James Davies

Salford launch of The British and Irish Journal of Innovative Poetry

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A reminder that the launch of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative
Poetry (eds Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston) is at the University of
Salford on Wednesday 9 December at 4 pm.

There will be speeches and discussion of the journal, as well as an
opportunity for readers and contributors to the journal to meet with
editorial board members.

Guest Speakers:

Christine Kennedy, Leeds Trinity & All Saints

Allen Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University

Ian Davidson, University of Wales at Bangor

Followed by discussion and drinks.

All Welcome. Free entry.

Address: Room 103, Crescent House, University of Salford, Greater
Manchester, M5 4WT

Directions here: http://www.salford.ac.uk/travel

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169385893578&ref=share

More about the journal: http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry

New issue of Greatworks

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An all male isssue of Greatworks featuring:

  • Niall Quinn                                      
  • Mark Goodwin & Nikki Clayton    
  • Andrew Taylor                                 
  • Daniel Andersson                         
  • Nick Wayte                                       
  • Mark Cobley                                     
  • Simon Howard                                
  • Aidan Semmens                             
  • Michael Egan                                  
  • A A Walker                                       
  • Richard Parker                                
  • Antony John                                    
  • Adam Fieled                                    
  • Mark Cunningham                         
  • James Mc Laughlin                        
  • Ross Leese                                      
  • Christopher Barnes                        
  • Les Wicks                                       
  • Alex Houen                                      
  • Nicolas Spicer                                 
  • Graham Burchell                            
  • Chris Brownsword                          
  • Stuart Kenyon                                 
  • Iain Britton                                        
  • Thomas Mulhall                              
  • Cliff Yates                                        
  • Nathan Thompson                         
  • Jon Clay                                           
  • Alasdair Paterson                           
  • Tony Cullen                                     
  • Steven Ruel                                     
  • William Garvin                                 
  • James Price                                     
  • Simon J Charlton                           
  • James Davies                                  
  • Gareth Durasow                              
  • Paul A Green                                   
  • Mike Ruddick                                   
  • Johan de Wit                                              
  • Mark Hall                                          
  • Connie Beauchamp                                  

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Geof Huth previews f[lintst)eel

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Geof Huth writes about the progress of his up and coming if p then q collection on his blog:

I have spent the night trying to organize my collected pwoermds in some logical and reasonably consistent manner. Now, at the end of the night, I’ve got them in reasonable order and am looking at 100 pages of pwoermds, and about 669 pwoermds total. (Counting them all is made difficult by the fact that I’ve intentionally left in duplicates of some pwoermds, for esthetic reasons.

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Beyond the Book

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This is a course i’m teaching in Manchester. It’s good to see the Poetry School venture into such things. Please pass on if you know anybody who’d be interested. The details and blurb are below as well as a rough weekly schedule. There will also be a class website.

Beyond the Book: alternative approaches to writing
Tutor: James Davies
Venue: The Tai Chi Village Hall, Manchester
Duration: 10 weekly sessions
Day & Time Tuesday’s, 7.30-9.30pm
Start Date 12th Jan 2010
Cost £99.00 (£76.00 concs)

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The blurb reads:

These days, there are endless exciting opportunities for writers in the way that they write; and how they publish, experience and share their work. On this course you’ll do a number of exercises exploring alternative writing styles (including those spawned by the internet), consider the myriad of possibilities of collaboration (both with real and virtual bodies), and think about blogging, social networking and alternative methods of publishing work other than the traditional book.

Weekly schedule:
1. Internet as playground
2. Internet as resource
3. Internet as resource pt 2
4. Systems
5. Translation
6. Tanslation pt 2
7. Collaboration
8. Interventions
9. Class filming, audio and archiving
10. Class production and distribution

Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinchback

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Do not miss this –

Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinchback
Category: Launch
Profile: Castlefield Gallery
Opening hours: (For Castlefield Gallery) Wednesday – Sunday. 1 – 6 pm
Event Date: 18:00 – 20:00 Thursday, 26th Nov 2009
Organisation: Castlefield Gallery
Venue: Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester, M15 4GB.
Contact: Castlefield Gallery
Email: info@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Website: http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Description: Performance and CD Launch of Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinch

fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.

This CD comes in a 5inch tape reel box, including 5 prints made in conjunction with the recordings. http://www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk

FREE EVENT, BOOKING REQUIRED To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places.

Reading the Removal of Literature

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Alan Halsey’s review of December Other Room reader Nick Thurston’s Reading the Removal of Literature can be read at Stride magazine. Here’s the start:

Reading the Remove of Literature is unlike any book I’ve looked at. I’ve read it too but the looking at it is the first essential. With all but a few books one reads without consciousness of seeing. Nick Thurston’s book demands that one look at it constantly and never detach the seeing from the reading – and yet it is only marginally what we generally describe as a ‘visual text’.

The first words of Craig Dworkin’s introduction set the scene: ‘The book you are holding is an edition of Maurice Blanchot’s L’Espace littéraire, although not a word of Blanchot’s text remains. Every page of this book has been assiduously erased by Nick Thurston.

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Advanced warning: Final Openned

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opennednov2009

If you’ve planned on getting to Openned but never have now’s your last chance. Farewell (for now) to a great night and venue.

Readers:

Andrea Brady
Ian Heames
Antony John
Geraldine Monk
Linus Slug
Timothy Thornton

Date: Wednesday 25th November
Time: 7.30pm
Location: The Foundry, London
Admission: Free