Hobby Horse: A PUPPET PLAY FOR CABARET VOLTAIRE

Hobby Horse: A PUPPET PLAY FOR CABARET VOLTAIRE

by CHRISTINE KENNEDY

A celebration of the DADA dolls & art of

Emmy Hennings, Hannah Höch, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Tuesday 13 March 6pm

Digital Performance Lab

University of Salford at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays

See: http://www.salford.ac.uk/MediaCityUK/location for directions

ADMISSION FREE

SIMPLE REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED

Doors open at 6pm

Performance starts at 6.15 – latecomers will not be admitted until the interval

The performance lasts approx 30 minutes and the interval for 20 minutes

A creative practice lecture and discussion will follow the interval

The Sonnet in Modern Times

The Sonnet in Modern Times

Tutor: James Davies

Location: Manchester

Venue: Friends’ Meeting House

Day / Time: Thursdays 7 – 9pm

Duration: 5 weeks

Start Date: 26 April

Price: £63, £50, £38

Level: intermediate

The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will imagine new ways of writing your own 14 liners.

This and other courses are available in the Poetry School’s Summer 2012 programme.

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Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics

Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics is now online in a PDF format at issuu.com/litteraria. It contains a slection of writings on Edwin Denby, Mark Hyatt, Bern Porter, Asa Benveniste, Lukáš Tomin, William Bronk, Gilbert Sorrentino, Robbie Walker, Bob Cobbing, Paddy Roe, Philip Whalen, Loop Poetics, Cyberpoetics, Flarf and other poets and poetics from the 1960s to the present that/who might be considered ”neglected” in some way. Contributors: Ali Alizadeh, Louis Armand, Livio Beloi, Jeremy Davies, Stephan Delbos, Michel Delville, Johanna Drucker, Michael Farrel, Allen Fisher, Vincent Katz, Stephen Muecke, Jena Osman, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Kyle Schlesinger, Robert Shepperd, Stephanie Strickland, John Wilkinson. Can also be got in hardcopy from the publisher, Litteraria Pragensia Books in Prague.

Via Vlak Magazine

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Like This Press

Another new Manchester based press. This time Like This Press

Like This is a new and independent press based in Manchester committed to publishing high quality and beautifully designed books that do things just a little bit differently.
We are particularly interested in poetry, prose poetry, fragments, stories (the more curious the better), interviews, essays, and books as objects. There is an editorial leaning towards experimental traditions. We want work that is formally unusual, questioning, unexpected, and challenging; work that is interested in thinking about the hows and whys of literary practice, the place of books in the world, the relationship between writing and living, art and life, between literature, art, philosophy, religion, science, history, medicine. We especially like work that blends innovation with accessibility and wonder.

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Tony Lopez: False Memory 2nd edition published by Shearsman

Tony Lopez’s landmark collection False Memory has been made into a second edition with a new introduction by Robert Hampson.

“[…] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year    [was] Tony Lopez’s False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging    and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes    hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge.” —Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003.

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I’ll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

OUT NOW from Les Figues Press

Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette Mayer, appropriating Shakespeare. The book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries, with contributors’ responses to the question—What is conceptual writing?—appearing alongside their work. I’ll Drown My Book offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Kathy Acker, Oana Avasilichioaei & Erin Moure, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Angela Carr, Monica de la Torre, Danielle Dutton, Renee Gladman, Jen Hofer, Bernadette Mayer, Sharon Mesmer, Laura Mullen, Harryette Mullen, Deborah Richards, Juliana Spahr, Cecilia Vicuna, Wendy Walker, Jen Bervin, Inger Christiansen, Marcella Durand, Katie Degentesh, Nada Gordon, Jennifer Karmin, Mette Moestrup, Yedda Morrison, Anne Portugal, Joan Retallack, Cia Rinne, Giovanni Singleton, Anne Tardos, Hannah Weiner, Christine Wertheim, Norma Cole, Debra Di Blasi, Stacy Doris & Lisa Robertson, Sarah Dowling, Bhanu Kapil, Rachel Levitsky, Laura Moriarty, Redell Olsen, Chus Pato, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet, a.rawlings, Ryoko Seikiguchi, Susan M. Schultz, Rosmarie Waldrop, Renee Angle, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tina Darragh, Judith Goldman, Susan Howe, Maryrose Larkin, Tracie Morris, Sawako Nakayasu, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jena Osman, kathryn l. pringle, Frances Richard, Kim Rosenfeld, and Rachel Zolf.

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PENN sound radio

PennSound Radio, a 24-hour stream of readings and conversations from the PennSound poetry archive. Our daily schedule includes rebroadcasts of such series as Live at the Writers House, Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening, and Leonard Schwartz’s Cross-Cultural Poetics, as well as a curated selection of our favorite performances. You can play PennSound Radio through iTunes on your computer, or by installing the free TuneIn app on your iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android device. Listen at work! At home! At the gym! While rebuilding a transmission! And while you’re at it, follow us on Twitter (@PennSoundRadio) to keep up with all of our new programs and special features.

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Writing and The Small Press

CALL FOR PAPERS

Writing and the Small Press
a one-day conference at the University of Salford, Saturday 31 March 2012
from 10am-4pm.

The small presses in the UK have a complex and fascinating history as they interact with writerly practice. Developments over the last twenty to thirty years such as the the rise of desktop publishing, the collapse of the net book agreement, and the advent of print-on demand as well as digital publishing and online bookselling  have created an environment in which small presses have thrived and created new opportunities for writers. This conference aims to bring together publishers, writers and academics to discuss the influence of the small presses on creative practice and to consider their broader role in cultural production. In addition, there will be practical sessions on how to publish with a small press and opportunities for publishers to showcase their books.

Confirmed speakers include the novelist Elizabeth Baines, poet Robert Sheppard and Alec Newman of The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. Manchester publisher The Red Telephone will also be in attendance.

Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to:

• The relationship between the creative writer and small presses
• Specific studies of individual small presses and their lists
• Genre studies of the role of small presses in regards to poetry, fiction, etc.
• The formal properties of the small press book and its relation to aesthetics.
• How creative writing and publishing practices are adapting to new media.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words to be submitted by February 29, 2012.
Please send to one of the organisers:

Lucie Armitt
l.armitt@salford.ac.uk

Ursula Hurley
u.k.hurley@salford.ac.uk

Scott Thurston
s.thurston@salford.ac.uk

School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Salford
Salford
M5 4WT

Tony Lopez, Works on Paper published by Crater Press

New from Crater Press: WORKS ON PAPER by Tony Lopez At the apex of modernism in the early twentieth century, Bury in Lancashire was the world centre of industrial paper manufacture. Works on Paper by Tony Lopez is a serial poem looking through the history and language of that technical innovation and place of trade. The poem was written in 2008, first performed at the Text Festival in 2009, and printed on (130gsm) Hahnemuhle old antique laid by Richard Parker in October and November 2011, limited to 100 copies at £4.

Copies are available now at http://www.craterpress.co.uk