Leg Avant: The New Poetry of Cricket
A treasure trove of new radical poetry about cricket and a series of specially commissioned illustrations. Perfect for cricket fans, all avantists and those who’ve longed to know the results of such unlikely comminglings. Contributors include: Tim Atkins; Oliver Baggott; Nia Davies; Ken Edwards; Gregorio Fontaine; Laura Foster Twigg; Chris Hall; John Hall; Alan Halsey; Ben Hickman; Jeff Hilson; Peter Hughes; Peter Jaeger; Antony John; Sarah Kelly; Tony Lopez; Chiaki Matsubayashi; Michaela Meise; Geraldine Monk; Montenegro Fisher; Jèssica Pujol; Andrew Spragg; Ed Suckling; Scott Thurston; Rhys Trimble; Carol Watts; Nick Whittock and Josephine Wood. Out now on Crater Press.
English PEN Modern Literature Festival
Rich Mix Venue One: April 2nd 2016 – 2pm / 3.30pm / 7.30pm
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Free entry but signing up for membership appreciated.
http://www.theenemiesproject.com/englishpen
A privilege to announce a major new project – 30 contemporary writers present new works, each celebrating a writer from around the world who is currently part of the English PEN Writer’s at Risk programme.
Each of the 30 English writers will present brand new poetry, text, reportage, performance and film on the day that celebrates and evidences the struggle of fellow writers around the world, in solidarity. The full line up of authors is below.
The one day mini-festival takes place at Rich Mix Arts Centre, just off Brick Lane, London, 2pm til 9.30pm, in 3 sessions throughout the day. All are free to attend but attendees are encouraged to join English PEN or donate to the charity if they are already members.
2pm to 3.30pm
Harry Man on Maung Saung Kha
David Berridge on Dawit Isaak
Kirsten Irving on Nurmuhemmet Yasin
Jen Calleja on Gao Yu
SJ Fowler on Khadija Ismayilova
Dave Spittle on Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury
Prudence Chamberlain on Patiwat Saraiyaem and Pornthip Munkhong
Robert Hampson on Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Adam Baron on Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
4pm to 5.30pm
Eley Williams on Tsering Woeser
Sam Winston on Zunar
Lucy Harvest Clarke on Liu Xia
Stephen Emmerson on Dina Meza
Alex MacDonald on Alaa Abd El Fattah
Drew Milne on Omar Hazek
Oli Hazzard on Enoh Meyomesse
Sarah Kelly on Nelson Aguilera
Caleb Klaces on Jorge Olivera Castillo
7.30pm to 9.30pm
Caroline Bergvall on Sanjuana Martínez Montemayor
Emily Critchley on Mahvash Sabet
Andrew McMillan on Ashraf Fayadh
Andra Simons on Amanuel Asrat
Allen Fisher on Mamadali Makhmudov
Nathan Walker on Mohammed al-‘Ajami
Michael Zand on U Zeya
Mark Waldron on Zhu Yufu
Mark Ravenhill on Mazen Darwish and Yara Bader
Emily Berry on Raif Badawi
Tom McCarthy on Liu Xiaobo
The festival is intended as a call to membership for writers, artists and readers in a time where we face perilous challenges to our freedom of expression and fundamental rights and hard fought liberties, both internationally and here in the UK. As the world changes so remarkably, and so rapidly, and on a global scale, it is vital the political will of our time and this generation of young, dynamic writers is directed purposefully to the work of English PEN, the writer’s charity. The hope is this festival, away from creating at least 30 new members of PEN, begins involvements and connections which will have exponential resonance for decades to come.
Karawa.net: poetry in translation
Issue 8 of Karawa.net features German translations of Other Room readers Sean Bonney, Allen Fisher and SJ Fowler, plus others. More at the Karawa.net site.
