Films from the second date of the North by North West Poetry Tour in Manchester are now online, including this performance by David Gaffney and Adrian Slatcher. Full list below.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis in Sheffield
The Centre for Poetry & Poetics presents a poetry reading with: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Theatre Workshop, 4a Sherwood Road, S10 2TD University of Sheffield
Friday 20th January 2017, 17.45pm
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and essayist, feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. She is the author of the multi-volume long poem Drafts, (1986-2012), from Salt Publishing and Wesleyan called “one of the major poetic achievements of our time” by Ron Silliman. Post-Drafts books include Interstices (Subpress, 2014),Graphic Novella (Xexoxial Editions, 2015), the collage-poem Numbers (in press) and a companion long poem, Traces. She has written a trilogy of critical essays on gender and poetics: The Pink Guitar, Blue Studios and Purple Passages, several other critical books, as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). http://rachelblauduplessis.com/
North by North West Poetry Tour in York: films
Films from the first date of the North by North West Poetry Tour in York are now online, including this performance by Bill Herbert and Colin Herd. Full list below.
Tom Jenks & Nathan Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5m3ankPKfI&t=14s
JT Welsch & Kim Campanello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_REEMDhQ-k
Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbebI5m5x4c
Abi Curtis & Julie Egdell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tip8sMbKAk
Dave Spittle & Harry Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9DC4_YIAZM
Bill Herbert & Colin Herd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNk9vP6C-U
Melony Bethala & David Steans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JapWd8zRBOo&t=51s
Molly Bloom 12
Online now, with work from Nancy Gaffield, Amy Evans, Kelvin Corcoran, Elaine Jarvest Miller, Ralph Hawkins, Sheila Hamilton, Liz Adams, Linda Black, Mark Cunningham, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Mark Totterdell and Zoë Skoulding.
EMMA COCKER TRANSMISSION LECTURE AND BOOK LAUNCH
TUESDAY 24 JANUARY
Join us on for an evening with Sheffield artist Emma Cocker.
From 4.30pm – 6pm, Emma will give a lecture about the wider context of her practice as a writer-artist, as part of the Transmission Lecture Series, a series of free art lectures produced by Site Gallery in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University’s Fine Art Department.
Following the lecture at Sheffield Hallam University, join us at Site Gallery from 6pm for the launch of Emma’s first collection of writing – The Yes of the No (published by Site Gallery in 2016). Emma will read from the book at 7pm.
Existing in the space between imaginative proposition and a call to action, The Yes of the No is an assemblage of provocations, proposals and potential ways of operating — ranging from navigating the city and inhabiting the margins to errant acts of reading; from preparing for the unexpected to learning how to ‘not know’, from minor acts of singular sedition to collective expressions of an insurgent ‘we’.
Emma Cocker is a writer-artist based in Sheffield and Reader in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Cocker’s work often addresses the endeavour of creative labour, focusing on models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist the pressure of a single, stable position by remaining wilfully unresolved. Her recent writing has been published in Failure (2010); Stillness in a Mobile World (2011); Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought (2011); Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art (2012); On Not Knowing: How Artists Think (2013); Reading/ Feeling (2013) and Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2017).
Electric Arc Furnace #2
More details here.
Poems in Which #10
Featuring new work from Sara Peters, Luke Kennard, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, R.A. Villanueva, Jane Yeh, Jennifer L. Knox, Jeff Hilson, Rachel Long, Matthew Welton and Sara Peters. Read it here.
SJ Fowler: new for 2017
Some new books / plays / courses / exhibitions / events for the first half of the year upcoming.
