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James Davies
Galatea Resurrects 20
New issue of the splendid reviews website.
Inlcudes reviews of:
Tom Jenks – Items
Derek Beauieu – Fractal Economies
Charles Bernstein – Recalculating
And lots more.
Follow the LINK
Rhys Trimble recording from The Other Room, April 2013
Philip Terry and Ken Edwards book launches
REALITY STREET launches two books in London next week:
PHILIP TERRY: tapestry
Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry’s English embroiderers. Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language.
KEN EDWARDS: Down With Beauty
A series of linked dialogues, dramatic monologues and short fictions exploring the themes of exile, the aftermath of war, paranoia, improvised music and nothingness. The collection is completed with the full text of Nostalgia for Unknown Cities, previously published separately.
Both authors will read from their books.
21st May, At the Blue Bus, 7.30pm at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, £5/£3 conc
The books will be on sale at the special launch price of £10 each.
No Ideas But In Things
Stephen Emmerson & Chris Stephenson.
Available now from Dark Windows Press.
Emmerson and Stephenson’s non-connotational word tennis match, No Ideas But In Things, is a mass scale invention of possible objects in the future: ‘WAG chaingangs’, ‘special needs fireworks’, ‘ewok sponsorships’. And a cataloguing of the trivia that invades our lives in the present: ‘pop star wheelchair’, ‘princess diana wet wipe’. Not least an exercise in creating the wondrous and beautiful: ‘lucozade onions’, ‘telephone chairs’, ‘barrack obama pyjamas’. Rather than playing this game in the psychiatrist’s chair they played it via text message – and it’s worked to their advantage, they get all the wrong words right. (James Davies: Editor ‘if p then q’)
Chrissy Williams reading from April 2013’s The Other Room
Chrissy Williams’ Angela Lansbury poem and Thatcher bingo from last month’s Other Room birthday party. Patrick Coyle and Rhys Trimble recordings to follow soon.
Selected Days by Stephen Ratcliffe reviewed at The Constant Critic
Have you ever asked—or have you ever been asked—the question: what is this poem about? Did you find such asking and answering to be oh so trying??
For the whys and wherefores surrounding such quandaries, click on over to the Constant Critic for Karla Kelsey’s review of Stephen Ratcliffe’s Selected Days, recently out from Counterpath Press.
Nikolai Duffy recording from The Other Room, February 2013
Nikolai Duffy reading at our recent event
Electronic Voice Phenomena – Silva, Sutherland, Fowler, Outfit and more
Performance: Electronic Voice Phenomena
Wednesday May 22nd, 2013, 6:30 pm
Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
£7/£5, booking advised.
Taking its name and inspiration from Konstantin Raudive’s 1970s experiments into hearing unidentified voices in electronic interference, Electronic Voice Phenomena is a brand-new programme of performance works featuring seven of the country’s most innovative artists working across text, technology and physical performance. Part séance, part avant-garde cabaret, all new, the artists appearing include Outfit, Ross Sutherland, Hannah Silva and SJ Fowler plus special guests. Tickets £7/£5 advance, available here.
Our website is www.anthonyburgess.org; the project website is http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/
Benefits – new reading series
Advanced notice of a new exciting reading series
BENEFITS
Time: 7:15 pm to Midnight
Time: 7:15 pm to Midnight
Venue: Power Lunches Arts Cafe (near Haggerston Tube)
Date: 22 May 2013
Poets:
Johanna Linsley/Jonny Liron (collaborative performance)
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Prudence Chamberlain
Tom Bamford
Chris Goode
Will Rowe
Robert Kiely
Geraldine Bhoyroo
Improvised music by Narcoleptic Centaur
Possibly a short video piece by non-present Sam Walton and Jow Lindsay
With more poets, music and speakers to come.
PoemTalk on Caroline Bergvall’s Via
PoemTalk episode 64 – a conversation about Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” with David Wallace, Laynie Browne, and Amaris Cuchanski. “Via” consists of 47 English translations of the opening tercet of Dante’s Inferno.
Linda Black reading at The Other Room February 2013
Linda Black reading
Marcus Slease reading at The Other Room, February 2013
Marcus Slease’s recent reading at The Other Room
DESIGN FOR LIVING: Sunday March 24 7:30 PM – MILES CHAMPION, WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA
DESIGN FOR LIVING: Sunday March 24 7:30 PM
MILES CHAMPION, WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA
WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA, MILES CHAMPION
William Fuller’s most recent books are Sadly,
Watchword, and Hallucination, all from Flood Editions. Quorum will be published
next month by Seagull Books. He has worked at a Chicago trust company for the
last thirty years; this is his first reading in NYC since the Ear Inn in
1990.