Country Music issue 8
New Collaborative Poems by Alexis Pope and Joshua Young; Prudence Chamberlain and SJ Fowler; Travis Macdonald (in collaboration with various texts); Atlanta Poets Group; Raylyn Clacher and Laura Madeline Wiseman; Lucy Harvest Clarke and Stephen Emmerson. More here.
The Essex Camarade
At the Essex Book Festival – March Sunday 20th 2016, First Site Gallery – 1pm to 3.30pm – Free Entrance
The Essex Camarade will see a series of brand new collaborations written by poets in pairs, from the Essex area or attending the festival especially, featuring:
Anna Townley & Lawrence Bradby
Simon Everett & Ben Shillito
Matthew Sheppard & James Tague
Justin Hopper & Lucy Greeves
SJ Fowler & David Berridge
Mark Waldron & Rebecca Perry
Carole Webster & Emma Kittle Pey
Vicki Weitz & Isabella Martin
Tim Atkins & Jeff Hilson
James Davies & Philip Terry
As part of the Camarade, SJ Fowler & David Berridge will also be launching their collaborative poetry collection 40 Feet, published by Knives Forks and Spoons press. More here.
Kakania
March 31st 2016: Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
The Event: 7pm – Free Entry www.theenemiesproject.com/kakania2016
The Symposium: 2pm – Free Entry www.theenemiesproject.com/kakaniasymposium
both take place at 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ www.acflondon.org
The Kakania project returns to the Austrian Cultural Forum for a night of brand new performances, each from a contemporary artist or writer responding to a figure of Habsburg Era Vienna. The great, groundbreaking personas of 100 years past are made new, without nostalgia, but with faithful invention and intensity. Visit www.kakania.co.uk for more information on the project.
Featuring Harry Man on Erwin Schrodinger ~ Daniela Cascella on Hugo von Hofmannstahl ~ Steve Beresford on Arnold Schoenberg ~ Thomas Havlik on Walter Serner ~ SJ Fowler on Robert Musil ~ Declan Ryan on Egon Schiele
The Kakania Symposium
March 31st at ACF London: 2pm, 3pm, 4pm in 3 sessions
Preceding the evening’s performances there will be a symposium on Habsburg Vienna, through the kaleidoscope of Kakania’s inventive approach, led and curated by Dr.Diane Silverthorne, a leading voice in Habsburg Viennese studies. The Symposium will feature informal and academic talks about the era, interspersed with poetry and text art readings from poets and writers involved in the first year of the Kakania project, who will also give context to their process. The Symposium will also see a screening of the acclaimed film Altenberg: The Little Pocket Mirror. The schedule is thus:
2pm: A talk by Dr. Diane Silverthorne on expressionist landscapes in music and art and a talk by Dr. Leslie Topp, on madness, architecture and Vienna.
3pm: A talk by Jamie Ruers on Cabaret Fledermaus followed by readings and discussions by Eley Williams on Broncia Koller-Pinel, Vicky Sparrow on Margarethe Wittgenstein, Stephen Emmerson on his multi-part performance art response on Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcus Slease on Max Kurzweil and a screening of Joshua Alexander’s experimental film on Paul Wittgenstein, commissioned for Kakania
4pm: A screening of ALTENBERG: The Little Pocket Mirror A documentary by David Bickerstaff and Gemma Blackshaw | 54 min
Available on the day will be the two publications emerging from Kakania – The Kakania Anthology and Oberwilding: on the life of Oskar Kokoschka by SJ Fowler & Colin Herd.
ZARF Poetry
ZARF is a journal of new experimental poetry based in Cardiff, Wales. The latest issue is #2, featuring poems from Tom Betteridge, Rhys Trimble, Rhoda Rosenfeld, Konstantinos Mahoney, Kat Addis, John M. Bennett, J.J. Regan, Janet Kaplan, Emily Brown McKay, Emilia Weber, Drew Milne, David Greenslade, and Andrew Spragg, plus reviews of Jennifer Cooke’s Apocalypse Dreams, Ella O’Keefe’s Rhinestone, and Jerome Rothenberg’s 15 Antiphonals for Haroldo, and a cover by guest designer Mike Basinski. More here.
