The southern spring 2016 issue of Otoliths is now live, featuring work in a variety of styles & a variety of media from Jesse Glass, El Habib Louai, Scott MacLeod, Maria Damon & Alan Sondheim, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cecelia Chapman, Pete Spence, Kyle Hemmings, Heath Brougher, Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Nicole Pottier, John J. Trause, Sanjeev Sethi, Ian Ganassi, Jim Leftwich, Willie Smith, Philip Byron Oakes, Mary Claire Garcia, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, AG Davis, Peter Ganick, differx (Marco Giovenale), Jim Meirose, Mark Roberts, Olivier Schopfer, William Repass, Texas Fontanella, Michael Gottlieb, John W. Sexton, Edward A. Dougherty, Eric Hoffman, hiromi suzuki, Simon Perchik, John M. Bennett, Ivan Argüelles, Scott Helmes, John Xero, Pat Nolan, Andrew Topel, Daniel John Pilkington, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Raymond Farr, Lakey Comess, Bill Dunlap, Christopher Barnes, Robert Okaji, Jeff Bagato, Nico Vassilakis, Mitchell Garrard, Keith Higginbotham, Fabrice Poussin, Richard Kostelanetz, Sabine Miller, Meeah Williams, sean burn, Louise Landes Levi, Brendan Slater, Oscar Towe, Tom Beckett, Mark McKain, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Jorge Lucio de Campos, Eileen R. Tabios, Andrea Mason, Joe Balaz, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Jacqueline M. Pérez, Owen Bullock, Roger Mitchell, Steve Dalachinsky, Jeff Harrison, Aurélien Leif, Holly Day, Stephen Vincent, Carol Stetser, nick nelson, Seth Howard, Taylor Leigh Ciambra, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Hamish Spark, Márton Koppány, Alicia Cole, Cara Murray, bruno neiva, Jack Kelly, Mark Cunningham, Massimo Stirneri, Matt Dennison, Olchar E. Lindsann, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Darren Marsh, Nika & Jim McKinniss, Natsuko Hirata, Tony Beyer, Edward Kulemin, John Pursch, Irene Koronas, Darren C. Demaree, nick-e melville, Josette Torres, Shloka Shankar, Piotr Kalisz, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Bob Heman, Garima Behal, Paul T. Lambert, J. D. Nelson, Michael Brandonisio, Eddie Donoghue, Katrinka Moore, Indigo Perry, & Marilyn Stablein
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
Open Forest at Jerwood Visual Arts
November 2nd to December 11th at Jerwood Visual Arts, London.
171 Union Street. Bankside. SE1 0LN.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm / Saturday & Sunday 10am – 3pm
This group exhibition brings together work by the five artists selected for the R&D stage of Jerwood Open Forest in 2016: Rebecca Beinart, Magz Hall, Keith Harrison, David Rickard and David Turley. It includes a newly commissioned text by SJ Fowler responding to, and collaborating with, David Rickard, part of a wider work entitled Returnings.
The Diagram – Erasure issue
Interesting issue of Diagram webzine on Erasure is HERE
From the vaults – Leanne Bridgewater
July 2014
SJ Fowler – new performances
The always-busy Steven Fowler has some interesting events coming up in all sorts of places. Full details here, in summary below:
Airwaves Festival / Reykjavik, Iceland
November 3rd: A new performance and reading for the Icelandic music and arts festival. http://icelandairwaves.is/line-up/
Dhaka Lit Fest / Bangladesh
November 17th to 19th: Readings and workshops for the increasingly important festival of literature and ideas, keeping free thought and discourse at the heart of Bangladeshi letters.www.dhakalitfest.com
10tal Stockholm Poetry Festival / Sweden
November 22nd: A new collaboration in poetry and performance with Aase Berg, for Fiender: The Enemies Project in Sweden at 10tal’s festival in the Swedish capital in its 20th year. www.10tal.se/?p=7662
Pyramid Editions launch / London, England
November 28th 7pm : The Archivist – Unit V Reliance Wharf, N1 5ET London
The official launch of my limited edition publication, Tractography, exploring language and neuroscience, with Pyramid Editions, alongside Alison Graham, Andrew Wells et al. www.facebook.com/events/1552891971668381
Times Lit Fest / Mumbai, India
December 2nd to 4th: Readings and discussions at India’s biggest literary festival. Events live streamed at www.timeslitfest.com
Hay Festival Arequipa / Peru
December 8th to 11th: Two new performances and a reading, including a new work responding to the poetry of Cesar Vallejo. www.hayfestival.org/arequipa
Chris McCabe – Cemetery South
The second instalment in Chris McCabe’s ambitious project to plot the dead poets of the Magnificent Seven – London’s great Victorian cemeteries. Out now on Penned in the Margins with a launch event at Nunhead Cemetery on Sunday 30th October.
