Interview
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4 pamphlets in one box
11 colour postcards
text and image
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120pp
July 2012
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The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
“…if we take Conceptualism and Conservatism as two poles in our current poetry culture, as you are proposing, then the curious thing is that the most extreme examples at either pole converge in one very important way: in the purported transparency of their language. Both subordinate the materiality of language to other aims: for the Conservator, the goal is emotional identification achieved through either narrative, or the semblance of epiphany, or what have you, and for the Conceptualist, the goal is revelation of the framework which governs the text. ” Matvei Yankelevich responds to Marjorie Perloff at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Ways of Describing Cuts
A collaborative chapbook by Steven Fowler and Sarah Kelly, out now on the unstoppable Knives Forks and Spoons.
MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH… Kenneth Goldsmith
From Radi0 Web Macba: “Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb – the most important online repository on sound experimentation –, takes us on a journey through his personal history as a collector of sounds that spans from his childhood to adult life and the creation of Ubuweb, by way of different stages of obsession with what he calls the ‘accumulation of cultural artefacts’.”
The Robin Hood Book
131 poets in support of a Robin Hood tax. Includes Other Room readers Ira Lightman, Chris McCabe and Steven Waling. Out now at The Recusant.
Counterexample Poetics: Jo Langton
New work by Jo Langton and much else of interest on the Counterexample Poetics site.
James Harvey Memorial reading
Veer Books / Xing the Line / Writers Forum Workshop (New Series) and The Blue Bus have come together to celebrate the life and poetry of James Harvey, who died last month. This memorial reading will take place at Birkbeck College on Thursday 19th July, from 18.00-21.00. The address is Keynes Library, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. (When you come in to the foyer, ask the person on the front desk who will give directions – it’s a room on the first floor overlooking the square.) Readers/performers will include Carol Watts, Will Rowe, James Wilkes, matt martin, Jeff Hilson, Holly Pester, Michael Zand, Stephen Emmerson, Juliet Troy, John Gibbens, Keith Jebb, David Miller, Antony John, Edward Carey, Peter Philpott, S J Fowler, Elizabeth Guthrie, and The Children (Armorel Weston and John Gibbens).
Please note that this is a free event.
James Harvey
James Harvey (1966–2012) studied biology at UCL before becoming a full-time poet in the thriving experimental and innovative poetry community in London .
His interest in science, especially biology, extended into his poetry. James took part in a forum discussion with Rae Armantrout, Amy Catanzano, John Cayley, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Allen Fisher, Peter Middleton, Evelyn Reilly and Joan Retallack on the interaction of poetry and science, hosted by Jacket 2. He was fascinated by the potential of ‘science in poetry to dismantle existing structures, and then put them back together again, build them up “mechanically” while at the same time each level of complexity is acted upon equally through “the forces of nature,” questioning the integrity of the structure.’
The importance of ecology in his work is evident in one of his best poems, ‘Mackerelling’. This was published in Veer Away (Veer 2007) and subsequently became his first book (Intercapillary Editions 2009). The poem ‘is a movement through water … an exercise in naming as pattern’. As James explained: ‘Marguerite White sent me cardboard cuttings out in the shapes of sea birds she had used for one of her installations, I had been watching David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet and the idea for the poem came shortly after. At the back of my mind was also Bob Cobbing’s poem “alphabet of californian fishes” … one of my favourite poems.’
James was a regular at Writers Forum Workshop and many of his poems have a strong visual element, showing Cobbing’s influence. Part of his poem ‘Living Rock Ode’ (in Freaklung 2010) included a diagram of a marine plankton that he sounded when reading the poem. James read in honour of Jennifer Pike-Cobbing in 2010 with his work featuring in AND13 (Writers Forum 2010) produced to mark the event. Later he was part of Writers Forum Workshop (New Series), his work appearing in its first publication (Writers Forearm 2011).
Veer published a chapbook Temporary Structures in 2009 and included his work in Veer Off (2008) and Veer About (2011) in addition to Veer Away. He was published in the Openned magazine (2006) and Openned Issues 2006-07 (2008). In 2009, Openned brought out an e-pamphlet, Parts Composers, and Kater Murr’s press published a broadsheet From Marx’s Capital. James was featured in the anthology In the Company of Poets (Hearing Eye 2003).
James’s readings in London included the Blue Bus in 2008 with Nina Zivancevic and Vahni Capildeo and in 2010 with Harriet Tarlo, David Miller and Ken White. He read at Crossing the Line in 2009 with James Wilkes, Jon Clay, Antony John and Out to Lunch.