Servant Drone: 2 launches
Alice Lyons, Veer book launches
The newest Veer book, Alice Lyons‘ The Breadbasket of Europe will be launched at Surrey on Tuesday 15th March, and in Birkbeck at the CPRC on Wednesday 16th March 2016, with readings by Alice.
Surrey
Tuesday, 15th March, 7-8pm, Room TB20B (in the Teaching Block)), University of Surrey, Guildford
Birkbeck, University of London
Her poems have appeared in publications such as Tygodnik Powszcheny (Kraków) and Poetry (Chicago), as poetry films, public artworks and in gallery contexts. She likes to work across artistic disciplines and with filmmakers, visual artists and other creative thinkers/makers. Two books have been published, Staircase Poems (The Dock, 2006) and speck: poems 2002-2006 (Lapwing, 2015). Her latest collection of poems The Breadbasket of Europe is published by Veer Books, London.
Among the honours she has received are the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) nomination for ‘The Polish Language.
In 2015-16, she is a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.’
Room B18, Malet Street building
7:30-9pm
free entry, all welcome
7:30-9pm
free entry, all welcome
About Alice Lyons:
‘The couple of visits she made to Ireland as a girl and a college student shook her up (in a good way): the first poems she wrote of any significance to her were written after a college term spent in Dublin. In 1996, she had the chance to return to Ireland for an artistic residency, which was a turning point. She decided to move to Roscommon in 1998 and lived in the village of Cootehall for nearly fifteen years. She now lives in Sligo.
Her poems have appeared in publications such as Tygodnik Powszcheny (Kraków) and Poetry (Chicago), as poetry films, public artworks and in gallery contexts. She likes to work across artistic disciplines and with filmmakers, visual artists and other creative thinkers/makers. Two books have been published, Staircase Poems (The Dock, 2006) and speck: poems 2002-2006 (Lapwing, 2015). Her latest collection of poems The Breadbasket of Europe is published by Veer Books, London.
Among the honours she has received are the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) nomination for ‘The Polish Language.
In 2015-16, she is a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.’
Datableed issue 3
Out and featuring Ágnes Lehóczky, Allen Fisher, CAConrad, Camilla Nelson, Christina Chalmers, D.I., Dolly Turing, Drew Milne, Gizem Okulu, Jennifer Cooke & andrew spragg, Jonty Tiplady, Karen Veitch, Lotto Thiessen, Luke McMullan, Mira Mattar, Nat Raha, Nia Davies, Oana Avasilichioaei, Ollie Evans, Peter Manson, Rhys Trimble, Sam Langer, Sarah Hayden, Saul Williams & Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn, Scott Thurston, Verity Spott.
Luke Allan – Minimum Soft Exchange
The University Camarade
Saturday 23rd April , 7.30pm: Venue Two, Rich Mix Arts Centre, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA.
In a unique collaborative poetry event, the University Camarade will present over 10 new collaborative works, premiered on the night, written by pairs of young poets, all of whom are undertaking study in Creative Writing departments at five different UK Universities.
University of Kingston, Glasgow, Edge Hill, York St John and East Anglia will come together, each represented by 4 students. With participants made up purely of the student body and not staff, the collaborations will take place across institutions. The University Camarade aims to bring together the future poets and writers in the UK and show cross institution collaboration as a valuable way of building a community of writers.
For more information, including a list of participants, see here.
Junction Box 8
Issue 8 of the online essay magazine is out now, featuring Camilla Nelson, Tom Jenks, Kathy Groan, Wanda O’Connor, Ian Davidson, Calum Gardner, Suze de Lee, Jo Delyse Packwood, Chris Torrance, Rebecca Chesney and Leon Burnett.