Miles Champion’s How to Laugh is forthcoming from Adventures in
Poetry. His book-length illustrated interview with Trevor Winkfield, How I
Became a Painter, should be out soon from Pressed Wafer. Other books include
Compositional Bonbons Placate, Sore Models, Three Bell Zero, and Eventually. He
lives in Brooklyn.
Joe Luna lives in Brighton, UK, where he runs the Hi
Zero poetry reading series and edits Hi Zero magazine. He is the author of
ASTROTURF (Hi Zero, 2013), and A Great Sadness (Otting Editions,
2013).
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@PARADE GROUND GALLERY
187 E Broadway, Chinatown,
NYC
Starcrusher
STARCRUSHER NIGHT
{{ SATURDAY 9th MARCH }}
songs poetry noise and film
poetry from SEAN BONNEY LISA JESCHKE VERITY SPOTT IAN HEAMES NAT RAHA TOMAS WEBER
songs from JEREMY HARDINGHAM BUSINESS LUNCH
noise from OLLIE EVANS CAMBRIDGE IMPROVISERS
the world premiere of KLAUS KINSKI ERLOSER
Judith E Wilson Drama Studio English Faculty, Cambridge
7pm till late
~~~~ Mit Alcohol und Book Tables ~~~~
John Ashbery webcasts
John Ashbery is a Kelly Writers House Fellow this season. Two events featuring him as a Fellow will be streamed live as webcasts.
1) On Monday, February 11, 2013, beginning at precisely 6:30 PM eastern time, J.A. will give a reading.
2) On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, beginning at precisely noon eastern time, I will interview J.A. and will moderate questions and comments from a live audience at the Kelly Writers House and a worldwide audience via webcast.
For each program, click here
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/
to view the streaming video.
POETRY / MUSIC / FILM :: Lash / Ward / Andersen ++ Jeff Keen ++
POETRY / MUSIC / FILM :: Lash / Ward / Andersen ++ Jeff Keen ++
MUSIC from the trio of Dominic Lash (bass) Alex Ward (clarinet, electric guitar) Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (drums).
&& POETRY by Jeff Keen, read by various, incl. Heames, Jeschke, etc.
&& Projection of FILMS by Jeff Keen The trio are on a UK tour, incl. stops at Cafe Oto etc. They will play two sets. The venue is NEWNHAM OLD LABS. Start time 8pm
Free Modern Poetry online course with Al Filreis
“ModPo” is an entirely free, non-credit, online 10-week version of the 14-week course on modern and contemporary American poetry I’ve been teaching for thirty years, mostly here at Penn in Philadelphia, mostly here in the Kelly Writers House.
The course makes use of audio recordings of the poets reading the poems we discuss, as well as other materials and resources we’ve assembled through PennSound, Jacket2, PoemTalk and the programs of the Kelly Writers House over the years.
The course was offered last fall, with 36,000 people enrolled from 129 different countries. An overview of that experience, including links to reviews of and articles about the course, is available here:
As of today, we are taking enrollments for the second running of ModPo – starting Saturday, September 7, and finishing 10 weeks plus two days later, on Monday, November 18. One can enroll here:
– providing merely an email address and name (no other information is requested). As I say, it is entirely free and entirely open. (Entirely open: for instance, a number of people with disabilities took the course last time, with little to no difficulty; and people in remote places with slow and far-flung connections were still able to keep up; participants ranged from 15 to 95 years old; etc.)
A 20-minute video introduction to the course can be found on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/HsE6f0hbHwI .
The Other Room 5th birthday line up revealed
After our next event, on 6th February, is The Other Room’s 5th birthday which takes place on 8th April at The Castle Hotel. Confirmed readers are Patrick Coyle, Sarah Crewe, Rhys Trimble and Chrissy Williams.
Put it on your calendar now!
Preview of February Other Room reader Nikolai Duffy
Nikolai Duffy reads with Linda Black and Marcus Slease on 6th February for The Other Room at The Castle Hotel in Manchester. Entry is Free. It starts at 7pm. Click on the links.
Publishing – http://www.likethispress.co.uk/
A Poem, In Hiding – http://www.shadowtrain.com/id442.html
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