Stephen Mooney will be reading at our next event on Tuesday 31st October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester. Here is Stephen reading as part of SJ Fowler’s Enemies project. The other readers are James Davies and Pascal O’Loughlin.
Caplet
18th October at 18:50. St Margaret’s House, 21 Old Ford Road, London, E29PL.
Caplet is back for an eveningful of readering and discusseration.
Appearing this month are:
1. CLIVE GRESSWELL
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Gresswell is a poet who resides in Luton, Earth. His work has been published in BlazeVOX, LondonGrip, Dispatches, and ZombieLogic Review, and is due to be published in Tears in The Fence. He appeared at the recent Tears in The Fence Poetry Festival. His debut edition, ‘Jargon Busters’ was recently published by Knives, Forks, and Spoons press. You can read an enthusiastic review here: https://tearsinthefence.com/2017/08/07/jargon-busters-by-clive-gresswell-kfs-press.
2. DAVID HERD
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David Herd’s collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet 2012), Outwith (Bookthug 2012) and Through (Carcanet, 2016). His poems, essays and reviews have been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, TLS, PN Review and Almost Island. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent and a co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales.
Junction Box 10
Junction Box is a space for poets, primarily, but also for other kinds of creative and critical practitioners, to talk about the world, themselves and the others, in a free and category-open fashion. Number 10 is now live. featuring:
- Julia Rose Lewis & James Miller: Preface to ‘Strays’
- Lucy Sheerman & Karlien van den Beukel: Rem • Press
- Nia Davies & Sampurna Chattarji: Ritual Correspondence
- Doug Jones: from ‘Posts’
- Laura Goode: Two Poems
- Rebecca Compton: Cooperation vs Collaboration
- Paul Hawkins: Trailing arm leading edge
- Holly Corfield Carr: On Caves
- Eley Williams: Three Pieces
- Sonja Vitow: 13 Reasons I Believe In Ghosts
- Tim Allen: from ‘A Democracy of Poisons’
- Anthony Mellors & David Rees: Winter Journey (Time out x 2)
Pascal O’Loughlin: a preview
Our next event is Tuesday 31st October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, with readings from Pascal O’Loughlin, James Davies and Stephen Mooney. Here is Pascal reading with another Other Room reader, Marcus Slease. More previews to follow soon.
Murmur
MURMUR #1
A new reading series
Sunday 15th October 2017 / 7pm / free entry
Common
Featuring…
Rachael Allen
Jessica Higgins
Tom Jenks
Tessa Harris
Thom Adams
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DJs Comfortable on a Tightrope and Secret Admirer
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Readers:
RACHAEL ALLEN is the poetry editor for Granta, co-editor of poetry press Clinic and online journal Tender. Her first full collection is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2019.
JESSICA HIGGINS is an artist based in Glasgow who works in sculpture, performance and writing. She is 1/8th of Good Press, a volunteer-led-unfunded-informal-organisation dedicated to the promotion and production of independent artist publications and projects; and one half of Museums Press, a publisher of art for leisure (est. 2009) and its new subsidiary A Plume which publishes writing by artists twice in a year, and an annual (est. 2017). Guilding, a novella and collection of quasi-essays was published by Publication Studio London in April 2017.
TOM JENKS’ most recent book is Crabtree: The Libretto, published by The Red Ceilings Press, with others including Items (if p then q), Sublunar (Oystercatcher Press) and Spruce (Blart Books). His work has appeared in The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (ed. Victoria Bean & Chris McCabe) and The Best British Poetry 2015 (ed. Emily Berry). He co-organises The Other Room reading series in Manchester and edits the avant -objects imprint zimZalla.
TESSA HARRIS is a writer and poet currently at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester as a Commonwealth PhD candidate. She was born and raised in Windhoek, Namibia, and has had short stories and poetry published in Namibia, South Africa and the UK.
THOM ADAMS is a writer based in Manchester. He is a recent philosophy graduate and is currently working on his first pamphlet.