James was also part of a group of poets who travelled to Newcastle upon Tyne to celebrate Barry MacSweeney in a reading at Morden Tower in 2010. James read from his Japheth series, written in collaboration with Edinburgh-based poet Jow Lindsay. Other work appeared in Herbarium (2011), also with an associated reading, or were published online in Greatworks and Jacket, with work also appearing in Brittle Star magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review and the Morning Star.
James Harvey discussing poetry and science with other poets in Jacket 2 is here http://jacket2.org/features/archive?page=1
James Harvey’s poem ‘Mackerelling’ (2007) can be downloaded free from http://www.lulu.com/shop/james-harvey/mackerelling/ebook/product-4880571.html;jsessionid=2AF6BA9D292AC56685B11016B5DC1DCF
Video of James Harvey reading in honour of Jennifer Pike-Cobbing in 2010 http://www.openned.com/writers-forum-jennifer/?currentPage=4
Veer About (Veer 2011) can be downloaded free via http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer037
James Harvey’s work in the Openned magazine (2006) is here http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/openned-magazine.html
James Harvey’s work in Openned Issues 2006-07 (Openned 2008) is here http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/openned-issues-2006-2007.html
James Harvey’s Parts Composers (Openned 2009) is here: http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/parts-composers.html
Video of James Harvey reading at Morden Tower in 2010 (including ‘Living Rock Ode’ and Japheth poems)
James Harvey
James Harvey (1966–2012) studied biology at UCL before becoming a full-time poet in the thriving experimental and innovative poetry community in London .
His interest in science, especially biology, extended into his poetry. James took part in a forum discussion with Rae Armantrout, Amy Catanzano, John Cayley, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Allen Fisher, Peter Middleton, Evelyn Reilly and Joan Retallack on the interaction of poetry and science, hosted by Jacket 2. He was fascinated by the potential of ‘science in poetry to dismantle existing structures, and then put them back together again, build them up “mechanically” while at the same time each level of complexity is acted upon equally through “the forces of nature,” questioning the integrity of the structure.’
The importance of ecology in his work is evident in one of his best poems, ‘Mackerelling’. This was published in Veer Away (Veer 2007) and subsequently became his first book (Intercapillary Editions 2009). The poem ‘is a movement through water … an exercise in naming as pattern’. As James explained: ‘Marguerite White sent me cardboard cuttings out in the shapes of sea birds she had used for one of her installations, I had been watching David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet and the idea for the poem came shortly after. At the back of my mind was also Bob Cobbing’s poem “alphabet of californian fishes” … one of my favourite poems.’
James was a regular at Writers Forum Workshop and many of his poems have a strong visual element, showing Cobbing’s influence. Part of his poem ‘Living Rock Ode’ (in Freaklung 2010) included a diagram of a marine plankton that he sounded when reading the poem. James read in honour of Jennifer Pike-Cobbing in 2010 with his work featuring in AND13 (Writers Forum 2010) produced to mark the event. Later he was part of Writers Forum Workshop (New Series), his work appearing in its first publication (Writers Forearm 2011).
Veer published a chapbook Temporary Structures in 2009 and included his work in Veer Off (2008) and Veer About (2011) in addition to Veer Away. He was published in the Openned magazine (2006) and Openned Issues 2006-07 (2008). In 2009, Openned brought out an e-pamphlet, Parts Composers, and Kater Murr’s press published a broadsheet From Marx’s Capital. James was featured in the anthology In the Company of Poets (Hearing Eye 2003).
James’s readings in London included the Blue Bus in 2008 with Nina Zivancevic and Vahni Capildeo and in 2010 with Harriet Tarlo, David Miller and Ken White. He read at Crossing the Line in 2009 with James Wilkes, Jon Clay, Antony John and Out to Lunch.
James was also part of a group of poets who travelled to Newcastle upon Tyne to celebrate Barry MacSweeney in a reading at Morden Tower in 2010. James read from his Japheth series, written in collaboration with Edinburgh-based poet Jow Lindsay. Other work appeared in Herbarium (2011), also with an associated reading, or were published online in Greatworks and Jacket, with work also appearing in Brittle Star magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review and the Morning Star.
