The North by North West Poetry tour visited York, Manchester, Edge Hill, Leeds, Sheffield and Liverpool in January and February, presenting over sixty brand new collaborative works. All films are online at the Enemies site, including this from Geraldine Monk and Alan Halsey in Sheffield.
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Geraldine Monk recording from The Other Room July 2016
Iain Morrison – A Preview
Iain has a frequently collaborative practice as a writer and performer, working within live literature and live art contexts. Projects have included sung staging of texts by women Beat Generation writers, a lecture presentation and performance with classical musicians for New Media Scotland’s Syndicate series, and Subject Index a durational installation of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson developed in residency at Forest Centre+ and toured to Berlin’s SOUNDOUT! New Ways of Presenting Literature Festival in May 2014. Publishing includes poem-responses to fin de siècle Vienna included in the Kakania anthology (2015), published by Austrian Cultural Forum London and edited by S.J. Fowler and work in serial publications such as HOAX, Soanyway and Scree Magazine. In his role as Enterprise Manager at The Fruitmarket Gallery, he works within a commercial framework to grow new audiences and bring them into dialogue with the Gallery’s exhibitions programme through events and other activity.
Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.
Sarah-Clare Conlon – A Preview
Sarah-Clare Conlon’s prize-winning work is published by Salt, Comma, Stand andFlash, who called her “one of the most interesting and inspiring authors writing flashes today”. She was long listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. A former journalist on ELLE, with a Creative Writing MA, she edited The Manchester Anthology, writes for The Manchester Review, The Skinny, Creative Tourist andConfingo, and runs popular Manchester live literature night Verbose.
Our next event takes place on 20th July with Kimberly Campanello, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Geraldine Monk and Iain Morrison. Start time is 7pm at The Wonder Inn and as always is free entry. We hope to see you there. More on the events page.
Kimberly Campanello – A Preview
Kimberly Campanello’s previous poetry publications include Spinning Cities (Wurm Press), Consent (Doire Press), Imagines (New Dublin Press), Strange Country (Dreadful Press), and Hymn to Kālī (Eyewear). MOTHERBABYHOME, a book of conceptual and visual poetry on the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Ireland, will appear with zimZalla Avant Objects later this year. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. http://www.kimberlycampanello.com
Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.
Geraldine Monk – A Preview
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Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has written eight major collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, was published in 2007 by Salt Publishing. They Who Saw The Deep is her new book and will have its northern launch at the event.
Please note that a change in circumstances means that our next event will not be at The Castle Hotel as usual, but will instead be at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF. This is just a few minutes walk from The Castle. More information here.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #15 – Alan Halsey, Tom Jenks, Geraldine Monk, Harriet Tarlo
An afternoon of experimental poetry
Featuring Alan Halsey, Tom Jenks, Geraldine Monk & Harriet Tarlo.
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Free entry, all welcome. Wine.
Upstairs at Deansgate Waterstones. 4pm. Saturday 7 November.
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Alan Halsey will be reading from his Versions of Martial, published earlier this year by Knives Forks & Spoons. His back catalogue includes The Text of Shelley’s Death (Five Seasons 1995), Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005) and Rampant Inertia (Shearsman 2015). Images he developed out of Dee & Kelley’s Enochian transcripts form the graphic component of Nigel Wood’s From the Diaries of John Dee, recently published by Apple Pie Editions. ‘Halsey’s publications bolt around the field like a deranged beagle’ (Ray Davis, Pseudopodium).
Tom Jenks’ latest collection is Spruce, published by Blart Books. Other works include Items, a 1000 fragment sequence published by if p then q, The Tome of Commencement, a spreadsheet translation of the Book of Genesis published by Stranger Press and 1000 Proverbs, a guide to modern life and manners with SJ Fowler, published by Knives Forks and Spoons. He administers the avant obects imprint zimZalla and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website
Geraldine Monk was first published in the 1970’s. Her poetry has appeared extensively in the U.K. and USA. Her latest book They Who Saw The Deep will be published next year in the USA by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. She is an affiliated poet to the Centre of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield.
Harriet Tarlo’s poetry publications include Love/Land (REM Press, 2003), Poems 1990-2003 (Shearsman Books, 2004), Poems 2004-2014 (Shearsman, 2015) Nab (Etruscan Books, 2005) and 2 artists books, Sound Unseen and behind land with Judith Tucker (Wild Pansy, 2013, 2015). Her academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press, Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi. Recent critical and creative work appears in Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English Journal of Ecocriticism; Classical Receptions and Yellow Field. Exhibitions of texts, in collaboration with Jem Southam and Judith Tucker, have appeared at The Lowry, Salford, Tullie House, Carlisle; Musee de Moulages, Lyon and The University of Minneapolis. She edited a special feature on “Women and Eco-Poetics” for How2 Vol 3: No 2 and The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman 2011). She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
Storm and Golden Sky:
FRIDAY 30th October 2015, 7 PM. Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5.