Kerry Morrison – 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.
Kerry Morrison – Kerry is an experienced environment artist and ecologist. She has worked throughout the UK, including commissions for Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, and Grizedale Forest. Kerry has also worked in forests in Japan and Korea, parks, wilderness and farms in Germany, neighbourhoods in America, and urban streets in Finland. Her work is often performative and since 2006 she has endeavoured to create art without creating demands on natural resources.
Here is an example of her work, ‘Bird Sheet Music’ as featured on the BBC and at The Tate Gallery
Andrew Taylor book launches
Thursday, 27th October, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm.
Five Leaves Bookshop, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2DH.
Andrew will be reading from his new Oystercatcher pamphlet Air Vault and also his new zimZalla publication The Liverpool Warehousing Co. Ltd.
From the vaults – Mike Chavez-Dawson
October 2013
Storm and Golden Sky
7.30 (entrance £5)
At The Caledonia
(in the Georgian Quarter on the edge of Catharine Street and Caledonia Street: up the steep stairs at the back of the bar room)
Andrea Brady and Yvonne Riddick on 28th October
Andrea Brady was born in Philadelphia in 1974, and has lived in the UK since 1996. She is the director of the Archive of the Now (archiveofthenow.org), and co-publisher of Barque Press. Her publications include Vacation of a Lifetime (Salt, 2001), Embrace(Object Permanence, 2005), and the hypertext verse essay Wildfire (dispatx.com, 2006). Recent work The Strong Room (London: Crater Press, 2016, 66pp) was preceded by Cut from The Rushes (Hastings: Reality Street, 2013, 134pp). Mutabililty: Scripts for Infancy (London, New York and Calcutta: Seagull Books) was published in 2012. She has performed throughout the UK, Europe and US. Widely published in small magazines, Andrea teaches Renaissance and contemporary literature at Queen Mary, where she is Professor of Poetry. She lives in London.
Yvonne Reddick is a poet and academic researcher. She was a Wordsworth Trust mentee in 2014 and won a Northern Writer’s Award in 2016. She has published poetry pamphlets with Seapressed and with Knives, Forks and Spoons Press. Her collaborative art and poetry exhibition Deerhart has toured to galleries in Cambridge and Preston, and will travel to Edinburgh in late 2017.
Words on the Move
Words on the Move: A Day of Talks and Performances across Languages, a collaboration between the Stories in Transit project, the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) at Birkbeck and www.watadd.com.
1 November, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square (1-7pm)
Book your place for free via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-on-the-move-tickets-28695709640
Animating Questions
1. Can culture, and specifically storytelling (in any form) provide shelter for people who have lost their homes? Can a tale become a home? Can a poem? Can a memory of literature and the process of making it over and over again build ‘a country of words’ (Mahmoud Darwish)? Can narratives build a place of belonging for those without a nation?
2. How do experiences of conflict and forced migration place pressure on narrative form? How might artists and writers respond or register these pressures in their creative work? What are the possibilities for creative collaboration in this context?
