Kenneth Goldsmith – Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

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Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

by Kenneth Goldsmith
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City
Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.
Available from Verso – HERE

Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #15 – Alan Halsey, Tom Jenks, Geraldine Monk, Harriet Tarlo

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An afternoon of experimental poetry

Featuring Alan Halsey, Tom Jenks, Geraldine Monk & Harriet Tarlo.

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Free entry, all welcome. Wine.

Upstairs at Deansgate Waterstones. 4pm. Saturday 7 November.

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Alan Halsey will be reading from his Versions of Martial, published earlier this year by Knives Forks & Spoons. His back catalogue includes The Text of Shelley’s Death (Five Seasons 1995), Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005) and Rampant Inertia (Shearsman 2015). Images he developed out of Dee & Kelley’s Enochian transcripts form the graphic component of Nigel Wood’s From the Diaries of John Dee, recently published by Apple Pie Editions. ‘Halsey’s publications bolt around the field like a deranged beagle’ (Ray Davis, Pseudopodium).

Tom Jenks’ latest collection is Spruce, published by Blart Books. Other works include Items, a 1000 fragment sequence published by if p then q, The Tome of Commencement, a spreadsheet translation of the Book of Genesis published by Stranger Press and 1000 Proverbs, a guide to modern life and manners with SJ Fowler, published by Knives Forks and Spoons. He administers the avant obects imprint zimZalla and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website

Geraldine Monk was first published in the 1970’s. Her poetry has appeared extensively in the U.K. and USA. Her latest book They Who Saw The Deep will be published next year in the USA by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. She is an affiliated poet to the Centre of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield.

Harriet Tarlo’s poetry publications include Love/Land (REM Press, 2003), Poems 1990-2003 (Shearsman Books, 2004), Poems 2004-2014 (Shearsman, 2015) Nab (Etruscan Books, 2005) and 2 artists books, Sound Unseen and behind land with Judith Tucker (Wild Pansy, 2013, 2015). Her academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press, Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi. Recent critical and creative work appears in Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English Journal of Ecocriticism; Classical Receptions and Yellow Field. Exhibitions of texts, in collaboration with Jem Southam and Judith Tucker, have appeared at The Lowry, Salford, Tullie House, Carlisle; Musee de Moulages, Lyon and The University of Minneapolis. She edited a special feature on “Women and Eco-Poetics” for How2 Vol 3: No 2 and The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman 2011). She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University

Cardiff Poetry Experiment – COLE SWENSEN, DAVID GREENSLADE, CAMILLA NELSON

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Please join us at the next Cardiff Poetry Experiment on Friday, 30th of October.

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm, with free admission
accompanied by tea, cake and discussions

At the Waterloo Teahouse, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff City Centre, CF10 1FH (enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring: COLE SWENSEN, DAVID GREENSLADE, CAMILLA NELSON

Cole Swensen is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry, most recently Landscapes on a Train (Nightboat Books, 2015) and Gravesend (U. of California Press, 2012), and a volume of essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). She co-edited the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and was guest editor of the 2014 Best American Experimental Writing from Omnidawn Press. A translator of contemporary French poetry, prose, and art criticism, she is the founding editor of La Presse Books (www.lapressepoetry.com), which specializes in contemporary experimental French writing translated by English-language poets. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, among others. She divides her time between Paris and Providence, Rhode Island in the U.S., where she teaches at Brown University.

David Greenslade is a reluctant surrealist and isn’t sure why.  Recent books include Rarely Pretty Reasonable – made with thirty visual artists – and Free Style, a collaborative translation of Czech surreal poet Josef Janda. His work has a theatrical dimension and has been broadcast on television.

Camilla Nelson is a poet, text-artist, researcher and collaborator across a range of disciplines. She is poetry editor for The Goose and founding editor of Singing Apple Press. Her first full collection Apples & Other Languages was long-listed for the 2015 Melita Hume Poetry Prize and is due to be published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press in May 2016.

Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy.

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The Wolf

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An exclusive interview with Kelvin Corcoran. Niall McDevitt on David Gascoyne. Tom Jenks reviews Chris McCabe. John Kinsella on re-imagining place. Mexican Poetry feature. Patricia Farrell as Artist in Residence. Poems from Yang Lian, Michelle Cahill, Ellen Hinsey and much more. Out now.

