Andrew Spragg

PolyPly Project 5 LOCATION COMPOSITES #6

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POLYproject > 5: LOCATION COMPOSITE #6

A realisation of one of James Saunders’ Location Composites compositions.

Sounds: Sarah Hughes, Kostis Kilymis, Artur Vidal
Words: Andrew Spragg, Amy Cutler, Chris McCabe

Thursday 6 March
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG

Free entry, 7pm

http://polyply.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/polyproject-5/

Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre and MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway

Supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Royal Holloway

Poetry at The Sutton Gallery

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The Sutton Gallery, 18a Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ. Monday, 30th September, 19:00.

Join us for an evening of poetry at The Sutton Gallery on Monday 30th September from 7pm. There will be wine and other refreshments available and there will also be a last minute chance to look at works by Peter Standen and Yoshishige Furukawa in the gallery. And it’s all absolutely free.

MacGillivray is a Scottish writer and artist. As a musician she has supported The Fall, Arthur Brown and Arlo Guthrie, performed internationally as well as being featured on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and The Verb. Her third album Horse Sweat Chandelier is released October 2013. MacGillivray’s poetry has been published in ASLS New Scottish Writing and Magma; her art criticism in Performance Research and several editions of Art Monthly. She has performed alongside writers such as Alan Moore, Don Paterson, Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. Her first collection, Last Wolf of Scotland will be published in October 2013 and treads a fine line between surreal reality and imaginative abstraction, in order to trace the violence through which national mythologies are forged and perpetuated, from the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands to the piratical showmanship of the wild west. http://www.kirstennorrie.com/

Andrew Spragg is a poet and critic. He was born in London and lives there currently. His books include The Fleetingest (Red Ceiling Press, 2011), Notes for Fatty Cakes (Anything Anymore Anywhere, 2011), cut out (Dept Press, 2012), To Blart & Kid (Like This Press, 2013) and A Treatise on Disaster (Contraband Books, 2013). His writing was also included in Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe, 2013). http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=138

Notes For Fatty Cakes by Andrew Spragg

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anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk is pleased to announce the publication of
Notes For Fatty Cakes by Andrew Spragg.

The follow-up to Andrew Spragg’s sell-out debut The Fleetingest (Red Ceilings Press, 2011), Notes For Fatty Cakes is uproarious and mannered, with tenderness by the shimmering and deliciously shifty bucketload.

‘Andrew Spragg’s Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other.”Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.’ —Tom Raworth


Fatty Cakes

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Between Soundings presents Notes for Fatty Cakes 8th October 2011 at 8.00 PM
Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX £3
To mark the release of Andrew Spragg’s Notes for Fatty Cakes (published by Anything Anymore Anywhere) Between Soundings has prepared a performance of the text with sound from Julie Groves and Matt Cockshutt. Utilising ambient recordings and live performance, the music has been composed as a specific soundscape response for the occasion.Praise for the book:
‘Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other.”Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.’ Tom Raworth
FC is going to be rubbed into your carefully composed faces, into your delicately frozen critical measurements {…} The punctuation, which has been so diligently learnt in defence of the contemporary, is spilt and walked over with chant and serious weirdness{…}The shrill swazzle of Mr Punch is wired sideways through the PA or intimately whispered over and over again.’
Brian Catling

‘Ranging from ocean to dry-land pub, prairie to outer space, this book’s good-humoured restlessness provokes us to think about relations between self and other. Andrew Spragg is a poet who can love; this book is in love with language without losing a grip on the world.’ Vahni Capildeo Matt Cockshutt http://yellotone.com/mattdefence.htm Julie Groves http://www.juliegroves.com/ Andy Spragg www.brokenloop.blogspot.com Anything Anymore Anywhere http://www.anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk/

Infinite Editions e-poetry postcards

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Editor Andrew Spragg has been amassing an impressive list of poets for his e-postcard series, so far including Tom Raworth and Emily Critchley and more. You can even print them as postcards and send to your loved ones. After opening the file in Google reader choose ‘file’ to open as a pdf. From there select ‘print’. In print choose ‘multiple pages’ where it reads page scaling and tick ‘page borders’

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