James Davies
Kerry Morrison video from The Other Room December 2016
Cathy Butterworth video from The Other Room December 2016
Tripwire issue 12
TRIPWIRE 12 :
AKA VANCOUVER: WRITING FROM THE UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES
featuring Mercedes Eng * Anahita Jamali Rad * Amy De’Ath * Cecily Nicholson * Danielle LaFrance * ryan fitzpatrick * Roger Farr * Sonnet L’Abbe * Phinder Dulai * Jordan Abel * Rita Wong * Stephen Collis * Andrea Creamer * Fred Wah * Jeff Derksen * Christine Leclerc * Carolyn Richard * Donato Mancini * Renée Sarojini Saklikar * Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite * Tiziana La Melia & Vanessa Disler * Danielle Lafrance & Anahita Jamali Rad on About a Bicycle * Natalie Knight on Cecily Nicholson * Jules Boykoff on Mercedes Eng * Gregory Betts on Lisa Robertson * Louis Cabri on Catriona Strang * Deanna Fong on Jordan Scott * Rob McClennan & Julia Polyck-O’Neill on Jordan Abel * Cameron Scott on Colin Smith, plus a special Peter Culley tribute, with work from Peter & Elisa Ferrari * Colin Smith * Rolf Maurer * George Bowering * Lisa Robertson * Chris Nealon * Lee Ann Brown * Stephen Collis * Jonathan Skinner. Cover by Andrea Creamer. 300+ pages. $15
Also: for the month of January, I’m running a special, with all proceeds going to the Bay Area AntiRepression Committee. Get issues 10 (CAConrad feature), 11(¡POP!), & 12 for $30 (plus shipping). That’s close to 1000 pages of new writing! Details at tripwirejournal.com
Noise in the Face of by David Buuck
NOISE IN THE FACE OF
new poems by David Buuck
Roof Books, NY, 2016.
http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781931824675/noise-in-the-face-of.aspx
I don’t know when I’ve ever read poetry more completely of and in the streets—where the form and content of the poetics of the march and occupation and riot are so thoroughly merged. Squelch that cop radio feedback, turn up the Michael Jackson—the livestream is on and in your hands, comrade. David Buuck has his razor sharp eye and ear at all times on “what / ’s beyond the shattered frame” of mere representational aes- thetics/politics: this is poetry bashed out on a burning piano as it hurtles downhill during an Oakland riot. I for one am more than a little excited to be along for the ride. —Stephen Collis
David Buuck writes a history of the problem of being a poet inside the historical moment of a city which itself had become a poem. Oakland was once a messed-up erupting ambiguity of the negatively capable indecorously accessorizing, the messed-up positron of the all, but maybe what Oakland was also was the precipice overlooking Silicon Valley, a cliff geo-tagged as a protest taking the form of a funeral in the form of a dance you refuse to do: “Whose fuck ups? / Our fuck ups.” The meta-shards of mega-self-awareness that come after are a jewel on the radiant pavement of after that. —Anne Boyer
David Buuck’s Noise in the Face Of is not a book exposing lies. It is about the labor of standing together in the face of the exposed and learning to be there for one another. There is Love here and there is a promise for enough of it, just stand in there and you know he is right. What an honor to be alive at the same time as this poet who is showing that there is so much more beyond the filth and conspiracy of politics. —CAConrad
New Edition of Junction Box
It’s HERE and features reviews, discussion and creative work by previous Other Room readers and others, as well as upcoming reader Steven Hitchins reviewing Stephen Emmerson’s Family Portraits.
Nottingham Poetry Series – Sophie Collins & Linda Kemp
Poetry Performance Evening
Poetry Performance Evening: Sophie Collins and Linda Kemp
13th December 2016, 7pm @ Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham
More here
Contraband Live 2
Contraband Live is back for a night of poetry, music and dancing right before the Christmas break!
Poets performing at the event will include: Jennie Cole, Ghazal Mosadeq, Juha Virtanen (book launch!), Ollie Evans – and you!
As before there will be an Open Mic slot, so please bring along anything you might be working on now and would like to read out.
The event takes place at Charterhouse Bar between Barbican and Farringdon, next to Smithfield Market. There will be excellent food available at a reasonable price (the pizzas are particulary good!), a Contraband book-stall, and late-night dancing and music from 11.00 on!
We very much look forward to seeing you there!
