Enemies at the Hardy Tree: opening night films

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Films from the first night of SJ Fowler’s Enemies exhibition and associated series of events at the Hardy Tree Gallery, London, are now online, including the above by David Kelly and Dylan Nyoukis. Full list below.

David Kelly’s (&Dylan Nyoukis’) film Gimme a pig’s foot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lREN_eKs9E
Ben Morris & Marcus Slease http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=743mFFSVy-w
Ben Morris & Marcus Slease 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z88V6jUMiuA

 

Nick Thurston: new book, new show

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Other Room reader Nick Thurston has two new projects: Of the Subcontract, Or Principles of Poetic Right, “a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service”, and Pretty Brutal Library, “a temporary public reference library, produced as an artwork in the format of a solo gallery show”, opening in at & Model gallery in Leeds on 25th July.

Rosa van Hensbergen – Some New Growth at the Temple or Lobe

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Some New Growth at the Temple or Lobe, by Rosa van Hensbergen, is now available from Critical Documents for £4/€6/$9.

 

http://plantarchy.us/somenewgrowth.html

 

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A string made function unchanges

by damp. It hears the train, but staid,

all knockerless. Tendrils aim at something,

gather meld. The red light losing it rinses out

pimps with wet art, renovating in staged

ridicule, to throw an ‘if’ post

hoc. Another stumped cough and pass on.

 

In sixteen seven-line stanzas, Rosa van Hensbergen’s Some New Growth at the Temple or Lobe records the author’s introduction to life in Yokohama, Japan, where she travelled on a Harper-Wood Studentship to research and practice the art of Butoh. The poem inhabits those memories of the city’s professional sex life that were bombed out by a recent surge of gentrification, whitewashed like the skin of a Butoh dancer. “Wounds raw | but invisible.” Austere and voluptuous, Some New Growth is a poem drained of persona. Contradiction whips its tail as a typo amidst linguistic exactitude, as select prescriptions of starvation amidst a surplus of food. Social phantoms are painted into life and ordered to perform their way into unlit dead-ends through a coded language both private and historical.

The author writes: “Some New Growth was composed in November 2011, in a Koganecho room of a metre by a metre.[1] Its light was blinking red. At some point during composition, atmospheric pressure burst the bulb and turned the room into an installation. Red lights rinsed for Yokohama biennale. Dirts that got turned out that day breed themselves upon this sheet, in a Koganecho room squared twice over to sixteen stanzas.”

Some New Growth at the Temple or Lobe is Rosa van Hensbergen’s third book, following Inebriate Debris (Punch Press, 2011) and Buildings, a collaboration with John DeWitt (Tipped Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared in Snow, Hi Zero, Veer About, Half Circle, Anything, Anymore, Anywhere, and Friends.

Susana Gardner at Birkbeck

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Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre warmly welcomes Susana Gardner.

Susana will be reading in the gallery housing the exhibition Intellectual Tactility, curated by Holly Pester.

Tuesday 9 July, Peltz Room, (immediate left in the entrance to) 43 Gordon Square, London WC1, 7-9.

Free and all welcome!

Susana Gardner is the author of the full-length poetry collections HERSO (Black Radish Books, 2011) and [ LAPSED INSEL WEARY ] (The Tangent Press, 2008). Her third book, CADDISH, Black Radish Books, 2013 is just out. She has published several chapbooks, including Hyper-Phantasie Constructs (Dusie Kollektiv, 2010) and Herso (University of Theory and Memorabilia Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in many online and print publications including Jacket, How2, Puerto Del Sol, and Cambridge Literary Review among others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies, including 131.839 slög með bilum (131,839 keystrokes with spaces) (Ntamo, Finland, 2007) and NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON CHILD-GETTING AND CHILD-REARING (Fence Books, United States, 2007). She lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press, Dusie. http://blackradishbooks.com/authors/susana-gardner/

Scott Thurston and Nathan Thompson reading in Manchester

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Other room organiser and Other Room reader Nathan Thompson are involved in the following event:

 

Poetry Book Launch: Lucy Burnett, with Caroline Hawkridge, Nathan Thompson, Scott Thurston & Helen Tookey

To celebrate the launch of her first poetry collection, Leaf Graffiti (Northern House / Carcanet Press), Lucy Burnett will be joined by Caroline Hawkridge, Nathan Thompson, Scott Thurston & Helen Tookey for an eclectic night of poetry in the atmospheric surroundings of The Anthony Burgess Centre.

