Poet/artist collaborations at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield to coincide with the South Yorkshire Poetry Festival, including Brian Lewis and Andrew Hirst; Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker; Helen Tookey and Patricia Farrell. Closing Event 2pm on Saturday 30th May. The bar will be open and there’ll be short artist talks about each of the installations.
Out now on Test Centre. The book will be launched at X Marks the Bökship, in Matt’s Gallery, 42–44 Copperfield Road, Mile End, London E3 4RR, on June Wednesday 3rd at 7pm. Free entry and drinks.
FRIDAY May 29th, 7 PM start. Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm start! Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. He has four collections of poetry: Things To Do Before You Leave Town (2009), Twelve Nudes (2010), Hyakuretsu Kyaku (2011), and Emergency Window (2012), all published by Penned In The Margins. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an evening of literary miscellany in East London. http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/ Patricia Farrell lives in Liverpool. She is a poet and visual artist. She co-organised the SubVoicive reading series in London in the 1980s and was a member of the arts group New River Project. She has collaborated with other writers and artists, most notably Robert Sheppard, as well the installation artist Jivan Astfalck, on the project B*twixst, and with Jennifer Cobbing, and Veryan Weston on the dance piece, A Space Completely Filled with Matter, which is published this month by Veer Press. Her work is published in a range of magazines and collections, including A New Tonal language in the Reality Street‘4 pack’ series, as well as individual pamphlets: most recently, Seven Bays ofSpirituality (Knives Forks and Spoons Press). She completed a PhD thesis in 2011 on poetic artifice in philosophical writing. Her collection, The Zechstein Sea, was published by Shearsman Books in 2013. http://patriciafarrell.weebly.com/
Luke Allan will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Amy Cutler and Peter Hughes. Below is an example of his work – one sandwich from his series ‘eight sandwiches’.
See more at his website HERE
Steve Boyland
Sophie Herxheimer
Mark Greenwood
J R Carpenter
Jerome Fletcher
Lou Rowan
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DATE: Sunday, 24 May
TIME: 19:00–22:00
VENUE: Power Lunches
ADDRESS: 446 Kingsland Road, Hackney, London, E8 4AE
An evening of readings/performances hosted by VLAK magazine to mark the launch of VLAK 5, featuring Lou Rowan, Stewart Home, Jim Ruland, Ulli Freer, Becky Cremin, Sean Bonney, Will Rowe, Louis Armand, David Vichnar, Nat Raha, Tim Atkins, Jeff Hilson and more.
SPECIAL FEATURE: Launch of Richard Makin’s new novel, MOURNING (published by Equus Press, 2015).
Words Out of Time deforms and reforms a story of Sheppard’s life as an othering, an ‘autrebiography’, in modes that include what he calls ‘unwriting’, working through and transforming diaries and journals. The Given tells it in four different ways, from a litany of what hasn’t been remembered, to an alphabetical disfigurement of its features. Arrival invents a demonic sibling, generated from the diaries, restlessly inhabiting lyrics, a short story, an essay and footnotes. In When Sheppard goes conceptual with ‘With’, while ‘Words’ weaves abandoned (found) texts to shake up this history; ‘Work’ distends temporality, reverses standard autobiography’s fascination with origins, slows down time to show how work works its way into a life. Out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Sophie Mayer’s fourth published poetry collection, (O), is a bittersweet lovesong to zombies, tattoos, lovers and sisters, Katniss and Pussy Riot, Artemis and suffragists. In three parts – I DO, I UNDO, I REDO – the poet undoes herself and all around her in a cycle that takes her back to the start as it comes to an end. Spirited, politicised, contemporary and Classical, these poems bring a poetic voice to the women that have lived in the cracks of history. In her own words: “Nothing – and everything – is sacred in this new cosmogony, beginning again with O.” Published by Arc.
Dave Mourice and Tristran Miller designed this random generator which writes new sonnets from Shakespeare’s original lines – LINK
Click the poster to enlarge.
Featuring reviews of Other Room performer Nathan Walker’s Action Score Generator, an interview with Marton Koppany and lots more!
Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London, E1 7LS. 16 to 24 May 2015. Open daily, 11am to 6pm.
Speaking Parts, a ten day exhibition framed by two weekends of performance, brings together artists who weave text and language – from poetic prose to the spoken word and scored voice – into the fabric of sculpture, film, painting and performance.
The works in the exhibition are for the most part ephemeral and portable, and depend on the input of the artist, collaborators and/or audience to be fully realised. Each piece has its own temporality, from one-off performance to intermittent activation.
During Speaking Parts, Raven Row will host Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live, an evening celebrating the work of the great British concrete poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002), with performances by Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, Hannah Silva and David Toop.
Artists in Speaking Parts are Brian Catling (b. 1948, UK), Michael Dean (b. 1977, UK), Natalie Häusler (b. 1983, Germany), Ewa Partum (b. 1945, Poland), Heather Phillipson (b. 1978, UK), Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985, Poland) and Giorgio Sadotti (b. 1955, UK). The exhibition is curated by Amy Budd, writer and Exhibitions Organiser, Raven Row.
The exhibition will open with a series of performances on Friday 15 May for which places must be reserved. Admission is free. Please book your places for this and the two other evenings of performance following the links below.
