Sarah Crewe: a preview

Sarah Crewe will perform at The Other Room on April 8th at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. For a flavour of her work, watch this clip of Sarah performing at Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot on 2012. For more of her work, try her poems in Bone Orchard Poetry and Peony Moon, or samples from her recently published collection flick invicta at the Oystercatcher Press site.

The other readers will be Patrick Coyle, Rhys Trimble and Chrissy Williams.

DESIGN FOR LIVING: Sunday March 24 7:30 PM – MILES CHAMPION, WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA

DESIGN FOR LIVING: Sunday March 24 7:30 PM

MILES CHAMPION, WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA

WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA, MILES CHAMPION

William Fuller’s most recent books are Sadly,
Watchword, and Hallucination, all from Flood Editions. Quorum will be published
next month by Seagull Books. He has worked at a Chicago trust company for the
last thirty years; this is his first reading in NYC since the Ear Inn in
1990.

Miles Champion’s How to Laugh is forthcoming from Adventures in
Poetry. His book-length illustrated interview with Trevor Winkfield, How I
Became a Painter, should be out soon from Pressed Wafer. Other books include
Compositional Bonbons Placate, Sore Models, Three Bell Zero, and Eventually. He
lives in Brooklyn.

Joe Luna lives in Brighton, UK, where he runs the Hi
Zero poetry reading series and edits Hi Zero magazine. He is the author of
ASTROTURF (Hi Zero, 2013), and A Great Sadness (Otting Editions,
2013).

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THE DARK WOULD language art anthology

THE DARK WOULD language art anthology
Launch at Whitechapel Gallery 11April, 7.30-9 pm
£4/3 (concs)

Join us in the Whitechapel Gallery, London, for the launch of a pioneering anthology of text artists and poets, with talks/readings by artist Simon Patterson and poets Caroline Bergvall and Tony Lopez.

THE DARK WOULD gathers work by over 100 contributors including some of the most noted artists and poets alive today: Richard Long, Jenny Holzer, Fiona Banner, Maggie O’ Sullivan, Tacita Dean, Tom Phillips, Tom Raworth, Nja Mahdaoui, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Tsang Kin-Wah, Charles Bernstein and many, many more.

This is a moment in time when poets and many artists share the same primary material: language. Conceptual art, vispo, text art, outsider art, conceptual poetry, flarf, concrete poetry, live art, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound scores… THE DARK WOULD is a compelling document of now, alchemising text into art into text.

To order tickets go here.

THE DARK WOULD comes in two volumes, one paper and one virtual, sold both together for £29.99, published by Apple Pie Editions.

Runnymede Literary Festival

Saturday 23 March

 

1.0     – 2.00: Simon Smith, Adrian Clarke, S.J. Fowler

2.00-3.00: Redell Olsen, Drew Milne, Stephen Mooney

3.15-4.15: Jennie Coles, Rachel Dakin, Annie Runkle, Juliet Troy, Emma Wootton

4.15-5.15: Jeff Hilson, Nata Raha, Sophie Robinson

5.15-6.15: Will Rowe, Prue Chamberlain, Robert Hampson

6.15-7.15: David Herd, David Miller, Frances Presley

The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, London WC1X 9NG

King’s Cross Underground

All events Free

Patrick Coyle: a preview

Patrick Coyle will perform at the next Other Room on Monday April 8th at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. For an indication of his singing skills, try this clip of Patrick performing with Holly Pester at SJ Fowler’s Camarade event in 2011. For more of his work, visit his site or his YouTube channel. The other readers will be Sarah Crewe, Rhys Trimble and Chrissy Williams. Previews of all three to follow over the next few weeks.

Enemies of the North / Enemies of the South

Enemies of the North – March Saturday 30th at the Cornerhouse in Manchester. 5.30pm to 9pm in the Annexe room – entrance free. A special Camarade event, a day of original collaborations in poetry, sonic art and visual art, celebrating the resurgent energy of the northwest innovative poetry scene.  In addition to the launch of 3 collaborative publications involving SJ Fowler, the event will feature performance by:

  • Zoe Skoulding & Robert Sheppard
  • Richard Barrett & Nathan Thompson
  • Sarah Crewe & Jo Langton
  • Michael Egan & Bobby Parker
  • Steven Waling & Matt Dalby
  • Adam Steiner & Eleanor Rees
  • James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar
  • SJ Fowler & Marcus Slease
  • Daniele Pantano & David Kelly
  • Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe
  • Ben Morris
Enemies of the South – April Saturday 27th at the Arnolfini in Bristol – 6.30pm to 7.30pm in the Light Studio. Enemies presents a special one off Camarade event as part of the remarkable 4 day programme at the Arnolfini in Bristol, which sees avant garde poetry and performance art at the forefront of a wonderful festival programme. The event will feature:
  • Holly Pester & Emma Bennett
  • Tim Atkins & Mark Waldron
  • David Berridge & James Wilkes
  • Patrick Coyle & SJ Fowler
  • Daniel Rourke & Claire Potter
  • Jeff Hilson & Marcus Slease
  • Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe

Port of Call: Poetics, Translation and Cultural Transmission

The University of Liverpool’s ‘Port of Call’ international poetry reading series features eight international poets and translators from India, Singapore, Canada, Morocco, France and the United States for an exciting programme of readings and discussions.

