Alec Newman
Verbose
Monday 28 November 2016, Fallow Cafe, 2A Landcross Road, Manchester,M14 6NA . Featuring Richard Barrett, Jazmine Linklater and Alec Newman, all part of the Enemies Project North West Poetry Tour. 19.30 start, free entry. More here.
KFS podcast
Four Knives Forks and Spoons poets Richard Barrett, Ryan Ormonde, Sarah Leavesley and Anna McKerrow, recently talked about their work on Resonance FM. The broadcasts have now been archived and you can listen to them via the Knives Forks and Spoons site,
Knives Forks and Spoons book launch
- Peter Hughes
- Sarah James
- Robert Sheppard
Saturday, 21 September 2013, 1 pm start.
MelloMello, 40-42 Slater Street, Liverpool, L1 4BX.
Alec Newman reading at The Other Room December 2012
Alec Newman reading at the recent The Other Room December 2012
Adrian Slatcher reviews The Other Room 36 – Alec Newman, Nata Raha and Seekers of Lice
Even though the Other Room frequently features three performers from the more experimental end of the poetry spectrum,
its rare that you can find more than cursory connections between them. On the surface, Alec Newman, Nat Raha and Seekers of Lice (actually a solo artist, called, I think, Anne), hadn’t much in common either but coincidentally all read sequences, and had some element of the improvisational in work that was otherwise very structured.
The Other Room tonight
Alec Newman: a preview
Alec Newman will perform at The Other Room on Wednesday 5th December, at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. 7 PM start. Free entry. The other performers are Seekers of Lice, of whom you can read a preview here, and Nat Raha, who will be previewed next week.
Bio.
Alec Newman runs The Knives forks and Spoons Press, which the British Library nominated for the Michael Marks Publisher of the Year Award in 2011. He is fascinated by linguistics and the relation of phonology to metrical theory.
Links:
Alec Newman’s press, Knives Forks and Spoons.
Poems at Stride.
An article about the UK innovative poetry scene at Cordite Poetry Review.
A poem at the red ceilings.
Coming next
Antony Rowland, Alec Newman And Scott Thurston in Salford
Antony Rowland will be launching his new poetry collection I AM A MAGENTA STICK in the Snug of The King’s Arms in Salford on Thursday September 27th (6.30pm), with readings by Alec Newman and Scott Thurston.
Knives Forks and Spoons: latest releases
Alec Newman’s juggernaut rolls on unchecked with new publications appearing regularly. Latest out of the infernal machine is Paul Sutton’s Cabin Fever.
Establishment Magazine
New online magazine of poetics, reviews, vispo, art and essays, edited my James McLaughlin, Jo Langton and Alec Newman. Launching 1st August here.
Establishment
James Mc Laughlin is editing the Knives Forks and Spoons online magazine ‘Establishment’. Submissions of poetry reviews and essays on poets and poetics are invited to establishmentmagazine@hotmail.com.
New Knives Forks and Spoons site
Straight out of Alec Newman’s Newton-le-Willows command bunker and online, here.
Stride Magazine
Lots of interesting stuff to read at Rupert Loydell’s Stride, including his interview with Robert Sheppard and new work by Tim Allen, Steve Waling and Alec Newman.
Two new books from Knives Forks and Spoons
The Only Life by Robert Sheppard and Soma | Sema by David Toms. Available now from Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Adrian Clarke: Exiting Through the Singular
Now available from the Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Knives Fists and Spoons
Peter Hughes writes about the Knives, Forks and Spoons Press in general and imminent Other Room reader SJ Fowler’s The Red Museum in particular at the Poetry Book Society Poetry Portal:
“Earlier this year, Alec Newman’s Knives, Forks and Spoons Press was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form. It is easy to understand why. KF&S has been putting out an amazing range of innovative poetry at an extraordinary rate. There is a buzz and an urgency about the whole project which has made it a particularly welcome addition to the British poetry scene.”
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry
Nominees for the best pamphlet prizes include Other Room reader Neil Addison’s Apocapulco and Other Room reader Sophie Robinson’s The Lotion. Alec Newman’s The Knives Forks and Spoons Press and Richard Parker’s Crater Press are noimnated for best publisher. Read more here.
The world according to Newman
Alec Newman, editor and organiser of The Knives Forks and Spoons press, has a new blog. Check out what has been happening in Kiderminster and many other things, here.
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