Recording from July 2016, Other Room
Line-up for Thursday
Unfortunately, David Kennedy won’t be able to make it to our next event on Thursday 23rd August. But we’ve still got three great performers: Joey Frances, Wanda O’Connor and James Wilkes, back at our usual haunt of The Castle Hotel , Oldham Street, Manchester. 7.00 start, free entry as always. Hope to see you there.
James Wilkes: a preview
The next Other Room is on Thursday 25th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, free entry. The readers are Joey Frances, David Kennedy, Wanda O’Connor and James Wilkes.
James Wilkes is a poet, writer and performance maker. His poems and prose have appeared recently in Gorse, Poetry Wales, Torque 2 andThe Wire; recent performances have included live work for ‘This is a Voice’ (Wellcome Collection, London) and ‘Where Were We – On Intimacy, Writing, Body’ (Godsbanen, Aarhus). He is Associate Director of Hubbub, an interdisciplinary group of artists and researchers investigating rest, noise, tumult, activity and work. Links: www.renscombepress.co.uk // twitter.com/wilkesjames
Exploding Human Language: Camilla Nelson
Sunday 21st August, 10:00–13:00. Unit 12 The Long Shop, Merton Abbey MIlls, London, SW19 2RD.
This workshop breaks down language-making into three components: sound, movement and mark-making. These components are used as prompts for an embodied encounter with a tree: how do we understand a tree through sound, movement and mark-making?
Not me and the landscape, but a kind of oneness (Maitland 2009)
This workshop offers a series of embodied and perceptually attentive interactions with a tree in order to discover how it is that marks, movements and sounds are made by and with a tree. Each participant will be encouraged to engage their full body and all of their senses in this exploration and to use these findings to devise a short language performance to share with the group (as you wish). The aim of the workshop is to use this creative exploration as a practical stimulus for discussion of what it might mean to make a language that emerges between organisms rather than viewing human language as something that emerges in isolation.
Duration: 3hrs
Participants: up to 10
Other requirements: Mobility is required either by wheels or on foot. We will be going out and about to Morden Hall Park and along the river Wandle, so wear comfortable footwear. Some experience of writing and/or performance would be beneficial – although all are welcome.
This workshop is Part 1 in a series of two workshop, Part 2 follows in the afternoon. They may be booked seperately or together. See Part 2 here:https://www.facebook.com/events/479604888910147/
Adults (16+) £16, Students £14
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About Camilla Nelson
Camilla Nelson is a poet, artist and researcher, currently based in Somerset. She successfully completed a PhD in Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising ‘Nature Writing’ as Enquiry, at Falmouth University. Her text work has been featured in Amy Cutler’s exhibition Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig (London, 2013) and Karen Pearson’s outdoor exhibition in Yarner Wood, Assemblage (Dartmoor, 2012). As well as appearing in several magazines and journals, her poems have been anthologised in The Apple Anthology (Nine Arches) and Dear World & Everyone In It (Bloodaxe)
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About Object Book
Object Book is an alternative book makery and book arts studio, in residency at Merton Abbey Mills, run by artist Chloe Spicer with support from The Wandle Studio Prize (UAL Wimbledon College of Art and Office Estates Ltd).
This workshop is one of many bookish workshops, screenings and events scheduled over 2016.
www.chloespicer.co.uk
Twitter: @Object_Book @ChloeSpicerArt
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Accessibility: Object Book is a ground floor wheelchair accessible studio (1 table space) with disabled parking spaces. Run by a dyspraxic artist, Object Book is committed to accessibility for the book, please contact book@objectbook.org to discuss any needs/adjustments.
Reading as Art
‘Reading as Art’ will be on public display from Saturday 27 August through to Saturday 19 November 2016. The works included in the exhibition find different means to foreground and to investigate the activity of reading: the forms it can take (silent reading, reading aloud, spontaneous reading, purposeful reading, and so on), the matter of reading (the book, the screen, the space of the page), the bodies that engage in it and the contexts in which it occurs. All of the works are concerned to make reading manifest in some way; in so doing, they each show – differently – how reading is its own form of making.
The image on the invitation is Fact by Craig Dworkin, 2016. The text records the relative molecular weights of the neurotransmitters activated when it is read.
Please save this date, Friday 7th October 2016 for the private view of the exhibition from 6-9pm with live performances from Jérémie Bennequin and Carol Sommer. Also, Kate Briggs’ Paper Size Poems will be performed…everyone is very welcome.
