Taking Poetry off the Page.
In this exhibition/performance, poems are given life as performances, installations, images, sound recordings and page based experiments.
‘I Will Make A Better Effort With Breakfast’ is the culmination of a 3rd and final year Creative Writing BA module ‘The Open Page’ – led by poet and performer, Hannah Silva.
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 7 PM. Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, Peltz Gallery, London.
At the heart of a new Ukraine, as poetically as politically, the work of Volodymyr Bilyk, and it’s worldwide repute, as is tied to the new possibilities of technology in the 21st century as it is the quality and innovation that defines it. Bilyk is the new face of a nation whose poetic history is as often entrenched as its political, and his groundbreaking visual, minimalist, conceptual, sound and artpoetry has been published across the globe, due in no small part to his willingness to embed himself within internet culture and its potentialities. Moreover, his immediacy as a poet, as evident in his poetics as in his colloquially eloquent, unpretentious mode and manner, reveals itself as the expression of an individual willing to commit utterly to the ideal of democratic freedom in his homeland. This interview is conducted during the unyielding protests, and the resultant government violence and oppression, wracking the Ukraine in late 2013 / early 2014, of which Volodymyr Bilyk, the 98th respondent of the Maintenant series, is a central and formidable part.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-98-volodymyr-bilyk
A documentation of the New Jersey State Senate’s plot for world takeover, available now on Gauss PDF.
Even more Tim Allen this time published by KFS. Click HERE for more.
The next WFN workshop meetings are February 22nd, March 8th and April 26th, 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.
Available now from Department Press
A4. 108pp. £8.00
If you were unable to see the language art exhibition The Dark Would at Summerhall in Edinburgh (7 December 2013 – 24 January 2014) you can download a pdf catalogue from the Summerhall website here. The catalogue, edited by Philip Davenport and designed by Steve Giasson, works really well in iBooks and it’s free.
Go to Orcombe.com to view both these prints
Venus appears to shine most brightly in the sky just after sunset. Evening Star, set out as a circle poem and printed in deep blue on satin white, combines topographical and celestial scales in a brief form of words.
This silkscreen print is published in an edition of 10, signed and numbered, available only on Orcombe.com.
A3 plus: image 297 x 485 mm, paper 386 x 570 mm.
If it were possible, an art of pure ideas must nonetheless rely on language: a matter subject to slippage, manipulation and play, to colour and emotion, to expectations and their subversion, diversion or delay. Ideas Aside is a language game of wooden and metal sans-serif type composed in the press and printed in permanent red ink.
This letterpress print is published in an edition of 20, signed and numbered, available only on Orcombe.com.
A3 plus: image 260 x 381 mm, paper 350 x 513 mm.
zimZalla object 022 is The Carousing Duck, a technicolour, fully reversible flip chart poem by Tim Allen. For more information, visit the zimZalla site.
The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA. Monday 24th February, 7 PM start.
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, and brings them, two at a time, hand by hand, into the city bounds for a reading series which revels in the intensities and complexities of our art.
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.
Invited poets will read for substantial half-hour sets introduced by new works from the collective. Entrance includes a copy of the magazine ‘Veil the Pole’ edited by Michael Egan, featuring the invited poets and many others.
Last Friday of the Month (apart from occasional variation), Upstairs at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!
28th Feb, Melissa Lee-Houghton and Crispin Best
21st March, Lee Harwood and tbc
25th April, Zoe Skoulding and Keston Sutherland
Future dates: May 30th, June 27th, July 25th and onwards!
David Dunn = (composition, bioacoustics): talk with audio
Carol Watts (poetry) = & Will Montgomery (sound): performance
Wednesday 19 = February
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, = London WC1X 9NG
Free entry, 8.30pm
http://polyply.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/polyproject-writing-tre= es/
This via derek beaulieu
89+ – would like to officially invite you to publish a book as part of the exhibition “Poetry Will Be Made By All!” to be held in Zürich (January 30 – March 30, 2014). This invitation also comes on behalf of the LUMA Foundation and the 89plus project, co-curated by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The exhibition will feature 1,000 new books of poetry, printed on demand and housed in an exhibition library, all made by poets born on or after 1989. We will be drawing on poets like you from over 50 countries, scattered across six continents, to create an expansive library of the absolute contemporary in poetry and poetics.
The books will be printed and exhibited in Zürich at LUMA/Westbau. An additional copy of the book will be sent to you (the author) at your home address. Digital copies will be available for download or printing (via Lulu) on the exhibition site:poetrywillbemadebyall.ch
Of course, we’re on an accelerated timeline. We hope that you can send a manuscript of any length and style during the exhibition between now and March 30th. The sooner you send, the sooner we can publish and exhibit your book!
Here are the instructions for submitting your manuscript:
Instructions for Submitting a Book to “Poetry Will Be Made By All!”
1. Register with 89plus at: http://89plus.com/submit/
2. Go to the submission page: http://poetrywillbemadebyall.ch/submit/
3. Enter the password: upload2014
4. Fill in all required fields
5. Upload your manuscript in .doc, .docx, .rtf or similar file. No PDFs! All languages welcome!
6. Submit!
We tremendously excited to develop a truly global network of writers—and hope you’ll join us. Please feel free to write with any questions or concerns at any time.
All very best,
Derek Beaulieu
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Kenneth Goldsmith and Danny Snelson
Poetry will be made by all! / 89plus
1000books@poetrywillbemadebyall.ch
POLYply > 28 LOOKING ASKANCE
Jennie Cole
Richard Crow & Douglas Park
Naoko Takahashi
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Launch of three artists’ videos produced by Angharad Davies, Allen Fisher and Naoko Takahashi
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Thursday 13 February
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry, 7pm
Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre and MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway
Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ .
Wednesday 26th February
7pm (reading commencing at 7.30)
FREE
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Flood Drain
Tom Chivers
“I had a dream: a drift
on the spirit-level of a river
or a drain or a dyke
being a river in the clothing
of a straight edge”
Inspired by the extraordinary dream visions of the medieval poets and catalysed by a two-day exploration of the liminal terrain of the River Hull floodplain, contemporary writer Tom Chivers has crafted a long poem that meditates on the dual themes of dreaming and drainage.
Annexe is publishing Flood Drain as a limited edition two-tone pamphlet and cartographic artifact of Chivers’ drift along the River Hull.
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Whale Hunt
SJ Fowler
“Time began with a bear then it became a Viking
family tree over grandfather to all of us (that matter)
the polite, the gentle born of the power to display force
but choosing not to do so in company resounds its glow”
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, part of the Introducing series, is a curated section of Fowler’s Vikings work and is published as an illustrated pamphlet.
More here.
Reality Street published Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. Extending the account through the following decade, a new volume, Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91), once again edited by Alan Halsey, collects poems and sequences from a prolific period in Bill’s life that originally appeared in very small editions. The 426-page volume, publication of which was enabled by subscriptions from 120 supporters, also includes a section of uncollected or previously unpublished poems. The editor provides bibliographical and textual notes.
The book will be launched on Saturday 1st March at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB. Selections from Bill’s work will be read by poets Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Harry Gilonis, Alan Halsey, Mendoza, Geraldine Monk and Robert Sheppard. Copies of both Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91) and Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be on sale at a reduced price. The event starts at 7.00pm, readings at 7.30.
Email info@realitystreet.co.uk to book your place.
Two March readings by Iain Britton:
otherroom.org 