2 August, 19:00–22:00, Iklektik, ‘Old Paradise Yard’, 20 Carlisle Lane ( Royal Street corner ) next to Archbishop’s Park, London, SE1 7LG. A London launch for the Out of Everywhere 2 anthology. Readings by Carol Watts, Elizabeth James, Frances Presley, Carrie Etter, Sophie Mayer, Sophie Robinson, Jennifer Cooke, Elizabeth Jane Burnett and Emily Critchley. This is a London launch for the book following the northern launch in Manchester, hosted by The Other Room in December 2015.
Hugh II, The Istictiv by Clive Fencott, ebook
Other Room performer Clive Fencott has a new ebook available from Argotist
“Hugh II, The Istictiv” is an epic, multi-voice poem in the form of the libretto to a text-sound opera. It is set in a Britain that could exist as another in the multiverse: there are many resemblances as well as dissemblances to the one we variously know. This is the first publication of a work that was performed in parts in the multi-verse of the early 1980s but never …
Available as a free ebook here:
http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/HUGH%20II%20THE%20ISTICTIV.pdf
Full Argotist Ebooks catalogue here:
Bill Griffiths Collected Poems reviewed by Billy Mills
When the Collected Poems Volume 3 (1992-96), the third volume in Reality Street’s vital edition of Griffith’s poetry over three decades, arrived in the post, it became evident that it would make no sense to review it in isolation. And so, what follows is a review of all three volumes, or rather a survey of Bill’s poetic career up to 1996. Griffiths is, in my view, a major poet, one of the towering figures of late 20th and early 21st century British poetry.
Read more HERE
MJ Weller: Three Piece Bathing Suit
Three Piece Bathing Suit – MJ Weller’s blarting visual performance score & close reading of both pop & complex textual poetries & playful sounding in feminized streams of constant warm ellipsis – fide et fiducia … Out now on Blart Books.
Amodern 6: Reading the Illegible guest edited by Nick Thurston
Announcing the launch of Amodern 6: Reading the Illegible
An issue guest-edited by Nick Thurston
Amodern 6: Reading the Illegible
Nick Thurston
“Anthology of the Illegible: Poésie de Mots Inconnus, 1949, Paris,
Edités par Le Degré 41”
Johanna Drucker
“Reading the Signs: Translations: Multilingualism, and the New Regimes
of Attention.”
Michael Cronin
“On Trying: André Hodeir and the Music Essay”
John Mowitt
“Dredging the Illegible: Photogram, Phoneme, Ph…ontology”
Garrett Stewart
“Style in Quotation Marks”
Diana Hamilton
“Story the Story in It”
Kate Briggs
“Glitched in Translation: Reading Text and Code as a Play of Spaces”
Matt Applegate
“Reading the Redacted”
Stephen Voyce
“Approaching the Contemporary: On (Post-)Conceptual Writing”
Luke Skrewbowski
Currents:
“Thinking with Zoe: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti”
Heather Davis and Rosi Braidotti
Philip Terry – Quennets
Other Room reader Philip Terry has a new book out now from Carcanet HERE
In Quennets Philip Terry develops a sonnet-like form invented by the Oulipian poet Raymond Queneau. Across three sequences, the ‘quennet’ is reworked and refigured in response to three perimiter landscapes. The first sequence, ‘Elementary Estuaries’, is inspired by a series of walks along the Essex estuary, the poems’ appearance on the page suggesting the landscape’s expansive esturine vistas, its pink sail lofts and windswept gorse, beach huts and distant steeples. In the second sequence, written after a series of walks around the Berlin Wall Trail, or Mauerweg, the form changes to reflect the physical, almost bodily tension of the wall as an architectural and social obstruction. The final sequence, ‘Waterlog’, retraces the steps of W. G. Sebald through Suffolk, and here the quennet’s newely elongated shape and ragged margin evoke the region’s eroding coastline, its deserted piers and power stations, electric fences and waterlogged fields. Terry’s project is bold in scope, his poems subtle in effect, a mix of sign and song, concerete and lyric, Oulipo and psychogeography. It is a work about boundaries, political, social, and natural, and about the walk as a critical apparatus through which these fields are shown to connect.
