Wowee. Not to be missed. See below.
Tim Atkins will read the whole of his Collected Petrarch published by Crater Press.
30th July 2pm-2am
8 Kennington Park House
Kennington Park
London
SE11 4JT
E.ratio 19
New issue out now, plus e-chaps by Eileen R. Tabios and David Berridge.
History Arising
History Arising takes place on Thursday the 24th of July at TOAST, Manchester, 18:00-21:00. The evening event is the third instalment of Shady Dealings With Language series and is curated with artist Joseph Noonan Ganley. It includes new performance works by poet Sarah Kelly, artist and sociologist Nina Wakeford, a screening from award winning filmmaker Chris Paul Daniels and a new live work from artist Frank Wasser.
Considering cliché as a generative form, works are presented by artists and writers who take cultural embarrassments head-on within their practices, to produce works that address the bubbling-up of histories present in their respective production techniques, their research materials, modes of delivery and approaches to audience. How might these traces of history be temporally different, how might they be read, if they were to be mapped onto a singing voice, an act of writing, the making of paper, a script, a documentary film?
For one night History Arising will occupy the sixth floor of Castlefield Gallery’s Federation House to designate a space for a sincerely positioned ambivalence toward histories both personal and cultural and their representation in contemporary research and art practices.
BABA, Lucy Harvest Clarke
“There is much else to admire in this work which is deeply engaged in poetic tradition at the same time as it radically reinvents it; offering a precise, completely integrated diction that is expressive without becoming sentimental or egotistical, and intelligently discriminating without becoming abstract. Harvest Clarke’s achievement here certainly puts her in the top flight of lyric poets working in the UK today, and her work deserves the widest possible audience.”
Scott Thurston reviews BABA by Lucy Harvest Clarke at Stride.
Hazel Smith and Roger Dean video The Other Room July 2014
Clive and Robin Fencott video at The Other Room July 2014
Allen Fisher video from The Other Room June 2014
Leanne Bridgewater video from The Other Room June 2014
Ágnes Lehóczky video from June 2104 The Other Room
Matthew Caley, Sophie Herxheimer, Kathy Pimlott
Caroline Bergvall: Drift @ Southbank Centre
Caroline Bergvall brings her extraordinary new collaborative work DRIFT to London’s Southbank Centre (Purcell Room) as part of Poetry International. 17th July, 18:00 start.
Presented by Penned in the Margins with Sound and Music
Drift takes you on a journey through time and space, where languages mix, where live percussion meets live voice, where the ancient cohabits with the present. Ancient tales of exile and love re-emerge to shadow today’s lives and losses.
Internationally renowned performer Caroline Bergvall teams up with experimental Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach and Swiss visual artist Thomas Köppel and together they invent a language of extremes: from the ancient pool of English and Nordic poetry to the lyrics of pop songs and damning human rights reports into contemporary sea migrants’ disaster. The 3D treatment of the texts by Köppel transforms the narrative into a dense, abstract canvas of drifting language mass, enhancing the hypnotic quality of the work. It also acts as a reminder of the endless changes undergone by the English language in its many histories.
Drift was originally commissioned for the festival lost.las.gru by Gru/Transtheatre, Geneva.
Tickets: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/caroline-bergvall-drift-83753
Tour details: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2013/08/caroline-bergvall-drift/
Storm and Golden Sky
NIALL CAMPBELL and HELEN TOOKEY
FRIDAY 18th July June 2014
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £4, 7 pm start.
Niall Campbell is a Scottish poet originally from South Uist in the Western Isles. He received an Eric Gregory Award (2011) and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship (2011). Niall also won the Poetry London Competition in 2013. His first pamphlet, After the Creel Fleet, was released in 2012 by Happenstance Press. Moontide, his first collection, is published by Bloodaxe and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
http://niallcampbellpoet.wordpress.com/
Helen Tookey is a poet, writer and editor, originally from Leicester and now based in Liverpool. Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies and her first full-length collection, Missel-Child, is out now from Carcanet Press. Grevel Lindop described her poems as having ‘a genuine eeriness’, going on to say ‘She has interests in both archaeology and psychology, but knows intuitively that they aren’t separate’. Many of the poems in Missel-Child explore borderland spaces and hint at the return of buried material: ‘The gravelled path gives way to broken angles, / burials of water. Follow it’. Tookey writes in a variety of modes and forms, including metrical and free verse, syllabics, collage and other uses of found text. Writing in Poetry London, Clare Pollard called her ‘one of the most exciting users of collage I’ve seen for a long while’
http://helentookey.wordpress.com/
Born of a Liverpool taste for variety and drama, Storm and Golden Sky offers literary high style from across the poetic landscape. Programmed by a collective of Liverpool-based poets, Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees.
