Out now, featuring:
- Anthony Arnott
- Rembrandt Clarke
- Becky Cremin
- Dr Phuoc-Tan Diep
- Steven Fowler
- Joshua Jones
- Paul McDonald
- Corey Mesler
- A W Singerman
- Tom Watts
More here.
KFS reading and Didsbury Arts Festival reading: Thursday 30th September
Derek Beaulieu on How To Write
Other Room reader Derek Beaulieu talks about How To Write to Helen Hajnoczky.
“Writers in ostrich-like ignorance of the potential of sharing—as opposed to hoarding—their texts, are ignoring potentially the most important artistic innovation of the 20th century: collage.”
More here.
Adrian Clarke: Eurochants review by David Kennedy
Adrian Clarke’s most recent book with Shearsman gets a review from David Kennedy:
“The more you know about poetry, the more poetry becomes a matter of echoes and hauntings. Eliot dedicated ‘The Waste Land’ to Pound with the words il miglior fabbro, the same designation that Dante had given to the troubadour poet Arnaut Daniel. Larkin’s ‘postal districts packed like squares of wheat’ triggers a memory of Auden’s ‘The crowds upon the pavement / Were fields of harvest wheat’. George Herbert’s ‘Is there in truth no beauty?’ becomes a kind of backbeat at the end of Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. This sort of poetic relationship is at the heart of Adrian Clarke’s new book which, in the words of the blurb, tests ‘some possibilities and limits of cultural and linguistic exchange’. Eurochants gathers translations of Max Jacob; improvisations on Chinese love poems, Persius, Tacitus and Villon; and other recent work in Clarke’s characteristic short-lined, phrasal style. Daniel and Dante are in there too.”
Soho Curzon Poetry Reading – SJ Fowler – October Wednesday 6th 7pm
A release of five SJ Fowler publications by four presses Zimzalla / Knives Forks & Spoons press / Kitt press / Arthur Shilling press (http://www.zimzalla.co.uk) (http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk) (http://www.kittpress.com) (http://arthur-shilling-press.blogspot.com) Wednesday October 6th 2010 ~ 7pm ~ Entrance free the Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar
99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 5DY 0871 703 3988
A unique collaborative poetry event featuring the presence of the four of the UK’s most vital and productive publishing organisations. The event will feature a forty-minute reading from SJ Fowler and a sales table with work from the list of each of the presses.
SJ Fowler is one of the most prolific and inventive young poets emerging in Britain. A formidable reader, his poetry is concerned with the latency of aggression in passive cultures, and the violence of the banal. A devotee of boxing, his symbolic engagement with the combative arts lends his writing an assailing immediacy. Concurrently antagonistic and innovative, his poetry is distinct and affecting whether spoken or read from the page – Robert Sutcliffe (editor of Kitt press)
Kitt press present Saint Augustine of Hippo
A poetic / pictorial collaboration with the artist David Kelly, the book is a love letter to Augustine’s secular lust and apparently disingenuous commitment to chastity. The fragmented abstract of an Augustine icon permeates the poetry.
The Knives forks Spoons press present Arthur Abraham
Ten poems in celebration of the German / Armenian boxer recall the tonality of epic Anglo-Saxon poetry run through the grinder of avant-garde documentation.
Kitt press present Animal Husbandry
A series of poems written in response to the Rorschach inkblot paintings of Sian Williams. Each is a meditation on the novelty of this psychological test and the supposed inevitability of its response – an invocation of the sexualized female form.
Arthur Shilling press presents Antonio Margarito
A poetry cycle dedicated to the Mexican boxer banned for loading his gloves with Plaster of Paris, the poems evoke Aztec ritual invocations and Beat-esque free verse ecstatics.
ZimZalla presents Klitschko
Zimzalla object number 6 is a boxing poster designed by SJ Fowler in the manner of the Vienna group concrete poets. Mixing heavy blocked type with irreverent commentaries on the nature of punching people in the face for a living.
