Verbose

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Verbose is a monthly spoken word night at Fallow Cafe, 2A Landcross Road, Manchester, M14 6NA, showcasing the best poetry and prose the Rainy City has to offer. Each month sees special performances by featured guests from various writing collectives and independent publishers, along with an open mic, when anyone can get up and read their work. The first event of 2016 is on Monday 25 January, with special guests and an open mic. Free entry, doors at 7.30pm.

The headliners are from the Edge Hill Writers’ Group: Ailsa Cox, Jim Hinks and John D Rutter. Their colleague Billy Cowan will be reading on the open mic. As a special post-Xmas gift, the gang will also be giving away copies of their Cheltenham Literature Festival anthology, which features best-selling novelist Carys Bray – first come, first served! More at the Verbose site.

 

A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS V

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January Saturday 9th | 7.30pm, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG. Free Entry.
A World without Words will return to Apiary Studios on Hackney Road, London. Another exceptional panel of speakers and performers, exploring language, the human brain, aphasia and creativity, from the worlds of neuroscience and avant-garde art, will share new ideas and artworks, created specifically for the event. Featuring:

Dr. Daniel Margulies of the Max Planck Institute is a neuroscientist with a background in the humanities. His work consists of neuroanatomy that explores how connectivity within the cerebral cortex is organized, as well as ongoing collaborations that address the functional implications of this organization for spontaneous thought, or ‘mind-wandering’, amongst other things.

Josh Alexander is a film-maker and artist. He will present a newly commissioned piece of video art responding to the a World without Words project and it’s concerns.

Gillian Bridge is a resilience consultant specialising in brain and language development and the use of language affect on behaviour and communication. Her work also seeks an understanding and treating of dysfunctional behaviour (incl addictions) and developmental disorders (particularly autism and Asperger’s) in her practise as a psycholinguistic consultant.

Elena Agudio is a Berlin-based art historian and curator. She is artistic director of the non-profit association AoN – a platform for Neuroscience and Art, a project in collaboration with the Medical University of Charité, The School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University and the Institut für Raumexperimente led by Olafur Eliasson.

Christian Patracchini is an artist, writer and curator who works across different art forms, alternating between performance, text, sound and drawing. Within this commissioned performance he is interested in what constitutes a novelty and how thinking through movement can alter the force of thought.

Sarah Kelly creates works with text and handmade paper. Her work is concerned with pages (surfaces, interfaces and skins) and explores embodied language and mark making in connection with somatic bodies of knowledge. It encompasses poetics, sculptural paper making, movement, typography, calligraphy, translation and iteration. She will present a new commission on the night.
Admission is free and booking is not required. Email steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for enquiries.

Support Shady Dealings with Language

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Organising a second batch of Shady events with such wonders as Sharon Kivland, Karen Di Franco, Nathan Jones and Holly Pester.

Throw a few quid in the pot if you want to support such a fantastic idea, and I’ll bring events to Sheffield, Bristol, Liverpool and London,  working with the above artists and writers and a fist full more who are probing language through their arts practice.

2014 was the first year of Shady Dealings With Language. With 19 artists, writers, musicians, academics, filmmakers, poets, publishers, performers, I organised interdisciplinary day and evening events for four cities across England and Scotland to demonstrate and assess the intersections of art, writing and performance in contemporary art practices.

In 2016, with your support and the influence of Sharon, Karen, Nathan and Holly, I’ll do the same.

I’m writing up our Arts Council England grant application now. We’ll get a grant if I can prove with cold hard cash that you’re all interested in supporting and attending these events.

So if you can turn in the price of a pint, or even a pint of milk to contribute to equipment hire, printing and fees I’d be v grateful and I’ll get this beast on the road.

