‘Not memory but a work’: Eric Mottram after 20 Years: addendum

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More details about this 19th – 21st November event in the Court Room at Senate House, London which we previously posted about here:

Friday 20th November, 6.30-8.00: Poetry Reading beginning with a Guest Appearance by Paula Claire, presenting the 2 poems she created for Eric Mottram at her Kings Reading 27 Feb 1979 and leading a performance of Mottram’s Precipice of Fishes an aleatory multi-voice piece created for Writers Forum in October 1979. She will be followed by Bill Sherman, Ulli Freer. Gavin Selerie and others.

 

 

Soundings #3

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Soundings is a series of collaborative performances presented by SJ Fowler between August 2015 to October 2016, in conjunction with Hubbub and the Wellcome Library. There will be ten editions, each in a different location in and around London, each with a different collaborator. Number 3 in the series is a performance with Maja Jantar at  St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA, Wednesday 18th November, 7 PM start. More about this and the Soundings series in general here.

derek beaulieu: The Unbearable Contact with Poets

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if p then q is very pleased to announce a new publication of reviews, essays and interviews by poet derek beaulieu. The edition is available at a snip of £5 or as a free pdf edition.

The Unbearable Contact with Poets, derek beaulieu’s second selection of essays and reviews, is essential reading. A keen and shrewd essayist, he marks himself out as one of the key commentators on contemporary concrete and conceptual poetry. The selection includes a substantial review of concrete poetry by women, an exploration into concrete and conceptual poetic representations of the holocaust, alongside interviews with Tony Trehy, Natalie Simpson and Gregory Betts, as well as lots more. The edition is available as a free pdf and as a perfect bound copy.

derek beaulieu is author of eight books of poetry (including a volume of his selected poetry entitled Please, No More Poetry), four volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection Local Colour: ghosts, variations), 2 collections of critical writing and over 175 chapbooks, derek beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging in contemporary Canadian writing.

LINK to book’s page

Elizabeth Jane Burnett: A Preview

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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.

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet, critic and curator. Poetry includes: Her Body: The City, Exotic Birds and oh-zones and has been anthologised in Dear World And Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe). Criticism has appeared in journals such as the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Jacket, How2, Green Humanities. She has curated exhibitions with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) and is currently collaborating on a film on the poet John Clare. A collection on wild swimming and a monograph on the gift are forthcoming. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University in Birmingham.

http://www.elizabethjaneburnett.com/

Datableed issue 2

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Anthony John, Bruno Neiva, Calum Gardner, Carleen Tibbetts, Dorothy Lehane, Ed Luker, Emilia Weber, Emilie Dufresne, Florence Uniacke, Haley Jenkins, Lawrence Uziell, Linda Kemp, Lisa Jayne, Luke Blake, Map 71 (Lisa Jayne & Andy Pyne), Mike Saunders, Naomi Weber, Nathan Walker, Rachel Warriner, Sarah Crewe, Sarah Rupp, Shana Bulhan Haydock, Sophie Mayer, Vicky Sparrow and  Wanda O’Connor, here.

Robert Creeley events at Double Change

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double change vous invite à une série de lectures et à un concert au mois de novembre (annonces individuelles à suivre):

– le jeudi 12 novembre, hommage à Robert Creeley avec Jim Dine, Barbara Montefalcone et Martin Richet à l’atelier Michael Woolworth, 2 rue de la Roquette, cour Février, 75011 Parishttp://doublechange.org/2015/11/02/12-11-15-soiree-hommage-a-robert-creeley-avec-jim-dine-barbara-montefalcone-martin-richet/

– le vendredi 13 novembre, à l’invitation d’Etel Adnan, Vincent Broqua lira ses traductions d’Anne Waldman (Archives, pour un monde menacé, joca seria, 2014) à la Monnaie de Paris, 11 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris. Etel Adnan invite Pauline Behr, Sophie Bourel, Vincent Broqua,
Alicia Bustamante, Lionel Jung-Allegret, Hanna Schygulla à lire un/une poète de leur choix.

– le samedi 21 novembre, à 19h30, lecture de Jim Dine et Valérie Mrejen, galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 Paris

– le dimanche 22 novembre, à 17h, performance concert de Jim Dine avec Marc Marder, galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 Paris

The Blue Bus

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading of poetry by Jane Augustine, Michael Heller and David Miller on Tuesday the 17th November from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the 106th event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.

