The Inaugural UEA POETRY FESTIVAL
Starring
ANDREA BRADY
FRANCESCA LISETTE
REBECCA PERRY
SAM SOLOMON
JULIANA SPAHR
SAMANTHA WALTON
+ more tba
Friday 17 April: 18.00 till late (venue tbc.)
Saturday 18 April: 13.00 -23.00 (UEA Drama Studio)
Friday night: entrance free
Saturday: £10 waged, £5 unwaged
For more details, see UEA POETICS PROJECT:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/research/research-centres-and-projects/poetics
KFS is attempting to raise £600 in preorders for an anthology edited by the legendary Mike Ferguson & Rupert Loydell. The anthology will be about 150 pages long and will be in A5 or comic book format. The recommended retail price will be at least £11, but those who order now will get the book for £10 (which includes postage and packaging). You can preorder yours here: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/yesterdays-music-todayan-anthology
We have also put together 5 money saving bundles that may be of interest:
Save £1+
£10 for a copy of the anthology, which will be approximately 150 pages and have an R.R.P. of at least £11.
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£20 for a copy of the anthology, and 3 mystery KFS pamphlets.
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£30 for a copy of the anthology, 3 mystery pamphlets, and one mystery KFS collection or anthology.
Save £10
£40 for a copy of the anthology, 3 mystery pamphlets, and two mystery KFS collections or anthologies.
Save between £11 and £46
£50 for a copy of the anthology, 3 mystery pamphlets, and 5 KFS books of your choosing.
Save between £31 and £136
£100 for a copy of the anthology, 3 mystery pamphlets, and 15 KFS books of your choosing.
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY
This anthology came out a shared enthusiasm for and addiction to music, along with a certain middle-aged nostalgia which emerged as the result of failing to be moved by so much of the music we have greedily devoured over the last few years, and thankfully being intensely moved by some. Music can excite, delight, goad, amuse or bore the listener – it also has the capacity to lodge itself in your brain and be heard in the imagination at the strangest times.This anthology is about that, about spiralling back into memories, about yesterday’s music today: music that has lodged itself in these poets’ hearts and souls, and which never fails to move them when recalled or listened to anew.
It has to be said, we didn’t get the work we expected when we sent out our call for submission. Whilst we share a taste for 70s rock and have differing individual tastes that lean more towards blues and west coast rock or free jazz and post-punk respectively, our contributors here are moved by different things. Squat bands, contemporary and romantic classical composers, singer songwriters, improvisers, glitch artistes and trad jazzers all get a mention here in this fascinating and engaging cornucopia which we hope will surprise you as much as it surprised us as the work arrived.– Mike Ferguson & Rupert Loydell.
THE ANTHOLOGY INCLUDES:
Roselle Angwin,Susan Birchenough,Elizabeth Burns,M.C. Caseley,Mike Ferguson,David HartPaul Hawkins,Sarah James,Norman Jope,Jimmy Juniper,David Kennedy,John Lees,Rupert M. Loydell,Stephen C. Middleton,Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper,Sheila E. Murphy,Mario Petrucci,Jay Ramsay,Robert Sheppard,and Angela Topping.
via Alec Newman
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A Clockwork Orange: Re-typed
Monday, March 16th – Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Manchester Central Library
10.00 am – 4.00 pm | Free
One typewriter. Six days. Two hundred and four pages. See Los-Angeles artist Tim Youd re-type Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange in full as part of his multi-year project to re-type one hundred 20th century classic novels. Exploring the ‘fetishisation of the lives and tools of authors’ Youd’s performance takes place on the same model typewriter it is believed Burgess used to type A Clockwork Orange. An accompanying exhibition, featuring Burgess’s typewriters and one of Tim’s earlier works (Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms) is open to the public in the Reading Room. Find out more about Tim’s work at timyoud.com
It’s been a while since The Other Room‘s 52nd ‘inning’, and though I’ve already said a little about the poetry, I wanted to go on about the experience as a whole. Much like Storm and Golden Sky‘s nights, the power of live readings was emphatically exemplified, and I’m going to tell you why it was so enjoyable. Strap yourself in, this is going to be a long gush…
James Davies, Ann Matthews, and others to be confirmed, at 13:00 on the 14th of March 2015 in the public area of St Helens Central Library as part of The Knives Forks and Spoons pop up reading series.