Materials reading series – Danny Hayward

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The thirteenth reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Saturday 24th October in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 7 for 7.30pm. This is the launch event for DANNY HAYWARD’s book ‘Pragmatic Sanction’.

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Danny Hayward is the author of People (Mountain Press, 2013) and Two Essays: Best and Worst in Poetry / Perfect Capitalism (Veer, 2012). His essays include ‘Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010 – July 2011’ and ‘John Maynard Nothing’ in Mute (2012), and ‘The Essential Standpoint of Man: An Autopsy, in Three Parts’ in World Picture Journal (2011).

‘Pragmatic Sanction’ is A Long Dramatic Monologue about recent developments in population control and work enforcement, done up as a chase sequence involving a mysterious booming sound, a side-scrolling pig’s head, and a lucky number seven, and featuring an extended cameo by the brain structure primarily responsible for coordinating stress response in humans and other animals.

“The conclusion is theoretically wrong. But before that, in the run-up to it, on the road to hell with the first door that exits from a pipe protruding upwards in the vicinity of the third door leading onwards into a highway with a person standing in it, call it me or you.”

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Copies of the book will be on sale.

Storm and Golden Sky:

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FRIDAY 30th October 2015, 7 PM. 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.

A performance for poetry, sound and voice, featuring:

Geraldine Monk : poet and performer
Alan Halsey: poet and performer
Steve Boyland: vocalist and performer

David Gaffney, Dan Berry, Sarah Lowes – The Three Rooms In Valerie’s Head

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The Three Rooms In Valerie’s Head

 

The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head by Dan Berry and David Gaffney is a Lakes International Comic Art Festival commission. Experimental and original, it’s a live performance of a graphic novel with projected images and specially commissioned music by acclaimed recording artist Sara Lowes. The piece explores relationships, memory, loneliness and obsession in a darkly humorous way, and will also be published in book form. Dan Berry is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer.

The first performance is at 6 o’clock on Saturday 17th October at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, as part of the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival.

Tickets are available here

Place waste Dissent launches

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Influx Press are launching Paul Hawkins’ Place Waste Dissent with a free event in Bristol on November 21st. The Arts House in Bristol’s Stokes Croft will also be hosting a month long exhibition of prints from the book, as well as the launch night.

November 12th – December 10th  – Place Waste Dissent Bristol Exhibition at The Arts House

Prints from the new experimental poetry/collage collection Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press) will be on exhibition at The Arts House (open daily between 10am – 11pm). Poetry and collage by Paul Hawkins.

Place Waste Dissent features his own photography as well as that of Julia Guest, Maureen Measure, Steve Ryan, Susan Worth, John Hawkins and Sarer Scotthorne of The No M11 link Road Campaign, Leytonstone past & present.

The Arts House, 108a, Stokes Croft Bristol BS1 3RU open daily 10am – 11pm

November 21st – Place Waste Dissent Bristol Launch Night 7.30pm free entry

SAPling Innovation

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SAPling Innovation: Multi-dimensional paper interfaces, (in)edible poetry & live plant readings from Singing Apple Press – with guest performances from Steven Hitchins and Linus Slug (aka Tommy Peeps).
5-5.45pm on Sat 17th October @ The Peckham Pelican as part of the fantabulous Literary Kitchen Festival, co-hosted by Tom Jeffreys and his formidable army of Learned Pigs.

More here.

Virgil’s Birthday

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Thursday 15th October 2015, 7-9pm. X Marks the Bökship, 42-44 Copperfield Road, London, E3 4RR
An event of poetry, performance and speech acts.
Emma Bennett
Shiv Kotecha
Becky La M’eh’rr

& introduction from Holly Pester

A poet never before hosted in the UK, a travelling artist who may not be fully named, and a performer fresh from a 24hour journey. Join us in celebrating the comedy of their spoken words and their divine proximity.

