The Text Festival weekend launches in Bury on Saturday morning – details of the exhibitions attached – opening performances by
11.00 am Marco Giovenale (from Italy)
11.20 Helen White and Moniek Darge (from Belgium)
11.45 Márton Koppány (from Hungary)
Sarah Sanders will do a spontaneous performance sometime in the morning (when the moment is right)
Helmut Lemke and Hans Specht will perform a durational conversational artwork from about 11.15 am for 4 hours.
An invitation to celebrate the launches of
David Gaffney’s The Half-Life of Songs published by Salt (www.saltpublishing.com/books/smf/1844712923.htm)
and
James Davies’ Plants published by Reality Street (www.realitystreet.co.uk)
May 10th, 6.30pm
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street, Manchester
This is a FREE event
David Gaffney lives in Manchester and Durham. He is the author of Sawn Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), Buildings Crying Out, a story using lost cat posters (Lancaster litfest 2009), 23 Stops To Hull a set of stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth festival 2009) Sawn off opera a set of operas with composer Ailis Ni Riain (Radio Three, RNCM, Liverpool philharmonic and tete a tete festival London 2010 ) Destroy PowerPoint, stories in PowerPoint format for Edinburgh festival 2009, the Poole Confessions stories told in a mobile confessional box (Poole Literature festival 2010) and he has written articles for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect magazine. His new collection of short stories, The Half-Life of Songs, is out now, and look out for his current project, Station Stories, in which six writer linked to the audience with wireless headphones, perform short stories in Manchester Piccadilly railway station. See http://www.davidgaffney.org for more.
James Davies is the author of Plants (Reality Street), The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit); with Simon Taylor, as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, aRb (if p then q) and Absolute Elsewhere (Knives Forks and Spoons). He edits if p then q (www.ifpthenq.co.uk) and is one of the organisers of The Other Room poetry night and website (www.theotherroom.org)
Erg, the publisher of Cricket Online Review, is pleased to announce the release of Travis Macdonald’s BAR/koans—a clever, modern homage to the Buddhist intellect. In BAR/koans, Macdonald’s thoughtful musings (i.e., modern koans) are equaled by the brilliantly kinetic design of John Moore Williams. BAR/koans is available in PDF for free from Erg’s website.
Live via Ustream on April 6th 2011
COLLECTION AVAILABILITY: 12am – 5pm, Monday 18th April – Tuesday 19th April
For a limited period only, CUBE is giving visitors the opportunity to own a part of their current exhibition osa/MERZEN.
The monumental installation by osa (Office for Subversive Architecture), as featured in international architecture publications AJ and Blueprint magazine ends on Saturday 16th April. The exhibition is the first time the osa, renowned for their public realm works have worked in a gallery setting, with CUBE challenging them to ‘subvert’ the gallery space in response using the collage by Schwitters, YMCA Flag Thank-you Ambleside, made by the artist whilst in exile in Cumbria.
The exhibition has proved popular with visitors commenting “Wonderful, fascinating exhibition, excellent to see what can be done with imagination and discarded materials” and “Excellent, very brave, thought provoking, thank you” (Andrew J. Holland).
A unique window of opportunity has been provided by CUBE that will allow the first 100 people who arrive to own their very own piece of an International commission.
CUBE Staff will be on hand to assist the first 100 people who visit the gallery with their selection on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th April between 12 – 5pm.
All materials left at the end of the give away period will be recycled, reclaimed or reused.
CUBE 113-115 Portland Street Manchester M1 6DW
Tel: 0161 237 5525 fax 0161 236 5815
http://www.cube.org.uk
email info@cube.org.uk
Saturday, April 23 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Location 122 Birley Street, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside,WA12 9UN
Readings by over 20 Knives Forks and Spoons poets
All Welcome
The vital reviews journal continues to give us such goodies.
Of immediate note are reviews of P. Inman, Derek Henderson, Jeff Hilson and Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism.
Nigel Wood’s Manchester based Sunfish continues in fine form:
Rob McLennan
Ken Edwards
Anthony Rowland
Steven Waling
Gareth Twose
James Davies
Mark Cobley
£4
email to purchase – sunfish@googlemail.com
POLYply > 9 ANIMAL ANIMAL 14 April
Maria Fusco
Carol Watts
Anna Lawrence
Johan Thom
Peter Cusack
Thursday 14th April, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Colin Herd reviews at 3 am magazine:
From Raymond Queneau’s audacious sequence Hundred Thousand Billion Poems to Jerome Rothenberg’s radical reimagining of the Hebrew Mystic number system in Vienna Blood, Ronald Johnson’s 99-section long poem ARK, Ron Silliman and Inger Christensen’s use of the Fibonacci sequence and Jackson Mac Low’s systematic ‘diastic’ poems, numbers and counting have been an important structural element in the work of many of the Twentieth Century’s most radical and experimental poetics. With potential for chance procedures, and taking the poem’s structural locus away from the subjective perspective, numerical systems and constraints have often slicked the engines of what William Carlos Williams famously called ‘machines made of words.’