Adrian Slatcher: Interesting Drug #4
Latest installment of the hour long arts and music podcast playing music related to the arts and with commentary from Adrian Slatcher on what’s going on in Manchester and beyond: “A couple of weeks ago I saw Sven Helbig perform his Pocket Symphonies at HOME with Manchester Camerata with visuals by Chris Paul Daniels – here’s what I thought. More artistic obituaries – John Ashbery and Walter Becker, two great chroniclers of the American condition – died on the same weekend. Next week I’m seeing Chris Krauss talking about her Kathy Acker biography, so remembering one of my favourite writers. With nuclear brinkmanship back in the news I also look at the honourable history of nuclear war songs from the sixties and eightes.” Listen here.
Work Processing – A Forum for the Sharing of Live Practice
Work Processing – A Forum for the Sharing of Live Practice
Work Processing is a day-long event open to postgraduate/early-career artist-practitioners and independent artists working in the arts and humanities. The focus of Work Processing is practice itself. It offers a space in which to explore practice in process, stepping aside from the perceived obligation to qualify practice in terms of traditional academic discourse, and shifting focus away from product-based conceptions of artistic endeavour. The event will showcase the work of artist-practitioners over the course of a day, encouraging practice to speak to practice, unmediated by verbal explication. It will conclude with a communal dinner in the performance space where food, ideas and responses can be shared, and we can explore the kinds of conversations a forum like this can generate without the formalities of an academic Q&A.
We are currently seeking proposals for 20 minute contributions in any live format, from any discipline. Incomplete and/or speculative works-in-progress are of particular interest, although any work that engages with the theme of “Work Processing” will be considered. The event will take place on the 1st of December 2017 at Chisenhale Dance Space, London. Chisenhale has a large performance space with lighting and sound rig, basic projection facilities, and the raw aesthetic appropriate to sharing all types of live work in development.
Participants are invited to submit a short description of their intended work, their institutional affiliation (if applicable) and projected technical requirements, as well as weblinks to any supporting materials (videos/recordings/text etc.) to:workprocessing2017@gmail.com by the 13th of October 2017.
This event is being organised by five interdisciplinary practice-based PhD candidates, supported by the TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
workprocessing.wordpress.com
House without Walls
HOUSE WITHOUT WALLS is an exhibition devised by British visual poet Philip Davenport, featuring art by child refugees, combined with commentary from older members of their community. “A gentle, sideways look at the cost of war, the subtle losses including childhood itself.” Exhibition at Paul Schneider Haus, Spandau, BERLIN 13 Oct-23 Nov.
Davenport is a British visual poet who often works off the page; his work appears in galleries, streets, sound recordings, on objects. He often works with marginalised communities in the U.K. as part of the arthur+martha organisation, collaborating with homeless people and with older people who have dementia.
Nia Davies book launch
Saturday November 4th 2.00 pm – 5 pm at The Hen and Chickens, Flannel Street, Abergavenny, NP7 5EG, where Nia will be a launching England, out now on Crater Press.
with a mini-festival of accompanying readers, including
Ailbhe Darcy
David Greenslade
Steven Hitchins
Julia Rose Lewis
Lee Duggan
Chris Paul
Ric Hool
Suze de Lee
Richard Parker
Lyndon Davies
and more to be announced
FREE
The Projectionist’s Playground
The Projectionist’s Playground publishes experimental poetry, art and photography. Issue 3 came out at the beginning of September and the zine is now inviting submissions for Issue 4, to appear in December 2017. More here.
Gramophone RAY GUN 8
UK launches of Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line
The publication is conceived as a studio-laboratory in itself, drawing together critical reflections and experimental practices that focus on the how-ness — the qualitative-processual, aesthetic-epistemological and ethico-empathetic dynamics — within shared artistic exploration, directing attention to an affective realm of forces and intensities existing before, between and beneath the more readable gestures of artistic practice. Cultivating sensitivity towards the barely perceptible micro-movements within the process of artistic ‘sense-making’ has wider structural — even political — implications at the level of the macro, encouraging the de-, re- and trans-figuring of our ways of being in the world, inviting new forms of relationality, sociality and solidarity. Hybrid of an artists’ book and research compendium, Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line invokes action by operating as a score that can be activated by others, providing artists, theorists and creative practitioners with a modular toolkit of performative and notational approaches for future experimental play.
