16 October at 17:30. Lecture Theatre 9, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.
Audience and Readership: A panel with James Davies, Jim Hinks, Alec Newman and Togara Muzanenhamo
Audience and Readership: A panel with James Davies, Jim Hinks, Alec Newman and Togara Muzanenhamo
Who do publishers sell their work to? How do they know where the work of their authors ends up? How do writers go about presenting and promoting their work? Are there any demographics of potential readers who are unaware of a work or publisher’s existence? How do both publishers and poets maintain their readership and also encourage the growth of audience? In this lively panel discussion James Davies, poet and editor of if p then q, poses these questions and more to Jim Hinks editor of Comma Press, Alec Newman editor of Knives Forks and Spoons and Carcanet poet Togara Muzanenhamo.
3pm
11/10/2014
11am – 4pm
Bank Street Arts
Sheffield
This free event is part of Independent Publishers’ Fair at the The Off the Shelf Festival
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Matt Fallaize: a preview
Matt Fallaize will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start.
For a flavour of his work, visit Ekleksographia or erbacce.
The other performers will be Ulli Freer, Emma Cocker and Jon Thompson.
Tripwire 7
Jen Coleman, Leslie Kaplan (trans. Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap), Rodrigo Toscano, Jeroen Mettes (trans. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & introduced by Samuel Vriezen), Lesego Rampolokeng, Heather Fuller, Nathan Cordero, Donato Mancini, Trish Salah, Arnold Joseph Kemp, Hsia Yü (trans. Steve Bradbury), Carlos Soto-Román, Tonya Foster, Rachel Zolf, Eric Sneathen on Dodie Bellamy, Julia Bloch on Divya Victor, Robin Tremblay-McGaw on Harryette Mullen, Nicky Tiso on David Wolach, plus a special feature on British poetry, featuring Nat Raha, Sean Bonney, Connie Scozzaro, Francesca Lisette, Emily Critchley, Verity Spott, William Rowe, Jennifer Cooke, Robert Kiely on Samantha Walton, and Colleen Herd & Pocahontas Mildew. October 2014. 230 pages.
Emma Cocker: a preview
Emma Cocker will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start.
This film shows Emma and Clare Thornton performing Games of Resonance. You can find more films at Emma’s Vimeo channel. For more, see her work at VerySmallKitchen and also her blog about Not There Yet, a currently unfolding project.
The other performers will be Ulli Freer, Matt Fallaize and Jon Thompson.
Syndrome 2.3: Caroline Bergvall – Drift
adv. £5 / £6/7 on door
8pm // TUESDAY 7th OCT
24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool
Drift takes you on a journey through time and space, where languages mix, where the ancient cohabits with the present.
Internationally renowned writer and performer Caroline Bergvall teams up with the Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach, Swiss visual artist and programmer Thomas Köppel and Swiss dramaturge Michel Pralong for this unique and extraordinary performance concert. Using live voice, live percussion and 3D text treatments, they create a dense, moveable and abstract universe of drifting, shifting, sounding language mass. An intensely hypnotic work.
Drift invents a language of connections and of extremes: from Anglo-Saxon and ancient Nordic seafaring literature to rare pop songs to human rights reports of contemporary sea migrants’ disaster. A complex and haunting meditation on sea travel, exile and history. A contemporary elegy.
Inspired by the anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer, Drift was originally commissioned for the festival lost.last.gru by Grü/Transtheatre, Geneva. It recently opened Shorelines Festival of the Sea, Southend-on-Sea, to great acclaim.
Thank heaven for Caroline Bergvall, an artist and poet pushing the boundaries of language in a blogged-up and twittering world.
– The Guardian
This is a truly international show and the premiere of DRIFT in the UK – make sure you can say that you were there!
– Rachel Lichtenstein, writer and curator of Shorelines
More here.
zimZalla at the Hardy Tree
In approaching five years of existence, zimZalla has now published 25 objects. To mark this, there will be an exhibition of all of the objects so far at the Hardy Tree gallery near King’s Cross in London, running from 18th – 30th October. In collaboration with SJ Fowler’s Enemies project, there will be two events during this time, the, first also featuring writers from The Red Ceilings press, on the evening of the 18th and a second event on the 27th.
Ulli Freer: a preview
Ulli Freer will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start. For a flavour of Ulli’s work, try this film of him reading at the Poetry and Revolution conference in 2012, his profile at Salt or Robert Sheppard’s essay on his work in Jacket. The other performers will be Emma Cocker, Matt Fallaize and Jon Thompson.
Knives Forks and Spoons Pop up Reading
On Saturday 4th October from 1pm to 4pm featuring PATRICIA FARRELL, ROBERT SHEPPARD JAMES BYRNE and JOANNE ASHCROFT, all of whom have books published by KFS, at St Helens Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DY. If you are travelling by train, DO NOT GO TO St HELENS JUNCTION. Instead, travel to St Helens Central Station.