New Publications
The Guide to Being Bear Aware : a new poetry collection published by Shearsman Books. Launched at York Literature Festival on March 29th, Kingston Writing School April 5th, Arnolfini in Bristol on April 6th and in London, at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, on April 11th www.stevenjfowler.com/bearaware
I fear my best work behind me : my debut art book – art brut portraiture, abstract illustration and handwritten poems, published by Stranger Press. May 2017. www.stevenjfowler.com/ifear
Subcritical Tests with Ailbhe Darcy – A full length collaborative collection of poetry and one of the first titles, and the very first poetry book, to be published by Gorse. Summer 2017. www.stevenjfowler.com/subcriticaltests
The Words Moving : poems on cinema – Limited edition poetry collection, each poem responding to a film, from The Devils to Angel Heart, from Salo to Jurassic Park, published by Pyramid Editions. Summer 2017 www.stevenjfowler.com/wordsmoving
Theatre
Mayakovsky As part of Rich Mix’s programme exploring the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new experimental play on Vladimir Mayakovsky. Performed alongside new works by playwrights Petra Freimund, Larry Lynch and others. www.stevenjfowler.com/mayakovsky
Courses
Inventing Rauschenberg at Tate Modern – Exploring the life and legacy of Robert Rauschenberg, with a course following his innovative and wide ranging practise connected to the exhibition ongoing. 20 Feb – 20 March – Monday evenings : 18.45–20.45, in the galleries at Tate Modern. Booking here.
Exhibitions
Worm Wood with Tereza Stehlikova – A collaborative exhibition at Kensal Green Cemetery Dissenter’s Chapel and Gallery running 100 days from May to September 2017. Featuring new works of video, text art and installation, the exhibition will feature an event programme, including guided walks and workshops, exploring disappearing west London. www.stevenjfowler.com/wormwood
Visual Poetry at Museum of Futures : February 18th to March 5th. A group show of new visual and concrete poetry, text art and avant-garde sculpture, drawing in artists and poets from South West London for the exhibition in Surbiton. http://www.theenemiesproject.com/futures
Curatorial
North x North West Poetry Tour : Visiting six cities across January and February, this tour of collaborative ‘Camarade’ events will draw in dozens of poets from across the region, endemic of the resurgence of avant-garde and literary poetry in the north of England in the last decade plus. New collaborations between myself and Chris McCabe, Amy Cutler, Nathan Walker & more. Curated with Tom Jenks. Supported by Arts Council England. www.theenemiesproject.com/northwest
Fiender: Swedish Enemies – January 28th at Rich Mix: Free
20 poets present 10 brand new collaborations to celebrate the visit of some of Sweden’s, and Europe’s most interesting writers. A new collaboration with Aase Berg, alongside poets including Elis Burrau & Holly Corfield Carr, Kathryn Maris & Patrick Mackie, Annie Katchinska & Mark Waldron. Curated with Harry Man. Supported by Arts Council Sweden. www.theenemiesproject.com/fiender
University Camarade II – February 25th at Rich Mix: Free
The University Camarade asks pairs of creative writing students from different Universities in the UK to collaborate on short new works of poetry or text, for performance. The second event in the series features students from Kingston University, Oxford Brookes, York St John, Kent, Essex, York and Royal Holloway www.theenemiesproject.com/unicamarade
English PEN Modern Literature Festival – April 1st at Rich Mix : Free
30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world. The festival continues English PEN’s relationship with innovative contemporary literature over an extraordinary day. The 2017 festival will feature Denise Riley, Hannah Silva, Sandeep Parmar, Vahni Capildeo, Luke Kennard, Nathan Jones, Tony White, Matthew Welton, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Sasha Dugdale & many others. www.theenemiesproject.com/englishpen
Robert Sheppard – Petrarch 3
Crater 36: January 2016 [sic]. Robert Sheppard, Petrarch 3. The Complete Petrarchs of our time and poetics are splendid, but what happens if you dig down and realise version after version of just one sonnet (Petrarch’s third), stuttering in repetition, re-staging it for voice and situation, from a Scouse dog at Christmas to Jimmy Savile beyond the grave; a twittersonnet or a lengthy semantic poetry translation; a French Symbolist version or a Middle English sonnet? Robert Sheppard’s pamphlet is what happens, leaving a performance of humour, excess, variation, and an uncanny undersong courtesy of Petrarch himself. Confusingly folded, full colour, £4 + p&p. Run of 200.
