Come and celebrate the London launch of 5 brand new titles from Boiler House Press. A post-launch DJ set is rumoured!
Atkins, Critchley, Herd, Hilson, Morris
Thursday, December 14 at 7 PM
Iklectic, Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG London
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New publications by Colin Herd, Marianne Morris, Emily Critchley and Jeff Hilson, available separately or as a bundle. More here.
Out now on Boiler House Press.
2 August, 19:00–22:00, Iklektik, ‘Old Paradise Yard’, 20 Carlisle Lane ( Royal Street corner ) next to Archbishop’s Park, London, SE1 7LG. A London launch for the Out of Everywhere 2 anthology. Readings by Carol Watts, Elizabeth James, Frances Presley, Carrie Etter, Sophie Mayer, Sophie Robinson, Jennifer Cooke, Elizabeth Jane Burnett and Emily Critchley. This is a London launch for the book following the northern launch in Manchester, hosted by The Other Room in December 2015.
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Sophie Mayer is the co-editor of Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (English PEN, 2012, with Markie Burnhope and Sarah Crewe) and Glitter is a Gender (Contraband, 2014, with Sarah Crewe). She has published poetry collections with Shearsman, Salt, Oystercatcher, Knives Forks and Spoons, and – most recently – (O) with Arc and kaolin, or How Does a Girl Like You Get to be a Girl Like You with Lark. She is currently a full-time feminist film activist. @tr0ublemayer.
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Christine Kennedy is a Sheffield-based writer, artist and independent scholar who has published co-authored articles on women’s experimental poetry. Her own experimental poetry grew out of her fine art practice and has remained largely integral to it. Her poetry publications include ‘Hobby Horse: A Puppet Play for Cabaret Voltaire’ in Dadadollz (ISPress, 2010), Nineteen Nights in San Francisco (West House Books / The Cherry On The Top Press, 2007) and Possessions (The Cherry On The Top Press, 2003). The poetry sequence Twelve Entries from The Encyclopaedia of Natural Sexual Relations is published by The Cherry On The Top Press (2000/2003) including her short supporting essay. The White Lady’s Casket, her site-specific text installation for Bishops’ House and her supporting essay, are published in RSE 4packs No4: Renga + (Reality Street Editions, 2002). She is the co-author of Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool University Press, 2013) which is the first full-length study of these poets. Readings of her work can be heard at http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=49&f=1515#1515 and her studio blog is at https://warmstoragestudio.wordpress.com/
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Emily Critchley is the author of several poetry collections (with Arehouse, Bad press, Dusie, Oystercatcher, Torque, Holdfire, Corrupt and Intercapillary presses) and a selected writing: Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins, 2011). She has also published critical articles – on poetry, philosophy and feminism – and is the editor of Out of Everywhere 2: linguistically innovative poetry by women in north America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, and lives in London with her partner and daughter.
Here is Emily being interviewed at The Other Room a few years back
On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet, critic and curator. Poetry includes: Her Body: The City, Exotic Birds and oh-zones and has been anthologised in Dear World And Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe). Criticism has appeared in journals such as the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Jacket, How2, Green Humanities. She has curated exhibitions with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) and is currently collaborating on a film on the poet John Clare. A collection on wild swimming and a monograph on the gift are forthcoming. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University in Birmingham.
Find it here –
http://review31.co.uk/article/view/353/uncategorised-freedom
Our next event on 9th December is a launch of the anthology featuring editor Emily Critchley and others. Details to follow soon. See middle column of our website for poster.
Two new summer Craters are now available:
Crater 33: August 2015. Philip Terry’s Du Bellay – Like Catalan Anarchy, with a lino-cut by Tim Atkins. Letterpressed broadside, three colours, £3 + p & p (run of 60).
Crater 32: August 2015. John Hall & Emily Critchley’s A Salutation to
Poetry. Letterpressed broadside, three colours, £3 + p & p (run of 70).
Available at www.craterpress.co.uk
Films of the South of the River symposium, organised by Emily Critchley, are now available. The list in full is as follows:
Allen Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9uCiOsslUF0
D S Marriott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3pbRCQ4wpfQ
Jeff Hilson (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbEcoRMncLYc
Jeff Hilson (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgpXc6Pl2UrI
Carol Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQVIFHx4V-qk
Iain Sinclair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DaRGrII8CBeY
Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, L2 2JH. Thursday, 31 May 2012, 20:00.
Readings by JT Welsch, Steve Van Hagen, Catherine Woodward, Luke Kennard, Richard Watt, Jess Green and Colette Sensier to launch Holdfire‘s first 8 pamphlets by these seven writers, plus Emily Critchley.
Out now on Corrupt Press.
New anthology from Bloodaxe Books edited by Nathan Hamilton and featuring, amongst others, Other Room readers Emily Critchley, Steven Fowler, Colin Herd, Chris McCabe, Sophie Robinson, Linus Slug (Mendoza), Keston Sutherland, Joe Walton and Steve Willey.
Tuesday, October 18 · 7:30pm
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ
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Taking place at Voewood House in High Kelling, Norfolk, 27th – 29th August, the Voewood Festival is “dedicated to the written word.” Performers include Emily Critchley and SJ Fowler.
15 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge (on Christ’s Pieces), from 6:30pm, Thursday 16th June.
With readings by:
The 52-page journal features poems by:
Richard Barrett, John Wilkinson, James Cummins, Rosa Van Hensbergen, Laura Kilbride, Tom Graham, Amy De’ Ath, Andy Spragg, Tomas Weber, Emily Critchley, Lisa Jeschke, Charles Bernstein, Jonty Tiplady, Keston Sutherland and The Liquid Bros.
Images by Lara Hawthorne, Harry Sanderson, Timothy Crombie and David Savagar and a poetry postcard courtesy of infinite editions (edited by Andy Spragg) by Emily Critchley, Tom Graham, Gerry Loose and Tom Raworth.
The journal will be available for the special price of £4 (usual price £5) at the launch. Wine etc.
Indie literary press Penned in the Margins presents a summer solstice celebration of alternative poetry and experimental language, headlined by cult London writer IAIN SINCLAIR.
Iain is joined by US-based poet JOHN WILKINSON, one of the most influential experimental writers of his generation, plus new Penned in the Margins authors EMILY CRITCHLEY and ROB STANTON.
* Rob will be launching his debut collection, The Method
The event takes place in The Nave – a beautiful and atmospheric converted church and performance space in the Islington / Hackney borders. There will be a bar and a bookstall.
Doors open at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £6 online / £7 on the door
Buy now to avoid disappointment:
Penned in the Margins launch night:
Limits of Control by Steve Spence and Love / All That / & OK by Emily Critchley
Wed 16 Feb, 7pm The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX
Free entry
Readings from Emily, Steve, Chris McCabe + more TBA
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