Wanda O’Connor: a preview
The next Other Room is on Thursday 25th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, free entry. The readers are Joey Frances, David Kennedy, Wanda O’Connor and James Wilkes.
Wanda O’Connor is a doctoral candidate at Cardiff University researching the intersections between critical theory and contemporary poetry. Recent writing is available in Asymptote, Datableed, Magma, Poetry Wales, Zarf, and “The Best Canadian Poetry 2014” (Tightrope Books). She co-organizes the Cardiff Poetry Experiment reading series and participates in collaborative projects, most recently with Enemies Gelynion. She is currently composing a film project and a libretto.
Links:
Asymptote: http://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/wanda-o-connor-omophagos/
Datableed: http://www.datableedzine.com/#!wandaoconnorfuguestate/ch41f
Poetry Wales: http://poetrywales.co.uk/wp/2953/poem-palatine-hill-by-wanda-oconnor/
Junction Box: http://glasfrynproject.org.uk/w/4041/wanda-oconnor-drawing-hour/
Sad Press Summer Bundle
** THE SAD PRESS SUMMER BUNDLE **
1. Karl M.V. Waugh, Obsessed by Proportions
2. Tom Jenks, An Anatomy of Melancholy
3. Anne-Laure Coxam, Toolbox Therapy
4. R.K., Killing the Cop in Your Head
5. Sally-Shakti Willow & Joe Evans, The Unfinished Dream
6. Eley Williams, Frit
2. Tom Jenks, An Anatomy of Melancholy
3. Anne-Laure Coxam, Toolbox Therapy
4. R.K., Killing the Cop in Your Head
5. Sally-Shakti Willow & Joe Evans, The Unfinished Dream
6. Eley Williams, Frit
Your friends are all telling you this is normal and fine and even a gesture of friendship but you’re not so sure. Anyway you may have them ALL for £30 (c.$1.07) including P&P at http://sadpress.wordpress.com, & they will be posted to you as they’re published between now and December.
PS: Review copies of individual titles available on request. Or we’ll do you the bundle for 0.07 BTC or 3 Echos (http://economyofhours.com/): get in touch & we’ll figure that out. We do also still have copies available of Jennifer Cooke’s Apocalypse Dreams (£5 incl. P&P, http://sadpress.wordpress.com), & back catalogue PDFs are available by donation (scroll down).
Free Verse list of active UK poetry presses
Poetry Tour of Nunhead Cemetery
Saturday 27 August, 2016, 2:15 PM. Free. Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove Entrance, London SE15 3LP
Who was known as the ‘Laureate of the Babies’? Who was sent off to tour the world by Charles Dickens? Who welcomed Garibaldi to her home in Peckham? Who introduced a magazine called ‘Fun’ to a Victorian readership? Find out on this free tour of Nunhead Cemetery, enjoying the beautiful surroundings and hearing more about why the Victorians moved their cemeteries to the suburbs. A perfect way to find out more about poetry and experience London’s heritage. Meet at 2.15pm at the Linden Grove entrance to the cemetery.
The tour is led by Tim Stevenson of the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery and Chris McCabe. More here.
South West Poetry Tour – films
The South West Poetry Tour was a groundbreaking collaborative poetry initiative bringing together over 70 poets connected to the region moving through Cornwall (St Ives & Falmouth), Devon (Dartington) and Somerset (Bruton & Bath) in August 2016. As well as core touring poets JR Carpenter, John Hall, Matti Spence, Annabel Banks, Camilla Nelson and SJ Fowler, the project featured many dozens of well-known poets of south westerly counties and an open call for participation. Films are now online here, including the above featuring Other Room readers Tony Lopez and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.
Mark Greenwood: Slips
The new zimZalla object is Slips by Mark Greenwood, conceptual betting slips in bookmaker’s boxes with a pen. More at the zimZalla site.
David Kennedy: a preview
The next Other Room is on Thursday 25th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, free entry. The readers are Joey Frances, David Kennedy, Wanda O’Connor and James Wilkes.
David Kennedy was born in Leicester in 1959 and has degrees from the universities of Warwick and Sheffield. He is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Hull and publishes widely on elegy, ekphrasis and experimental poetries. His books include Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010, co-authored with Christine Kennedy. His own poetry has appeared in three collections from Salt including The Devil’s Bookshop. His most recent collection is a book length sequence about the art of the French painter Paul Cezanne entitled The Apple and The Mountain (Shearsman 2015). More at David’s author page at Archive of the Now: http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=50
The Blue Bus – Keith Jebb, Phillip Rowland & Cathy Weedon
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading of poetry on Tuesday 16th August at 7.30 by Keith Jebb, Phillip Rowland and Cathy Weedon. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE the reading will still be in Lambs Conduit street but slightly further up at:
The Perseverance (pub)
63 Lamb’s Conduit St,
London
WC1N 3NB.
