In its festive merriment, and review of the culture of the decad,e The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.
1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10. Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets
More from Absolute Elsewhere, James Davies’ and Simon Taylor’s collaborative text and image project. December’s instalment is a poem from James.
More here.
Those good folks in Lapland give you The Arthur Shilling Christmas Anthology, which is a pdf, which is a gift of all the current chapbooks published to date.
Via Harry Godwin
Papers by Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady & Robert Hampson
Angela Gardner + the voice of Harry Godwin + Mendoza + Nat Raha + Michael Zand
Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL.
doors open at 7.30; start at 8.00; end by 10.00; entry £6 (£4 concessions).
This event links the visiting Australian poet and artist Angela Gardner with readings and performances from a group of young and innovative London poets.
Angela Gardner is an Australian poet with a prize-winning reputation in her own country: 2006 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for Parts of Speech, (University of Queensland Press, 2007) and 2004 Bauhinia/Idiom 23 Prize). Her new book, Views of the Hudson has been published this year in the UK by Shearsman. She already has an international status as a visual artist. Her poetry is often highly visual, always quick, inventive and engaging. She also edits an online poetry magazine, foam:e, and jointly runs Light-trap Press, publishing artists’ books. This is her last reading in Europe before she returns to Australia.
Harry Godwin, Mendoza, Nat Raha and Michael Zand are all poets in their early 20s now (or until recently) based in London. They are part of the exciting innovative poetry scene based around creative writing courses in London and poetry events like Openned, Crossing the Line and Sundays at the Oto. They have so far only had small pamphlets published, mainly from Harry Godwin’s Arthur Shilling press, or appeared in small magazines and websites. They are playful, inventive and wonderfully original, with strong elements of performance in how they present their poetry.
More information here.
Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be published in January by Reality Street.
This is the first time this great, innovative poet’s work has been properly collected. The poetry included here was originally written and published in the 1960s and 70s, and immediately predates the work included in The Mud Fort. It includes the complete “Cycles”, War W/ Windsor”, “A History of the Solar System” and other sequences, as well as a multitude of other poems and and sets of poems, previously published in fugitive editions or not at all, presented in roughly chronological order. The volume is rounded off with Alan Halsey’s meticulous endnotes, detailing the original publishing history and variant texts.
You can obtain this book by:
You can also pre-order it at http://www.amazon.co.uk at £18 post free.
Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
Edited & introduced by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards
368pp
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
29 January 2010
“In Manchester, I see, the Other Room has been engaging new audiences too. Its co-curator, James Davies, is also editor of a magazine of “experimental poetry”, if p then q. The first two issues, which I haven’t got, were issued in envelopes. The third came in the form of a set of full-colour posters. The fourth, and current issue, is likely to cause apoplexy among some of the more austere adherents of post-avant poetry, but I love it.”
More.
Nick Thurston talks about his work for The Other Room, 2nd December 2009.
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Sophie Robinson talks about her work for The Other Room, 2nd December 2009.
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Sophie Robinson reads for The Other Room, 2nd December 2009.
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Can’t face the crowds of the Arndale or that trip down to Thurrock? Then why not try giving these free wonders to your loved ones? Click the links below:
Characters in their Thousands by Ceri Buck
This Window makes me feel by Rob Fitterman
The Commons II by Sean Bonney
Opposable Dumbs by Tina Darragh
The House of Bedlam featuring Matthew Welton perform at The Whitworth Art Gallery 7pm, Thursday 10th December.
Kraak, a new art space in the northern quarter, does its second night the same night, with another to follow on the 17th December. Doors at 10pm. Perforamnces of sound, poet and art including The Other Room performer Matt Dalby
Featuring tonnes of goodies including papers on Caroline Bergvall curated and coordinated Other Room reader Sophie Robinson):
Strictly Speaking on Caroline Bergvall
Featuring papers from:
Caroline Bergvall
Sophie Robinson
Nathan Brown
cris cheek
Laura Goldstein
Majene Mafe
LINK TO COMPLETE CONTENTS AND ISSUE
A reminder that the launch of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative
Poetry (eds Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston) is at the University of
Salford on Wednesday 9 December at 4 pm.
There will be speeches and discussion of the journal, as well as an
opportunity for readers and contributors to the journal to meet with
editorial board members.
Guest Speakers:
Christine Kennedy, Leeds Trinity & All Saints
Allen Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ian Davidson, University of Wales at Bangor
Followed by discussion and drinks.
All Welcome. Free entry.
Address: Room 103, Crescent House, University of Salford, Greater
Manchester, M5 4WT
Directions here: http://www.salford.ac.uk/travel
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169385893578&ref=share
More about the journal: http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry
Sophie Robinson and Nick Thurston’s performance at The Other Room on 2nd December reviewed by Matt Dalby here.
Binturong Review is accepting submissions. Anything will be considered in any medium. Send submissions to river_swam@yahoo.co.uk. More here.
An all male isssue of Greatworks featuring:
Geof Huth writes about the progress of his up and coming if p then q collection on his blog:
I have spent the night trying to organize my collected pwoermds in some logical and reasonably consistent manner. Now, at the end of the night, I’ve got them in reasonable order and am looking at 100 pages of pwoermds, and about 669 pwoermds total. (Counting them all is made difficult by the fact that I’ve intentionally left in duplicates of some pwoermds, for esthetic reasons.
The Other Room Interview Series kicks off with a conversation with Ron Padgett. All interviews will be available in a free PDF. Click here to download the Ron Padgett interview.
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