The latest installment of Simon Taylor and The Other Room’s James Davies’ collaborative text and visual project Absolute Elsewhere is now online.
Next Openned
The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:
- Sean Bonney
- Sophie Robinson
- Harry Gilonis
- Josh Stanley
- Tim Atkins
- Nat Raha
- Posie Rider
- Peter Philpott
- Alan Hay
- Michael Zand
- Amy De’Ath
- Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
- Frances Kruk
- Raz
- Andrea Brady
- Justin Katko
More TBA.
Tina Darragh – The Other Room
Tina Darragh talks to Tom Jenks at Bury Art Gallery, 30th June 2009.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Michael Haslam at Penn Sound
Michael Haslam will be one of the readers at the next Other Room on 7th October. Get a taste of his work at the ever-excellent Penn Sound, which hosts a recording of Continual Song.
New in the library
Red Shifts by Other Room Reader Maggie O’ Sullivan has been added to The Other Room library and is available for postal loan. Click here to browse the complete library stock list.
Tina Darragh and Doug Lang
One for those of you who reside stateside.
September 12th
Saturday, 8 p.m.
at LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tina Darragh – Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.
Doug Lang – Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.
Craig Dworkin, Smokes
One of Craig Dworkin’s many excellent books, which is a free pdf on ubu (see link below). Some part of inspiration for the Matchbox project.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
The first issue is out now, 112 pages in length and the contents are as follows:
EDITORIAL: Scott Thurston and Robert Sheppard
Dragging at the haemorrhage of uns : Maggie
O’Sullivan’s excavations of Irish history
Mandy Bloomfield
Democratic consensus in J. H. Prynne’s Refuse Collection
Ian Davidson
Veronica Forrest-Thomson s Cordelia , tradition and
the Triumph of Artifice
Gareth Farmer
Expectant contexts : Corporeal and desiring spaces in
Denise Riley’s poetry
Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy
BOOK REVIEWS
Tony Lopez, Meaning Performance
Reviewed by Robert Sheppard
John Wilkinson, The Lyric Touch
Reviewed by Scott Thurston
Artists’ Taking the Lead
To have your say on the five regional projects, including Tony Trehy’s Language Moment, visit the link below:
P. Inman – The Other Room
P. Inman talks to James Davies at Bury Art Gallery, 30th June 2009.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Ergon/Logos
Palestine
The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on the 6th of October. Confirmed poets so far are:
Sean Bonney, Sophie Robinson, Harry Gilonis, Josh Stanley, Jow Lindsay, Tim Atkins, Nat Raha, Michael Zand, with more T.B.A
A flyer is in production at the moment but in the mean time for more information check the Openned Poetry Facebook Event.
The poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.
via Openned
If Not This – Ben Gwilliam, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Matt Wand
As part of the Exhibition Not At This Address (1 August – 7 November), Bury Art Gallery presents an evening of new performances from four of Manchester’s most active Sound Artists working today. If not this is a survey of works that explores sound in performance, crossing the terrain where music and sound often meet inside and outside of Contemporary Art.
Ben Gwilliam performs ‘molto semplice e cantabile’ a new work for ice records and turntables on the relationship between opus 111 and listening descriptions. Helmut Lemke will perform a durational piece specifically for the gallery that utilises live sound and amplification. Lee Patterson will present a new work containing pre-recorded and improvised elements, where the recordings used are sourced from wire fences in Birtle and within bodies of water in the Bury Metropolitan area. Matt Wand will probably perform ‘I owe it to the girls’.
Bury Art Gallery
Friday 4 September
19.00-22.00 FREE
Refreshments
Matt Dalby – Canal
Other Room favourite Matt Dalby’s project to produce a CD of sound poetry a month rolls on, with August’s instalment now available. It features four tracks, Tread, Decay, Shiver and Gnaw and is available from Matt’s own website.
Icon – Call for Contributions
“We are currently soliciting contributions for the next edition of the next issue of Stimulus Respond, called Icon.
Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Icon, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond’s undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy.
Fashion editorials and photography should be sent as low resolution jpegs including credits where necessary. The deadline for expressions of interest is 4 September, with the final deadline being 25 September.
This issue we are working with guest editors Phil Sawdon and Marsha Meskimmon. Potential contributors to the Literature section are to send an abstract of 200-300 words and an indication of the anticipated word length of the final article (within the parameters of 1000-4000 words) by 4 September. Authors of successful abstract submissions will be required to submit the final piece by 18 September and to be available to make any minor corrections by Friday 25 September.”
Spell/ing ( ) Bound
Jessica Smith reviews this wonderful looking object. get your pennies out of your pockets.
The amazing thing about Spell/ing () Bound is how fully conceived it is. There’s not a false step, but there are many surprises. I’m not sure how closely the collaborators worked together or what their parameters were when writing their three individual parts, or whether the magic came together in the editorial process, but it seems like each combination brings off a new meaning and metacommentary.
Charles Olson – The Kingfishers
A feast for the ears via Penn Sound and Ron Silliman.
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism
The latest instalment of James Davies and Simon Taylor’s collaborative text/visual project is online now.
Wopk by James Davies
Thought people might be interested in seeing this. Made it about 2/3 years ago. Wanted the feel of those late night Czech animations.
Poem Talk
Poem Talk podcasts available for dedicated close readings, the latest being no 21 where
“We talk about a poem by Charles Bernstein written in 2002, published in World on Fire and eventually collected in Girly Man: “In a Restless World Like This Is.”
Gotta beat Late Night Review.
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