Including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ross Sutherland and Paula Claire (picture below)
David Steans – A Preview
Our next event takes place on December 6th at The Castle Hotel, 7pm and is free as ever – hope to see you there. It features Sharon Kivland, Redell Olsen and David Steans. Here’s a little preview of David Steans:
More HERE
Zarf reading in Leeds – Bryony Bates, Danny Hayward, Me Lost Me (I Lost My)
Boiler House Press readings in London
Come and celebrate the London launch of 5 brand new titles from Boiler House Press. A post-launch DJ set is rumoured!
Atkins, Critchley, Herd, Hilson, Morris
Thursday, December 14 at 7 PM
Iklectic, Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG London
More via Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/events/1965787766993372/
Stephen Emmerson reading at Poem Brut
Well worth a watch. How terrific!
Redell Olsen – A Preview
Our next event takes place on December 6th at The Castle Hotel, 7pm and is free as ever – hope to see you there. It features Sharon Kivland, Redell Olsen and David Steans. Here’s a little preview of Redell Olsen:
say I and you London land marks
say I and you in London mark land
say London land is marked by you and I
say I and you make marks in London’s land
say I and you mark lands in London
say I and you marked by land
say London land marks
say long done land marks
say long done marks in land
say land in long marks in language
from Film Poems. See more HERE
Sharon Kivland – A Preview
Our next event takes place on December 6th at The Castle Hotel, 7pm and is free as ever – hope to see you there. It features Sharon Kivland, Redell Olsen and David Steans. Here’s a little preview of Sharon Kivland:
Find out more about Sharon HERE
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett interviewed in The Guardian
Other Room reader Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is interviewed in The Guardian. Terrfic to see!
Swims is a work of poetry that follows its author into open waters around the UK, where she finds both simple pleasure and more complicated political hope
Read more HERE
Tom Crosher’s photos from The Other Room – Davies, Mooney, Thurston
Tom Crosher took a number of photos of our night in October. Super thanks. There are more photos via the link under these photos.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RMBMb2hxWiZ6MOYQ2
Cardiff Poetry Experiment: Lisa Samuels, John Hall, Flo Fflach
28th November at 7pm. Waterloo Tea (21-25 Wyndham Arcade Cardiff, Cardiff)
21-25 Wyndham Arcade Cardiff, Cardiff, CF10 1FH.
Lisa Samuels is the author of fifteen books of poetry, memoir, and prose—mostly poetry—including Wild Dialectics (Shearsman 2012), Anti M (Chax 2013), Tender Girl (Dusie 2015), and Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman 2017). She also publishes essays and soundworks as well as editing books, collaborating with composers, and working with film. Living in Aotearoa/New Zealand since 2006 and having also lived in the Middle East, Europe, Malaysia, and the US, where she was born, has made transnationalism fundamental in her ethics and imagination. Lisa has a University of Virginia PhD and earns her living as an academic while also raising her son.
John Hall is a poet, retired teacher, essayist. He is author of several collections of poetry and of two volumes of essays. He also makes visual texts, mostly for domestic frames, and has been active in collaborations. He was closely involved in the formation of Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts. As a Said Place is his most recent collection of page-poems.johnhallpoet.org.uk
Flo Fflach AKA Maura Hazelden is a visual artist who has shifted to words/language, on the page & out of the mouth: poetic, abstract, lists. She studied dance, and later 2d design, and then fine art: timebased & photovisual [Caerdydd]. In 2009, she was accepted onto Dartington’s MA Performance Writing but had to defer, but took up a place at Falmouth. Works: PW12, Arnolfini; Noises of Art, Aberystwyth; Text Festival, Bury. Currently: Nid/Not Writer in Residence ArcadeCardiff. Making work that sometimes might fragmented have lost its original meaning; and lists.maurahazelden.blogspot.co.uk
Mathematics and Modern Literature 2018
The University of Manchester, Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th May 2018.
On the face of it, few activities, disciplines or modes of thinking seem as disparate or as incommensurable with one another as those of mathematics and literature. If, according to a common, broadly ‘Platonic’ conception of the subject, mathematics insists upon rigor and exactitude in order to discover eternal, objective and universal truths, literature is often imagined as addressing itself to that which is irreducibly human, subjective, particular or contingent. Where the one may be lauded for yielding access to a neutral, unchanging domain of that which is the same forever and for all, the other might be celebrated as the privileged medium of that which differs, or of that which is true or real for us as creatures of material, historical, cultural, intellectual and linguistic change.
Just as this sketch of ‘literature’ will not suffice—failing, as it does, to take account of the significant and often dramatic ways in which our conception of literature and the literary has shifted since the late nineteenth century—so the opposing caricature of mathematics proves inadequate to register the crises and developments that affected the field—and the ways in which mathematicians and others understood it—over the same period.