Monday 12th December, 7.30
Charterhouse Bar London ec1, Chaterhouse Street
Veer launches – Peter Larkin, Stephen Emmerson, Wayne Clements/Johan de Wit/Anthony John
Thursday, December 15 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM
Room 101 at the Clore Management Centre in Birkbeck College, London
Room 101 at the Clore Management Centre in Birkbeck College, London
Launching 3 new Veer Books, with readings by the authors:
* Peter Larkin – C Trappings
* Stephen Emmerson – The Journal of Baal and other visual poems
* Wayne Clements, Johan de Wit, Antony John – Kenya
In association with the CPRC Birkbeck.
Free and All Welcome.
Black Market Review – call for submissions
We are now open again until 31st December for short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and artwork.
From the vaults – Steve Boyland
April 2015
Juxtavoices at St Ann’s Square
Launch of Juxtavoices’ new CD/DVD
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NOTES (Discus 58)
3pm, Friday 9th December
St Ann’s Church, Manchester M2 7LF
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NOTES
may be ordered direct from Discus Music
http://discus-music.co.uk/catalogue-mobile/dis58cd2015-11-01-18-20-11-72-detail
Lullabies and Curses
Lullabies and Curses: Common Rest Launch Party
The Peckham Pelican
92 Peckham Road, SE15 5PY London, United Kingdom
Thursday, December 1 at 7 PM – 11 PM
Come and be sung SONGS OF THE DARK
Please join us for the launch of ‘Common Rest’, a collaborative album of sound works and lullabies with an accompanying book of poems by Holly Pester.
Doors at 7
Performances from 7:30
READINGS, PERFORMANCES, SONGS and SPELLS by
Nat Raha
Verity Spott
Holly Pester
Linda Stupart
Vera Rodriguez
Mrylyn Tan
Jenny Moore
The project includes contributions by Emma Bennett, Vahni Capildeo, Jenny Moore, Nat Raha, Vera Rodriguez, Verity Spott and Claire Tolan. You can read more about the release on our website here: http://testcentre.org.uk/product/common-rest/
Cathy Butterworth – A Preview
The next Other Room takes place on December 7th 2016 at The Castle Hotel, Manchester and as always is free entry. It features Kerry Morrison, Wayne Clements & Cathy Butterworth. More at the EVENTS page.
Cathy Butterworth is an artist who makes work at the intersection of writing, performance and visual art. Her recent pamphlet Cimmerian was published by Dock Road Press. Performance actions, writing and visual art projects include: Sketches for Britain (Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, 2010), 22 Mondays (durational performance with Mark Greenwood, 2015), Everyone in Your Life is a Figment of Your Imagination (Delhi, 2015), Elective Affinities (Tate Liverpool 2016) and True Blue: 26 Lost Performances (2016). Her literary object, Fortunate, will be published by zimZalla in December 2016.
Crater Ardent Calendar
Crater 43: December 2016. Crater Ardent Calendar. 27 poets and artists across 25 windows! Fully articulated full colour A4 advent calendar, with work from: Luke Allan, Oliver Baggott, Sharon Borthwick, cris cheek, David Connearn, Amy De’Ath, Amy Evans, Alec Finlay, Harry Gilonis, Elizabeth Guthrie, Chris Gutkind, Jeff Hilson, Peter Hughes, Peter Jaeger, Frances Kruk, Colin and Yuna Lee Marshall, Dorothy Lehane, Aislinn Melville, nick-e melville, Montenegro Fisher, Jèssica Pujol i Duran, Tom Raworth, David Rees, Andrew Spragg and Steve Willey.
£5 including postage — UK only.
Alternate Gravities: Allen Fisher, Fran Lock, Vicky Sparrow
Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM
CPRC, Birkbeck
Please join us for a poetry reading featuring Allen Fisher, Fran Lock and Vicky Sparrow. This reading is hosted by the CPRC, including some of Birkbeck’s PhD students working on contemporary poetry
Allen Fisher is a poet, artist and publisher, and the editor of Spanner magazine. He lives in Hereford, and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Altogether Fisher has over 150 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. In 2015 his book of essays Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture and Reception , a companion to his work with essays by contemporaries and an Allen Fisher Reader were all published.
Fran Lock is writing her practice based Ph.D. on the relationship between the epistolary form in contemporary poetry and the use of letters in therapeutic contexts. She is the author of two poetry collections Flatrock (Little Episodes, 2011) and The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt, 2014). A third collect, Dogtooth, will be published by Out-Spoken Press in in February 2017.
Vicky Sparrow is writing her PhD on the poet-activist Anna Mendelssohn at the CPRC. Vicky’s poems can be found in datableed, Litmus, Kakania and Intercapillary Space and she’s currently finalising a chapbook to be published by Zarf Editions this Winter.