The Wolf in Manchester
The Wolf magazine launch
@ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY
On Monday 28th July. Time 7.30pm.
The Wolf, a leading international poetry magazine, arrives in Manchester to launch issue 30, with readings from Ilya Kaminsky, John Redmond, Scott Thurston and Sophie Mayer.
Hosted by James Byrne, Editor of The Wolf.
Free Entry. RSVP via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wolf-launches-issue-30-tickets-12014895877?ref=estw
or email thewolfpoetry@hotmail.com
There will be some wine available on the night.
The Wolf is a hugely influential literary magazine with a transatlantic readership. Ithas been publishing poetry, reviews, visual art and critical prose since 2002 and is now based in the North West. This event will launch issue 30 of the magazine with readings from Ilya Kaminsky, a poet from Odessa, Ukraine regarded by many as one of the leading poets of his generation and launching his debut collection in England Dancing in Odessa (Arc Publications). Carolyn Forché said of his work that he is“a poet of promise fulfilled. I am in awe of his gifts”. He edited the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry and lives in San Diego. John Redmond is the author of two collections of poems, Thumb’s Width and MUDe—both published by Manchester-based press Carcanet—the former having been longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award. Scott Thurston’s most recent book of poetry is Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer, 2011). He teaches at the University of Salford, co-edits the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and co-runs The Other Room reading series in Manchester. Sophie Mayer is a poet, editor and literary and film critic. She is currently Poet in Residence at Archive of the Now and her recent books include Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman Books, 2009) and The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011). Her latest book, (O), will appear from Arc Publications next year.
Footsy Index 6
Footsy Index 6 – Tuesday, July 29 at 7:00pm
Artslav, Kennington, 180 Kennington Lane, just by The Doghouse pub
Stephen Emmerson, Emma Hammond, Scott Thurston, KEEM
FREE
FREE
More info HERE
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Blue Bus – Lawrence Upton, Sarah Kelly and Juliet Troy
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Lawrence Upton, Sarah Kelly and Juliet Troy on Tuesday 15th July from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninetieth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Juliet Troy completed an MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway University in 2013. She has had poetry published in: Poetry Salzburg Review, Fire no.33, and Fire No. 31, Neon Highway, Ver Poets ‘Unguarded Gold’ and 40th Anniversary Anthology, Ver poets Ten Liners and had a poem selected in the recent Ver competition. She is also published in Camden and Lumen’s ‘Genius Floored – Alphabet of Days’, online on ‘Greatworks’, ‘Write Off’ and ‘Neon Highway’. Her Artists Book, ‘Pop up Temple’ was displayed at the ‘Visual Poetics’ exhibition at the Southbank’s Poetry Library. Her ‘Rhythm of Furrows Across a Field’ pamphlet was published by Kater Murr’s Press, in April 2013. She is a committee member of Ver poets and one of the Blue Bus organisers. Juliet is especially interested in Ecopoetics and other innovative approaches that work towards communicating an eco/ethno -logical mindfulness.
Sarah Kelly is the author of ‘locklines’ (KFS Press) and has contributed work to many magazines, journals and literary reviews, including the anthologies ‘Better than Language’ (Ganzfeld Press) and ‘Dear World’ (Bloodaxe). Her text based visual work has been exhibited in the Saison Poetry Library, The London Poetry Festival, SoundEye and TARP Audio-Visual Poetry festival. She is an editor for the bilingual edition ‘AlbaLondres’ and her experimental translation work has been performed at Spain NOW! (London) and MACBA, (Barcelona). www.s-kelly.co.uk
Lawrence Upton: Poet; graphic artist; sound artist: curator. Recent publications wrack (2012); Memory Fictions (2012); and Unframed Pictures (2011). Co-edited Word Score Utterance Choreography in verbal and visual poetry (1998) with Bob Cobbing, with whom he wrote collaboratively (NB D.A.N. 1994-2000) . Commentaries on Bob Cobbing (2013). Journals: Artist’s Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Emerging Language Practices, Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, Readings, Sounds Rite. Second solo exhibition “from recent projects” September 2012 St James Hatcham. Makes text-sound composition with John Levack Drever, Benedict Taylor, Tina Krekels & Jeff Cloke. photo, synthesis (for solo viola) commissioned by to Benedict Taylor (2013), now being premiered. Convenes Writers Forum Workshop, directs Writers Forum . Visiting Research Fellow in Music, Goldsmiths, University of London.