March 14th, 5-6pm: Singaporean poet Alvin Pang and British poet James Byrne (translator of Burmese poetry) will read for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.

March 21st, 5-6pm: Belarussian poet Valzhyna Mort and Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson will read for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.

April 24th,5-6pm: American poet Marilyn Hacker and Moroccan poet Rachida Madani will read for 25 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.

May 8th, 5-6pm: Canadian poet Priscila Uppal with read with British-Indian poet Tishani Doshi for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.

More here.

Syndicate

Thursday, 14 March 2013, 18:30.

Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

The first installment of new media poetry night Syndicate explores the meaning of authorship and identity in a digital context in an evening of poetry readings, music, discussions and web-art screenings.

Sophie Robinson is a London-based poet who is currently working on a long poem about Soviet space travel. She’s interested in the experimental sonnet, contemporary revisions of lyric, and queer space and time. Sophie was Poet in Residence at the V&A in 2011.

Calum Rodger is a Glasgow-based poet with an interest in digital poetics. Tonight, he’ll share works made using Chris Westbury’s ‘user-configurable dynamic textual projective surface’ JanusNode, and wrestle with their critical and theoretical contexts.

Dorothy Butchard is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh who is exploring the ramifications of new media for established narrative techniques and the representation of marginal communities in literary space. She’ll be curating two pieces of digital art and sharing ideas from her research.

Syndicate will close with Edinburgh poet and musician Illiop, whose electronic music is often reminiscent of the call of the Namaqua rainfrog, and/or the sound of a hundred ribbons tied to industrial machines: tonight it will be reminiscent of the voices we’ve just heard. Syndicate brings together writers, musicians, artists and researchers working in and in response to digital technologies, new media and evolving network practices. It is organised by Lila Matsumoto, Jo L Walton and Samantha Walton, in collaboration with Inspace.

More here.

Leanne Bridgewater – The Homophone Translator

Out now as free PDF and as mp3 on Beard of Bees.

“I realised I could use the sounds of a Polish man speaking to write poetry in English. This was the seed of the idea of The Homophone Translator. As a basis for the translation project, I wrote a short story, Silver Linear Cloud, in English. Then, I asked several competent translators to translate one or more of the nine sections of the story into other languages. I provided recordings of the English sections and they returned recordings of their language translation.

Once I received the foreign language translations, I “homophonically” translate the recorded words back into English. To do this, I listened to the sounds repeatedly until English words or sounds emerged I was interested in the process of constructing new poems, being inspired by sounds, rather than following the stereotypical path of seeing translation as an accurate transportation of meaning.”

Starcrusher

STARCRUSHER NIGHT

{{ SATURDAY 9th MARCH }}

songs         poetry        noise           and  film

poetry from SEAN BONNEY LISA JESCHKE VERITY SPOTT IAN HEAMES NAT RAHA TOMAS WEBER

songs from JEREMY HARDINGHAM BUSINESS LUNCH

noise from OLLIE EVANS CAMBRIDGE IMPROVISERS

the world premiere of KLAUS KINSKI ERLOSER

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio English Faculty, Cambridge

7pm till late

~~~~ Mit Alcohol und Book Tables                  ~~~~

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Tim Allen at Edge Hill

The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Tuesday 12th March 2012, 7.30. £4.50.

Tim Allen Edited the magazine Terrible Work and ran the Poetry Exchange and Language Club events in Plymouth. Now lives near Preston. Publications include Settings (Shearsman 2008), Anabranch with Slug – a robotic pastoral in honor of Raymond Roussel (Knives Forks & Spoons 2011), incidental harvest (Oystercatcher 2011) and The Voice Thrower (Shearsman 2012), a single long poem of 333 quatrains described by Ian Seed as ‘the fragmented bildungsroman of a generation who have grown up in a postmodern world’. Also co-edited a book of interviews with British poets, Don’t Start Me Talking (Salt 2006).His poetry, though situated in the post-avant, innovative and radical streams, has its roots in symbolist euphony and surrealism.

There will be launch readings by Lindsey Holland, Andrew Taylor and Patricia Farrell.