Central Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside , WA10 1DY
What follows is a sixty-minute performance by a machine writing ten six second texts every minute using only six words at a time. They are ordered as they were produced and remain unedited.
Nathan Walker’s superb Action Score Generator is out today from if p then q, available for £15.
624 pages of bliss.
Tear Fet, Joey Frances, David Gaffney, Eleanor Rees
Saturday 28th Feb, 2-4pm, Waterstones, Deansgate, Free
Nov 23rd – Nov 28th 2015
Lumb Bank
During the week, participants will be encouraged to explore a diversity of poetic forms and uses of language, such as open form, collage and juxtaposition. We will bring to bear our background in what is often referred to as the UK’s ‘innovative’ poetry scene, introducing you to the approaches of British and American experimental poets as a means of encouraging you to play and take risks in your own work. Suitable for new poets and more experienced writers who would like to explore innovative poetic techniques, throw over old habits, or push their work further.
Single room price: £725
Shared room price: £680
Robin Fencott has reflected on last year’s performance at The Other Room. You can see the performance in our archive in the middle column of this website.
The second piece, titled ‘Schläfli {5,3} Arduino Bluebird’ is based around typewritten text attached to the faces of a dodecahedron. I constructed the dodecahedron specifically for this performance and installed within it an accelerometer and wireless transmitter broadcast orientation information. During performance, rotating the dodecahedron caused changes to a range of live vocal processing and sound synthesis.
More HERE
SEMINAR
Creative Translation
Speaker: Peter Manson
18.30-20.30 in Room 246, Senate House (second floor), London
Contact: noelia.diaz-vicedo@qmul.ac.uk
CLIVE BUSH & ALLEN FISHER
Wednesday, January 21 at 7:30pm
The Apple Tree Clerkenwell in London, United Kingdom
Friday, January 30 at 7:00pm
Caledonia Pub
22 Caledonia Street, L7 7 Liverpool
Next week I will be doing a bit of a residency at Islington Mill, to make artworks, which I will have a brief exhibition of on the following week. (More details about the exhibition when I have them 100% confirmed) I want the theme of the work I make to be unexpected outcomes, so I had the idea to invite other artists to come and collaborate with me. Basically, I will be in the gallery space on the ground floor from 10am-5pm everyday next week (and over the weekend too), and people are welcome to just pop in and see me. I will provide all the materials needed. I will be doing a painting, a drawing, and a junk model sculpture.
Also, I’m hoping to set up a kind of interactive game that involves hiding toys and then other people looking for them (it will be a bit like Geocaching – do come and check it out if you have some time Fay – I could do with someone to brainstorm with about how to get it to work properly). So, people are welcome to come and take part in that as well. No art experience needed. If people wanted to donate toys to that project, that would be great. (If it works as I want it to, they won’t get them back though).
More details of the event can be found on Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/847462805315880/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Via Hannah Cawthorne
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Tim Atkins and Philip Terry on Tuesday 20th January from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninety-sixth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex. He is the author of the lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors, and the poetry collections Oulipoems, Oulipoems 2, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets. His translations include Raymond Queneau’s last published book of poetry, Elementary Morality. Recent publications include the novel tapestry from Reality Street (2013), and Dante’s Inferno from Carcanet Press (2014).
Tim Atkins is a widely-translated and published poet, his work having appeared in The USA, Canada, France, Mexico, Catalunya, and the UK. Titles include Horace (O Books),The World’s Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt–a play (Stoma), 1000 Sonnets (if p then q), Honda Ode (Oystercatcher), Petrarch (Book Thug), and 25 Sonnets (The Figures). The Complete Petrarch — published by Crater — was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year for 2014 and was a book of the year in the American arts magazine Salon. A recent Summer Faculty member of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, h e is also editor of the online poetry journal onedit, and London correspondent for Lungfull poetry magazine.
Today we are releasing episode 83 of the podcast series “PoemTalk”—a discussion of a late meta-poem by Wallace Stevens, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain,” with Susan Howe, Dee Morris & Nancy Kuhl.
Karen Mac Cormack reading from November 2014
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