Shiv Kotecha is a New York poet and the author of EXTRIGUE (Make Now Books 2015), OUTFITS (Troll Thread, 2012) and PAINT THE ROCK (Troll Thread, 2011). Other work can be found at Gauss PDF and elsewhere online. He completes tasks for Collective Task and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at NYU. Instagram @heyguyhere

Emma Bennett is a performance artist and theorist of (stand-up)comedy, and researching for a PhD in Performance Studies at Queen Mary’s, University of London. She has presented her textual, video and performance work in a variety of contexts across the UK and Europe.

Becky La M’eh’rr is an artist and writer currently based in a small Canadian town. She has published and performed her texts and left piles of her books in Berlin, China, London, New York, Vancouver, Vienna, and probably a few other places that she’s forgotten either through deliberate effort or error.

Boooook Laaaaaaunch

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Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH. 5 Nov 2015. 7:00 pm | Theatre | £5.00

An evening of performance, music and film in the ICA Theatre in celebration of concrete and sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920 – 2002). Featuring performances from Paula Claire, Will Holder, Hugh Metcalfe with Oscar Gaynor and Henrik Heinonen, Holly Pester and David Toop, audio interruptions by Heather Phillipson and screenings of films by Bob Cobbing.

This event marks the launch of Boooook: Bob Cobbing (Rosie Cooper, William Cobbing, Occasional Papers, 2015) Boooook addresses all aspects of Cobbing’s rich career, with new essays detailing his key roles in Better Books, London Film-makers’ Co-op and the abAna trio, as well as his involvement in the Destruction in Art Symposium, Fylkingen and Writers Forum.

Transformation Marathon at The Serpentine Gallery

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Major American poets Aram Saroyan and Robert Grenier will be at this great all day event at The Serpentine on October 17th.

Among many other topics, the Transformation Marathon invites artists, writers, academics, scientists, musicians and filmmakers to explore the transformative potential of micropolitics as well as changes in art, literature and design; transgender politics and pharmacology; adaptation, the environment and the futurology of cyborgs; bio-engineering and artificial intelligence. In its tenth year, the Marathon also addresses the transformation of the art institution, in a special section with curator and historian Dorothea von Hantelmann and artist Tino Sehgal.

Participants on stage and on air include: Peter Adamson; Etel Adnan; Sophia Al-Maria; Ayşe Gül Altınay; Katherine Angel; Julieta Aranda; Mary Bauermeister; Liz Berry; Nick Bostrom; Roy Boswell; Rosi Braidotti; Federico Campagna; Judy Chicago; Ken Cockburn; Gabriella Coleman; Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks by artist group Myvillages; CA Conrad; Hilary Cottam; Aimee Meredith Cox; Elysia Crampton; Jude Crilly; Abraham Cruzvillegas with Mark Godfrey; Keren Cytter; Deep Lab with Kate Crawford, Harlo Holmes, Madeleine Varner, Joana Varon, and Addie Wagenknecht; John Densmore; Leah Borromeo and Katharine Round as Disobedient Films in collaboration with Jamie Perera; Marcus du Sautoy; Jimmie Durham; Francine Elena; Tim Etchells; Alec Finlay; Gilbert & George and Victoria; Harry Gilonis; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster; Adam Greenfield; Robert Grenier; Haunted Machines (Natalie Kane and Tobias Revell); Lynn Hershman Leeson; Helen Hester; Adrian Hon; Charles Hope; Juliet Jacques; Alejandro Jodorowsky; François Jullien; Samson Kambalu; Alexandra Kleeman; Bruno Latour; Gil Leung; Candice Lin; Anthony Arthur Long; Catherine Lord; Maurice Louca; Gabriel Ann Maher; Jumana Manna; Christien Meindertsma; Lucy Mercer; Patrick Mudekereza; Nkisi; Jaakko Pallasvuo; Alice Rawsthorn; Rachel Rose; Declan Ryan; Aram Saroyan; Saskia Sassen; Tino Sehgal; Lorenzo Senni; Patrick Staff; Koki Tanaka; Julia Tcharfas; Territorial Agency; Time Is Away; Jalal Toufic; Dorothea von Hantelmann; Peter Wächtler; Binyavanga Wainaina; Mark Waldron; Grace Wales Bonner; Steven Warwick; Eyal Weizman; Kim West; Holly White and more.

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