Please note Speaking Parts will be open daily from Saturday 16 to Sunday 24 May.
Performance Programme:
Friday 15 May, 6.30pm: Ewa Partum, Natalie Häusler, Giorgio Sadotti. Book here.
Wednesday 20 May, 6.30pm: Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live with Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, Hannah Silva and David Toop. Book here.
Saturday 23 May, 6.30pm: Agnieszka Polska and David Bernstein, Brian Catling, Michael Dean, Giorgio Sadotti. Book here.
Beginning on the 19th May through to 5th June 2015 2015
visiting Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Hay-on-Wye & London
Gelynion is an exploration of contemporary Welsh poetry through the potential of collaboration. Shining a light on the often overlooked contemporary Welsh avant-garde, and placing that work firmly beside more literary poetry and the Cynghanedd tradition, Gelynion aims to bring together communities of writers that might not otherwise collaborate, from all four corners of the country & beyond. Generously supported by the Arts Council of Wales & Poetry Wales, Gelynion will also produce these original collaborations in both of Wales’ languages.
Gelynion involves over 40 poets with a core group performing new collaborations each night throughout the tour, including Poetry Wales’s Nia Davies, Joe Dunthorne, Zoë Skoulding, Eurig Salisbury, SJ Fowler and Rhys Trimble. The core poets will tour these new pieces in rolling pairs throughout Wales and at each reading multiple poets from the local area and beyond are invited to create their own collaborations.
The tour begins in Newport on May 19th and visits Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor before a culminating premiere performance at the Hay-on-Wye festival on May 29th. Then the project will close for 2015 with a reading at the Rich Mix Arts Centre in London on June 5th.
Gelynion is co-curated by Nia Davies & SJ Fowler, and generously supported by Arts Council Wales, Poetry Wales & the Hay-on-Wye festival.
Edge Hill University writers at The Tate Liverpool. Saturday, May 16, 2015 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. A reading of surrealist and fantastical new writing, inspired by Leonora Carrington. Readers include Ailsa Cox, Claire Dean, James Byrne, Tom Jenks and Jenny Barrett. Free, but you can confirm a place here.
A Field Guide to Lost Things reconfigures every single image of a natural object in CKS Moncrieff’s 1922 English translation of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way—the first three novels of In Search of Lost Time. The guide includes images of nature encountered by Proust’s characters in rural landscapes, cities, towns and parks, as well as in the bodies of other characters.
Out Now from if p then q priced at £7
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A new issue of Junction Box which: wants to provide a space for poets, primarily, but also for other kinds of creative and critical practitioners, to talk about the world, themselves and the others, in a free and category-open fashion. We declare a bias in favour of the exploratory, the reactive, the immediate, what one might call a spirit of unprepossession, as against reflections in tranquility on carefully packaged residues of experience. By means of essays, reviews, improvisations, anecdotes, eruptions, interviews, manifestoes and the like, Junction Box will attempt to get under the skin of a small portion of the cultural universe, to reveal the swarming inter-cellular activities that make it glow.
Featuring: Sophie Mayer, Felicity Allen and Simon Smith, Kat Peddie, Tilla Brading, Allen fisher and Anthony Mellors, David Greenslade, Penny Hallas, James Davies, Helen Moore, Doug Jones, Alan Halsey and Lyndon Davies
Stephen Emmerson’s mutational translational project continues, with Rilke and mushrooms.
TUESDAY 12th MAY
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
http://cardiffpoetryexperiment.blogspot.co.uk
Featuring:
Samantha Walton
D. E. Oprava
Peter Jaeger
Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, with discussions. Refreshments, cake available at the Teahouse.
Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)
Samantha Walton is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Amaranth, Unstitched (Punch Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Animal Pomes from Crater Press. She’s read at events including the UEA Poetry Festival, Surrey Poetry Festival, Lit Live at Goldsmiths and as part of Enemies collaborations in London, Edinburgh and Wales. In 2015 Samantha will be Poet in Residence at the SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word in Cork, Ireland. Tweets @samlwalton
D.E. Oprava is an American-born writer who has lived in Wales for almost two decades. He has published six collections of poetry, the latest of which, The Last Museum of Laughter, was highly commended by the 2014 Forward Prizes for Poetry and he recently won the 2015 London Book Fair Poetry Prize for Haiku. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University and has work forthcoming from Red Hen Press and Pighog Press in 2016.
Peter Jaeger is a Canadian text-based artist, poet, and literary critic now living in London. He is the author of eleven books, and his most recent publications include John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics (Bloomsbury 2013), 540493390 (Veer Press 2014), and A Field Guide to Lost Things (forthcoming this year from If P then Q Press). Jaeger is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University in London.
Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
Poetry Comic Books Exhibition
At The Poetry Library, Southbank
Tuesday 12th May, 7.30
The exhibition invites you to explore the world of Poetry Comics (from 12th May – 12th July) with items from The Saison Poetry Library collection and beyond.
This terrain, in which word and image meet, can be seen as building upon the tradition of Blake’s Illuminated Books and making it new. Includes works on display from Kenneth Koch, Joe Brainard and Bianca Stone and a range of reading copies of books including Howl: A Graphic Novel by Eric Drooker and Allen Ginsberg and Beowulf Cartoon by Mike Weller.
Admission is free. To book your place email:
specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk
otherroom.org 