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Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
The next Peter Barlow’s Cigarette features The Other Room’s James Davies and previous reader Chris McCabe as well as Anna Percy and Sheila Hamilton.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
James Davies, Anna Percy, Chris McCabe, Sheila Hamilton
12th October, 8.30
Town Hall Tavern, Manchester
Free
The British Onion Marketing Board
In a secondment funded by the European Union, Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks have been charged with overhauling the site of the British Onion Marketing Board, with the aim of raising its public profile and introducing the British onion into public discourse. Selections from their work will be presented at the Camaradefest in London on 25th October, where both parties will be on hand to answer questions and make recipe suggestions.
The Blue Bus
The Blue Bus is pleased to present an event featuring poetry by Chris McCabe, Andrew Taylor and David Miller, with music from David Miller and Rod Boucher, on Tuesday 20th August, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eightieth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Listening to the Dead : a tour of the West Norwood poets
Listening to the Dead : a tour of the West Norwood poets.
Chris McCabe + Colin Fenn
Gates of West Norwood Cemetery
Thursday 25th July, 1pm
Free
Which of the West Norwood poets did Dickens think “had mistaken his true vocation in life”? Why did Blanchard commit suicide? Did Watts-Dunton save Swinburne from his fetish for flagellation? These questions and more will arise on next Thursday’s tour across the dead poets of West Norwood cemetery. The tour is free and will be enriched with the knowledge of Colin Fenn of Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, who will be joining Chris. Meet at the gates at 1pm and the tour will last for about an hour.
Whitehall Jackals: Chris McCabe and Jeremy Reed
London in the dark end-times of the late noughties; escaped war criminals and their hired thugs scavenge like hyenas amid the city’s smut and glitter, the system appears in nonchalant free-fall and words drop cheaply as grimy metropolitan rain. With this dystopian backdrop, where language is spun, redacted and renditioned, McCabe and Reed’s gritty riposte performs an angry and elegant resistance.
The result of this psychogeographic collaboration between two of modern poetry’s most distinct voices is this – a poetry chain-letter that seeks to interrogate the city at one of the most peculiar and sinister points in contemporary history and to map the capital on foot, under their own light; poems as foundlings; the weight of language and place obsessively and voraciously explored. Beneath flagstones, in river silt and on the top decks of buses, the strange, dark energies of the city find their way into this electrifying exchange of poems. More at Inpress.
Mudflats
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 7.00 PM – 8.30 PM Tickets: £5/£3
Part of Northern Elements, which develops spoken word in the North of England through commissions of new, imaginative and high quality spoken word material, the Bluecoat is working with independent promoter Michael Egan to present performances celebrating lost stories and forgotten voices. Chris McCabe’s commission Mudflats explores where history, language and memory meet across generations for one Liverpool family, played out against the backdrop of an ever changing city and the river that flows through all their lives. Programme also includes Dinesh Allirajah, James Byrne, Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Sharp.
More here.
OUT OF THE DEBRIS
Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe have collaborated across film and music with Jack Wake-Walker (film) and Oli Barrett (music) of Petrels to produce The Debris Field, an alternative artistic take on the sinking of the Titanic. After a sold out performance at the BFI in 2012, there will be another London performance at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green on Thursday 21st February.
Visual Poetics
This exhibition, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe, focuses on the ways in which poetry has moved into a visual dimension in work by recent practitioners.
In particular, the emphasis is on the way that individual poets have incorporated their writing in or with visual images, or pushed their writing into something inherently visual, either lucidly, vividly or extravagantly. Among those whose work is exhibited are Thomas A Clark and Laurie Clark, Gavin Selerie, Liliane Lijn, James Harvey, Sarah Kelly and David Miller.
David Miller’s involvement in the curating of this exhibition is part of the Text and Image Project at Nottingham Trent University.
Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 8pm
Free
12 February 2013, 11:00am – 14 April 2013, 20:00pm.
More here.
Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe reading at July 2012 The Other Room, Leeds
Ubu Roi, I Boris
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks’ fourth collaboration is Ubu Roi, I Boris an adaptation of the 1951 Gaberbocchus edition of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. You can catch up with the text so far, featuring, amongst others, Dale Winton, Ant & Dec, Peter Mandleson and William Hague in a bespoke sausage suit at the website.
The collaboration is part of SJ Fowler’s Camarade project and will be performed in some shape or form at the next Camarade event on 9th February at the Rich Mix in London.
The Debris Field
The Debris Field: Salvaging The Titanic in Word, Sound and Image, Thu 15 Nov 8pm, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Check the site for tickets.
In this new, multi-media production, a key historic event – the sinking of the Titanic – is explored. Evocative text and performance by poets Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe, with original music from Oli Barrett of Bleeding Heart Narrative, and film by Jack Wake-Walker. The performance takes you on a resonant tour of the cultural debris of this iconic catastrophe.
p.o.w. series 2 broadsides
The second series of p.o.w broadsides, featuring Augusto de Campos, Mel Gooding, Julie Johnstone, Richard Price, Edward Lucie-Smith and Chrissy Williams an others, have just been published by unit4art. Read more about them here.
Seaside Special
Seaside Special, a set of 31 literary postcards by Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe with an all star cast including John Betjeman, Allen Ginsberg and an unfeasibly large sausage, is now available for £10 plus £2.50 post and packaging in the UK and £5.00 post and packaging elsewhere. To view the project online and buy a set, go here. Just the thing for a donkey ride with a maiden aunt.
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.
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.
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
The Other Room July and August 2012
Our next two events are coming up shortly. July in Leeds and August in Manchester. Previews of the readers will follow. As ever our events are free. Hope to see you there.
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – Postcards
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks’ collaboration enters its third phase with a collection of digital postcards, featuring John Betjeman, Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin jostling for position with Sid James, Kenneth Williams and an outsize anthropomorphised sausage. These postcards will be unveiled live at the next of SF Fowler’s Camarade events on 7th July at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London. They will also be part of their July 19th performance at The Other Room’s extra summer event in Leeds. More details of this to follow in due course.
The Other Room July update
We can confirm the performers for our July gig at Leeds Gallery (not Leeds Art Gallery). A very special visit from Hazel Smith, Ryan Ormonde coming from London and The Other Room’s Tom Jenks’ and Chris McCabe’s uproarious shindig collaboration Gnomes; now in its third guise. Before that of course at our new home in Manchester, The Castle, we welcome Peter Jaeger, Ira Lightman and Helmut Lemke on June 12th, details in the column to the right. August 14th in Manchester sees Frank Kuppner, Nathan Jones and David Gaffney whoop it up.
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