Preview of The Other Room reader 6th October Emily Critchley
This weekend at WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION
WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION
3rd September – 3rd October 2010
Open Fri – Sun 12 – 5pm
The Pigeon Wing
Guild House
Excelsior Works
Rollins Street
SE15 1EP
London
EVENTS: Weekend 4.
On Saturday September 25th 1.30-4.30, WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION presents an afternoon of performances, discussions and installations.
1.30pm How To Blush – performance lecture by seekers of lice:
“The talk as an installation space: How to blush is a collaged text circling around blushing via the life of the bedbug, the colour puce, visceral reactions, earlobes, Sappho…”
2.00-3.30pm LemonMelon Publishing Seminar.
LemonMelon extends the following invitation: Please join!!! LemonMelon would like to discuss the following with you
a book as strategy
a book as a living organism
a book as a platform for research
a book as an exhibition space
a book as a place of collaboration
a book as nearly invisible publishing
a book as structure
Specifically invited contributors are asked to present their publications and to respond to the above.
Contributers include: seekers of lice, Phil Baber/ Cannon, David Berridge/ VerySmallKitchen, James Davies/ If P Then Q, Marit Muenzberg/ LemonMelon.
3.30-4.30pm Janine Harrington, Performing Book Experiment No.2
“Performing Book Experiment No.2 is a structure for five or more dancers. The work aims to facilitate a playful interaction between the audience-reader and the performers. The structure is only activated when an audience member enters a “channel” of the space, their movement programs the danced material in a certain way. As the activator becomes aware of their role as co-author of the work they are able to play with the structure, changing the direction of movement, its relationship to time and scale.”
ALSO THIS WEEKEND:
The 25th will be the conclusion of Phil Baber’s The Archaeology of an Essay installation, the result of a 3 day residency at WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION:
“Through artifacts, images, and texts, I’ll be unpacking, plotting, and presenting the ‘source-code’ of an essay-in-progress.”
The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing continues to unfold with Greetings from DEAL – a new installation project by Colin Priest, Malcolm Hobbs and Joe Reeves – and the online launch of LIKE IT IS: PRELUDE, an e-book by Nyeema Morgan.
WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION concludes with a final weekend of performances and events on October 2-3. See full programme of events here: www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/events
33 questions per minute
The current exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery (as part of AND festival) is Recorder by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Most interesting of all his art pieces is 33 Questions Per Minute. As his website states:
“33 Questions Per Minute consists of a computer program which uses grammatical rules to combine words from a dictionary and generate 55 billion unique, fortuitous questions. The automated questions are presented at a rate of 33 per minute –the threshold of legibility– on 21 tiny LCD screens encrusted on the support columns of the exhibition hall or mounted on a wall. The system will take over 3,000 years to ask all possible questions.”
LINK to read more and video
New Beard of Bees Chapbook
David Berridge’s five Gs: Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys
Matchbox Poetry in India
If poetry is all about firing your imagination, this one literally comes in a matchbox.
An avid poetry lover in Jorhat, India, is emptying matchboxes, filling them with rolls of poems and selling them for a mere Rupees 5 to help popularise Assamese poetry among the uninitiated.
The man behind the innovative idea, Bipul Regon, insists that the formula works.
“Innovative ideas always sell and believe me my messages in the matchboxes are selling big,” said Regon, a novelist himself.
Read more in The Calcutta Telegraph
Maintenant #27 – Zvonko Karanović
Via Steven Fowler:
An interview with the Serbian poet, Zvonko Karanović, the 27th subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets.
In an extraordinary interview, Karanovic speaks of his influences, the context of the Balkan wars and his experience of how Serbia, and Serbian poetry, has altered in the countries tempestuous recent history.
Included with the interview is ten of his poems spanning five collections.
Our next Maintenant reading:
Ny Poesi: 3am magazine’s Maintenant interview series presents New Norwegian Poetry at the Rich mix
(35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London. E1 6LA)
Saturday September 25th – 7pm – Entrance free
Jenny Hval / Endre Ruset / Paal Bjelke Andersen / Audun Mortensen
A free evening of International poetry and performance from four of the most vibrant and resounding young poetic talents in a grand Scandinavian tradition. Hval, Ruset, Mortensen and Andersen belong to a generation of poets that measure the sophistication of literary poetry with the groundbreaking developments of the avant-garde poetic practise and performance. This reading will feature poets who have already gained prominence for their originality and power, and seemlessly engage the boundaries of what poetry can and should become as we reconfigure poetry as song, as lyric, as art and text.
