April 2015
Juxtavoices at St Ann’s Square
Launch of Juxtavoices’ new CD/DVD
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NOTES (Discus 58)
3pm, Friday 9th December
St Ann’s Church, Manchester M2 7LF
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NOTES
may be ordered direct from Discus Music
http://discus-music.co.uk/catalogue-mobile/dis58cd2015-11-01-18-20-11-72-detail
Verbose
Monday 28 November 2016, Fallow Cafe, 2A Landcross Road, Manchester,M14 6NA . Featuring Richard Barrett, Jazmine Linklater and Alec Newman, all part of the Enemies Project North West Poetry Tour. 19.30 start, free entry. More here.
Lullabies and Curses
Lullabies and Curses: Common Rest Launch Party
The Peckham Pelican
92 Peckham Road, SE15 5PY London, United Kingdom
Thursday, December 1 at 7 PM – 11 PM
Come and be sung SONGS OF THE DARK
Please join us for the launch of ‘Common Rest’, a collaborative album of sound works and lullabies with an accompanying book of poems by Holly Pester.
Doors at 7
Performances from 7:30
READINGS, PERFORMANCES, SONGS and SPELLS by
Nat Raha
Verity Spott
Holly Pester
Linda Stupart
Vera Rodriguez
Mrylyn Tan
Jenny Moore
The project includes contributions by Emma Bennett, Vahni Capildeo, Jenny Moore, Nat Raha, Vera Rodriguez, Verity Spott and Claire Tolan. You can read more about the release on our website here: http://testcentre.org.uk/product/common-rest/
Cathy Butterworth – A Preview
The next Other Room takes place on December 7th 2016 at The Castle Hotel, Manchester and as always is free entry. It features Kerry Morrison, Wayne Clements & Cathy Butterworth. More at the EVENTS page.
Cathy Butterworth is an artist who makes work at the intersection of writing, performance and visual art. Her recent pamphlet Cimmerian was published by Dock Road Press. Performance actions, writing and visual art projects include: Sketches for Britain (Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, 2010), 22 Mondays (durational performance with Mark Greenwood, 2015), Everyone in Your Life is a Figment of Your Imagination (Delhi, 2015), Elective Affinities (Tate Liverpool 2016) and True Blue: 26 Lost Performances (2016). Her literary object, Fortunate, will be published by zimZalla in December 2016.
Crater Ardent Calendar
Crater 43: December 2016. Crater Ardent Calendar. 27 poets and artists across 25 windows! Fully articulated full colour A4 advent calendar, with work from: Luke Allan, Oliver Baggott, Sharon Borthwick, cris cheek, David Connearn, Amy De’Ath, Amy Evans, Alec Finlay, Harry Gilonis, Elizabeth Guthrie, Chris Gutkind, Jeff Hilson, Peter Hughes, Peter Jaeger, Frances Kruk, Colin and Yuna Lee Marshall, Dorothy Lehane, Aislinn Melville, nick-e melville, Montenegro Fisher, Jèssica Pujol i Duran, Tom Raworth, David Rees, Andrew Spragg and Steve Willey.
£5 including postage — UK only.
Alternate Gravities: Allen Fisher, Fran Lock, Vicky Sparrow
Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM
CPRC, Birkbeck
Please join us for a poetry reading featuring Allen Fisher, Fran Lock and Vicky Sparrow. This reading is hosted by the CPRC, including some of Birkbeck’s PhD students working on contemporary poetry
Allen Fisher is a poet, artist and publisher, and the editor of Spanner magazine. He lives in Hereford, and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Altogether Fisher has over 150 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. In 2015 his book of essays Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture and Reception , a companion to his work with essays by contemporaries and an Allen Fisher Reader were all published.
Fran Lock is writing her practice based Ph.D. on the relationship between the epistolary form in contemporary poetry and the use of letters in therapeutic contexts. She is the author of two poetry collections Flatrock (Little Episodes, 2011) and The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt, 2014). A third collect, Dogtooth, will be published by Out-Spoken Press in in February 2017.
Vicky Sparrow is writing her PhD on the poet-activist Anna Mendelssohn at the CPRC. Vicky’s poems can be found in datableed, Litmus, Kakania and Intercapillary Space and she’s currently finalising a chapbook to be published by Zarf Editions this Winter.
Bronaċ Ferran is first year PhD/MPhil at Birkbeck researching the work of poet, publisher and typographer Hansjörg Mayer. She’s writing a book about Mayer’s work in concrete poetry and other fields which will be published early next year by Walther König books. She also presents radio programmes on Resonancefm.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry: call for papers
In an attempt to redress and rethink boundaries between the historical UK avant-gardes and work produced by Black, Asian and ethnic minority poets, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry is seeking essays on race specifically in UK and Irish poetry. The aim of this special issue, edited by Sandeep Parmar, is to reconsider how poets of colour working across ‘avant-garde’, ‘performance’ and ‘mainstream’ traditions broaden the definition of innovation and the ‘possibilities of language’ in contemporary poetry and practice. More details, including the submission deadline, here.