July 25th, 6.30pm, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY

FREE

Lucy Burnett’s first collection, Leaf Graffiti, was published by the Northern House imprint of Carcanet Press in April 2013. She has previously been published in magazines including Stand, Poetry Wales, Shadowtrain andnthposition. Lucy has just been appointed by the Arvon Foundation as Centre Director of The Hurst in Shropshire where she will take up position in the autumn; previously she taught Creative Writing at the Universities of Strathclyde and Salford, where she also completed her PhD.

Caroline Hawkridge wrote women’s health books before completing a MA in Creative Writing at MMU, where she was nominated for Faber New Poets. Currently, she is poet-in-residence at the National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester.

Nathan Thompson was born in Cornwall and studied music at the University of Exeter, where he subsequently lectured part time in musicology. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Salford, and lives in Hebden Bridge. His collections of poetry include the arboretum towards the beginning and The Visitor’s Guest from Shearsman, and pamphlets from Oystercatcher Press, Knives Forks & Spoons and Gratton Street Irregulars.

Scott Thurston’s books include Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer, 2011), Of Being Circular (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2010) and three collections with Shearsman: Internal Rhyme (2010), Momentum (2008) and Hold (2006). He co-organises The Other Room poetry reading series in Manchester and co-edits the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Scott has written widely on contemporary poetry and lectures at the University of Salford.

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer and editor currently living in Liverpool. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Wales,Poetry Review, PN Review, New Walk, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011) and The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt, forthcoming autumn 2013). Her first full-length collection Missel-Child is due from Carcanet in January 2014.

New from Veer

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Veer 050 – Allen Fisher – Defaliliarising _______________ * (2nd edition)

Veer 051 – Martin Bakero – abjects

Burner Veer 012 – Doug Jones – Posts

Veer 052 – Catherine Hales – Feasible Strategems

Burner Veer 013 – David Ashford – XARAGMATA

Veer 053 – Karen Mac Cormack – AGAINST WHITE

Veer 054 – Carol Watts – Sun Dog

More at the Veer Books site.

 

Dym

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Dym. Occasional events selecting mediums and cramming them into one another.

Poets:

  • Francesca Lisette.
  • Amy De’Ath.
  • Caitlin Doherty.
  • Oliver Tatum

Music and Performance collaborations from and involving:

Rebeckah Davies, Ollie Evans, Dolly Dollycore, Ewa Justja, The Zero Map, Lora Pierre etc…

DJs…

Dolly Dollycore, Alan Hay.

Bees Mouth, Brighton/Hove. 12th July. 19:30

£5 waged.
£4 unwaged.

‘flick invicta’ by Sarah Crewe

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Sarah Crewe’s poems are deliberately resistant. flick/invicta raises the question: does a poetry which comes from outside, or which challenges, dominant ideology also need to come outside of normal syntax, to exceed normal registers? Does poetry need to challenge our modes of interpretation before it challenges anything else? Some of the poems in the pamphlet become so obfuscated as to resemble catalogues of private obsessions, and seem like the “secret code” mentioned in ‘bridge’. Others are, in context, remarkably conventional. But the best are hair-raising and subversive, breaking language up to “bring the vowels back” and “prise consonants/apart”.

Other Room reader Sarah Crewe’s flick/invicta reviewed by Charles Whalley at Sabotage.

HOW QUEUES WORK live event #1

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Writing the queue. The queue as constraint upon poetic practice. The inhabiting of a public space for a predetermined length of time and writing in that public space. Considering: queuing as class occupation. Queuing as primary means by which the city is experienced. The redundancy of psychogeography? The development and rules of the queue. The queue as useful autobiographical metaphor?

As the next stage of his ongoing HOW QUEUES WORK project on Saturday 20th July Richard Barrett will occupy a place in the bus queue at the stop outside the Palace Hotel, opposite Cornerhouse, Manchester for exactly one hour between the times 14.30 and 15.30. During that time he will produce a text responding to the experience of queuing taking in the sights and sounds of the city available to him from his place in the queue and considering each of the points listed in the above paragraph. At 15.30 Richard will board the number 42 bus and leave.