James Harvey discussing poetry and science with other poets in Jacket 2 is here http://jacket2.org/features/archive?page=1
James Harvey’s poem ‘Mackerelling’ (2007) can be downloaded free from http://www.lulu.com/shop/james-harvey/mackerelling/ebook/product-4880571.html;jsessionid=2AF6BA9D292AC56685B11016B5DC1DCF
Video of James Harvey reading in honour of Jennifer Pike-Cobbing in 2010 http://www.openned.com/writers-forum-jennifer/?currentPage=4
Veer About (Veer 2011) can be downloaded free via http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer037
James Harvey’s work in the Openned magazine (2006) is here http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/openned-magazine.html
James Harvey’s work in Openned Issues 2006-07 (Openned 2008) is here http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/openned-issues-2006-2007.html
James Harvey’s Parts Composers (Openned 2009) is here: http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/parts-composers.html
Video of James Harvey reading at Morden Tower in 2010 (including ‘Living Rock Ode’ and Japheth poems)
SoundEye 2012
Details of this year’s festival can be found at the SoundEye site.
Ryan Ormonde – A Preview
Preview of July 19th 2012 performer Ryan Ormonde who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe, and Hazel Smith. See blog entries below for previews of Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe & Hazel Smith.
Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012
Ryan Ormonde
is one of the four poet performers who collaborate as ‘press free press’ in various live publishing and writing projects; the others are Becky Cremin, Sejal Chad and Karen Sandhu. Alone, Ryan is interested in finding an intuitive writing method that is evidence of reading two or more different texts, or that is the written outcome of making a text from criteria suggested while sitting somewhere outside, or from walking around. Ryan has a chapbook and a book-book published with The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. The book-book is called ‘The of of the film of the book and the of of the book of the film’. Ryan is the longest serving member of staff at a certain West End cinema.
See his websites at :
http://poeticpracticejournal.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.pressfreepress.com/
Camarade III Videos
Click on the urls to see the videos of the third in the Maintenant collaboration series
From the Rich mix, in Brick Lane, London, on Saturday night:
Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnLWfNlU_Y
Tom Chivers & Iain Sinclair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXaBHH1NZc
Robert Sheppard & Jeff Hilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFnA5PasOOs
Frances Kruk & Maria Ferencuhova http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkGkswlIno
Philip Terry & Allen Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR8GQsZxNYk
Emma Bennett & Holly Pester http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtAEIM5bPTI
Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGl6gy3lefQ
Simon Barrclough & Isobel Dixon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmtbDpIlgE
David Berridge & Andy Spragg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDymTvATgkE
Marcus Slease & Richard Barrett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75XOG700TE
From the Nova festival, in Bignor Park, Sussex, on Sunday afternoon:
George Szirtes & Carol Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qV9e7hT5M
Philip Terry & Tom Jenks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTZUk7K5uuM
Juha Virtanen & Robert Kiely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznBcPW4wDs
Richard Barrett & Marcus Slease http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdAHDn-Ego4
Frances Kruk & Maria Ferencuhova http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4evDyJvDreg
Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZuzwgMKEk
Andy Spragg & David Berridge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RFOHz_iDms
Simon Barraclough & Isobel Dixon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFYytlH_Ls
Emma Bennett & Holly Pester http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COo5N8-MbGk
postscript http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InWbshzV0F0
LIFE OF RILEY, by Samuel Solomon
“In this series of red shouts, misremembered lyrics and culture skimmings, Samuel Solomon offers a poetics of conviction: language bumped and rigorous, tampered by gavels but still boisterous in ‘the shadow of our right’. ‘These are not tactics raised to principles. / Every good poem is a transitional demand’. Taken as a set of analects ‘in the interest of positions sometimes happy’, Solomon’s Life of Riley offers both a serious engagement with the ludicrous what-is and a flicker of its opposite: resisting eviction from public space, the territorialism of capital, and the plunge out of affect into the trap of concepts, these are poems to lean on.” – Andrea Brady
Out now from Bad Press.
Xing the Line
Wednesday, 18 July 2012, 19:30, The Apple Tree, London WC1X.
- Frances Presley
- Gavin Selerie
Marcus Slease – new ebook
New Crush e-book from Marcus Slease, available now from Poor Claudia.
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – A Preview
Preview of July 19th 2012 performers Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Ryan Ormonde and Hazel Smith. Ryan Ormonde to follow. See blog entries below for Hazel Smith.
Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012
Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe are working for the third time on a collaboration commissioned by The Maintenant reading series.
Above is their current literary postcards project. More HERE
The second project HERE
And the first HERE
Chris McCabe
was born in Liverpool in 1977. His published books are The Hutton Inquiry (Salt, 2005), Zeppelins (Salt, 2008) and a play Shad Thames, Broken Wharf (Penned in the Margins 2010). He has also recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive. His third full collection, THE RESTRUCTURE, was published in May 2012. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London.
