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Cardiff Poetry Experiment, March 10th 2016

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Please join us in Cardiff at the Waterloo Teahouse in the beautiful Edwardian Wyndham Arcade
on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7pm (readings promptly at 7:30)
for the innovative poetry reading series “Cardiff Poetry Experiment”

featuring:

CAROL WATTS
author of
many weathers wildly comes, Sundog, and Occasionals

TOM JENKS
author of
Spruce, Items, and The Tome of Commencement

SANDEEP PARMAR
author of
Eidolon and The Marble Orchard

Books and refreshments for sale onsite. Visit http://cardiffpoetryexperiment.blogspot.co.uk for more information.

Praxis – new reading series in London

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PRAXIS

PRAXIS is an innovative poetry and sound art series curated by Simon Pomery and Lala Thorpe of the Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, as part of the Poetics Research Centre Events at Royal Holloway. The inaugural PRAXIS will be held at Parasol on Thursday the 3rd of March, 2016, 7-9pm.

Maja Jantar is a multilingual and polysonic voice artist living in Ghent, Belgium, whose work spans the fields of performance, music theatre, poetry and visual arts. A co-founder of the group Krikri, she has been giving individual and collaborative performances throughout Europe and experimenting with poetic sound works since 1995 – weaving operatic, poetic, noise, and abstract influences together to vocal sound works.

https://majajantar.wordpress.com/

Sharon Gal – Artist, vocal experimentalist, musician, composer, and founding member of Resonance 104.4 FM. Her solo works have been released by Ash International/ Paradigm records/ Chocolate Monk / Emanem / Ecstatic Yod /American Tapes & The Tapeworm Labels, with the recent Voice Studies, on My Dance the Skull.

http://www.sharon-gal.com/

Steven J Fowler is a poet, artist, curator & vanguardist. He has published multiple collections of poetry and been commissioned by Tate Modern, the British Council, Tate Britain, Highlight Arts, Mercy, Penned in the Margins, the London Sinfonietta and the Wellcome Collection with Hubbub group. He is the poetry editor of 3am magazine, curator of the Enemies project, and teaches at Kingston University. Enthusiasm was published by Test Centre in 2015.

http://www.stevenjfowler.com/

Will Montgomery makes electronic music, sound art and field recordings. His musical pieces explore aural texture and narrative. He also constructs compositions from sequences of treated or untreated field recordings. He has released work on the Entr’acte, nonvisualobjects, Cathnor and Winds Measure labels.

http://selvageflame.com/

Robert Hampson’s collections of poetry include: Degrees of Addiction, A Necessary Displacement, A City at War, Seaport, and C for Security. His selected poems, Assembled Fugitives, was published by Stride in 2000. He runs the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre with Redell Olson, Will Montgomery, and Kristen Kreider.

Gareth Damian Martin is a writer and artist whose work combines experimental narrative structures with procedural writing and interactive design. He has performed at Penned in the Margins’ EVP Sessions and as part of Rich Mix’s Small Story / Big City programme. His condensed novel TH_READ is available fromitch.io.

jumpovertheage.com

Simon Pomery is a poet and musician researching a PhD in innovative poetry and thought process at Royal Holloway. He has taught interdisciplinary poetry workshops in collaboration with Parasol exhibitions since 2013. His work as Blood Music is released on Diagonal Records. His pamphlet of poems, The Stream, was published by tall-lighthouse.

http://cargocollective.com/simonpomery

The Recluse now seeking submissions

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We are now accepting submissions for The Recluse 12! All work must be submitted via email to info@poetryproject.org with “Recluse” in the subject line. Please title your word file submission with your last name and the word “Recluse.”

The Recluse is published annually each Spring, and edited by the staff of The Poetry Project. For PDFs of past issues, visit our website. With issue 10, The Recluse moved from print to an online journal.

We suggest that people read an issue or two before submitting work! We are primarily interested in poetry and translations, but will consider other work as well.

Will Montgomery: February Preview

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Will graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with a degree in English in 1987. After a period outside academia, he took the Literature, Culture, Modernity MA at Queen Mary, University of London, receiving the Marjorie Thompson award for outstanding academic achievement in 1999. He remained at Queen Mary for his AHRB-funded PhD, which was devoted to the writing of contemporary American poet Susan Howe. He subsequently taught poetry, modernist literature and critical theory at Queen Mary and at Southampton University. In January 2007 he joined Royal Holloway as RCUK research fellow in contemporary poetry and poetics. He is director of the department’s Poetics Research Centre and a co-organizer of that group’s POLYply reading and performance series.

Recent publications include The Poetry of Susan Howe (Palgrave, 2010) and the essay collection Frank O’Hara Now (Liverpool UP, 2010), which he co-edited with Robert Hampson. He is currently working on a study of short form in modernist and contemporary US poetry, and co-editing an edited collection on field recordings and literature. Will also works with audio, making field recordings, sound art and music.

