James Davies

Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry by Jessica Smith

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Free ebook of essays from the Argotist by Jessica Smith.

Composed between 2000 and 2006, these short essays on poetry and poetics straddle the genres of traditional academic essay and manifesto. They include analyses of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics (Andrews, Bernstein, DuPlessis, Hejinian, Howe, McCaffery, and Silliman) and poetry by Modernists Eliot, Stein, and Zukofsky; 19th Century poets Browning, Rossetti and Shelley; and contemporary poets Cecilia Vicuña and Christian Bök. Spinning 200 years of poetry and philosophy, Smith weaves a theory of the concomitance of space and time in language.

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A Common Strangeness

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A talk by Jacob Edmond in the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar series organized by Robert Hampson. The title of the talk is “A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature,” which is also the title of his book due out from Fordham UP early next year.

Wednesday, October 19 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Room 102, Senate House, 1st Floor

Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
London, United Kingdom

The Other Room – future events

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For your diary our next scheduled events are as follows:

October 26th 2011, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Jennifer Cooke, Colin Herd & Steven Fowler
February 29th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Andrea Brady, nick-e melville & Tim Allen
April 19th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room 4th birthday with Tony Lopez, Paula Claire, Becky Cremin & Elena Rivera

Reader Programme for The Free Verse Book Fair, 24th September

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Readers at The Free Verse Book Fair organised by Charles Boyle

Location: Exmouth Market Centre, 24 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QE.
Time: ‎10:00AM Saturday, September 24th10.30-11   

Ward Wood
                Sue Guiney and Peter Phillips      11-11.45   Michael Horovitz

12-12.30 Happenstance Press  
 Jon Stone, Kirsten Irving, Lorna Dowell, Peter Daniels, Clare Best and D A Prince

12.30-1 Nine Arches Press 
 Ruth Larbey and Matt Merritt

1-1.30   Reality Street 
 Jim Goar and James Davies

1.30-2   Rack Press 
 Roisin Tierney, Nicholas Murray and Katy Evans-Bush

2-2.30   CB Editions
Christopher Reid and Nancy Gafford   

2.30-3   Carcanet
      Will Eaves and Ian Pindar

3-3.30   if p then q
Lucy Harvest Clarke and Tom Jenks

3.30-4   Flipped Eye
Max Wallis and Kate McLoughlin

4-4.30   Penned in the Margins
Gemma Seltzer and Siddhartha Bose

4.30-5   Waterloo Press
Jeremy Reed, Niall McDevitt and Philip Ruthen

Double Change winter reading series

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If in Paris…

Double Change vous propose 4 lectures en septembre et octobre :

Vendredi 30 septembre, 19h00, Point Ephémère : Vanessa Place et Emilie Notéris

Lundi 10 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : Lynn Crawford et Harry Mathews

Lundi 17 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : Rae Armantrout et Joe Ross

Jeudi 20 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : soirée en marge du colloque Gertrude Stein (20-21 oct, Grand Palais) avec Charles Bernstein, Thalia Field & Abigail Lang, Joan Retallack et Jean-Marie Gleize.

Sunfish 5

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Issue 5 of Sunfish magazine recently out, A4 format, 40 pages, with work by:

Charles Stein – 4 poems from the forthcoming collection “From Mimir’s Head” by this American poet, Olson scholar and Homer translator 
Phil Davenport – “pollinators of eden”, a 10-page poem combining text and drawings
Carrie Etter – 6 poems, including 4 from her ongoing “Divining for Starters” series
sean burn – “bastilles englan”, a poem for multiple voices from this UK writer who was shortlisted for a Michael Marks award for his visual poetry collection “mo thunder”
Alec Finlay – 2 poems from his ongoing project “the road north”  
Amanda Earl – 5 prose poems extracted from a larger sequence by this Canadian writer (in what I think is her first UK publication)
Sunfish costs £4 (+ £1 p&p in the UK) and can be ordered via Paypal (to nigewood@softhome.net)
As ever, the magazine is also available FREE as a pdf to anyone that wants it – just email me to request it (and no, I won’t think you’re cheap for asking for the free pdf rather than buying the print version, so don’t be shy!)

via Nigel Wood

Juxtavoices in Sheffield

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The next Sheffield appearance for Martin Archer & Alan Halsey’s 25+ voice anti-choir will be at the annual Art in the Gardens event in the Botanical Gardens.

The group will be playing three different sets during the course of the afternoon: 12.30pm – Pavilion 1.30pm – Bear Pit 3.00pm – Bear Pit Works to be performed include Hugo Ball’s Dadaist sound poem Karawane, plus semi-improvised pieces based on texts by Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein and Alan Halsey. Admission price is to the whole event, which centres around exhibitions by locally based artists.

SUNDAY 4th SEPTEMBER 2011 BOTANICAL GARDENS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD £6 NOTES & SOUNDS presents Mick Beck tenor sax & bassoon Martin Archer reeds & electronic effects Steve Chase guitar & miscellaneous A brilliant and curious selection of left field exponents.

MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2011 THE RED DEER, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield S1 4DD 8pm £3.00/2.00 concessions.