Bronaċ Ferran is first year PhD/MPhil at Birkbeck researching the work of poet, publisher and typographer Hansjörg Mayer. She’s writing a book about Mayer’s work in concrete poetry and other fields which will be published early next year by Walther König books. She also presents radio programmes on Resonancefm.
Double Change with Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand et Tonya Foster
double change, The Poetry Foundation,
la galerie éof, la bibliothèque anglophone d’Angers,
la Maison des écrivains et de la littérature d’Angers,
la Maison de la poésie de Nantes et les éditions joca seria
vous invitent
au festival ‘poésie : usa’
avec les poètes Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand et Tonya Foster
Mardi 6 décembre, 19h30, lectures & book launch, galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 PARIS, http://www.doublechange.org
Mercredi 7 décembre, 19h, lectures, Bibliothèque anglophone d’Angers, 60 rue Boisnet, 49100 ANGERS, www.ellia.org, http://www.m-e-l.fr/
Jeudi 8 décembre, 19h30, lectures et entretiens, Le Pannonica, 9 rue Basse-Porte, 44000 NANTES. Festival Midi Minuit Poésie http://www.midiminuitpoesie.com
À cette occasion les éditions joca seria publient :
De coin à corner de Tina Darragh,
Le jardin de M. de Marcella Durand et
La grammaire des os de Tonya Foster traduits par Olivier Brossard et Béatrice Trotignon.
Publishers Fair at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
Independent Publishers Book Fair
Bank Street Arts
32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS
Saturday 26 November 2016
Book Fair: 11am – 5pm (admission free)
Image and Text as Exploration: 7pm (pay as you feel)
A one-day book fair at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts, bringing some of our most innovative artists and independent presses together under one roof. The fair will include handmade artists’ books, poetry, fiction, art writing, literary criticism, zines, and much more. A not-to-be-missed opportunity to see and buy some beautiful editions and meet the publishers and artists involved. Short descriptions of the participating publishers appear below; click here for longer descriptions and images.
Scroll down for details of Image and Text as Exploration, an evening performance (7pm start, 6.30pm doors) curated by Emma Bolland (Gordian Projects).
Publishers taking part in the book fair include:
And Other Stories (London, Sheffield, Wycombe)
And Other Stories publishes the best in contemporary writing, including many translations. @andothertweets
Bradical (Bradford)
Bradford based fanzine writing about Islamophobia / diaspora / Bradford. @bradicalbfd
Comma Press (Manchester)
Independent publisher of short fiction from the UK and beyond. @commapress
enjoy your homes (Sheffield)
enjoy your homes press is an independent publishing press and platform. @eyh_press
Gordian Projects (Sheffield / Glasgow / York)
Gordian Projects focuses on small editions that use art and language as a space for exploration. @GordianProjects
Joanne Lee / Pam Flett Press (Sheffield)
Artist, researcher, writer and publisher with a curiosity about everyday life and the ordinary places in which she lives and works. @generalistjo
Longbarrow Press (Sheffield)
Poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. @LongbarrowPress
Jean McEwan (West Yorkshire)
Jean McEwan makes zines both solo and in collaboration with others, curates contribution-based zines, teaches zine-making workshops, and organises self-publishing events and projects. @Jeanmcewan
Peepal Tree Press (Leeds)
Peepal Tree Press is home of the best in Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, literary criticism, memoirs and historical studies. @peepaltreepress
The Poetry Business (Sheffield)
The Poetry Business is a UK poetry publisher and writer development agency. @poetrybusiness
Tilted Axis Press (London / Sheffield)
Founded in 2015, Tilted Axis is a not-for-profit press publishing cutting-edge contemporary fiction translated from Asian languages. @TiltedAxisPress
West House Books (Sheffield)
Founded in 1995, West House Books has published fifty books and pamphlets, including major collections by Geraldine Monk, Karen Mac Cormack, Kelvin Corcoran and Bill Griffiths.
Evening performance:
Image and Text as Exploration
curated and introduced by Emma Bolland (Gordian Projects)
7pm (doors 6.30pm)
This event will feature talks and readings from five artists, academics, publishers and writers:
Leeds-based artist and writer Helen Clarke will be talking about and reading from her photo / text book that emerged from her drift walks in Berlin;
Artist-photographer Tom Rodgers is from York and will discuss his film-based photobooks of abstract landscapes;
Artist, publisher and academic Joanne Lee will talk about her Pam Flett Press and her urban exploration of Sheffield;
Poet and academic Chris Jones will be reading from his work-in-progress verse novel set against the background of the the 2007 Sheffield floods;
Sheffield-based writer and publisher Brian Lewis will be talking in his capacity as a writer who uses night walking and endurance walking, and reading from his pamphlet East Wind.
otherroom.org 