Follow this LINK to hear some of his sound work, including pieces with Other Room reader Carol Watts.

Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt: February Preview

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At our next event on February 17th Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt’s collaborative written work The Fundamental Questions will be performed by members of the audience. Bennett & Weichbrodt won’t be present on the night but we’ve put together a couple of tasters to show where they’re coming from and it’s a good good place. The Fundamental Questions is available either as a pdf download – HERE or as a print book – HERE 

You have 7 days left to listen to BBC Radio 3’s The Late Junction featuring Bennett’s main project People Like Us  – HERE. People Like Us is at http://peoplelikeus.org/

We’ve featured Weichbrodt’s Google translation of Kerouac’s On the Road on our blog before. Check that out and other great things at http://ggor.de/

As usual the event is at the magnificent Castle Hotel on Oldham Street, Manchester. See the flier in the middle column for further details. Our other performers are Will Montgomery and Mark Leahy.

Mark Leahy: February event preview

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Mark Leahy will perform ‘his voice’ at our next event on February 17th. As usual the event is at the magnificent Castle Hotel on Oldham Street, Manchester. See the flier in the middle column for further details. Our other performers are Will Montgomery and Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt. Bennett & Weichbrodt won’t be present on the night, instead their work will be performed by members of the audience.

Here is part of a description of ‘his voice’ from Mark Leahy’s excellent website:

“A body of text gathered via online searches for “his voice sounded like” was edited to develop two- or three-word phrases. These phrases were then used to search Twitter. In the live event the outcome of this search process is converted to audio using text-to-speech software. This audio is delivered via headphones to the performer who attempts to speak it to the audience.”

Read more about this project and the many others that Mark has been involved in – HERE

Writing Shed app

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A Message from Manchester-based Keith Lander…

I am writing to you in the hope that some of you might be able to help me. For the past 18 months I have been developing an app called ‘Writing Shed’ that currently works on the
Apple iPad and will soon work on Mac laptop/desktop computers. ‘Writing Shed’ is a combination word processor and work management application designed to help writers of Poetry, Short Stories, Novels and Scripts to type, edit and keep track of their work. In terms of functionality it is similar to the Scrivener application if you know that. The app is entering the final stage of testing for which I need up to 100 real users to try it out. The app is very stable, so what I’m looking for is feedback on how usable it is, what’s missing, and so on. If you feel that you could assist by using the app for up to sixty days then I would like you to get in touch with me by email at keith@writing-shed.com letting me know what you would use the app for. All you need for testing is an Apple iPad running IOS9. You can find out about Writing Shed by browsing the User Guide on http://www.writing-shed.com. I look forward to hearing from some of you.

Best
Keith

Hi Zero 40 – Peter Manson, Holly Pester,Xelis de Toro

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Hi Zero Number 40 of the New Year 2016 will feature readings/performances by the following poets:

Peter Manson

Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His books include “Poems of Frank Rupture” (Sancho Panza Press), “English in Mallarmé” (Blart Books), “Adjunct: an Undigest” and “For the Good of Liars” (both from Barque Press), and “Between Cup and Lip” (Miami University Press, Ohio). Miami UP also publish his book of translations, “Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse”. More Mallarmé to follow, probably. A double-sided broadside, “the science of poetry • the poetry of science” by Manson and Linus Slug, appeared from ninerrors in 2015.petermanson.wordpress.com for more.

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Holly Pester

Holly Pester lives in London and teaches at the University of Essex. Her collection of poetry, gossip and archive fanfiction called, ‘go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip’ was published by Book Works in 2015. She is currently working on a sound poetry album of Lullabies made in collaboration with fellow poets and artists to be published by Test Centre in late 2016.

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Xelís de Toro

Xelís de Toro is a Galician (Spain) writer and performer based in the UK. He has published 5 novels and more than 10 children’s books in Galician, Spanish and Catalan. In recent years his text work has transmutated and spilled into stages and streets in the shape of live art, performance and spoken word. He has published a bilingual collection of poetry in English / Galician called ‘The Book of Invisible Bridges\ (Pighogpress, 2012). His spoken word performances comprise poetry, vocal improvisation and body movement.

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And take place on Wednesday 27th January, 2016.

Plus the usual music from a thing, books, bar and people, all taking place upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, just down from the train station on Queen’s road, Brighton.

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. £4.

https://www.facebook.com/events/539596539532777/

Perception documentary

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A message from Paul Taylor…

Hello all, my name is Paul and I am currently a student at the University of Salford where I am studying a MA degree in television documentary production. I am currently making a documentary titled Perception, which aims to explore the different ways we view and interpret time in our lives.

I am looking for a range of different contributors who have experiences or views relating to this idea and I am very interested meeting with creatives, particularly poets and spoken word artists.

If you have previously written anything surrounding the theme of time or if it is an area you have often wondered about/one that interests you, it would be great to hear from you.

You can contact me at p.taylor8@edu.salford.ac.uk

 Thank you for your time.

 Paul Taylor