Nathan Jones reading at The Other Room August 2012
James Davies
David Berridge – The Poet is Working
Preview of February Other Room reader Marcus Slease
Marcus Slease reads with Linda Black and Nikolai Duffy on 6th February for The Other Room at The Castle Hotel in Manchester. Entry is Free. It starts at 7pm. Click on the links.
Blog
Recent Work Online:
I LEFT MY HEART IN SF AT THOUGHT CATALOG:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-left-my-heart-in-sf/
THE COWS SAID MU AT THOUGHT CATALOG:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/
MARYNOWANE NIEBO at DOGZPLOT
http://dogzplot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/marynowane-niebo-marcus-slease.html
FROM THE CIRCLE LINE AT HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE:
http://husmw5.tumblr.com/marcus_slease
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-left-my-heart-in-sf/
THE COWS SAID MU AT THOUGHT CATALOG:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/
MARYNOWANE NIEBO at DOGZPLOT
http://dogzplot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/marynowane-niebo-marcus-slease.html
FROM THE CIRCLE LINE AT HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE:
http://husmw5.tumblr.com/marcus_slease
TANGLING LLAMAS ON THE TRESSES OF THE SUN OVER AT POOR CLAUDIA:
http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_slease.php
http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_slease.php
A FLASH PLAY OVER AT EVERYDAY GENIUS:
http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html
MEN OF STICKS AND MUD OVER AT HOUSEFIRE BOOKS:
http://housefirebooks.com/men-of-sticks-and-mud-poetry-marcus-slease/
MEN OF STICKS AND MUD OVER AT HOUSEFIRE BOOKS:
http://housefirebooks.com/men-of-sticks-and-mud-poetry-marcus-slease/
Preview of February Other Room reader Linda Black
Linda Black reads with Marcus Slease and Nikolai Duffy on 6th February for The Other Room at The Castle Hotel in Manchester. Entry is Free. It starts at 7pm. Click on the links.
Links to publications
As editor
seekers of lice reading at The Other Room December 2012
seekers of lice reading at The Other Room December 2012
Alec Newman reading at The Other Room December 2012
Alec Newman reading at the recent The Other Room December 2012
Hazel Smith interview and reading at July 2012’s The Other Room
Interview
Reading
Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe reading at July 2012 The Other Room, Leeds
Ryan Ormonde reading and interview from June 2012’s The Other Room in Leeds
Videos from Ryan Ormonde’s performance in Leeds for The Other Room
Ryan Ormonde reading
Ryan Ormonde The Other Room Interview
Adrian Slatcher reviews The Other Room 36 – Alec Newman, Nata Raha and Seekers of Lice
Even though the Other Room frequently features three performers from the more experimental end of the poetry spectrum,
its rare that you can find more than cursory connections between them. On the surface, Alec Newman, Nat Raha and Seekers of Lice (actually a solo artist, called, I think, Anne), hadn’t much in common either but coincidentally all read sequences, and had some element of the improvisational in work that was otherwise very structured.
Scott Thurston On Clarinda Mac Low’s 40 Dancers do 40 Dances for the Dancers
Stepping into the space of St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery for the first time on Thursday September 13th 2012 for the first of three nights of performance, I realized that I had completely misconceived the production of this piece in my mind’s eye. The usual boundaries between audience and performers were not be drawn as tightly, nor the progression of linear time to be adhered to as stringently as I had expected. When I entered, the performance had already started, with dancers dispersed, improvising, along the risers around the perimeter of the room and moving among the audience. It was intriguing to watch the audience’s reactions to this—ranging from delighted participation to outright denial—and to sense how this intervention formed part of the meaning of the whole.
Clive Fencott reading at The Other Room
Clive Fencott reading at the recent Bob Cobbing Celebration
Patricia Farrell and Robert Sheppard perform Blatent Blather at The Other Room, Bob Cobbing A Celebration
From the recent event in October 2012
nick-e melville: if p then q junk mail
nick-e melville has done some junk mail for if p then q.
LINK
Establishment issue 2
A second issue of the splenid Knives Forks and Spoons, Establishment magazine edited by Jo Langton which is published as a free printable e-magazine.
Andrew Seems Popular by Mark Cobley reviewed at 3am
Although many of the lines in ‘Andrew Seems Popular’ have the feeling of being sourced from a primer, there are many lines which seem improbable: ‘That manager envied him his good fortune’. The idiom of this sentence works but not the subject, ‘manager’; when have we ever talked in this way? Another example is ‘The gardeners walked quickly’, as if two people were trying to catch a train who just happened to be gardeners. In many lines Cobley is attempting ‘bad’ poetry and doing it very successfully.
A review by James Davies of the excellent Andrew Seems Popular is available to read at the 3AM website.
After
Installed this month on the Irwell Sculpture Trail, Tony Lopez‘s new text work After. This is one of three inscribed plaques installed in Radcliffe, Lancashire, along a footpath and a canal towpath near Radcliffe Metrolink Tram Station, part of the work After, also known as The Scattered Poem, a holocaust memorial piece that Tony has been planning for the last few years.
Press Free Press Respond
press free press RESPOND: A monthly series of active reading. Each month we choose two publications available to read in the Poetry Library – the selection is based on browsing and instinct. We are mostly interested in reading new work. In the library we each have 20 minutes to read each publication. Outside the library we are talking and writing in response: talking (5 minutes) / writing (5 minutes) / reading each other / repeat x 4. Resulting 12 documents are unedited recordings of live talking and unedited transcriptions of live writing. We hope this series will encourage dialogue between poets and books. This month, ‘Waffles’ by Matthew Welton and ‘Appeal in Air’ by Philip Davenport:
Early 2013 programme for The Other Room
After our next event with Nat Raha, Alec Newman and Seekers of Lice on 5th December at The Castle, Manchester, we have the following two dates already organised at The Castle for your diaries:
The Other Room 37: 6th February 2013: Nikolai Duffy, Linda Black & Marcus Slease
The Other Room 38: 3rd April 2013: The Other Room 5th birthday, Readers TBC
The Other Room 35: Bob Cobbing, A Celebration Tonight
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