BlazeVox Fall 2014
Hix Eros 5
NUMBER 5: Reviews of Connie Scozzaro, Dodie Bellamy, Richard Barrett, J.H. Prynne, Laura Elrick, the anthology ‘I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women,’ the journal ‘No Prizes,’ Amy Todman, J.L. Williams and Nat Raha. Edited by Lindsay/Luna; designed, typeset and produced by Robbie Dawson. September 2014.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
P. Inman Written 1976-2013
Inman’s Written 1976-2013 is published today by Manchester publisher if p then q. The book is available for £20 and good postage rates are available both in the UK, USA and other locations.
The volume offers an incredible introduction and reappraisal of the work of one of the twentieth and twenty first century’s most outstanding poets. It includes the collections: Platin, Ocker, Uneven Development, Think of One, Red Shift, Criss Cross, Vel, at. least., amounts. to., Ad Finitum and Per Se in ‘final’ versions, as well as a number of other previously uncollected poems.
The volume also includes a sumptuous, lengthy essay by Craig Dworkin covering Inman’s career to date.
Without a doubt it is essential reading.
This is what Michael Golston has to say about the collection:
The collected P. Inman! It’s about time—and a lot of other words—many of which have never been seen or heard before. Inman’s half-century project of the complete dérèglement de tous la langue marks one of the endpoints of the great arc of American poetry, where the bow bends all the way to touch the ground. You’ll find a pot of linguistic gold there: Written is writing written at the limits of written writing. Accompanied by Craig Dworkin’s fantastic introductory essay, this book is sure to become a classic in the ongoing history of the avant-garde.
New McCabe/Jenks collaboration
The sixth collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks is inspired by Marcel Duchamp and can be found here. As with the previous five, this collaboration is for SJ Fowler’s Camarade project. Selections from it will be presented at the Camarade event at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on 25th October.
Manchester No Spy Zone anthology
April 12th 2014 at Terrace Bar, Northern Quarter, Manchester Peter Barlow’s Cigarette held a reading to protest against state spying and the creeping erosion of freedom of speech. The pieces performed that night dealt with those topics and more. Manchester Poets Declare A No Spy Zone is the anthology that collects together the work first heard that night. New and original work from 14 poets features in the book: Tim Allen; Richard Barrett; Sue Birchenough; Sarah Crewe; Matt Dalby; Philip Davenport; Joey Frances; Tom Jenks; David Keyworth; Rachel Sills; Chris Stephenson; Scott Thurston; Gareth Twose and Steven Waling. The anthology also features a CD recording from Matt Dalby of his performance on the night – Mass Observation Live. Copies of the book are available from PBC Press.
Holly Pester: Telephone
Wooden K2 Telephone Kiosk, Burlington House entranceway, Piccadilly W1J 0BD
19th September 2014 – 3rd May 2015.
The first red telephone kiosk designed in 1924 by renowned architect Giles Gilbert Scott is the site for four new sound works commissioned by Measure, a non-for-profit arts organisation. The historic structure installed under the entranceway to Burlington House, Piccadilly was the only wooden prototype made of this iconic design.
Marking the 90th anniversary, Measure will present a programme of sonic compositions by UK-based artists to be listened to through the telephone handset. Presented consecutively artists Holly Pester, Aura Satz, Dan Scott and Lawrence Abu Hamdan will each probe the cultural role of the public telephone, its technological design and its relevance as a site for solitary conversation within a bustling central London setting.
nick-e melville: ALERT STATE IS HEIGHTENED
Collage has a long history in avant garde practice, from Picasso, Braque and Schwitters in the visual arts to Cage, Mac Low and Pound in literature. Marjorie Perloff, whilst noting its experimental origins, is dismissive of its current value: “What was once a revolutionary technique is now the staple of advertising and greeting cards.” Part of the reason for this it is now, in the digital age, so much easier to do. Cut and paste has replaced scissors and glue and the internet gives us all the library of Babel in our pocket. It is true, as Perloff notes, that some examples of collage are unambitious and uninteresting. It is also, true, however, that a lot depends on who is doing the collaging. nick-e melville’s work is very far from being a Hallmark message or a commercial break. Rather it is a sustained detournement of the tricks and tropes of advanced capitalism. It is a work of deconstruction in that it picks apart the smoothed texts of reification and commerce that are forever around us, but it is also a work of construction, taking these threads and fragments and weaving them together into a giant magpie’s nest. ALERT STATE IS HEIGHTENED is as dense as a cubed car in a scrapyard and as heavy as the Death Star. This is a text made of texts, artificial in its conception and execution, yet as authentic an expression of individuality as you are likely to find.
From Q to M – Three Centuries of Typewriter Art
Storm and Golden Sky #7 with Tom Jenks and Sophie McKeand
Bruno Neiva: Dough
‘The minimisation of structure mushrooms the crown crush of these poetical asides by the singular Portuguese avant gardist bruno neiva. The murderous accuracy that laser guiding systems clearly possess, but are not trained to employ, emanates from this taut, surgical work. It is a satire, a corrosive against double speak & offalous officialdom, with all the intensity of a brilliant visual poet taking to a more lyrical lingual poesis.’ SJ Fowler.
Out now on erbacce.
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