Knives Forks and Spoons: pop-up reading
The KFS pop-up reading series continues at 13:00 on the 12th of December 2015 in the public area of St Helens Central Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DY. The readers are Tom Jenks and Ann Matthews, who will be reading from her new book, Losing Boundaries.
Galatea Resurrects 25 out now
Christmas treats courtesy of Galatea. Including reviews of Peter Jaeger’s A Field Guide to Lost Things and Tim Atkins’ Petrarch.
Allistair Noon Video from October 2015 The Other Room
Michelle Naka Pierce Video from October 2015 The Other Room
Sophie Mayer: A Preview
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Sophie Mayer is the co-editor of Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (English PEN, 2012, with Markie Burnhope and Sarah Crewe) and Glitter is a Gender (Contraband, 2014, with Sarah Crewe). She has published poetry collections with Shearsman, Salt, Oystercatcher, Knives Forks and Spoons, and – most recently – (O) with Arc and kaolin, or How Does a Girl Like You Get to be a Girl Like You with Lark. She is currently a full-time feminist film activist. @tr0ublemayer.
Scott Thurston on The Verb
Scott Thurston is the Podcast Extra on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, episode from 27th November 2015, reading his poem inspired by Buber’s ‘I and Thou’, and examines the relationship between his poetry and Buber’s philosophy.
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Chris Pusateri Video from October 2015 The Other Room
Chris McCabe: two new publications
Mud is a version of the Orpheus myth involving a fake wizard, a camera crew, scallops that can speak and tonnes of mud. Out now as an ebook on Galley Beggar Press.
The Dedalus Poems, visual poems, inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses. Read more about it here.
Xing the Line: Harriet Tarlo and Frances Presley
Thursday 3 December 2015, 7.30, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1. £5/£3. Nearest Tube: Farringdon, Chancery Lane or buses from Holborn and King’s Cross.
European Camarade videos
Films from the November 25th event pairing British poets with visiting writers from Slovakia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Austria, Hungary, Norway and more are now online, including this from Gabriele Labanauskaite and Camilla Nelson.
Christine Kennedy: A Preview
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Christine Kennedy is a Sheffield-based writer, artist and independent scholar who has published co-authored articles on women’s experimental poetry. Her own experimental poetry grew out of her fine art practice and has remained largely integral to it. Her poetry publications include ‘Hobby Horse: A Puppet Play for Cabaret Voltaire’ in Dadadollz (ISPress, 2010), Nineteen Nights in San Francisco (West House Books / The Cherry On The Top Press, 2007) and Possessions (The Cherry On The Top Press, 2003). The poetry sequence Twelve Entries from The Encyclopaedia of Natural Sexual Relations is published by The Cherry On The Top Press (2000/2003) including her short supporting essay. The White Lady’s Casket, her site-specific text installation for Bishops’ House and her supporting essay, are published in RSE 4packs No4: Renga + (Reality Street Editions, 2002). She is the co-author of Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool University Press, 2013) which is the first full-length study of these poets. Readings of her work can be heard at http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=49&f=1515#1515 and her studio blog is at https://warmstoragestudio.wordpress.com/
A winters night, drinks in the forest
17 December, 18:30–21:30, The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London. Listening Forest exhibition viewing, with a chance to hear poems from fabulous guest poets, drink mulled wine, mull over stuff, buy books, screenprints, original drawings. More here.
Cardiff Poetry Experiment – Nat Raha, Jon Goodby, Aron Jones
The ext Cardiff Poetry Experiment, featuring
NAT RAHA
JOHN GOODBY
ARON JONES
FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER
At Waterloo Teahouse in the Wyndham Arcade (Cardiff City Centre, CF10 1FH)
Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions
Forrest Gander in conversation, with Oscar Martín Centeno
Wed, 25 Nov 2015, 6.30 PM – 7.30 PM at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. Free, booking required.