Blackbox Manifold #17
The Winter 2016 issue 17 of Blackbox Manifold is out now, with work by Linda Anderson, Tom Betteridge, Adam Burbage, Stephen Burt, James Byrne, Sophie Collins, Joey Connolly, Adam Flint, Jane Goldman, Thomas Kelly, Chris Kerr, Eric Langley, Dorothy Lehane, Tan Lin, Jaki McCarrick, Gail McConnell, Joseph Minden, Ian Patterson, Robert Sheppard, Ronnie Sirmans, Oliver Southall, Matthew Sweeney, Charles Tarlton, Ken Taylor, Jonty Tiplady, Samuel Tongue. John Tamplin interviews Keston Sutherland, Peter Larkin reviews Peter Riley, and Adam Piette reviews the new Eliot, Denise Riley, Charlotte Newman, and essays on J.H. Prynne. Read it here.
Integration Alone Is Not Enough – Concrete poetry exhibition
Curated by Andrew Hunt
3 February, 2016 – 24 March, 2017
Richard Saltoun 111 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 6RY
Richard Saltoun is pleased to present an exhibition of works of concrete poetry rarely seen in the UK, including artists Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Tom Edmonds, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Peter Mayer, Charles Verey and Edward Wright.
Richard Barrett and Gareth Twose book launches
Saturday 28th January, upstairs in Waterstones’, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2BW. Richard Barrett reads from LOVE LIFE!, out now on Stranger Press. Gareth Twose reads from Sven Types of Terrorism out now on KFS. Free entry, 4 PM start.
Wayne Clements video from The Other Room December 2016
Kerry Morrison video from The Other Room December 2016
The North by North West Poetry Tour at Edge Hill
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The tour visits Edge Hill University on Thursday 19th January with performances by Robert Sheppard & Joanne Ashcroft, Luke Thurogood & Brendan Quinn, Martin Palmer & Laura Tickle, Jessica Tillings & Jazmine Linklater, Adam Hampton & Matt Fallaize, James Byrne & Cathy Butterworth, Mark Greenwood & Johnathan Hartley, Tom Jenks & Tim Allen, Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell and Amy Cutler & Nathan Walker. More here.
Cathy Butterworth video from The Other Room December 2016
The North by North West Poetry Tour in Manchester
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The second date of the tour is in Manchester on Saturday 14th January at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester, M1 5BY with performances by Richard Barrett & Tim Allen, Helmut Lemke & Tony Trehy, SJ Fowler & Tom Jenks, Chris McCabe & Amy Cutler, Patricia Farrell & Nathan Walker, Alec Newman & Rachel Sills, Ben Knight & Ben Morris, Bryony Bates & Gareth Twose, Sarah-Claire Conlon & Fat Roland, David Gaffney & Adrian Slatcher, Lauren Bolger & Joey Frances, Matt Dalby & Steven Waling, Luke Allan & Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir and Jazmine Linklater & Jessica Tillings. More here.
Peepsfest
A celebration of Tommy Peeps/Linus Slug/ all things Mendoza with contributions by Sarah Crewe, Amy Evans, Catherine Hales, Edmund Hardy, Ben Hickman, Jeff Hilson, Peter Jaeger, Tom Jenks, Antony John, Dorothy Lehane, Chris Mccabe, Fabian Macpherson, Peter Manson, Camilla Nelson, Pascal O’Loughlin, Maggie O’Sullivan, Richard Parker, Kat Peddie, Nat Raha, Scott Thurston, Rhys Trimble and James Wilkes. More here.
The North by North West Poetry Tour in York
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The tour kicks off on Friday 13th February at York City Screen, 13-17 Coney St, York, YO1 9QL with performances by JT Welsch & Kimberly Campanello, SJ Fowler & Amy Cutler, Tom Jenks & Nathan Walker, Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell, Abi Curtis & Julie Egdell, Dave Spittle & Harry Man, Bill Herbert & Colin Herd and Melony Bethala & David Steans. More here.
Galatea Resurrects’ 2016 Poetry Recommendations
A long and interesting list, with mentions for Other Room readers Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Peter Hughes, Alistair Noon, Michelle Naka Pierce,.Eléna Rivera and Rachel Sills. More here.
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