A performance for poetry, sound and voice, featuring:
Geraldine Monk : poet and performer
Alan Halsey: poet and performer
Steve Boyland: vocalist and performer
Poets and Players
Geraldine Monk. Liz Berry. Roy Marshall.
Music by Les Malheureux
2.30 – 4.oo
Saturday 21st February. John Rylands Library.
Deansgate, Manchester.
Free entry.
Alan Halsey & Geraldine Monk at the Sheffield Poetry Festival
Cusp: The Event. Monk & Halsey will read poetry which inspired their generation of Brit Poets from Sappho to Stein, from Metaphysicals to Beats, from Trad to Mad from Avant to Garde from Anon to Dada. An hour of body electrics and aural delights.
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 6.3o pm start. Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS.
CUSP: THE EVENT
Three Minute Theatre
Manchester
Thursday May 2nd
7.30
To celebrate the publication of CUSP: Recollections of Poetry in Transition (Shearsman Books) edited by Geraldine Monk, a collective autobiography of some of the UK’s most vital poets.
Eight of the contributing poets will be reading poetry which has inspired them, from Sappho to Stein, from the Metaphysicals to the Beats plus a taster of their own poetry.
Starring Jim Burns, Frances Presley, Ian Davidson, David Annwn, Nicholas Johnson, Alan Halsey, Tim Allen and Geraldine Monk.
Geraldine Monk will be your MC for the evening so prepare to be entertained.
What the reviewers said:
‘A joy to read’ Kevin King. ‘An instructional read. Fun too.’ Charles Boyle. ‘Cusp is an enjoyable, exhilarating and annoying book which I recommend to all.’ Rupert Loydell. ‘A book to dip into and think about’ Steve Spence ‘ ‘A kind of angry nostalgia’ Notre Dame Review.
Venue Details:
Three Minute Theatre
Afflecks Palace,
Oldham Street
Manchester M4 1PW
(5 mins from Piccadilly train station).
Thursday May 2nd
7.30.
Entry £5/3cons
p.o.w. visual poetry broadsheets
Number 3 in the visual poetry broadsheet series edited by Antonio Claudio Carvahlo is curated by Chris McCabe and features the work of Geraldine Monk, Tom Jenks, Pascal O’Loughlin, Sam Winston, Simon Barraclough and Victoria Bean.
They can be bought at Paul Browns bookshop in Brighton (Studio Bookshop, 68 St. James’ Street, Brighton, BN2 1PJ, tel. 01273b691253, e-mail studiobookshop@btconnect.com) or directly from Antonio at poetry@unit4art.com.
Knives Forks and Spoons in Liverpool
Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12:00pm until 3:00pm.
The Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale Street, Liverpool, L3 2JH.
- Geraldine Monk
- D. E. Oprava
- Bobby Parker
- Ian Seed
The ABC in Sound Ensemble for The Other Room 35: Bob Cobbing A Celebration
THE ENSEMBLE: Tim Allen, Joanne Ashcroft, Richard Barrett, Leanne Bridgewater, Matt Dalby, Phil Davenport, James Davies, Ollie Evans, Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Alan Halsey, Michael Haslam, Tom Jenks, Angela Keaton, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’Sullivan, Holly Pester, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Slatcher, Chris Stephenson, Scott Thurston, Gareth Twose, Steven Waling, Steve Willey and Nigel Wood.
Visit Ubu at the LINK to hear letters d, p and t of the ABC in Sound.
The Other Room 35 takes place at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. Tuesday 23rd October 2012, 7.00 pm. FREE
Pendle Witch-Words: Geraldine Monk
To mark the 400th year since the hanging of the Pendle witches, Geraldine Monk has gathered together and refashioned the witches’ monologues from her acclaimed 1993 book Interregnum. Out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
New from Knives Forks and Spoons
Xing the Line: Jim Goar and Geraldine Monk
Xing the Line: 30 November · 19:30 – 22:30. The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London.
Jim will be launching his new book The Louisiana Purchase, out from Rose Metal Press. See http://www.rosemetalpress.com/Catalog/TLP.html
Geraldine will be launching her new book Lobe Scarps & Finials, out from Leafe Press. See http://alan-baker.blogspot.com/2011/06/lobe-scarp-and-finials-by-geraldine.html
Leeds and Manchester readings now online
Films from our Leeds and Manchester events on 7th and 8th June are now online. Steve McCaffery’s reading in Leeds and Karen Mac Cormack’s in Manchester are below. You can watch their other readings, plus readings in Leeds from Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk here (Leeds) and here (Manchester).
Steve McCaffery in Leeds:
Karen Mac Cormack in Manchester:
Leeds pictures
Pictures from our transatlantic and transpennine reading, taken by The Other Room’s resident Paparazzo Scott Thurston (think Marcello Mastroianni in La dolce vita but without the motor scooter or chain smoking) are up now on our Facebook page. This was a collaborative event with Information as Material and featured Alan Halsey, Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery and Geraldine Monk.