Michael Heller has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction. His most recent book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (2012). A new collection, Diánoia, is forthcoming in 2016. A book of essays on his work, The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory, has just appeared. His many awards and honors include the Di Castagnola Prize, NEH Poet/Scholar Award and The Fund for Poetry.

Jane Augustine is a poet, critic, short story writer, visual/sound poetry performance artist, and scholar of women in modernity, with five poetry books, the latest Krazy: Visual Poems and Performance Scripts (2015). Editor of The Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text and The Mystery by H.D., she has held the H.D. Fellowship at Yale, has taught at N.Y.U. and Naropa University, Boulder, and is professor emerita Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She lives in Manhattan.

David Miller was born in Melbourne (Australia) in 1950, and has lived in London (UK) since 1972. His more recent publications include The Dorothy and Benno Stories (Reality Street Editions, 2005), In the Shop of Nothing: New and Selected Poems (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007), Black, Grey and White: A Book of Visual Sonnets (Veer Books, 2011) and Reassembling Still: Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2014). He has compiled British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of ‘Little Magazines’ (with Richard Price, The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2006) and edited The Lariat and Other Writings by Jaime de Angulo (Counterpoint, 2009) and The Alchemist’s Mind: a book of narrative prose by poets (Reality Street, 2012). Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5) appeared from Chax Press in 2011, and a double CD recording of David Miller reading this same work came out from LARYNX in 2012. He is also a musician and a member of the Frog Peak Music collective. His most recent publication is Spiritual Letters (Series 6), published by Shearsman in 2015.

Pugilistica: celebrating boxing poetry

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Held on November 4th 2015, in the extraordinary environs of http://www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica brought together poets, academics, writers, artists and photographers to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. It featured fiction from Anna Whitwham, poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who presented his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’ The event also saw the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition. More at the Enemies Project site.

CAESURA #35

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13 November, 19:30. Summerhall – Red Lecture Theatre,  1 Summerhall,  Edinburgh, EH9 1PL. 7:30 doors for 8pm start. £5/£4 concessions

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MacGILLIVRAY

MacGillivray has walked in a straight line with a dead wolf on her shoulders through the back streets of Vegas into the Nevada desert, eaten broken chandelier glass in a derelict East German shopping mall, headbanged in gold medieval stocks in Birmingham allotments, burnt on a sunbed wearing conquistador armour in Edinburgh’s underground city, breast-fed a Highland swan in Oxford and regurgitated red roses in Greenland.

She remains clan chief.

DAVID KEENAN

David Keenan is an author and critic based in Glasgow.

For the past 19 years he has been a contributor to The Wire magazine. His writing has also appeared in Mojo, Uncut, NME, Melody Maker, The Sunday Herald, Opprobrium, Ugly Things, The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal and Firm ‘n’ Fruity.

Between 2004 and 2014 he was co-director of Volcanic Tongue, a shop, mail order service and weekly online newsletter that was dedicated to boosting new underground sounds.

He is the author of England’s Hidden Reverse, a secret history of the UK’s post-Industrial music scene via Coil, Nurse With Wound and Current 93, republished in 2015 in an expanded edition by Strange Attractor Press.

Strange Attractor will also publish his debut novel, The Comfort Of Women, in early 2016, which he will be reading from tonight.

ANNIE HIGGEN

Annie Higgen is a Glasgow-based poet and sound artist.

Previously working as a singer-songwriter, she gradually moved to poetry and more experimental sound art and finished her MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway in 2014.

Annie likes to write about politics, social issues, and our strange and wonderful virtual lives. She has exhibited her sound works in galleries in Glasgow and Edinburgh and also contributed to the CCA’s temporary radio station Radiophrenia in April 2015.

Her latest project is a year-long poetry blog based on the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry.

CIARAN HEALY

Ciaran Healy is a philosopher.

For 20 years he has been investigating possibilities for changing human nature. His work contains elements from neuroscience, anthropology, evolutionary theory and Western and Eastern philosophy.

