Colin Herd gets to grips with the fast growing Red Ceilings press and 3 of their titles by Andrew Spragg, Nathan Thompson and David Berridge in 3 am magazine.
Colin Herd
The Other Room this autumn
The date and line-up for our autumn reading are now confirmed. It will be on Wednesday 26th October and the readers will be Jennifer Cooke, Colin Herd and SJ Fowler. Between now and then, we have Chris Goode, Jonny Liron and Tamarin Norwood on 20th July and David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham and Phil Terry on 24th August. All three events take place at our usual venue, The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park.
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Maintenant #63: Colin Herd
Inarguably symbolic of the dexterity and erudition of a new generation of Scottish poets, Colin Herd is an instantly memorable presence in the contemporary poetry scene north of the border. Deft, at times demure, urbane and insightful, his poetry is effusive in its grace and ease of motion. Yet Herd is a markedly energetic presence leading a resurgence of poetry in and around the city of Edinburgh. A critic of some note and already demanding a considerable following in both the UK and the United States (lauded by Dennis Cooper, amongst others) we are pleased he is our first Scots Maintenant inductee and another valuable addition to the growing record of contemporary European poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/
Accompanying the interview are six of Colin’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
It should also be mentioned Colin is going to be reading at the next Maintenant event in just under 3 weeks time.
Maintenant Slovakia
Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications
June Saturday 18th 2011 – 7pm – Entrance Free – The Rich Mix arts centre. London
Ivan Štrpka – Mila Haugova – Marcus Slease
Tamarin Norwood – Jonty Tiplady – Colin Herd …
Slovak poets Ivan Štrpka and Mila Haugova will be joined by a half dozen London-based poets to celebrate the sixth event in the Maintenant series held at the Rich Mix arts centre in London’s Brick Lane. As ever, the Maintenant series will advocate a diverse selection of poetic methodologies, ages & nationalities – collecting together some of the most interesting performers Europe has to offer. Further details to follow…
http://www.maintenant.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/maintenantpoetry
http://soundcloud.com/maintenant
Anything Anymore Anywhere 3
Action packed third issue starring:
Francis Crot, nick-e melville, Justin Katko, Posie Rider, Jacq Kelly, Iain Morrison, jim ferguson, Tony Leuzzi, Michael Farrell, Richard Barrett, J L Williams, S J Fowler, RODNEY RELAX, Rosa van Hensbergen, Thomas Moore, Pete McConville, Richie McCaffery and Greg Thomas
£4
James Davies’ Plants reviewed
Much of Davies’ work occupies a place between poetry and conceptual art. His poetry is shot through with references to the work of artists as wide ranging as Franz Kline, Vija Celmins and Thomas Fehlmann. Lines such as “next we masticated to Jeff Koons’ record collection”. Formally, his work responds in different ways to that of these artists. His chilly, wet and monotonous poem ‘The Weather’, made up of four identical tercets describing the weather, each tercet ending in the line “I wonder what it will do tomorrow” seems to be a response to the centreless, representational graphite Sea and sky drawings by Celmins.
Colin Herd reviews James Davies at 3am Magazine.
18s edited by Mark Cobley review
Colin Herd reviews at 3 am magazine:
From Raymond Queneau’s audacious sequence Hundred Thousand Billion Poems to Jerome Rothenberg’s radical reimagining of the Hebrew Mystic number system in Vienna Blood, Ronald Johnson’s 99-section long poem ARK, Ron Silliman and Inger Christensen’s use of the Fibonacci sequence and Jackson Mac Low’s systematic ‘diastic’ poems, numbers and counting have been an important structural element in the work of many of the Twentieth Century’s most radical and experimental poetics. With potential for chance procedures, and taking the poem’s structural locus away from the subjective perspective, numerical systems and constraints have often slicked the engines of what William Carlos Williams famously called ‘machines made of words.’
LIKE by Colin Herd review
LIKE by Colin Herd
Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 16pp
Reviewed by James Davies
• I LIKE the way found-texts are written which aren’t quite found-texts
• I LIKE the voice
• I LIKE the alleviated status of the trash written about without that puke-ingusting feeling that you are ‘viewing everyday objects in an extraordinary way’
• I LIKE the condemnation of capitalism
• I LIKE the grotesque & squiggy imagery; esp the mushyness of George Bush Sr. Do sculptures at Madame Tussaud’s get melted down like the Wicked Witch of the West or do they go into storage at the Tate Gallery?
• I LIKE the way the art criticism is done here
• I LIKE the juxtaposition of magik and humanism: see Franz Kline poem
• I LIKE Franz Kline any day of the week
• I am sorry Denise Levertov was so mean to Colin Herd but kinda glad also
• I enLIKED to hear him growl. Thank you so much for teaching me how to growl
• There is this woman I LIKE a bit (she’s so naff), who I’ve seen advertising non-aging cream, but I had never heard of Jane Rafter before but I am GLAD that I have done now
• Just LIKE Colin Herd I enjoy watching crap TV sometimes and I LIKE to satirise it. Crap TV is one of many things that needs to be satirised and is evidence enough to agree with Adorno’s threadlike arguments
• I LIKE Colin Herd’s poem about Eva Longoria even though I don’t know who the hell she is: I’m not going to google her but will no doubt get told who she is subsequent to this review
• I LIKE to laugh; laughter is both the happiness and sadness of the people, our escapism and our warning
• I LIKE the way Colin Herd does détournement
• I LIKE to start my day with Nescafe (LIKE hell I do)
• I LIKE ‘LIKE’
Streetcake 15
Out now featuring:
- David Berridge
- John Burton
- Matthew Dickens
- Colin Herd
- Joshua Jones
- David Mac
- Kristian Wiese
More here.
UPSCO publisher’s fair in Edinburgh, 23rd June 2011
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
New issue of Anything Anymore Anywhere
The Spring 2010 issue of ‘anything anymore anywhere’, a literary journal published from Edinburgh, Scotland. Edited by Colin Herd and Reuben Sutton.
This issue features Marcia Arrieta, Claire Askew, Royce Borgeson, Joel Chace, Doru Culiac, Catherine Daly, James Davies, Adam Fieled, Peter Hughes, Geof Huth, Devin Johnston, Mary Kasimor, Scott Keeney, Margaret Konkol, Tony Leuzzi, Cathleen Miller, Adam Perry, Sam Scild, Alex Willie Singerman, Marcus Slease, Nancy Stohlman, Jayne Thickett, Rhys Trimble, Marcus Whale, Jessica Wickens, Justin Wolfers.
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