Writer and translator Forrest Gander is concerned largely with the way the self is revised and translated in encounters with the foreign. His book Core Samples From the World was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. Recent translations include Watchword by Pura López Colomé and, with Kyoko Yoshida, Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura, winner of the Best Translated Book Award in 2012. In conjunction with the University of Liverpool Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and supported by HLC.
The Centre for New and International Writing presents: Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2015
Óscar Martín Centeno & Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.
Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and travelled intensively; he has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics, ecology, and intersubjectivity. A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Currently, he is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Óscar Martín Centeno
Óscar Martín Centeno holds a degree in History and Music Sciences by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 2006 he received the prize “Premio Internacional Florentino Pérez-Embid” by Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras for his first book Espejos enfrentados, published by Rialp publishing house in the collection Adonais. In 2007 he received the prize “Premio Nacional Nicolás del Hierro” for his second book Las cántigas del diablo, published the same year. In 2007 he obtained the prize “Premio Internacional Paul Beckett” for his third book Sucio tango del alma, published in 2008 by la Fundación Valparaíso. He has published two teaching manuals: Manual de creación literaria en la era de Internet (2009) and Animación a la lectura mediante las nuevas tecnologías (2010).
– See more at: http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3190#sthash.9hOJcl6w.dpuf
Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Holly Pester, Anthony Horowitz on The Verb
Friday No 27th 2015 on BBC Radio 3 – The Verb, Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Holly Pester, Anthony Horowitz
Where do you find the permission to be creative? The Verb aims to find out with Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Anthony Horowitz and Holly Pester.
Patti Smith has just published her second volume of memoir ‘M Train’ (Bloomsbury), a book that follows Patti around New York as she writes, reads and drinks coffee.
Grayson Perry’s recent exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate ‘Provincial Punk’ examined his interests in contemporary Britain from class and taste to war.
Anthony Horowitz has just published his second James Bond novel ‘Trigger Mortis’ (Orion). He explains where he gets the permission to take on another writer’s most famous character.
The poet and sound artist Holly Pester examines the phenomenon of ‘vocal fry’ in a special commission for The Verb.
Robert Sheppard: History or Sleep – Selected Poems
Robert Sheppard’s selection draws on every book of his poetry since Returns (1985) through to Words Out of Time (2015), and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his work and their restlessly changing forms. Out now on Shearsman.
Storm and Golden Sky: Sandeep Parmar and Robert Sheppard
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!
FRIDAY 27th November 2015
Sandeep Parmar and Robert Sheppard
(with a short reading by Adam Hampton)
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham in 1979 and was raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in English Literature from University College London in 2008 on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is the Reviews Editor of The Wolf magazine and edited The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees for Carcanet Press (2011). Her critical book on Loy, Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies, appeared from Bloomsbury in 2013. She teaches twentieth-century literature and creative writing at the University of Liverpool. Her books are Eidolon and The Marble Orchard, both from Shearsman.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/staff/sandeep-parmar
Robert Sheppard is launching two books tonight, his new History or Sleep: Selected Poems, which covers the full range of his work since 1982, and his autrebiographies, Words Out of Time. He lives in Liverpool, is one of the organisers of Storm and Golden Sky, and is also a literary critic of work generally known as ‘linguistically innovative’. He teaches at Edge Hill University.
Emily Critchley: A Preview
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Emily Critchley is the author of several poetry collections (with Arehouse, Bad press, Dusie, Oystercatcher, Torque, Holdfire, Corrupt and Intercapillary presses) and a selected writing: Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins, 2011). She has also published critical articles – on poetry, philosophy and feminism – and is the editor of Out of Everywhere 2: linguistically innovative poetry by women in north America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, and lives in London with her partner and daughter.
Here is Emily being interviewed at The Other Room a few years back
if p then q Christmas sale
Poetry publishers if p then q currently has some books available at discount until the end of the year including the mighty Written 1976-2013 by P. Inman and the Not The Booker longlisted A Field Guide to Lost Things by Peter Jaeger.
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