Thanks very much
Claire Potter

https://www.gofundme.com/hpgkbphg

PS
Have a look at what went on in 2014 here.

e·ratio 22

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Issue 22 of the online poetry journal, featuring Jacqueline Winter Thomas, Lital Khaikin, Claire Warren, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Jennifer Firestone, Colin Campbell Robinson, Sean Howard, Dan Eltringham, Paul A. Green, Joey Frances, Carleen Tibbetts, John M. Bennett, Jared Chipkin, Mark Young, Matina L. Stamatakis, visual poetry by Joel Chace, Ren Adams, Parker Tettleton, Bill Yarrow, Deb Jannerson, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, JJ Rowan, Sarah B. Boyle, Daniel Y. Harris, Irene Koronas, Eileen R. Tabios, with art by Jacklyn Janeksela.

Golden Handcuffs Review

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“We have a Jones for you:” Breka Blakeslee, Rebecca Brown, Jim Goar, Paul A. Green, Jeff Hilson, Peter Hughes, Burt Kimmelman, Sarah Mangold, Brian Marley, Terry Martin, Andrew Mossin, Jed Myers, Lance Olsen, Marthe Reed, Judith Skillman, Philip Terry, Scott Thurston, Carol Watts respond to the art of Fay Jones. More here.

CPRC/Veer Book Launch: Clarke, Jones, Raha, Rowe

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Wednesday, 13 January 2016at 19:30–21:00,  Room 101, 30 Russell Square, Birkbeck, University of London.

Adrian Clarke, Doug Jones, Nat Raha, William Rowe are launching their new books –

The room has extensive level access and is accessible to those using a wheelchair

Poetry Launch: Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes and Time Dust by Ian Patterson

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Wednesday, 24th February 2016, 18:30. Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge. The launch of two new poetry collections published by Equipage: Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes and Time Dust by Ian Patterson.

Peter Hughes is based in Hunstanton, having worked as a teacher and translator in Italy and the UK. He is the publisher of the Oystercatcher Press chapbooks and has had his own works published by a wide range of presses, including Equipage, Shearsman and Reality Street. His most recent publications are Quite Frankly: After Petrarch’s Sonnets (Reality Street, 2015) and Cavalcanty (Equipage, 2015)

Ian Patterson lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Queens’ College. He is well known for his work on Modernism and C20 and contemporary literature, especially poetry. A Selected Poems was published by Salt in 2003 under the title Time to Get Here. Since then, The Glass Bell (2009) has appeared from Barque, as well as Time Dust (2015) from Equipage and Still Life (2015) from Oystercatcher.

The event is free to attend, but booking is essential.

Blackbox Manifold #15

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Editors Adam Piette & Alex Houen at Blackbox Manifold are pleased to announce the launch of its fifteenth issue, with work by Chris Andrews, Tara Bergin, Rob Burton, James Coghill, Christopher Cokinos, Adam Day, Darren Demaree, Mark Greenwood, David Hadbawnik, Alan Halsey, Amaan Hyder, Peter Larkin, Agnes Lehoczky, Sophie Mayer, Drew Milne, Helen Moore, Geraldine Monk, Christopher Mulrooney, Burgess Needle, Eleanor Perry, Cal Revely-Calder, Mike Saunders & Todd Swift. The issue also features a section on the poetic sequence, with essays by Charles Bernstein (“Reznikoff’s Nearness”), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (“Some Interpretive Puzzles within Seriality”), Alan Halsey (“Some Possibly Connected Remarks on Sequences”) & Robin Purves (“The Value of Inconsistency: John Wilkinson and ‘Facing Port Talbot’”). Adam Piette reviews the work of Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni and Attila Dósa reviews Edwin Morgan’s letters, edited by James McGonigal & John Coyle. More here.

The Curly Mind

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Linguistically innovative online poetry magazine, including Alphabetical Adlestrop by Mark Totterdell:

A Adlestrop, Adlestrop afternoon,
all and, and and, and and, and and, and and,
and bare, because birds, blackbird,
by came, cleared close.

Cloudlets drew dry, express fair.
Farther, farther for Gloucestershire grass,
haycocks, heat high. Him his hissed.
I, I in it, June, late, left less lonely.

Meadowsweet minute. Mistier name, name.
No, no, no, of of on one, one, one
only Oxfordshire platform, remember round.
Sang. Saw someone. Sky. Steam still than that.

The the the the the the the the;
there, throat train! Unwontedly up
was, was what? Whit? Willow? Willow-herb?
Yes!

More here.