The Other Room – Tonight
aglimpseof issue 16
Edited by Sarah Crewe and Dimitra Ioannou, the Cranberry Jouissance issue of aglimpseof includes a poem by Richard Barrett.
Auld Enemies
7 locales : over 40 poets : a national tour of Scotland and brand new innovative poetic collaborations : a Scottish Enemies project, organised by SJ Fowler.
The Enemies project: Auld Enemies is a transnational poetry collaboration where six poets will work in rolling pairs to produce original works for readings across the breadth of Scotland. Each event will also feature numerous pairs of writers from the region, who will be presenting brand new poetry collaborations as well. Auld Enemies is a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Scottish poetics through the potential of collaboration.
Auld Enemies will commence with a six date tour of Scotland, taking in Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Lerwick in the Shetlands and finishing with Kirkwall in the Orkneys. It will conclude with an event in London, at the Rich Mix Arts Centre, on July 26th, which will feature many of the new works from the tour, new collaborations and a documentary screening about Auld Enemies.
Hazel Smith & Roger Dean: a preview
Hazel Smith & Roger Dean will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 2nd July for a special evening of digital poetics at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD, 7 PM start. Biographical details below. The film above shows a performance by Roger who, with Hazel is part of the musical collective Australysis. The other performers will be Clive Fencott and Robin Fencott.
Bios.:
Hazel Smith is a research professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. She is author of The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing, Allen and Unwin, 2005 and Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography, Liverpool University Press, 2000. She is co-author ofImprovisation, Hypermedia And The Arts Since 1945, Harwood Academic, 1997 and co-editor with Roger Dean of Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press, 2009. She is co-editor with Roger Dean ofsoundsRite, a journal of new media writing and sound, based at the University of Western Sydney. Hazel is a poet, performer and new media artist, and has published three volumes of poetry, three CDs of performance work and numerous multimedia works. The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works, a volume of creative work with accompanying CD Rom, was published by Tinfish Press, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 2008, and a new volume of poetry will be published by Giramondo Publishing in Sydney in 2015. She is a member of austraLYSIS, the sound and intermedia arts group, and has performed her work extensively in US, Europe, UK and Australasia. She also had a previous career as a professional violinist. Her website is at www.australysis.com
Roger Dean is a composer/improviser, and a researcher in music cognition/computation at MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney. He founded the creative ensemble austraLYSIS, which has performed in 30 countries. He has worked in classical, new, and jazz/improvised music as double bassist, pianist and computer artist. His performing experience ranges from the Academy of Ancient Music to the London Sinfonietta and the leading new music groups in London (1970s to 80s). It also includes work as piano accompanist for singers and instrumentalists in classical music and jazz. His improvising collaborations range from Curson, Stanko, Wheeler to Parker, Bailey, McLean and Prévost. In Australia he has played with an equally wide range of musicians, including Ambarchi, Avenaim, Buck, Denley, Evans, Ng, Slater, and White. Dean’s work is on 50 commercial audio CDs, and he has collaborated on many digital intermedia pieces. He is engaged in new media collaborations with artists such as Keith Armstrong, Will Luers, and Hazel Smith. Improvisation and computer-interaction merge in his solo MultiPiano Event (live piano, real-time audio processing, generative piano, and electroacoustic sound). Dean is one of two Australians to be subjects in both the Grove Dictionaries of Music and of Jazz. He has previously founded and directed a medical research institute, and been Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra. His biography is on Wikipedia.
Shadowtrain 42
Out now, featuring work from Janet Sutherland; Max Ghiara; Liz Adams; Martin Stannard; Alan Baker; Iain Britton; Lawrence Upton; Rupert M Loydell; Dick Jones; Ben Parker; Hillary Lyon; Mark Russell; Jonah Wilberg; Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins.
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