3. What methods and processes can be developed together to allow the unfolding and generation of stories? What role can imaginary narrative and non-narrative form play in contemporary conditions? In what ways can the ancient human capacity to tell and pass on stories help in the present crisis?
4. What are the best uses of contemporary media for supporting exchanges of stories across borders and to ease and/or explore communications between languages and cultures? How might we talk about and make texts that work across multiple languages (including non-verbal languages such as dance, music and visual art)?
Programme
1pm — Professor Marina Warner (Birkbeck) Introductory Remarks
1:15pm — Dr Steve Willey (Birkbeck) ‘Multi-Lingual Workshops’
1:30pm — Keynote Address, Dr Caroline Bergvall ‘Methods of Engagement’
2:30pm — Dr Camilla Nelson, (Schumacher College) ‘Performative Reflections on “Reading Movement” in Palestine’
4pm — Paula Claire, ‘Yet More War…and Peace’ (performance inviting creative response)
5pm — Dr Atef Alshaer, (University of Westminster) ‘Individual and Collective Voices in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish’
5:30pm — Fuensanta Zamrana Ruiz ’The Language of Violins: Teaching at the Baremboim-Said Foundation’
6pm — Roundtable, Chair: Professor Matthew Reynolds (St Anne’s College, Oxford University)
Organisers
Professor Marina Warner, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Professorial Research Fellow, SOAS, 2014-2017
Dr Steve Willey, Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
Gareth Twose: Sven Types of Terrorism
Out now on KFS.
Richard Barrett: Love Life!
Out now on Stranger Press.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette – Calton, Maurer-Alvarez, Horrex, McDonnell
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #20 – ft. Stuart Calton, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Katherine Horrex, Fokkina McDonnell
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An afternoon of alternative poetries
12th November
4.30 – 6.30 Waterstones Deansgate
Free entry
Refreshments provided
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STUART CALTON ~
Having undergone a difficult breast-feeding experience as an infant, Stuart Calton grew up to write poetry with an obsessively devouring oral character. He’s written a load of it, most recently “Blepharospasms” (Drentpaper, Manchester, 2016) and “Live At Late Dilated Ileum” (Drentpaper, Manchester, 2015). His new one “Wimpy & Andre” is forthcoming later this year. He is also the musician THF Drenching. “A totally unacceptable gridlock of teeth and intestines.. A monstrous warp.. A singular examination of dream and its bedrock of extra-terrestrial punctuation.. wildly improvisatory and fantastic” (Keston Sutherland)
PANSY MAURER-ALVAREZ ~
was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and emigrated to Switzerland in 1973. She began writing poetry as a teenager and completed 11 years of literary studies at universities in the US, Spain and Switzerland, where she worked for a short time as a teacher and translator. Upon moving to Paris in 1991, she abandoned plans for furthering her academic career in order to devote herself to poetry full time. Her poems appear regularly in publications throughout Europe and the US, and she has work in anthologies including: Ladies, Start Your Engines; Final de Entrega; and Visiting Dr. Williams. Her poems have been translated into French, German and Spanish. She is a contributing editor for Tears in the Fence, and curates the Poets Live reading series in Paris.
KATHERINE HORREX~
has recently completed her MA at the Centre for New Writing in Manchester. Her poems have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, Morning Star, Poetry Salzburg Review and are due in PN Review. She has worked as a warehouse assistant, a data processor and proof reader but currently works as a potter. Her songs have been played on 6music and XFM and the album she wrote and recorded is available at www.stickpin.bandcamp.com
Electric Arc Furnace
Electric Arc Furnace #1, with Linus Slug: Insect Librarian & Vicky Sparrow.
A new poetry reading series, in the centre of Sheffield, between the seven hills. Innovative poetries from the South Yorks hinterlands & further-flung.
Linus Slug (aka Mendoza) is a Northumbrian poet and researcher investigating identity through poetic practice. Work references Northumbrian history, North-Eastern dialect as well as insect folklore and mythology. Poems have been published in the anthology Dear World and Everyone In It, as well as Angel Exhaust and Viersome #0. The chapbook ‘Type Specimen: An Observant Guide to Linus Slug’ is currently available via Contraband Press.