The event will also see the release of a one off special publication from Knives Forks and Spoons press featuring poetic collaborations between the visiting Norwegian poets and Jeff Hilson, Sean Bonney, Agnes Lehoczky and Sam Riviere.
Preview of Other Room reader 6th October, Adrian Clarke
Preview of Adrian Clarke. Next Week Emily Critchley:
Critcism
Poetry
Link to Eurochants published by Shearsman and sampler
Audio
Openned October Reading
Details of the October Openned reading including confirmed readers and a
flyer are now available at:
Anna Mendelssohn & Grace Lake Celebration room switch
If you were intending to go to this event the room has been moved. Up-to-date details below:
Wednesday 15th September, 6 – 9pm
There will be readings from among others:
■Sean Bonney
■Chloe Harries
■Jane Liddell-King
■Ian Patterson
■Frances Presley
■Barry Schwabsky
The reading will now be held at 32 Tavistock Square in Birkbeck College.
Tim Atkins’ 1000 Sonnets published by if p then q
The long awaited full set of Tim Atkins’ minimalist sonnets is finally here. First published by The Figures back in 2000 this if p then q collection contains over 100 extra sonnets to comprise 127. The title alludes to Kenneth Koch’s hilarious sequence of short plays/skits 1000 Avant Garde Plays and as ever Tim Atkins’ magic is in the spirit of that playfulness. You will have clocked some of these delights in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.
What Ron Silliman had to say about Sonnet 91:
“Certainly a sonnet is possible in which these words fall in these places. Yet is not clear if anything, in fact, is missing. As such, the text stands mute, ironic, self-amused all at once.”
LINK to purchase from if p then q
Next two books from Knives Forks and Spoons
Are:
‘Waves upon the Waves’ by Harry Ross, £5
&
‘Excoriate Exhale’ by Heller Levinson (who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008), £5
3 new chapbooks from NO press: Zits, Molotiu/Mallarme, Upton
No press is proud to announce the release of 3 new handbound limited-edition chapbooks:
MASSACRE STREET
by Paul William Zits
MASSACRE STREET is Zits’ avant-garde interpretation of Alberta’s Frog Lake Massacre, created using only primary documents. Zits has created a text which simultaneously disturbs history and language. Produced in a limited edition of 70 handbound copies, $4.00 each
**
THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
by Stephane Mallarme (translated, and with an afterword by, Andrei Molotiu)
THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN is Andrei Molotiu’s translation of Mallarme’s classic text, allowing for swerves in meaning and expansion of possibilities within the form and narrative of the original. Produced in a limited edition of 50 handbound copies, $3.00 each
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NAMING For Betsey
by Lawrence Upon
NAMING For Betsey is Upton’s latest radical asemic visual poetry score; a radical act of reading and performance by a renowned visual poet. Produced in a limited edition of 40 handbound copies, $3.00 each.
to order copies, or for more details, please email derek@housepress.ca
Poet hijacks Atlanta streets with haiku advertising campaign
Mimicking the usual advertisements for weight loss and health insurance, Morse’s poems began appearing throughout the city last month. From an exhortation to “Lose ugly weight fast!!/ Feel Happier! Healthier!/ Dump your bigotry” to “Meet local singles!!/ Easy: stand near others/ Hang up your cell phone” and “Free debt counselling/ Take the important first step/ Beware signs like these”, the artist has written 10 different haikus, printed 50 copies of each and placed them at 500 locations across Atlanta.
Chris McCabe interview
Ken Edwards reading
Ken Edwards and Harry Gilonis, in the Blue Bus series at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room, on Tuesday 14th September, from 7.30. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Ken Edwards and Myung Mi Kim, in the Poetry Center series at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, Saturday 25th September, 7:30 pm. Admission: $10.
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