Endless / Nameless ~ Rachel Sills & Richard Barrett

The gingerbread silhouette of my father
Is absent today I’m perspiring
Or you could say shimmering over a coastline
In a row pegged-out, colour coded
Three weeks’ worth of hearts
A Freudian couch with sponge cake perhaps?
An arrow, a narrowboat, arrowroot blot
A stair-lift stops, temperamentally
I decline to use the honesty box
But am generous for life-guards
On a good day, only on a good day
A magazine before dinner before, later, the paper
The evening smell of tobacco
‘Papa?’  I hear; to which I answer ‘yes, Nicole?’

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Hi Zero

Wednesday 28th August, doors at 7:30pm for an 8:30pm start. £4 entry. Readings from Joshua Clover, Cathy Wagner and Rachel Galvin; upstairs at The Hope on Queen’s Road in Brighton. A new issue of Hi Zero magazine will be on sale for the first time, featuring a special Oakland scene report guest edited by David Buuck and with poems by Andrew Kenower, Lara Durback, Joshua Clover, Wendy Trevino, Bill Luoma, Jackqueline Frost, Jasper Bernes, Juliana Spahr, David Lau and Oki Sogumi, and also featuring poetry by Dana Ward, Cathy Wagner, Jeff Nagy and an essay on Justin Katko, Jow Lindsay, Jonty Tiplady and Kenny G.

Poetics titles from Litteraria Pragensia on Kindle

CROSSROADS POETICS
by Michel Delville
Bringing together readings of Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Louis Feuillade, Rosmarie Waldrop, Frank Zappa, Bill Viola and Pierre Alechinsky, this book attempts to delineate the possibility of a truly transversal poetics, one which creates a space for a reconsideration of contemporary poetics while navigating the complex interactions between the theory and practice.
COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007
eds. Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves, with Thomas Day, Keston Sutherland, Alizon Brunning, Robin Purves, J.H. Prynne, Bruce Stewart, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Thomson, Craig Dworkin, Sophie Read, Sara Crangle, Malcolm Phillips, Tom Jones, Josh Robinson, Sam Ladkin, Jennifer Cooke, Ian Patterson.
AVANT-POST: The Avant-Garde under “Post-” Conditions
ed. Louis Armand, with Johanna Drucker, Michael S. Begnal, Lisa Jarnot, Ann Vickery, Christian Bök, Robert Archambeau, Mairead Byrne, R.M. Berry, Trey Strecker, Keston Sutherland, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Sheppard, Bonita Rhoads, Vadim Erent, Laurent Milesi, Esther Milne.
HIDDEN AGENDAS: Unreported Poetics
ed. Louis Armand, with Ali Alizadeh, Livio Beloi, Jeremy Davies, Stephan Delbos, Michel Delville, Johanna Drucker, Michael Farrel, Allen Fisher, D.J. Huppatz, Vincent Katz, Stephen Muecke, Jena Osman, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Kyle Schlesinger, Robert Shepperd, Stephanie Strickland, John Wilkinson.

New from Crater Press

Crater Press is pleased to announce a Crater pamphlet by Buffalo letterpress buffalo Richard Owens; nine stanzas of ‘Turncoat’ in an attractive articulated broad-but-thin-side arrangement. Anyone who knows Richard Owens will suspect that this will be the real deal and it is the real deal. Two colour; different modes; handprinted, unusual folding, 36 lines of A* poetry.

The Other Room events 2013 and start of 2014

Our future programme looks likes this. There may be the odd date added. It has been known. Hope to see you there…

16th October 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester – The Other Room presents The Dark Would with  Mike Chavez-Dawson, Jo Langton, Carolyn Thompson & Nigel Wood

4th December 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Robert Sheppard, Sandeep Parmar, Rene Van Valckenborch & Gareth Twose

5th February 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Frances Presley, Gavin Selerie & Chris Stephenson

2nd April 7.00 @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester The Other Room 6th birthday with TBA

The Blue Bus

The Blue Bus is pleased to present an event featuring poetry by Chris McCabe, Andrew Taylor and David Miller, with music from David Miller and Rod Boucher, on Tuesday 20th August, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eightieth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).