Alec Newman

UPSCO publisher’s fair in Edinburgh, 23rd June 2011

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VENUE: The Old Ambulence Depot in Edinburgh, for our first book-fair on the 23rd of July 2011.

Tables are FREE

After party.

All that publishers need to pay for is transport, a bed, food.

We STILL NEED volunteers for the event

If you would like to volunteer, please contact alecnewman@hotmail.com. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

To book your FREE table, contact alecnewman@hotmail.com.

About The Old Ambulence Depot
The Old Ambulence Depot is just 10 minutes walk from Waverley Station, the main station. It is owned by the award winning New Haven advertising agency, and it is a regular venue for arts exhibitions and literary events. So, there will be a heavy footfall of likely punters.

Publicity
We have already made contacts with local literary groups, the local media, and at Edinburgh University. Knives Forks and Spoons are donating A3 & A4 posters (as many as are required), and as many flyers as they can print, which will be distributed by a growing team of Edinburgh volunteers around poetry venues and bars. Many thanks to those kind people.

USPCO,
122 Birley Street,
Newton-le-Willows,
Merseyside,
WA12 9UN.

Alec Newman

Knives Forks and Spoons second event

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We will be holding another of our massively popular book launches. It will take the form of a seminar at the Crescent pub in Salford. Bring a poem if you fancy.

Tuesday 13th April Starts 7pm

Readers:

Matt Dalby,

Simon Rennie,

Alec Newman.

There will also be a bookstall of proportions as yet unseen by mankind. It will have an old headscarf on it!

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What’s on this week

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Events this week from The Other Room calendar. The calendar is open access. If you have an experimental poetry, art or music event you want to publicise, feel free to post. If you would prefer us to post for you, email us at otherroomeditors@gmail.com

Wednesday 25th November

Openned – the final reading: Andrea Brady; Ian Heames; Antony John; Geraldine Monk; Linus Slug; Timothy Thornton. The Foundry, London. 7.30 PM start. Free. More here.

Thursday 26th November

Alec Newman at Manchester Central Library: Reading from Alec Newman, poet and editor of Knives, Forks and Spoons press, with John G. Hall and Simon Rennie. 6 PM start.

Lemke/Gwilliam CD launch: Castlefield Art Gallery, Manchester 6-8pm. fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.More here.

Knives, Forks and Spoons – relaunched

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Alec Newman has picked up the torch from Richard Barrett and is now managing Knives, Forks and Spoons press. His publication schedule is as follows:

October 2009:

‘Earthworks’, poetry by Alec Newman and illustrations by Stacey Dunkinson. £5.00.
‘Londonstone’, a long poem by Alex Davies. £3.50.
‘Little Machines’, poetry by Simon Rennie. £5.00.
‘Captured Yes’, poetry by Steven Walling. Price to be confirmed.

Later in 2009:

‘North’, poetry by Matt Dalby, and graphic interpretations of sound waves by Stacey Dunkinson.
A collection of poetry by Scott Thurston.
Another one by Antony Rowland.
And a collection of art prints by Stacey Dunkinson.

More here.