Based on original research and edited by Nikolaus Gansterer, Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil. With contributions by Alex Arteaga, Arno Böhler, Christine De Smedt, Catherine de Zegher, Christopher Dell, Gerhard Dirmoser, Karin Harrasser, Adrian Heathfield, Victor Jaschke, Simona Koch, Krassimira Kruschkova, Brandon LaBelle, Erin Manning, Dieter Mersch, Lilia Mestre, Werner Moebius, Alva Noë, Jeanette Pacher, Jörg Piringer, Helmut Ploebst, P.A. Skantze, Andreas Spiegl.
More details on the book here.
Sample pages here.
Buy the book here.
12 + 14 November 2017
PERFORMANCE LECTURE & WORKSHOP at SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS, LONDON
On Sunday 12 November 2017 Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line will give a one day workshop (11:00 – 17:00) hosted by Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London, UK. Additionally, on Tuesday 14 November 2017, 19:00 – 20:30 Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil will present a performance lecture at the Crossing Borders Talks in the 2017 series at Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London, UK launching their recent publication Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line.
Simon Taylor – Prospectus
if p then q is very pleased to announce the publication of Prospectus by Simon Taylor.
Part Cindy Sherman part HR, Prospectus is a beautiful square format book which consists of a selection of colour photographs and descriptive texts for that all important ‘about me’ page.
Simon Taylor is one half of Joy as Tiresome Vandalism whose works are the books aRb and Absolute Elsewhere and the card game What’s the Best? He has also designed book covers for if p then q and posters for The Other Room poetry series. A sketchbook of his work and images from Prospectus can be found at Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/discomoobs/
You can buy at the if p then q website – LINK
Ben Hickman’s If Bird published by Crater and launch
Ben Hickman’s great little Crater booklet If Bird, Then Tree is now available through Lulu – it’s full colour, with a series of great paintings by Oliver Baggott created in response to Hickman’s poems: “If Bird, Then Tree sees birds as one of our most visible signs of connectedness. Less ‘about’ birds than written around them, the sequence explores the world birds find themselves in: the network of relations and conditions they move through, make up and, finally, are made of. If Bird, Then Tree seeks to identify and identify with a nature that capital constantly makes but insistently makes other.” It’ll be £12 and you can get it through the website now. Use this code at purchase and you should get a 15% discount: FWD15
There’ll also be a London launch event with readings from this book and stuff from some other Crater and Craterish poets at Iklectik (Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LG) on the 11th of October at about 19.30. There’ll be readings and you’ll also be able to eye Oliver Baggott’s bird paintings.
Ben Hickman’s books include Later Britain (Oystercatcher, 2014) and the critical works John Ashbery and English Poetryand Crisis and the US Avant-Garde (Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 2015). He works at the University of Kent.
Vera Chok has performed her writing widely and has been published in Rising and Transect magazines and by The Brautigan Free Press and Brain Mill Press. A chapbook, scritch, was written in collaboration with Serena Braida and Gloria Sanders, and new work is on the way.
Robert Kiely is the author of How to Read (2017), Killing the Cop in your Head (2017), and Fionn ag aislingeacht (2014).
T. Peeps writes and performs collaboratively with themselves and other Peeps who are not themselves. Recent publications:Entro & Un-love Son-nots Gutteral (2017), the science of poetry • the poetry of science Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside (2015), and Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug, Contraband, (2014). Collaborative performances include: Poem Factory and the Masque of Ninnies.
£5/£3 contribution
Black Market Re-View
Issue 4 out now, with Jim Zola, Niamh McMullan, Richard M Thompson, Torkel Tennberg, Sally Barrett, Aviva Treger, John Grey, Walburga Appleseed, Susan McCraw, Brindley Hallam Dennis, Natalie Crick, Fabrice Poussin, Tom Cowin, Jamie Stewart, Mark Russell, Nick Power, P.J. Kryfko, Susan McCraw. Robert Beveridge, Bill Wolak, John Short, Jamie Stewart, Rose Knapp and A J Taylor.
Thomas A. Clark at The Other Room
Thomas A. Clark read for us at The Other Room back in June. For film of Matthew Welton who read the same night, see here.
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl at The Other Room
In July, we hosted three poets from Iceland, including Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl. Films of the other performances from the evening can be found here.
Adjacent Pineapple
A new online magazine edited by Colin Herd.
Includes:
Litmus launch: Theodoros Chiotis, Safiya Allaf & Jane Hartshorn
Vala Thorodds at The Other Room
Vala read for us back in July as part of our evening of poetry from Iceland. You can find other films from that event here.
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