting Backwards 4
Graham Dunning
Dominic Lash
Richard Parker
Chris Gladwin
2nd December
7.30
Fuel Bar
Withington
Manchester
DEPT
DEPT #1 now available. Features new work from Simon Howard, Becky Cremin, Nat Raha, James Davies, Stephen Emmerson, Bill Drennan, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Tim Thornton, Alex Davies, Karen Sandhu and Gary Fisher. Costs 3 quid. Or exchanges very welcome. Send a message to barrett.richard1@googlemail.com if you want one. Please send submissions of poetry/essays/reviews/photographs for #2 to the same address.
Alec Newman interviewed by Essential Writers on The KFS press
I don’t think that there’s much to distinguish one press from another, content wise. Apparently, we take risks, but I don’t think that there is a risk in publishing brilliant work.
New BlazeVOX now online
Featuring Alban Fischer, Amy Hard, Amanda Stephens, Amy Lawless, Amylia Grace, Andrea Dulanto, AE Baer, Anisa Rahim, Antony Hitchin, Brad Vogler, Barbara Duffey, Benjamin Dickerson, Bob Nimmo, Billy Cancel, Brian Edwards, Brian Anthony Hardie, Ashley Burgess, Carlos Ponce-Meléndez, Carol Smallwood, Caroline Klocksiem, Chad Scheel, Christine Herzer, Darren Caffrey, David Toms, Debrah Morkun, Diana Salier, Donna Danford, David Plumb, Ed Makowski, Elizabeth Brazeal, Eric Wayne Dickey, Erin J. Mullikin, Julie Finch, Flower Conroy, George McKim , Geoffrey Gatza, Sarah Sweeney, Geer Austin, Heather Cox, henry 7. reneau, jr, Howie Good, Ivan Jenson, Ian Miller, James Mc Laughlin, Jason Joyce, Jeff Arnett, Julia Anjard Maher, Joshua Young, Jennifer Thacker, Kate Lutzner, Kelci M. Kelci, Laura Straub, Martin Willitts Jr, Margot Block, Myl Schulz, Camille Roy, Megan Milligan, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Michael Crake, Michael Hartman, Nick Miriello, Nicole Peats, Orchid Tierney, Philip Sultz, SJ Fowler, Steven Taylor, Steve Potter, Stephan Delbos, Simon Perchik, Sean Neville, Sarah Sousa , Bob Whiteside, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Santiago del Dardano Turann, John Raffetto, Bruce Bromley, Carl Dimitri, Gregory Dirkson, Jordan Martich, Natalie McNabb, Moura McGovern, Jennifer Houston, Robert Vaughan, Christi Mastley, pd mallamo and bruno neiva. Get it here.
Maintenant #35 – Ragnhildur Jóhanns
Celebrating the third Maintenant reading of 2010 we introduce Ragnhildur Jóhanns, one of four innovative Icelandic poets to read at the Rich Mix arts centre in London on November 27th, and one of the most exciting and elastic poetic talents to emerge in Europe over the last few years. A unique craftswoman, she is a sculptural, visual and physical poet, unhindered by convention. She works with text, with performance but seeks to create poetic objects, pure concrete poems, that is literally fashioning books out of her work and embodying the text. Fulfilling our remit to introduce poets who will undoubtedly rise to prominence in the next few decades and who refuse to be limited by what has come before, for the 35th Maintenant interview, Ragnhildur Jóhanns.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-35-ragnhildur-johanns/
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ten-poems-ragnhildur-johanns/
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