It is based on the idea that powerful change that people can trigger inside themselves can spread peer-to-peer through communication networks, and this opens up a new and undefended angle from which to spark global revolution.

In 2014 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Arts.

Holly Pester at Edge Hill

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11th November: Holly Pester

At The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk

7.30

£4.50 Tickets available on the door.

Holly Pester is a poet, critic and practice-based researcher. Her doctoral research at Birkbeck, University of London examined the poetics of noise and sound media-driven poetry. Her current research seeks to develop innovative practice-led research methodologies in relation to feminist archive theory. Her book on gossip and anecdote as forms of archive enquiry was published by Book Works, 2015 and was developed through a residency at the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College’s Special Collections with Arts Council England support. She currently teaches on Oulipo & the Avant-Garde and Poetic Practice at University of Essex.

Warm up by students of the MA I n Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, curated by Professor Robert Sheppard.

Place Waste Dissent: cut-up poetry/art exhibition

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12 November – 10 December. The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol,  BS1 3RU.

An exhibition of cut-up poetry and art from the new collection, Place Waste Dissent, by Paul Hawkins, out Nov 12th, pre-order here http://www.influxpress.com/place-waste-dissent/#.Vip_f6IkNE4

Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road.

Using the voices of Dolly Watson, Old Mick and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK.

From Claremont Road to Cameron via surveillance culture and Occupy: transient-beta memory traces re-surfacing along the A12. This collection is an important reflection on a historic site of resistance, offering us illumination, ideas and inspiration for the future.

The collage is taken from photographs by Julia Guest, Maureen Measure, Steve Ryan, Sarer Scotthorne, Susan Worth and personal photographs by Paul. On each page of the book the text and images have been cut and pasted by hand by Paul, and, in a long sequence of text/image called Flea, by poet Sarer Scotthorne.

‘This is not so much a book as an archive, a dataset or a dossier of evidence. At times reminiscent of Tom Phillips’ A Humument with its jump cut juxtapositions, liminal layers and luminous word wiring, Place Waste Dissent is nonetheless an utterly distinctive poetic document, weaving text and image to create a wakeful dream state of white noise, static and flux.’ Tom Jenks

website: https://placewastedissent.wordpress.com/
twitter: @PlayWDissent
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Long Poem Magazine issue 14 launch

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11 November, 8:00–21:00. Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS. Hosted by Linda Black and Lucy Hamilton. Readers: Yang Lian, Salah Niazi, Terence Dooley, Saradha Soobrayen, Mario Petrucci, Dorothy Lehane, Madeleine Wurzburger, Frances Presley, Ingar Palmlund, John Mccullough, Joe Dresner, Simon Jenner, Patricia McCarthy

Fidelities, Ian Seed

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Ian Seed says of Fidelities, ‘The poems here range from the lyrical to the more experimental, but I think that they all probe and explore a series of encounters and journeys.  I see them as being faithful, “in their fashion”, to the truths they discover along the way’. This collection enacts an excursive articulation of the world and language, the shifts and creative repetitions found in both, between words and inside words, between moments and within moments: each poem finding its distinct poetic imperative to reveal these moves in the landscape in complex and subtle ways. The rhythms of these poetic journeys involve but also exceed the sonic; here is the shaping of the space and time of attention, a focus and intimacy that situates and then opens up, and into, our embodied encounters with the phenomenal world; here is presence, and reflection on presence and on being present. This is language as an eye that sees and a hand that touches and shapes, but also as ‘skin listening’. ‘We do not see from our bodies as from inside /a box. We pertain to the whole, we take our place /in the landscape, in the touching of the sleek and rough.’”
Patricia Farrell

Out now on The Red Ceilings.

Pugilistica: a literary celebration of boxing

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November 4th at Apiary Studios : 7.30pm – Free entrance.
458 Hackney Rd, London E2 9EG 
www.theenemiesproject.com/pugilistica

Held in the extraordinary environs of www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica will bring together poets, academics, writers, artists and journalists to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. Featuring:

Fiction from Anna Whitwham, Poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who will present his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’

The event will see the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition.