A note on Reality Street from Ken Edwards
The two presses recognised a common interest in publishing the poetry of what I once termed the “parallel tradition”: its various formations in the UK being the British Poetry Revival (Eric Mottram’s term), the Cambridge diaspora, and what has sometimes been called “linguistically innovative” poetry – all overlapping categories. There was also a common interest in post-New American Poetry, Language Writing and related North American fields, as well as adventurous poetry in other English-speaking regions and from other languages and cultures.
Read more HERE
From the vaults – Chrissy Williams
April 2013
The Other Room – Tonight
Blackbox Manifold Issue 16
Matthew Carbery; Imogen Cassels; Adam Hampton; Lewis Haubus; Tom Jenks; Kent MacCarter; Amy McCauley; James Midgley; Peter Mishler; Simon Perchik; Stuart Pickford; Sam Riviere; Iain Rowley; Ian Seed; Afshan Shafi; Rachel Sills; Dale Smith; David Spittle; Catherine Vidler; Corey Wakeling; John Welch. Online now.
Galatea Resurrects
New issue of the online reviews magazine out now, including Steve McCaffery’s Parsival.
Gramophone Ray Gun
At the Everyman Playhouse, Liverpool.
Iain Morrison – A Preview
Iain has a frequently collaborative practice as a writer and performer, working within live literature and live art contexts. Projects have included sung staging of texts by women Beat Generation writers, a lecture presentation and performance with classical musicians for New Media Scotland’s Syndicate series, and Subject Index a durational installation of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson developed in residency at Forest Centre+ and toured to Berlin’s SOUNDOUT! New Ways of Presenting Literature Festival in May 2014. Publishing includes poem-responses to fin de siècle Vienna included in the Kakania anthology (2015), published by Austrian Cultural Forum London and edited by S.J. Fowler and work in serial publications such as HOAX, Soanyway and Scree Magazine. In his role as Enterprise Manager at The Fruitmarket Gallery, he works within a commercial framework to grow new audiences and bring them into dialogue with the Gallery’s exhibitions programme through events and other activity.
Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.
Robert Sheppard – Avant Garters
zimZalla object 035: Avant Garters by Robert Sheppard. Poetic hosiery wrapped in gold paper and sealed with wax.
See the zimZalla site for more details.
Martin Palmer recording from June 2016 The Other Room
Sarah Kelly video from June 2016
Sarah Kelly at our last reading in June
Black Market Re-View
Black Market Re-view is edited by Creative Writing Undergraduate and postgraduate students at Edge Hill University, but welcomes poetry, short stories, flash fiction, art and photography from anywhere. Submissions for issue 10 now open.
House of Mouse by Prudence Chamberlain & SJ Fowler
Discursive, playful, obscene and satirical, The House of Mouse is a collection of ten poetic collaborations written by British poets SJ Fowler and Prudence Chamberlain – each responding to a famed cartoon, each uncovering the bizarre overt and covert symbols and signs of these pervasive animations.
Dotted with original illustrations by contemporary artists like Lizzy Stewart and Duncan Marchbank, this unique collaborative collection aims to show that maybe the only thing stranger than corporate cartoon animals is avant-garde poetry.
To be launched as part of The Poetry School Camarade on July 17th 2016 at Rich Mix and The CapLet 1st year anniversary reading on August 10th at St Margaret’s House, both near Bethnal Green.
Out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
The Start of Sentences
James Davies’ experiences of reading Robert Grenier’s Sentences in Bury’s Text Art Archive:
I don’t want to go into individual poems so much here as to explain the joy of reading Sentences as archived material, in the archive, and the processes of reading the poems in accordance with the way Sentences is catalogued. The copy of Sentences at Bury, “The Bury Sentences” as I now call it, is a like a “bootleg” record — just as cool as the original but with minor differences to interest the aficionado. I’ll explain why.
LINK for more.
From the vaults – Nick Thurston
December 2008
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