Guiding text of this event will be Michel de Certeau’s the Practice of Everyday Life.

To take part – turn up.

Enemies: visual art & avant-garde poetry

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The next installment of the Enemies Project will be a two week exhibition of visual art & avant-garde poetry in collaboration at the Hardy Tree gallery (119 Pancras Road, London, NW1 1UN http://hardytreegallery.com) July 6th to 20th 2013, with the space open for viewing 12-6pm July 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and featuring seven events over the fortnight.

Iain Sinclair and Ragnhildur Johanns have produced a triptych meditation on Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volanic eruption finding form as a series of wall hung book sculptures – paper forms which appear to be a frozen moment of evolution between the book and the image, crossing Islands north, south and skyward.
David Kelly and Dylan Nyoukis have drawn together the dangling threads of modernist collage and guttural sound art to fashion a hyper cassette tape mural accompanied by super8 scratch screenings and original sonic dabblings.
Ben Morris & Marcus Slease have realised the aberrant underbelly of the gentle metropolis dirge in an acoustamatic tin tin of the city, bringing the offbeat poetics and grinding sonic beauty of London into three dimensions, falling off a wall.
Thomas Duggan and SJ Fowler print a poem in silk – silk fibroin, entirely biocompatible and biodegradable and programmed to disappear, when required, without leaving any trace – 3D poetry in a revolutionary new material developed using the very latest design technology, that has the potential to realise new environmentally sustainable modes of substance – material never seen in public before.
The exhibition is the backbone of our summer programme – four wholly original works of visual art born of radical collaborative practise where six months of exchange comes to fruition in the unique Hardy Tree gallery in St Pancras. The exhibition, and all events, are free of charge and intended as an opportunity for artists, poets and anyone with interest in the field to meet and share ideas along with the work. During this groundbreaking exhibition seven events, innovative in medium and form, will hope to shine a light on the most dynamic and creative poets and artists active in the contemporary London scene.
July Saturday 6th – Exhibition opening night:
performances from Dylan Nyoukis & David Kelly, Ben Morris & Marcus Slease, SJ Fowler, Iain Sinclair & Ragnhildur Johanns.
July Monday 8th – Voice art
Celebrating the non-lingual in poetry / avant garde music / sound art, sonic landscapes without technological assistance, experimentation in unpure human sound – performances from Ben Morris. Dylan Nyoukis. Holly Pester. SJ Fowler. Emma Bennett & more.
July Thursday 11th – Mini-lecture Poetics
Short, informal, aberrant talks given by contemporary British experimental poets – Peter Jaeger on John Cage & Buddhism, Philip Terry on poetry novels & the Bayeux Tapestry, Tim Atkins on London poetry in the 90s, Marcus Slease on travelling poetics & more
July Saturday 13th – ‘Dear world & everyone in it’
Readings from the groundbreaking anthology, published by Bloodaxe and edited Nathan Hamilton, featuring Fabian MacPherson, Ahren Warner, Stephen Emmerson, Amy Evans, Becky Cremin, Andy Spragg & more.
July Monday 15th – The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
A rare academic entity, the CPRC, based in Birkbeck College, University of London is a hub for avant garde poets featuring Dan O’Donnell, Ollie Evans, Mendoza, Dan Eltingham, Albert Pellicer, James Wilkes, Vicky Sparrow, Mark Jackson & more
 
July Thursday 18th – P.O.W.
Edited by Antonio Carvalho, P.O.W. is a publishing project reigniting the great global tradition of concrete poetry. Readings from Chris McCabe, Chrissy Williams, Pascal O’Loughlin & more
July Saturday 20th – Closing night: a celebration of art writing
Brand new performances and artworks from Tom Jenks, Claire Potter, Patrick Coyle ,Tamarin Norwood & a host of collaborative performances from poets / artists involved in the Enemies project.
All events begin at 7.30pm and take place at the Hardy Tree gallery, situated just behind the British library. Please share the poster/s far and wide if possible.  Contact steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for further details.

www.weareenemies.com supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Arts Council England.