We will be attempting to stream Carrie Etter, Ken Edwards and Alec Finlay out of The Other Room to the internet at roughly 8pm UK time, 6th April, for any people unable to attend but wishing to watch online. Please convert this time for other locations.
The channel is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/otherroom3rdbirthday
Derek Henderson will be live streaming from Utah to the Other Room on 6th April at 7.30 UK time and 12.30 Utah time. For other places in the world check conversion times from the UK time. This reading will feature a number of his sonnets from Thus &: An Erasure of Ted Berrigan’s the Sonnets published by if p then q
This is the link for anyone who can’t make it but would like to watch.
Thu 7 Apr 2011 @ Fuel, Withington, Manchester. Aht-n, Bill Drennan, Helmut Lemke. Free entry.
N.B. Press Free Press, advertised on the poster, are not performing.
Marc Dachy, Director of the DADA Archive in Paris will talk about Kurt Schwitters and DADA. Though it only lasted a decade from 1915, the outpourings of Dada – art, collages, plays – remain the stuff of the avant-garde, from Schwitters’s sound poems to Duchamp’s urinal. Marc Dachy will re-trace the events that lead to Schwitters departure from the movement and then focus on what might distinguish between a DADA and MERZ attitude in art. Followed by a panel discussion
FREE
8th April, International Burgess Centre (as part of Merzman ongoing exhibitions and events)
LINK
Preview of The Other Room 3rd birthday, April 6th reader Derek Henderson. Derek Henderson will be reading from Salt Lake City via live stream. Next week of course is The Other Room.
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Tom Jenks and others are performing at this exciting looking event. Follow the link to book tickets.
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to be working with the Hamilton Project and Bury Text Festival on Station Stories – a unique site specific live literature promenade event using digital technology and live improvised electronic sound. From platform to platform, café to café and shop to shop, six writers (Jenn Ashworth, Tom Fletcher, David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, Nicholas Royle and Peter Wild) take you on a creative trip of Piccadilly station and read specially commissioned stories inspired by the station and the people who use it and work there.
Audiences are linked to the writers’ microphones by headsets using wireless technology, ensuring they hear every single word, whilst still experiencing the live ambience of the location. Take a journey into this marginal, in-between world, where anything can happen and often does.
Thursday 19th May – Saturday 21st May 2011 (performances at 12noon, 3pm and 7pm)
Manchester Piccadilly Train Station
Tickets £11 book on:
Features Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Peter Riley, Kevin Colcoran and more.
Various venues, 26th March-8th April
Preview of 6th April, The Other Room 3rd birthday reader, Ken Edwards. Next week Derek Henderson.
Blog
Recent work
Interview
Advance notice of this splendid looking event.
THIRD HAY-ON-WYE POETRY JAMBOREE
JUNE 2nd – 4th 2011
Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Arts
Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye
THURSDAY JUNE 2ND
6.30 – 7.30 pm: Festival Launch Reception
7.30 – 9.15 pm: Ralph Hawkins + Allen Fisher
FRI JUNE 3RD
11.00 – noon: Film and poetry: Colin Still
2.00 – 4.00 pm: Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green
5.00 – 6.00 pm: Lecture: Robert Sheppard
7.30 – 9.15 pm: Carol Watts + Sean Bonney
SAT JUNE 4TH
11.00 – noon : Frances Presley, Glenn Storhaug
2.00 – 4.00 pm: Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoe Skoulding with Poetry Wales special bill.
7.30 – 9.15 pm: Kelvin Corcoran + Maggie O’Sullivan
9.30 – 10.30 pm: Grand Finale – Chicken of the Woods (bluegrass band, with dancing, drinking, and other enjoyable post-poetic shenanigans …)
Plus – All Saturday in Salem Chapel proper, Elysium Gallery in collaboration with
Hay Poetry Jamboree presents Bus Stop Cinema – a festival of short films.
ENTRANCE TO 7.30 EVENTS £5 (CONCESSIONS £3). ALL OTHER EVENTS FREE
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