City State: New London Poetry

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“City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.”

Poets featured include upcoming Other Room readers Alex Davies and Steve Willey. Published 20th May 2009, 192 pages, £9.99. Pre-order from Amazon or visit Openned or Penned In the Margins to find out more. Edited by Tom Chivers

The Poetry that they Don’t Teach You at School

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“Poetry readings are good value, for a few quid you get to see three or four poets, often interesting, sometimes excellent. The “sting” of course, is that there’s usually a table of books somewhere near. Whereas a reading by a “name” will see a man from Blackwells or Waterstones hovering with a pile of Fabers or similar – pleasant enough, but nothing you can’t buy from your local branch or the internet – a more obscure group of poets will come with a book table to die for.”

From Adrian Slatcher.

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Futuresonic 2009

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Futuresonic 2009 and the Social Technologies Summit will take place 13-16 May 2009, featuring world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. The festival has four strands – Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS – and occupies the orbits of art, performance, music, design and digital culture.

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BlazeVox

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The Spring 2009 issue of BlazeVox is online now, featuring work from mez breeze, Rachael Stanford, Brooks Johnson, Patrick Chapman, Aaron Anstett, Abby Stringer, Scott Abels, Adam Siegel, adam strauss, Alec Newman, Andy Frazee, A.D.Hitchin, Ashley VanDoorn, Dennis Barone, Alex Stolis, Brian Hardie, Christie Ann Reynolds, Constance Stadler, Curt Hopkins, Darren Caffrey, David Tolkacz, David Wolach, Dion Farquhar, Donald Illich, Ed Baker, Felino Soriano, Glenn R. Frantz, John C. Goodman, James Brown, Jan Imgrund, Jay Snodgrass, Jennifer H. Fortin, Joe Hall, John Pursley III, John Moore Williams, Karen Sandhu and Tom Jenks.

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Hot Gun

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Hot Gun! is an occasional journal of poetry + criticism. It is oblatory in mode, committed to whatever it HAS to be each issue. Featuring poems and critical works (on Angela Brady, the role of women in Language poetry, Guy Debord and Keston Sutherland) by:

  • Kyle Storm Beste-Chetwynde
  • Ryan Dobran
  • Luke Roberts
  • Justin Katko
  • Jow Lindsay
  • Marianne Morris
  • Amica Dall
  • Emily Critchley
  • Kate Riley
  • J.H. Prynne
  • Neil Pattison

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:ab ovo:

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Dusie Press happily announces the publication of Jenn McCreary’s :ab ovo:

“Jenn McCreary’s… questioning of a lifetime of a priori givens takes over language, inviting it to accommodate her unacknowledged world.” –Marcella Durand.

“A book of awe and charm from the inside out.” — Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Via Dusie Press

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Richard Barrett

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Other Room reader Richard Barrett is reading as part of the second farewell evening for Manchester poetry magazine The Ugly Tree. Thursday 28 May, from 6.00pm. Free.  Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD. Get down there to catch up with where this rapidly emerging poet is at.

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Claus Van Bebber

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Deserving of much attention for his early use of turntables and prepared records. This German based artist of longstanding comes directly out of and is contemporary to the late 70’s Milan Knizak ‘Broken Music’ school of playing physically ruined records.

If you missed Bebber at The Text Festival he performs again at The Salford Concert Series on Thursday 7th May.

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New Issue of Great Works

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Includes:

 

  • Jeffrey Side, seven poems
  • David Chaloner, three poems
  • Richard Makin, eight poems from Rift Designs
  • Hannah Silva, seven poems
  • Scott Helmes, two poems
  • Christopher Barnes, six poems
  • Lucy Harvest Clarke, three sonnets
  • Richard Barrett, two poems
  • James Price, three poems
  • Aidan Semmens, three poems
  • John Gilmore, two excerpts from Head of a Man and three Etudes
  • Kenny Knight, six poems from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead
  • Ben Stainton, four poems
  • Ron Singer, The Shiny Pants Brigade
  • Charles Freeland, six poems
  • Caleb Puckett, three poems
  • Mary Michaels, three prose poems
  • Boris Jardine, five poems
  • Michael Egan, three poems
  • Tomas Weber, two poems
  • Alan Baker, from The Book of Random Access
  • Rufo Quintavalle, two poems
  • AnnMarie Eldon, five poems
  • Mendoza, poems
  • Joseto Solis, from The Ingredients of Oneself
  • Tina Hyett, poems from In the Dirt
  • Spencer Termott, THE MATCHING TYE SET (from In the Dirt)

via Peter Philpott

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Expresso Book Machine

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It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible.

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Richard Barrett reads The Rushes

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The Other Room 6 was a night of technical meltdown. We’ve asked all readers to give us something to be representative of their fabulous readings. Here Richard Barrett reads the whole of his Rushes sequence. Filmed April 2009 outside The Old Abbey Inn, Manchester.

A Few Traces Left

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As part of The European Night of Museums 2009 and Museums at Night, sound artists and musicians will perform a collaborative durational improvisation. Dense and sparse, loud and quiet, dialogues will evolve on and around one big table that will be their common work place in the gallery. Traces, marks, drawings plus projections of their actions will be left on the same table for the duration of the subsequent exhibition. 

Venue: Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, Chapman Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford, M5 4WT
Curated by Helmut Lemke & Ben Gwilliam
Saturday 16 May – Friday 05 June
Mon – Fri 10.00am – 4.00pm
Admission:Free

Performance Date: Saturday 16 May, 7.00pm – 11.00pm