This is the 115th event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future readings in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.
Keith Jebb teaches Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire, he published ‘hide white space’ and ‘tonnes’, both from Kater Murr’s Press, and has been in numerous poetry magazines over the years, including Folded Sheets, Fire and Poetry Salzburg Review. He also co-edited New Poetry from Oxford, and is one of the organisers of The Blue Bus.
Born in south-west London in 1970, Philip Rowland is a long-time resident of Tokyo ‘Something Other Than Other’, (Isobar Press) is Philip Rowland’s most recent collection an excerpt can be found at: http://isobarpress.com/?page_id=1281.
Philip has published two previous collections and is the founding editor of NOON: journal of the short poem; he is also co-editor of the anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013).
Cathy Weedon was born in Stoke-on-Trent and moved to Luton in the 1970s. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire. Previously she has created thematic visual poetry. Her recent book is ‘1-50’ (Blart Books 2015). She has read at the Blue Bus and in 2015 she contributed to SJ Fowler’s Mahu exhibition at the Hardy Tree Gallery. In February 2016 she read at the Institute of English Studies as part of a symposium for Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK.
Otoliths 42
Out now, with new poetry and prose.
From the vaults – Paula Claire
April 2012
Joey Frances: a preview
The next Other Room is on Thursday 25th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, free entry. The readers are Joey Frances, David Kennedy, Wanda O’Connor and James Wilkes.
Joey Frances is based in Manchester. He is a member of Generic Greeting, a multi-disciplinary arts collective with whom he has collaborated on zines, posters, exhibitions and other events. He also co-organises the reading series Peter Barlow’s Cigarette. His poetry has appeared in Manchester Poets Declare A No Spy Zone, The Red Ceilings, e-ratio, The Curly Mind, Generic Greeting Zine #1 & #2, Sure Hope #1 (collab with Bryony Bates), Brewtopia by Generic Greeting for the Manchester Beer Festival, Brexit: Borders Kill (collab with Will Berry). His first full collection, a l’instar de, was published this year with Knives Fork and Spoons Press. He will shortly begin a PhD on contemporary innovative poetry and ideological resistance. Find him at bubblethesedatasets.tumblr.com // genericgreeting.co.uk // twitter @JoeyFrances
derek beaulieu: Ascender / Descender
40 visual poems. A6 format (10.5×15 cm / 4 ” x 6″) – 44 pages hardcover, thread and quarter cloth binding laser printing on ivory paper.
Out now on Redfox Press. More information here.
Juliana Spahr and Sean Bonney in Liverpool
09 August 2016, 6.30pm. Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB. Join radical poets Juliana Spahr and Sean Bonney, and new British poet Ruby Robinson for an evening of politically-charged poetry readings. Situated in the context of the contemporary avant-garde, Spahr and Bonney’s poetry undermines the political and cultural establishment, giving a fresh voice to the dispossessed. Also interested in dismantling and rebuilding, Robinson’s poetry engages with class issues, exploring the contemporary world in scrupulous detail, and offering up imaginative and emotionally-rich commentary on legacies of trauma. Free, booking required. More here.
New from Oystercatcher
The South West Poetry Tour
The South West Poetry Tour runs through Cornwall, Devon and Somerset from 1st-7th August 2016, curated by Camilla Nelson and SJ Fowler. Over the course of 5 evenings 70 established and emerging poets from across the southwest perform 50 new language works in 50 collaborative pairs. Beyond producing some wonderful, energised and innovative nights of collaborative poetry, the aim of the tour is to forge creative links between poets, artists, arts organisations and audiences locally and regionally. The 6 core touring poets are JR Carpenter, John Hall, Matti Spence, Annabel Banks, Camilla Nelson and SJ Fowler.
The first event is Mon 1st August – 7pm : Tate St Ives
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. Barnoon Hill, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1AD : Free with entry to the museum £6/£5 – limited places
Booking: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden/special-event/south-west-poetry-tour or +44 (0)1736 796 226
For full details and more information about the rest of the tour, visit http://www.theenemiesproject.com/southwest
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