Tom Jenks
has two collections, A Priori and *, published by if p then q (http://ifpthenq.co.uk). His work has appeared in a range of digital and print publications including Department magazine, onedit, Cleaves, Blackbox Manifold and the 18s anthology. He organises the avant objects imprint zimZalla (http://zimzalla.co.uk) and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website (http://otherroom.org). Gnomes, a collaboration with Chris McCabe, was published by The Red Ceilings Press in 2011.
Space Time
Intercapillary Places is…
Coded Histories: SPACE TIME (July 26th)
John Armstrong – On the Geometry of Space Time
John Seed – Poetry
Mathematician John Armstrong will speak on special relativity as a theory of the geometry of space time, and the historian and poet John Seed will read from his investigative poetry of labour, migration and the archive.#
Place: Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
Date: Thurs 26th July
Time: Arrive 6.30pm for drinks, event begins at 7pm
Tickets: £5/£5 conc – tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone, email or online through Paypal – http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php?id=22
SPACE TIME forms part of the ‘Islington Exhibits’ festival – http://www.islingtonexhibits.com/home
About the Speakers:
John Armstrong is a mathematician and software architect. He currently lectures at King’s College, London on financial mathematics, C ++ and Matlab, while researching differential geometry.
John Seed is an honorary research fellow at Roehampton. His book on ‘Dissenting Histories’ was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2008. His Collected Poems and also two volumes of archive poetry drawn from Henry Mayhew, That Barrikins, are published by Shearsman.
For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/
Intercapillary Places is organised by Edmund Hardy & Felicity Roberts
Hazel Smith – A Preview
Preview of July 19th 2012 performer Hazel Smith who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Ryan Ormonde and a collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks. Previews to follow.
Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012
Hazel Smith is active in the areas of poetry, performance and new media. Her work has appeared in numerous international literary magazines and in literary, musical and multimedia anthologies. She has published three volumes of poetry: Abstractly Represented: Poems and Performance Texts 1982-90, Butterfly Books, 1991; Keys Round her Tongue: short prose, poetry and performance texts Soma, 2000 and The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works, Tinfish Press, 2008 (accompanied by a CD-Rom of works with Roger Dean).
Hazel has also, with Roger Dean, made three CDs of her performance work, Poet Without Language, Rufus Records 1994; Nuraghic Echoes, Rufus Records, 1996 and Returning the Angles, Soma Recording and Publishing 2001. She has collaborated with Roger Dean on many ABC radio commissions including Poet Without Language, 1991, Nuraghic Echoes, 1994, The Erotics of Gossip, 2001, Returning the Angles 1998, for The Listening Room, and The Afterlives of Betsy Scott, 2007, for Airplay. Her performance collaborations, such as the writer the performer the program the madwoman 2004, the space of history 2006, Mid-Air Conversations 2006 and Minimal 2007 are showcased on many poetics websites such as PennSound (US), and in internet journals such as How2 (US). One of her collaborations with Roger Dean, Poet without Language, was nominated by the ABC for the Prix Italia in 1992.
Hazel is co-author with Roger Dean of numerous new media works, such as Wordstuffs: the city and the body, 1998, Intertwingling 1999, the egg the cart the horse the chicken 2004, soundAFFECTs 2004 (with Anne Brewster) and Time the Magician 2007. She has also collaborated on several occasions with visual artist Sieglinde Karl, and their joint work has been exhibited in many art galleries in Australia and overseas. She has performed her own work extensively nationally and internationally in Europe and Australasia. She has been co-recipient of numerous grants from the Australia Council, The Australian Film Commission and Arts Tasmania.
Some links to work:
the writer, the performer, the program, the madwoman
KFS book launches Bobby Parker, Meredith Andrea, and Rhys Trimble
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
7:00pm
Bobby Parker, Meredith Andrea, Rhys Trimble
The Kitchen Bar and Cafe
The Kitchen Bar and Cafe
More info on the KFS Facebook page
Juxtavoices: 3 summer concerts
- Jul 14th: JUXTAVOICES at Tubermusic, St Margaret’s Church, Whalley Range, Manchester.
- Jul 22nd: ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE plus JUXTAVOICES, Tramlines, Memorial Hall, Sheffield.
- Aug 25th: JUXTAVOICES, Daytime TBC, Monsal Head Railway Tunnel, Derbyshire.
Juxtavoices is a large antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield’s leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scene. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing normal concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places and at poetry / text events. A Discus CD is planned for 2012. Always on the look out for new members.
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