Please send proposals (250-300 words) for fifteen-minute papers to mathmodlit@gmail.com by 5th February 2018. Please include a short (100-150 word) biography with your abstract. Notification of decision will be made by 19th February 2018.
Full details here.
Confingo at Verbose
Monday 27th November at 8.00 PM. Fallow Café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, Manchester, M14 6NA.
The next Verbose will be a Confingo takeover, with readings from Nicholas Royle, Tom Jenks and others. Confingo is a biannual literary magazine published by Tim Shearer. Copies will be available to purchase.If you’re interested in having an open mic slot, email verbosemanchester@gmail.com
Adjacent Pineapple Two
Issue Two of Colin Herd’s lively new online magazine available at this LINK and featuring:
Verity Spott’s Kate’s Dream Diamond Anti-Fatigue Matting Surface out from Crater Press
Verity Spott’s Kate’s Dream Diamond Anti-Fatigue Matting Surface! 4pp., four colours, letterpressed, with a lino-cut by Verity. It’s £6 + p&p from www.craterpress.co.uk
Illuminations III : Peter Handke
Nov 15th 2017 – 6:30pm doors for 7pm start
Free entry (booking required, link http://www.acflondon.org/events/illuminations-iii-peter-handke/)
Austrian Cultural Forum. 28 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1PQ
Free entry (booking required, link http://www.acflondon.org/events/illuminations-iii-peter-handke/)
Austrian Cultural Forum. 28 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1PQ
New performances, readings and artworks by Verena Duerr, Eley Williams, Phil Baber, SJ Fowler, Stephen Watts and more to be announced.
One of the world’s foremost novelists, playwrights and poets, Peter Handke’s body of work is a question to the entire consciousness of post-war Europe. Wholly singular, often particularly divisive, Handke’s work creates an intensity out of the observational, skewers complacency and layers literature with the kind of distant complexity and forceful difficulty that actual living tends to bring. His work has been a beacon of critical and prolific experimentation, and his polarising persona and numerous works have forced European novelists of the last 50 years to, at the very least, accept or reject his style and substance. His output is remarkably underappreciated in the UK, if not generally unrecognised and so this event, in a small way, aims to rectify a considerable imbalance.
Verena Duerr, vienna-based musician and innovative lyric poet presents a made-for-the-night sound performance / Eley Williams, acclaimed fiction writer and poet presents new prose / SJ Fowler leads an in house mushroom forage / Stephen Watts reads Handke through his friend WG Sebald’s critical writing / Phil Baber, amsterdam-based performance artist and writer presents new translations and publications of Handke’s Repetition and To Duration. With more artists to be confirmed.
This event, by commissioning contemporary artists, writers, poets and theatre makers to each make a new work responding to the works or life of Handke, aims to transpose his work into a new moment – one that will stimulate as well as illuminate.
Details here.
Launch party : para·text issue four
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
A Theory of Minimalism by Marc Botha
Marc Botha’s stunning book is out now.
The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history. Detested by some, embraced by others, minimalism’s influence was immediate, pervasive and lasting, significantly changing the way we hear music, see art and read literature.
In The Theory of Minimalism, Marc Botha offers the first general theory of minimalism, equally applicable to literature, the visual arts and music. He argues that minimalism establishes an aesthetic paradigm for rethinking realism in genuinely radical terms. In dialogue with thinkers from both the analytic and continental traditions – including Kant, Danto, Agamben, Badiou and Meillassoux – Botha develops a constellation of concepts which together encapsulate the transhistorcial and transdisciplinary reach of minimalism.
House of Bedlam Concert in Manchester
The book of Matthew
Music and film by Larry Goves/Text by Matthew Welton
The wind around the orange-tree
brings on the smell
of nutskins mixed with whisky
mixed with lemons or rain…
From The book of Matthew; Matthew Welton, Carcanet, 2003
A piece for instruments and projected text using extracts Matthew Welton’s The book of Matthew; a collection of thirty-nine hauntingly beautiful poem variations arranged according to Roget’s Thesaurus.
Tithonus, Drunk
Music by Laurie Tompkins/Text by Sam Quill
Tithonus, drunk is a short soap about life on the sauce for four instrumentalists, electronics, and projected drinker.
House of Bedlam:
Kathryn Williams flutes
Harry Fausing-Smith & Carl Raven saxophones
Tom McKinney guitars
Steph Tress cello
Laurie Tompkins projected drinker
Larry Goves director
Free admission, no ticket required
Judith Wilson, Sandeep Parmar & James Davies reading in Hebden Bridge
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