Online poetry magazine edited by Luke Thurogood, open for submissions.
Storm and Golden Sky: Natasha Borton and John Redmond
Friday 25th September, 7 PM start, £5. Up the stairs (at the back of the bar room) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool.
Natasha Borton is Welsh writer. She is part of Voicebox Collective in Wrexham, North Wales and Talking Doorsteps, the international collective with Roundhouse and British Arts Council. She has been published in Litmus, Erbacce, For Books Sake and threeandahalfpointnine. Natasha performs regularly in North Wales and the North West including the Bluecoat, Everyman and Playhouse and The Lowry. Natasha was runner up for the Erbacce prize and her chapbook Signed Asbestos will be coming out late 2015.
John Redmond was born in Dublin in 1967. After completing a D. Phil on the subject of contemporary poetry at Oxford, he taught for two years at Macalester College in Minnesota. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. MUDe and Thumb’s Width are published by Carcanet. He reviews poetry widely and was associated with the poetry magazine, Thumbscrew. He has published a textbook How to Write a Poem (Oxford: Blackwell) and was the editor of James Liddy: Selected Poems (Dublin: Arlen House). His critical book Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry has just been published by Seren.
Chris Pusateri: a preview
Chris Pusateri will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 7th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 PM start, free entry. The other readers will be Robert Hampson, Alistair Noon and Michelle Naka Pierce. Read more about Chris here.
Second Space 01.02: Nick-e Melville – Lyrical Commands
A short film by Other Room reader Nick-e Melville.
R.T.A. Parker: 99 Sonnets About Evil
A Canary Woof Occasional available via Crater Press.
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
September 30: Vahni Capildeo, Amy McCauley (featuring a Greek drama collaboration with Wanda O’Connor), Katrin Selina Lloyd. Event to be held at Waterloo Teahouse, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff centre, 7pm start time.
more HERE
Robert Hampson: a preview
Robert Hampson will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 7th October. For a flavour of his work, try this clip of him reading at the 2013 Camaradefest. Full bio, for Robert below. The other readers are Michelle Naka Pierce, Alistair Noon and Chris Pusateri.
Robert Hampson has been involved in poetry and poetry publishing since the 1970s, when he co-edited Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards. His selected poems, Assembled Fugitives, was published by Stride in 2001. More recent publications include an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), reworked disasters (KFS, 2013), which was longlisted for the Forward Prize, and sonnets 4 sophie (pushtika, 2015). His best-known work is Seaport (1995), which was re-issued by Shearsman in 2008. He is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches on the Poetic Practice pathway of the MA in Creative Writing.
Tea and Cakes with Long Poem Magazine
12 September, 14:00–17:00. The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX.
“Pop in for a cup of tea, meet the editors, buy the magazine & bring along a long poem to read. Let us know if you’d like to read & we’ll add you to the list. Entrance £2.50. Raffle. mail@longpoemmagazine.org.uk”
New from the Red Ceilings
New from Knives Forks and Spoons
Verbose
Monday 28 September, featuring Ian McGuire, John McAuliffe and Geoff Ryman.
Dagestan: SJ Fowler
Dagestan is a place we go to fight for money. A place where we are paid to be filmed, and perhaps be killed.
Dagestan is an thrilling new play by poet and martial artist SJ Fowler, set in the shadowy world of global security. Enter the minds of military contractors to uncover a culture of violence, gallows humour and moral uncertainty.
Fri 16 October – Sat 17 October at the Rich Mix, London.
Produced by Penned in the Margins
Rachel Sills video from The Other Room August 2015
Tear Fet video from The Other Room August 2015
Spruce by Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks has a new book out by the great blart press.
Spruce is poem of the long now, where everything that happens and has happened happens at once, where King John and Lenin occupy the same space as Piers Morgan and the cast of Glee. Written rapidly in longhand on lunch breaks, on public transport and in various provincial shopping malls and melancholic chain hotels in David Cameron’s Britain, Spruce could be called a business park pastoral or a sustained work of muffled hysteria, like someone screaming under a duvet.
Michael Zand video from The Other Room August 2015
The Other Room interviews Tear Fet
Moniker versus moniker. James Davies interviews Matt Dalby about his recent day walk around the M60 and the art that’s come out of it. Click on the image to read
This is the second in The Other Room series of print interviews; a full six years after we interviewed Ron Padgett! See that one here
Over the Line launches
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Knives Forks and Spoons poets illuminated in Blackpool
The theme for this year’s National Poetry Day (8th October) is ‘light’ and this autumn the Knives Forks and Spoons Press will be displaying a poetry anthology in lights as part of the Blackpool Illuminations. The work of 11 poets will be exhibited on 21 lights, which will be seen by more than three million visitors – ensuring that this will be the most widely read anthology of 2015.
The poems will be on display from the 4th September to the 15th November 2015, and will be installed on Blackpool’s famous cliff section at the North Shore. This project was made possible by funding from Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme.
Alec Newman, from Knives Forks and Spoons, said: “this is a tremendously exciting project, because it will bring a new and exceptionally large audience to poetry, and give that audience the opportunity to engage with the work of some of the most exciting experimental poets working today.”
The 11 poets participating in this anthology in lights are: Leanne Bridgewater, Fiona Cameron, Finella and Philip Davenport, Kate Duckney, Ann Mathews, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Nicky Mesch, Yvonne Reddick, Rachel Sills, and Juliet Troy.
More HERE
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