The Blue Bus – James Davies, Stephen Emmerson & Cathy Weedon

The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by James Davies, Stephen Emmerson and Cathleen Weedon on Tuesday 19th August from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninety-first event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).

Cathy Weedon was born in Stoke-on-Trent and moved to Luton in the 70’s. A former student of Keith Jebb, she recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire. In previous years she has created visual poetry. She will read a selection from her series of poems ‘1-50’.

Stephen Emmerson’s most recent publications are Telegraphic Transcriptions (Dept Press/Stranger Press), No Ideas But In Things (Dark Windows), All my Pornography (The Red Ceilings), Comfortable Knives (KFS). He also produces poetry objects which include ‘A never ending poem…(Zimzalla), ‘Albion’ (Like This Press), ‘The Last Ward’ (Very Small Kitchen), ‘Pharmacopoetics’,(Apple Pie Editions) and ‘Stephen Emmerson’s Poetry Wholes’ (If P then Q).Installations / exhibitions include: Albion, The Dark Would, Visual Poetics at the South Bank Centre, Pharmacopoetics, Farringdon Factory, and Illuminations.He also co-edits Blart Books with Lucy Harvest Clarke.More info about his work can be found here https://stephenemmerson.wordpress.com/

James Davies’ poetry collections include AcronymsA Dog, Plants and most recently Two Fat Boys. Three major works are currently in progress: stackIf the die rolls 5 then I stampthe date and The Lovers – a collaborative novel with Philip Terry. For the last 6 years he has run the poetry night and website The Other Room and edited the publishing house if p then q.

 

Marcus Slease – Rides

“There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate” said Kathy Acker. This is pirate literature. On a train. Partly inspired by Ted Berrigan’s Train Ride from 1971, Rides has a reality hunger. A mash up of memories and  observations on train rides all over the U.K. Out now on Blart Books.

Otoliths 34

Online now, featuring  Ken Bolton, Anne Gorrick, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Jessie Janeshek, Christopher Mulrooney, Richard Kostelanetz, Philip Byron Oakes, Steve Timm, Pete Spence, Thomas Michael Gillaspy, Jim Meirose, Jack Galmitz, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, Tom Beckett, Joe Balaz, B. T. Joy, Raymond Farr, Louise Landes Levi, SS Prasad, Philip Hammial, Cecelia Chapman, Bobbi Lurie, Pam Brown, Nicola Griffin, John McKernan, Natsuko Hirata, Shataw Naseri, Eileen R. Tabios, John Lowther, sean burn, Mary Kasimor & Susan Lewis, Stephen Nelson, Sheila E. Murphy, Michelle Greenblatt & Sheila E. Murphy, bruno neiva, Aditya Bahl, Andrew Topel, Leigh Herrick, Satu Kaikkonen, Andrew K. Peterson, Andrew Brenza, Marco Giovenale, Marcello Diotallevi, Jeff Harrison, David-Baptiste Chirot, Marcus Liljedahl, Felino A. Soriano, Jeremy Freedman, Carol Stetser, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, J. D. Nelson, Bob Heman, Francesco Levato, Mark Staniforth, Lakey Comess, Ong Sher Li, Kit Kennedy, Cherie Hunter Day, Texas Fontanella, Maureen Alsop, Marty Hiatt, Katrinka Moore, Owen Bullock, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Susan Gangel & Terry Turrentine, Jake Goetz, Michael Brandonisio, Alice Allan, Chris D’Errico, sven staelens, Bogdan Puslenghea, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Nurul Wahidah, Eric Hoffman, Spencer Selby, John Pursch, & Marilyn Stablein.

WF(N)

The next WF(N) workshop meeting is August 16th, in the function room of the Terrace Bar, Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, 2 – 4 PM.

Bring a poem you like by someone else & and one of your own.

Filling Station: Call for Submissions

For the final Issue of 2014, Issue 61, filling Station is looking for collaborative works of Poetry, Fiction, Non Fiction & Visual Art. Acknowledging the innately experimental quality of text produced cooperatively, fS is seeking innovative work both produced through collaboration and on/about collaboration. Submissions might include, for example, work produced through a partnership of two, the collaborative efforts of an entire community, or work produced through specific techniques, like collage, cut-up, erasure and constraint. fS would also like to see manifestos, essays, interviews and articles on – or written through the process of – collaboration, as well as reviews on recent works of collaborative writing and art.

Junction Box Number 6

Junction Box 6

Is Now Live

Peter Finch: Asheville
John Goodby: Translations from Pierre Reverdy
Steve Boyland interviewed by Scott Thurston
David Rees Davies: Human/Nature
Rhian Bubear: RS Thomas: ‘The Echoes Return Slow’ as a poet’s autobiography
Frances Presley: Dancing the Five Rhythms with Scott Thurston
Chris Paul: The Bosch Collective
Ric Hool: Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Chris Vine: Notes from Brazil
Wu Fusheng and Graham Hartill: Translating Chinese Poetry
John Freeman: Holiday Reading

TO SEE JUNCTION BOX 6, CLICK HERE: glasfrynproject.org.uk/w/category/junction-box/

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

The latest issue of the Journal of British and Irish Poetry is now out, featuring articles on Tambimuttu (Matt Chambers), J.H. Prynne and The English Intelligencer (Ryan Dobran), Ian Hamilton Finlay and Thomas A. Clark (Ross Hair) and Denise Riley (Samuel Solomon). The issue also features conference reports on the Allen Fisher symposium @ Northumbria (SL Mendoza), Literary Collaboration @ Edge Hill (Tom Jenks) and Nomadic Poetics @ Bangor (Steven Hitchens). The reviews section covers The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (Joanne Ashcroft), An Andrew Crozier Reader (Alex Latter) and The Ground Aslant (James Wilkes). More here.

Gareth Twose – a preview

The next Other Room takes place on August 13th at The Castle in Manchester and starts at 7pm: see the middle panel for more. Readers are Gareth Twose, Alison Gibb and M J Weller.

Here’s a preview – part nine of his sequence Top Ten Tyres Ltd published by Red Ceilings Press

9.
Did prehistoric man have bone-music discos?
Saturday night femur? The funk-fracturing
of tibia and fibula in the caves of mutually
assured destruction, musical marathons
alternating blisters and bliss in the hard minutes
that follow the clinical cosh. The ear-y discharge
of erotic heat always with a potential for disaster.
Vital that the patient keeps the leg elevated
and doesn’t let it dangle, grinding down
the debts, low and slow, with iceflame austerity.