Vicky Sparrow is working on a PhD about Anna Mendelssohn at Birkbeck College, University of London. Vicky’s poems can be found in datableed, Litmus and Kakania, and she’s currently finalising a chapbook to be published by Zarf Editions this Winter.
Readings take place at La Biblioteka, a ‘nimble, nomadic’ book & zine store founded in 2015, in Sheffield City Centre. BYOB. Doors 7pm. £4 waged / £3 unwaged / pay what you can.
Louis Armand & Richard Makin LIVE in London
Equus Press proudly presents, for one show only, LOUIS ARMAND & RICHARD MAKIN Live at Conway Hall, London. Join us at this year’s the Small Publishers Fair on Red Lion Sq for the (2nd edition) launch of Louis Armand’s Not-the-Booker Prize shortlisted novel, THE COMBINATIONS, & Richard Makin’s MOURNING. Readings, book signings & refreshments. Equus, in partnership with Litteraria Pragensia Books, will be manning a stall throughout the fair, throughout Friday 4th & Saturday 5th November, with a wide range of exciting new titles and selections from our backlist. Check out our catalogue at www.equuspress.com &www.litterariapragensia.com Free event! Everyone welcome.
Louis ARMAND will be reading from his recent Prague magnum opus, THE COMBINATIONS, praised by Richard Marshall as “an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience” and as “a ‘great novel’ — long and complex […] exemplifying remarkably the possibilities of the genre and contradicts the contemporary obsession with its decline and commodification” by Jean Bessiere. https://equuspress.wordpress.com/the-combinations/
Richard MAKIN will read from MOURNING, the final part of his trilogy (begun with WORK & DWELLING), described by David Caddy as “an extraordinary and distinct achievement. It is a demanding and enriching read characterized by highly wrought sentences, which cover a range of discourses and fictional events.” In the words of Iain Sinclair, “The writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” https://equuspress.wordpress.com/mourning/
Readings & authors introduced by David VICHNAR.
All welcome!
Saturday, November 5 at 4:30 PM – 5 PM
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL London, United Kingdom
Allen Fisher : Anthony Mellors : Nancy Miller at Xing the Line
Friday, October 21 at 7:30 PM at Iklektic Studios, Waterloo, London
Phonica: Four
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Jack Nealons, 165 Capel Street, Dublin 1
8pm start
admission free
The fourth edition of Phonica takes place on Wednesday 19 October, and we’re excited to be joined by Martín Bakero, Susan Connolly, John Kearns, Neil Ó Lochlainn, Elizabeth Hilliard and David Lacey for a set of performances and presentations traversing the realms of sound poetry, electronic music, visual poetry, improvisation, and more.
Theatre/Poetry – Lisa Jeschke/Lucy Beynon, Linda Kemp, Gloria Dawson, others
The Brunswick
82 North Street, LS2 7PN Leeds
Friday, October 21 at 7 PM – 10 PM
Not very invested in either theatre or poetry, we are doing these things.
– Gloria Dawson says poems, recent
– Linda Kemp, does the same, or not the same (poetry)
– Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon perform THE TRAGEDY OF THERESA MAY
– Plus OTHERS to be confirmed
No tables will be harmed in the making of this event.
Cost: No cost
Time: 7 for 7.30, we start at 7.30
Access: Please note that the performance room is up a narrowish flight of stairs and therefore of limited access for people with certain mobility needs [This wasn’t the first choice of venue, which is far more accessible in this regard] There will also be amplification and some shouting.
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INFO/ LINKS
https://soundcloud.com/user-189188267/untitled-4-parts-7th-october-2016
https://eyhpress.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPmTY8YzFfo
http://lisajeschkelucybeynon.blogspot.co.uk/
http://theclaudiusapp.com/6-beynon-jeschke.html
otherroom.org 