Nemici: an Italian Enemies Project

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Nemici : an Italian Enemies project
Saturday November 7th at the Rich Mix
Nemici: an Italian Enemies project at the Rich Mix www.theenemiesproject.com/nemici
November Saturday 7th – 8pm start – Free Entry http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-enemies-project-nemici/ 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London. E16LA  02076137498

One of the most ambitious Enemies project events in London, Nemici: an Italian Enemies project will bring together Italian poets and artists from all over Europe, to work in collaboration, as pairs, with a series of British poets.

Each pair will produce original work for the night, in what should be a great testament to the dynamic potential of collaboration alongside the best of the rapidly evolving 21st century Italian literary tradition.

Covering lyrical poetry, avant-garde poetry, text art, performance art and video poetry, this evening will be exploration of the possibilities of poetry as well as what collaboration can bring. Please join us for an unforgettable night at the Rich Mix. Featuring:

Daniela Cascella & James Wilkes
Francesco Pedraglio & Paul Becker
Marco Fazzini & Douglas Reid Skinner
Francesca Serragnoli & Annabel Banks
Livia Franchini & Georgia Rodger
Roberto Minardi & John Goodby
Giovanna Coppola & Clover Peake
Andrea Inglese & Philip Terry
Davide Castiglione & Alex Houen
Christian Patracchini & Richard Skinner
Alessandro Burbank & SJ Fowler

www.theenemiesproject.com www.stevenjfowler.com

‘Not memory but a work’: Eric Mottram after 20 Years

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More details of this event via Facebook

Thursday, November 19:

Visit to the Eric Mottram Archive at King’s College, London.
1.00 to 4.00.
(Details to follow)

7.30 Xing the Line: Poetry Reading @ The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1x 0AE
Maggie O’Sullivan and Allen Fisher

Friday, November 20:
10.00 – 10.30: Registration
10.30-11.30: Keynote Lecture:
John Whiting: Recordings of Eric Mottram

11.45-1.00: Mottram and American Poetry
Gavin Selerie: Mottram and Charles Olson
Robert Hampson: Mottram and Ginsberg
Juha Virtanen: Mottram on poetry and performance

2.00- 3.30: Workshop: Eric Mottram’s Legal Poems
Led by Will Rowe

4.00-6.00: Mottram and British Poetry
Simon Smith: Interrogation Poems
Gareth Farmer: Mottram and Veronica Forest-Thomson
Geraldine Monk: King’s Reading

6.30-8.00: Poetry Reading
By participants in conference – and to include poems by Mottram
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Saturday, November 21:
10.00 – 10.30: Registration
10.30-11.30: Keynote Lecture:
Clive Bush: ‘Eric Mottram, Muriel Rukeyser and Juhasz’

11.45-12.45: Workshop: Elegy 30
Allen Fisher

1.45- 3.00 Mottram and American Studies
Peter Barry: Mottram as educator
Maggie Humm: Eric, Paul Goodman and Me: Eric as Supervisor
Dale Carter: Mottram and American Studies

3.15-4.15: Workshop: Shelter Island & the Remaining World
Ian Brinton

4.15-5.30: Mottram Miscellany
Frances Presley: Experimental poetry and feminism? Eric Mottram in London
Peterjon Skelt: “He has been a rover of the outer seas: paying attention with Eric Mottram”.
Steven Willey: Girlie Poems: Gender and Naming in the British Poetry Revival.

PhD opportunities at Salford

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From The Other Room’s Scott Thurston…
Once again, as part of the North West Consortium of universities (NWC), the University of Salford is keen to receive proposals for PhDs in a variety of Arts and Humanities subjects. If your proposal is accepted then you may be eligible for funding. We are initially looking for expressions of interest accompanied by a draft proposal by 3rd December 2015. If viable you will be asked to submit a formal proposal to Salford by the 22nd January and, if accepted at this stage, you’ll be asked to submit a funding proposal to the NWC by 12 February
Because of the nature of this email list, I would like to let you know that I am particularly interested in receiving proposals for PhDs in Creative Writing, with a focus on innovative poetic practice. I work in the context of the English Language, Literature and Creative Practice research group, which is also keen to receive proposals for PhDs in Literature across a range of areas.
Please see the following link for more details:
More information will be available on the Salford website in due course. Michael Goddard is the official contact for the School of Arts and Media (m.goddard@salford.ac.uk) to discuss your proposal, but please also contact me directly at S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you have an idea that you wish to discuss.