“A wave of outsider poets and musicians is threatening to breach the UK’s coastal defences with their DIY mixes of spoken word, broken noise and radical politics.”
There is an extensive profile of the Brighton scene in the latest print edition of The Wire magazine, featuring Keston Sutherland, Joe Luna and Verity Spott amongst others.
FRIDAY 25th April, Zoe Skoulding and Keston Sutherland
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £4, 7 pm spot-on start!
Keston Sutherland is the author of The Odes to TL61P, Stupefaction, Stress Position, Hot White Andy and other books, and lots of essays, many of them about Marx and poetry. He lives in Brighton, where he runs the Sussex Poetry Festival, and where he founded Brighton Left Unity. He co-edits Barque press.
Zoë Skoulding is primarily a poet, though her work encompasses sound-based vocal performance, collaboration, translation, literary criticism, editing, and teaching creative writing. She lectures in the School of English at Bangor University, and has been Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. Her recent collections of poems are The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013), Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009. You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral is a multimedia soundscape, video and poetry performance with Alan Holmes that has been presented across Europe in several languages.
Born of a Liverpool taste for variety and drama, ‘Storm and Golden Sky’ offers literary high style from across the poetic landscape. Programmed by a collective of Liverpool-based poets, Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees.
Shouts constellates the brevity of the epigraph, gloss, commentary, aphorism, and slogan, and turns them into quasi-narrative modules: bildungsroman, pedantic jakes, and allusive debris. More at Barque Press.
A special volume of DAMN THE CAESARS with attention to the work of Rob Halpern and Keston Sutherland.
9 May 2012, 6pm, followed by reception.
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.
The massive growth in creative writing courses in recent years has meant that there are probably more practicing poets at work now than ever before. Yet the position of poetry in relation to the public sphere at large seems to grow increasingly opaque. Is poetry merely a minority leisure activity, or can it still claim to be, as it was for Milton and Wordsworth, a means of understanding the world unrivalled both in its scope and its complexity? With so many new media changing the ways in which we produce and consume texts of all kinds, what is the future of poetry?
Participants include Other Room reader Keston Sutherland. More at the UCL site.
Wednesday, February 29, 7:30pm. Upstairs at the HOPE on Queen’s Road, Brighton.
New anthology from Bloodaxe Books edited by Nathan Hamilton and featuring, amongst others, Other Room readers Emily Critchley, Steven Fowler, Colin Herd, Chris McCabe, Sophie Robinson, Linus Slug (Mendoza), Keston Sutherland, Joe Walton and Steve Willey.
Stupefaction
A Radical Anatomy of Phantoms
Sutherland examines how speculative and satirical descriptions of stupidity function in art and in argument. His examples include Alexander Pope’s dunce, Adorno’s philistine, Wordsworth’s mechanical adopter of poetic diction, and phenomenologist Michel Henry’s drunkard who rides an escalator to nothingness. Sutherland also provides an important new account of the figure of the bourgeois in Marx and a powerfully original interpretation of commodity fetishism as a satire against bourgeois objectivity. This unusual analysis of the trope of the idiot will appeal to scholars of literature and philosophy alike.
Out now on The University of Chicago Press.
3 readings from The Other Room, 7th July 2010. More to follow.
Derek Beaulieu
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Jeff Hilson
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Keston Sutherland
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Interviews with 3 of the readers at The Other Room, 7th July 2010. More to follow.
Derek Beaulieu
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Jeff Hilson
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Keston Sutherland
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Four new publications now available, including DAMN THE CAESARS vol. N ($15.00).
NEW WRITING: Keston Sutherland, Justin Katko, Emily Critchley, Luke Roberts,
Francesca Lisette, Dale Smith, Geoffrey Gatza, Josh Stanley, Frances Kruk, David
Hadbawnik, Carrie Etter, Francis Crot, and Rosa Alcala.
FEATURE: New writing and 6 full-color visual pieces from Allen Fisher followed by
an extended consideration of Allen Fisher’s work by Pierre Joris.
ESSAY: Dennis Tedlock on Alcheringa’s relationship to Language Writing.
TRANSLATION: The Papyrus of Ani translated by Steve McCaffery; writing from
Egyptian poet Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi translated by Rick London and Omnia Amin.
More here.
Thursday 29 July, 7 pm
Poetry Reading by Keston Sutherland
Keston Sutherland is editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID and co-editor, with Andrea Brady, of Barque Press. His recent books are White Hot Andy (2007) and Stress Position (2009). Free. More here.
Some links to Keston Sutherland who reads with Nathan Thompson, Derek Beaulieu & Jeff Hilson next week.
Editing
Part one of Hot White Andy on Youtube
Poem
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