The Other Room anthology 6 – out now

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Anthology front

We are delighted to announce the publication of our sixth anthology, featuring all of the performers at The Other Room over the past year: Richard Barrett; derek beaulieu; Mike Chavez-Dawson; cris cheek; Patrick Coyle; Sarah Crewe; Lewis Freedman; Harry Gilonis; Elizabeth James; Tom Jenks; Laurence Lane; Jo Langton; Sandeep Parmar; Holly Pester; Frances Presley; Gavin Selerie; Robert Sheppard; Rachel Smith; Chris Stephenson; Carolyn Thompson; Rhys Trimble; Chrissy Williams; Nigel Wood. Click HERE to buy a copy from within the UK, and HERE to buy a copy from elsewhere.

Beard of Bees 100th chapbook

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To Cure Nature with Science is the 100th chapbook published by Eric Elshtain’s online imprint Beard of Bees. Written using poetry generating software Gnoetry, this chapbook is a treatment of the previous 99 Beard of Bees chapbooks:

“In an effort to honor the dual function of Beard of Bees Press, as publisher of machine, human-machine, and human poetries, editor Elshtain uploaded the each of the first 99 chapbooks in his Gnoetry engine and asked the machine to render the works, through its magic of statistical analysis and system of penalty/reward, into 100 fifteen-line stanzas, each line consisting of anywhere between five and ten syllables. Then, Elshtain and Beard of Bees factotums Rachel Burman and Shannon Frech pored over the material, looking for clues, hints, and threads. Breaking the material into rough thirds, each took a pile of stanzas home and made light to medium edits, finding arguments for changes on the punctuation, word, syntactical and grammatical level— sometimes, even on the poetical and historical levels.”

New from Oystercatcher

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Scott Thurston: Figure Detached, Figure Impermanent

A series of trials set up like islands in a river – noticing where a current is viable even in concealment. A perfect will turns like a needle as a thread of disgust stitched through every day starts to come undone. You slip into the stream.

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Michael Farrell: the thorn with the boy in its side

reading [ …] with the light on

after the escalators –

metaphors became metaph-

ors. ‘[ … ]’ [my translation.] & ‘ive always been a

rebel’. i survey

the experimental fencing. the word

‘poets’ in black, on pineapp-

le; the fuchsia in the freezer.

‘chasing’ a sound

down george st: a drag

queen with the name ‘fay doubt’.
THE LONELY SCOUT
‘moving away’ seems too obvious. youre in

the gardens, suddenly conf-

ronted by an expanse of sonnets.

they take your weight.

Sein und Werden: the Oulipo issue

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Online now, featuring Norman Conquest, Matt Leyshon, Esther Greenleaf Murer, Hugo Vernier, Dominy Clements, Teri Lee Kline, Patrick Cosgrove, David McGroarty, W.C. Bamberger, Aja Bamberger, Martin Rose, Susan Oke, Allen Ashley, David Turnbull, Benjamin Robinson, Wayne Clements, Philip Terry, James Davies, Mark Lewis, Tom Jenks, Paolo Brito, Charlie Loudowl, Daniel Galef, John Shire, Dan Morey, Rachel Rodman, Dave Drayton.

Fjender films

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Held on March 15th 2014, at the Rich mix arts centre in Shoreditch, London, Fjender (part of the SJ Fowler’s Enemies project) celebrated cutting edge avant garde poetry from Europe, centred around contemporary Danish poets. A selection of British poets were asked to write original works as commissions in response to the themes of Morten Sondergaard’s Wordpharmacy,  including Stephen Emmerson, above.

Whale Hunt

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Poet and vangardist, SJ Fowler, strives to encounter and confront all disciplines in the poetic tradition. His latest work starts from a root of Norse mythology and carves a path through contemporary poetics and language construction.

Whale Hunt is a curated section of Fowler’s Vikings work and is published as an illustrated pamphlet by Annexe.

 

Wrogowie films

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Wrogowie, organised by SJ Fowler, celebrated contemporary Polish poetry in collaboration with British poetry on February 8th 2014 at the Rich mix arts centre in London. Six pairs of poets premiered original collaborative works specifically for this event, including Marcus Slease and Grzegorz Wroblewski, above. Links to the other performances below.
Amy Cutler & Ula Chowaniec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6LdC442EKk
Angus Sinclair & Laura Elliott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrH3G34BQ_M
Francesca Listette & Joanna Rzadowska http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZukpdL6Cxk0
Philip Terry & Adam Zdrodowski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzymaGAgPQ

Hidden Door Festival

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28 March – 5 April 2014
Market Street Vaults Edinburgh

Hidden Door – a not-for-profit independent festival for Edinburgh.

A one-off opportunity to occupy the forgotten vaults of Market Street.

80 visual artists, 50 live music acts, 40 film makers, 30 poets, 30 performers, 20 animators, 9 unique parties, 2 live music vaults, 2 bars, 1 theatre, 1 cinema, 1 secret music venue, 1 site, 1 chance.

24 Rediscovered vaults on Market Street Edinburgh unlocked for 9 days only, to showcase some of Scotland’s best breakthrough talent.

Storm and Golden Sky

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Friday 21st March

LEE HARWOOD AND SARAH CORBETT

Born of a Liverpool taste for variety and drama, Storm and Golden Sky offers literary high style from across the poetic landscape; experimental, lyric, performance and all that is in-between.

Programmed by a collective of Liverpool-based poets Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees, we aim for a literary experience felt in your bones as juxtaposition and surprise correspondence. New metaphors will be forged, similarities caught, trajectories flown.

Up the STEEP stairs at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!

Lee Harwood began writing in the 1960s and was at the heart of the British Poetry Revival. A Collected Poems from Shearsman shows the range of his work from that time until now: New York poems in the style of Frank O’Hara, a period of notebook and place poems influenced by Charles Olson, through to intense lyrics that always surprise by their surreal edges and by a collagist sense that nothing is ever only one thing. Harwood lives in Brighton and a new book is due from Enitharmon in May
2014.

Sarah Corbett lives in Hebden Bridge, but she grew up in North Wales, ever an English outsider. She has published three collections of poetry with Seren Books:The Red Wardrobe (1998),The Witch Bag (2002) and Other Beasts (2008).The Red Wardrobe won an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot and Forward prizes. She has written several short films and a full length script – a collaboration with a film director that may extend to TV Drama. She nearly has a first draft of a children’s novel, and has just started working on lieder with a young composer.