Yellow Lines Drawn on Sheets of A4 Paper and then Placed in a Box – Episode 2
Second video in the series from James Davies, Other Room co-organiser –
Will Montgomery recording from The Other Room (February 2016)
Don’t forget that all other videos from this event and others are available in the middle column.
Cardiff Poetry Experiment, March 10th 2016
Please join us in Cardiff at the Waterloo Teahouse in the beautiful Edwardian Wyndham Arcade
on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7pm (readings promptly at 7:30)
for the innovative poetry reading series “Cardiff Poetry Experiment”
featuring:
CAROL WATTS
author of
many weathers wildly comes, Sundog, and Occasionals
TOM JENKS
author of
Spruce, Items, and The Tome of Commencement
SANDEEP PARMAR
author of
Eidolon and The Marble Orchard
Books and refreshments for sale onsite. Visit http://cardiffpoetryexperiment.blogspot.co.uk for more information.
if p then q Pub Chat interview
I’d say if you thought of Minimalism, Language Poetry and Conceptual Poetry you’d be coming to the right sort of place.
Pub Chat interview with if p then q at The Poetry School’s Campus website HERE
Praxis – new reading series in London
PRAXIS
PRAXIS is an innovative poetry and sound art series curated by Simon Pomery and Lala Thorpe of the Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, as part of the Poetics Research Centre Events at Royal Holloway. The inaugural PRAXIS will be held at Parasol on Thursday the 3rd of March, 2016, 7-9pm.
Maja Jantar is a multilingual and polysonic voice artist living in Ghent, Belgium, whose work spans the fields of performance, music theatre, poetry and visual arts. A co-founder of the group Krikri, she has been giving individual and collaborative performances throughout Europe and experimenting with poetic sound works since 1995 – weaving operatic, poetic, noise, and abstract influences together to vocal sound works.
https://majajantar.wordpress.com/
Sharon Gal – Artist, vocal experimentalist, musician, composer, and founding member of Resonance 104.4 FM. Her solo works have been released by Ash International/ Paradigm records/ Chocolate Monk / Emanem / Ecstatic Yod /American Tapes & The Tapeworm Labels, with the recent Voice Studies, on My Dance the Skull.
Steven J Fowler is a poet, artist, curator & vanguardist. He has published multiple collections of poetry and been commissioned by Tate Modern, the British Council, Tate Britain, Highlight Arts, Mercy, Penned in the Margins, the London Sinfonietta and the Wellcome Collection with Hubbub group. He is the poetry editor of 3am magazine, curator of the Enemies project, and teaches at Kingston University. Enthusiasm was published by Test Centre in 2015.
Will Montgomery makes electronic music, sound art and field recordings. His musical pieces explore aural texture and narrative. He also constructs compositions from sequences of treated or untreated field recordings. He has released work on the Entr’acte, nonvisualobjects, Cathnor and Winds Measure labels.
Robert Hampson’s collections of poetry include: Degrees of Addiction, A Necessary Displacement, A City at War, Seaport, and C for Security. His selected poems, Assembled Fugitives, was published by Stride in 2000. He runs the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre with Redell Olson, Will Montgomery, and Kristen Kreider.
Gareth Damian Martin is a writer and artist whose work combines experimental narrative structures with procedural writing and interactive design. He has performed at Penned in the Margins’ EVP Sessions and as part of Rich Mix’s Small Story / Big City programme. His condensed novel TH_READ is available fromitch.io.
Simon Pomery is a poet and musician researching a PhD in innovative poetry and thought process at Royal Holloway. He has taught interdisciplinary poetry workshops in collaboration with Parasol exhibitions since 2013. His work as Blood Music is released on Diagonal Records. His pamphlet of poems, The Stream, was published by tall-lighthouse.
Poems in Which issue 9
Featuring Other Room readers SJ Fowler and Sophie Herxheimer and much more besides, here.
otherroom.org 