Daydreaming in the City
Home, Manchester, Sun 27 Nov, from 13:30.
Featuring Other Room readers Emma Bennett and James Wilkes.
This micro-festival explores daydreaming and poetic states of mind, and features an eclectic programme of spoken word performance, talks, music, film and an immersive audio experience from In the Dark Radio. Presented by live poetry producer, Poet in the City in collaboration with Hubbub, a collective of social scientists, artists, researchers and mental health experts in residence at the Wellcome Trust. More here.
Double Change with Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand et Tonya Foster
double change, The Poetry Foundation,
la galerie éof, la bibliothèque anglophone d’Angers,
la Maison des écrivains et de la littérature d’Angers,
la Maison de la poésie de Nantes et les éditions joca seria
vous invitent
au festival ‘poésie : usa’
avec les poètes Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand et Tonya Foster
Mardi 6 décembre, 19h30, lectures & book launch, galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 PARIS, http://www.doublechange.org
Mercredi 7 décembre, 19h, lectures, Bibliothèque anglophone d’Angers, 60 rue Boisnet, 49100 ANGERS, www.ellia.org, http://www.m-e-l.fr/
Jeudi 8 décembre, 19h30, lectures et entretiens, Le Pannonica, 9 rue Basse-Porte, 44000 NANTES. Festival Midi Minuit Poésie http://www.midiminuitpoesie.com
À cette occasion les éditions joca seria publient :
De coin à corner de Tina Darragh,
Le jardin de M. de Marcella Durand et
La grammaire des os de Tonya Foster traduits par Olivier Brossard et Béatrice Trotignon.
Storm and Golden Sky
Friday 25th November 2016. 7.30 (entrance £5) The Caledonia, (in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter on the edge of Catharine Street and Caledonia Street: up the steep stairs at the back of the bar room).
Linda Stupart and Allen Fisher
Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and poetry since 1962. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced more than 140 chapbooks and books of poetry, graphic and art documentation. He currently edits Spanner, lives in Hereford, and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited paintings in many shows, including one-man shows in London, 2003, and Hereford, 2013.
PLACE was Allen Fisher’s now somewhat legendary poetic project of the 1970s. Originally published over several years as a series of interconnecting books, virtually all of them now unobtainable, it incorporated influences from Blake, Olson, Pope, Wordsworth, Robert Kelly, Walter Benjamin, Jung, Dickens, Foucault, Wilhelm Reich, Marxism, the Situationists, conceptual art and researches in mythology, linguistics, psychology, mathematics, immunology, topography, zoology and much else – and yet remains unclassifiable.
The poems in the sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape, composed in the period 1982-2006, were previously issued in many journals and small publications and then eventually in three succinct volumes. This collected edition brings all of the poems from the sequence together for the first time into one volume.
Linda Stupart: Artist/Writer/Educator
Virus, her debut Novella, published by ARCADIA_MISSA, is available to buy here & read an excerpt of it here
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Hito Steyerl in Hito Steyel in Parkett. Vol 97/Sex Acts in How to Sleep Faster #6, Arcadia Missa /Walking the Street: Slutwalk and the Street in Return to the Street. Edited by Sofie Fuggle and Tom Henri. Pavement Books. / Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects in You Must Make Your Death Public: selected writing on Chris Kraus. Edited by Mira Mater. Mute./ Things Like Us and Them in …ment Journal. /Rematerialising Feminismadia Missa Press. in Rematerialising Feminism. ARCADI_MISSA/ National Velvetin Eros: Woman Edition. Eros Press/ Untitled piece in Oh Wicked Flesh! Edited by Joseph Noonan-Ganley. South London Gallery./ Friday in Idioglossia: an Art Writing Glossary. Edited by Joseph Noonan-Ganley. Hato Press. Old Wounds, Fresh Meat: A Year in South African Art in Art Review, September 2012./ Entanglement: A Love Story Set at dOCUMENTA 13. Art South Africa, Vol 5: issue 3.
Publishers Fair at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
Independent Publishers Book Fair
Bank Street Arts
32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS
Saturday 26 November 2016
Book Fair: 11am – 5pm (admission free)
Image and Text as Exploration: 7pm (pay as you feel)
A one-day book fair at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts, bringing some of our most innovative artists and independent presses together under one roof. The fair will include handmade artists’ books, poetry, fiction, art writing, literary criticism, zines, and much more. A not-to-be-missed opportunity to see and buy some beautiful editions and meet the publishers and artists involved. Short descriptions of the participating publishers appear below; click here for longer descriptions and images.
