Plus-que Parfait is an evolving, open-ended text created by Emily Howard, Mark Cobley & Simon Howard. Emily is a musician & writer & the founder of Ensemble Youkali, Mark blogs at the red ceilings, Simon at walking in the ceiling. Mark & Simon have recent books from The Arthur Shilling Press. The three are not related, except where they are related; they do not live in the same place/space except when two of them do.
More here.
Via Harry Godwin
Films of all three readers who performed at The Other Room on February 3rd are now available (see below). Interviews with Rob Holloway, Holly Pester and Steven Waling will be available on Monday morning.
Harry Godwin’s estimable imprint is now offering an annual subscription for a highly economical £12. For this, you get at least 6 chapbooks, plus the option to buy more books the press publishes at a discount rate. As if this were not enough, you can even have your name listed on the site and a link to your own site or blog – a fine way to burnish your own poetic escutcheon. More details here.
Rob Holloway reads at The Other Room, February 3rd 2010.
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Steven Waling’s reading for The Other Room, February 3rd 2010.
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Technical problems have dogged this upload, but should be resolved now. This version of Alan’s reading at the very first Other Room on April 9th 2008 should take seconds rather than minutes to load.
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Holly Pester’s reading for The Other Room, February 3rd 2010.
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At Bank Street Arts 10 February – 9 March. Private view 12 Feb: invitation here.
Interesting discussion of February’s readers and notions of performance in poetry and performance in general. Snippet below:
Despite snow there were around thirty people at The Old Abbey Inn for the latest Other Room reading on Wednesday. The readers were Steven Waling, Holly Pester and Rob Holloway. To be honest I found my attention wandering a lot throughout the evening so my account will be pretty unreliable. That wasn’t the poets’ fault, it’s just been a hazy kind of a week, but it may have contributed to some of the misgivings I had that will become apparent.
Via Robert Sheppard:
25th February 2010: Sean Bonney was born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England, and now lives in London. His books include Notes on Heresy (Writers Forum, 2002), Blade Pitch Control Unit (Salt, 2005),Document: hexprogress (Yt Communication, 2006), Baudelaire in English(Veer 2008) and Document: poems, diagrams, manifestos (Barque 2009). He co-edits the press Yt Communication.Together with other younger poets his work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival. His ideological drive andenergetic performance style mark him out as a leading proponent of thisschool of poetry, so expect an explosive performance. Rose Theatre 7.30: £3.50
3rd March 2010 Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire and studied at Cambridge and Manchester. She’s worked as a barmaid, a waitress, a Samaritan and a cleaner and she currently lives with her daughter in Preston and runs a library inside a prison. She writes a blog here: http://www.jennashworth.blogspot.com and her first novel waspublished with Arcadia in May 2009: A Kind of Intimacy Rose Theatre. 7.30: £3.50
Plus Open Poetry and Poetics meeting: Carrie Etter: 6-8.00 on 20thApril 2010, venue in Education Block; free
On her anthology Infinite Difference and her own poetry. Carrie Etter is an American poet resident in England since 2001. Previously she lived in Normal, Illinois (until age 19) and southern California (from age 19to 32). In the UK, her poems have appeared in, amongst others, New WelshReview, Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, PN Review, Shearsman, Stand and TLS, while in the US her poems have appeared in magazines such as Aufgabe, Columbia, Court Green, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Seneca Review. Her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren in June 2009, and her second, Divining for Starters, containing moreexperimental work, is due for publication by Shearsman Books in 2011.She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing for Bath Spa University.
Sean Bonney and I will be talking about Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems on the BBC’s The Verb with Ian McMillan this Friday.
The programme is broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 5 February at 21:15 GMT, and is available to listen to on the BBC iPlayer for a week thereafter.
Slightly more details at
http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/kens-blog/bill-griffiths-on-radio-3
and more about the book at
http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/bill-griffiths.php
Via Ken Edwards
PDF copies of Sean Bonney’s long poem The Commons are available by contacting Sean directly. Details at his blog here.
begins on Monday 8th February at 8.15pm GMT with Stephen Emmerson reading for half an hour. If you would like to ‘attend’ the reading (online via skype), please get in touch with Harry Godwin via the Arthur Shilling site here.
The first release of the year from the book publishing arm of Otoliths is a collection from Scottish concrete & visual poet, nick-e melville.
What nick-e melville creates within selections and dissections is text as experience, presenting us with different ways to look at visual language, different ways to understand the ubiquitous textscapes of daily living. The pages of this book are filled with games, but games of the most serious kind, games about the act of being sentient textual beings. Melville, a textual imagineer, examines the spaces between letters, the negative spaces between lines of text, and even the halftone atoms of printing, always looking for the surprise in the printed text. To read this book is to experience these acts of textual imagination as cinema, as vibrant and moving sequences of thought. — Geof Huth
Check out a sample here and the Otoliths project – a magazine as well as a publisher – here.
Absolute Elsewhere, the latest collaboration between writer James Davies and photographer Simon Taylor continues to unfold with this month’s instalment, a photograph by Simon. See the latest and catch up with the project so far here.
Out now, featuring poetry from James Davies, Julius Kalamarz and Holly Pester. Click here for more information.
Speaking Out: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice
Saturday 6 February 2010, 10.30–17.30
This symposium focuses on the use of the spoken word in artistic practice and its manifestations in sonic and audiovisual art works. Taking the lead from the recently published anthology of works Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, this event encompasses performances, talks and conversations by artists and researchers who employ spoken words as their material and inspiration.
Contributors include Tomomi Adachi, Caroline Bergvall, David Toop, Imogen Stidworthy, Brandon LaBelle, Oswaldo Macià and Trevor Wishart.
In collaboration with CRISAP, Creative Research into Sound Art Practice, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20795.htm
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Sina Queyras:
Caroline Bergvall’s Lingual Scultpures
Lively posting on a few of Caroline Bergvall’s pieces by Canadian poet Sina Queyras on the Poetry Foundation’s widely read blog, Harriet.
Includes a sound file.
Posted on 26 January 2010.
To be followed by a written Q&A to be published in the next few days.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/01/caroline-bergvalls-lingual-scultpures/#more-7722
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Other recent events available to view/hear/check up on:
http://www.carolinebergvall.com
Now online, featuring:
Link.
Geof Huth describes the huge overhauls in edits the wonderous book has seen to date –
For the past few days, I’ve been working on the text of my next book. And I have to use the word “text,” because what I’m working on is the layout of the book, but it is also the manuscript of the book. As I work on the book, I remember other poems, tucked here and there in my life, in my memory, in my house. And I pull them out and put them in. The text has grown to 775 words, still not the longest book of pwoermds ever, which honor belongs to the marvelous Finn Karri Kokko.
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