Scroll down for details of Image and Text as Exploration, an evening performance (7pm start, 6.30pm doors) curated by Emma Bolland (Gordian Projects).
Publishers taking part in the book fair include:
And Other Stories (London, Sheffield, Wycombe)
And Other Stories publishes the best in contemporary writing, including many translations. @andothertweets
Bradical (Bradford)
Bradford based fanzine writing about Islamophobia / diaspora / Bradford. @bradicalbfd
Comma Press (Manchester)
Independent publisher of short fiction from the UK and beyond. @commapress
enjoy your homes (Sheffield)
enjoy your homes press is an independent publishing press and platform. @eyh_press
Gordian Projects (Sheffield / Glasgow / York)
Gordian Projects focuses on small editions that use art and language as a space for exploration. @GordianProjects
Joanne Lee / Pam Flett Press (Sheffield)
Artist, researcher, writer and publisher with a curiosity about everyday life and the ordinary places in which she lives and works. @generalistjo
Longbarrow Press (Sheffield)
Poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. @LongbarrowPress
Jean McEwan (West Yorkshire)
Jean McEwan makes zines both solo and in collaboration with others, curates contribution-based zines, teaches zine-making workshops, and organises self-publishing events and projects. @Jeanmcewan
Peepal Tree Press (Leeds)
Peepal Tree Press is home of the best in Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, literary criticism, memoirs and historical studies. @peepaltreepress
The Poetry Business (Sheffield)
The Poetry Business is a UK poetry publisher and writer development agency. @poetrybusiness
Tilted Axis Press (London / Sheffield)
Founded in 2015, Tilted Axis is a not-for-profit press publishing cutting-edge contemporary fiction translated from Asian languages. @TiltedAxisPress
West House Books (Sheffield)
Founded in 1995, West House Books has published fifty books and pamphlets, including major collections by Geraldine Monk, Karen Mac Cormack, Kelvin Corcoran and Bill Griffiths.
Evening performance:
Image and Text as Exploration
curated and introduced by Emma Bolland (Gordian Projects)
7pm (doors 6.30pm)
This event will feature talks and readings from five artists, academics, publishers and writers:
Leeds-based artist and writer Helen Clarke will be talking about and reading from her photo / text book that emerged from her drift walks in Berlin;
Artist-photographer Tom Rodgers is from York and will discuss his film-based photobooks of abstract landscapes;
Artist, publisher and academic Joanne Lee will talk about her Pam Flett Press and her urban exploration of Sheffield;
Poet and academic Chris Jones will be reading from his work-in-progress verse novel set against the background of the the 2007 Sheffield floods;
Sheffield-based writer and publisher Brian Lewis will be talking in his capacity as a writer who uses night walking and endurance walking, and reading from his pamphlet East Wind.
Sandeep Parmar on The Verb
Other Room reader Sandeep Parmar was on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb last Friday, talking about the new Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard, which she has edited. You can download or listen to the programme for another three weeks or so here.
Simon Perril at Edge Hill
A reminder about this event at Edge Hill on Wednesday 16th November, now with a flyer and more details.
Charles Bernstein video from The Other Room, October 2016
Susan Bee video from The Other Room, October 2016
Wayne Clements – A Preview
Maggie O’Sullivan video from The Other Room, October 2016
Eileen Tabios – The Opposite of Claustrophobia
Startling, not just for the method but for the lines of breathtaking beauty resulting from it. These poems are tender, wistful and humorous, an incantatory catalogue that is spiritually tethered to the body and the earth, where everything is vital and important, and incites wonder, melancholy, and gratitude.
— Eric Gamalinda
While Georges Perec famously gave us a work of literature that began “I remember…”, Eileen Tabios gives us a very human sounding algorithm that lists for us what “I” has forgotten. In the backgrounds of paintings like those of Lucas Cranach, Bosch, Durer, Da Vinci, are castles, ruins, caverns. Each one is an invitation, a window into which I’d like to peer. In just such a way each of the lines of Tabios’ new work is an invitation to seek within the sfumato for a miniature clarity—sometimes the blinding light of a furnace, sometimes an old movie set swarming with quotation marks, sometimes lines that, with their specificity, invite us to linger and to imagine the margins full of novels, short stories, memoirs of: “Marisa peeling the skin from a blue-boned fish…Luisa who squatted beside betel-chewing crones with crooked front teeth, and Marjorie who swallowed the scarless sky over Siquijor.” Some lines are mere rungs for the hands and feet of angels and these I recommend to you most of all.
— Jesse Glass
Out now on KFS.
Chaingrass – Catherine Vidler
Spiral bound book of iterative visual poetry, out now on zimZalla.
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