The story of The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936, featuring Other Room readers John Goodby, Nia Davies and Rhys Trimble. Broadcast on Radio 3 and available on the BBC iPlayer.
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Neil Campbell, Rhys Trimble & Tim Allen at Verbose
Monday 23 May 2016, Manchester literature night verbose continues
Headliners from the fabulous Knives Forks and Spoons press: Tim Allen, Neil Campbell and Rhys Trimble.
Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 23 May, with special guests from the fabulous Knives Forks and Spoons press and the usual open mic of prose and poetry performances – sign up for a three-minute slot by emailing verbosemcr at gmail dot com.
Run by Alec Newman, Knives Forks and Spoons has developed the biggest avant garde poetry list in the UK since its launch in 2010, publishing seminal international figures in experimental poetry together with many young poets and “outsider” practitioners. May’s Verbose welcomes Tim Allen, Neil Campbell and Rhys Trimble.
Tim Allen edited the magazine Terrible Work and is involved with the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette live literature events in Manchester. He has a …number of poetry pamphlets to his name. Neil Campbell has been included three times in the brilliant Best British Short Stories series. He has three collections of short fiction, two poetry chapbooks and his first novel, Sky Hooks, is out in September. Rhys Trimble is a poet and shoutyman from Wales who enjoys poetry across languages. He has performed extensively across UK and Europe.
Verbose is hosted by Sarah-Clare Conlon at Fallow café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M14 6NA. It’s free entry and doors are at 7.30pm. Verbose takes place every fourth Monday of the month.
See http://verbosemcr.wordpress.com/ for more details
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New issue of the poetry foldable/printable ezine out now.
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
Thursday, February 25th, 7 PM. Waterloo Tea at the Wyndham Arcade, 21-25 Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1FH.
LYNDON DAVIES: author of A Colomber in the House of Poesy and editor of Aquifer Books
AMY McCAULEY: poetry editor at New Welsh Review
RHYS TRIMBLE: author of Swansea Automatic, Rejectamenta, and Hexerisk
About the Poets:
Lyndon Davies has published three collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006), Shield (Parthian Press 2010) and A Colomber in the House of Poesy (Aquifer 2014). He runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature and art, and recently set up Aquifer Books, which publishes mainly poetry-centred writing with an experimental bias. He also edits an online magazine of art and literature called Junction Box.
Amy McCauley’s poetry, essays and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including: The Poetry of Sex (Viking), Hallelujah for 50ft Women (Bloodaxe), Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt), Poetry Wales, Magma and The Rialto. Current projects include a collection of poems (Auto-Oedipa), which re-imagines the Oedipus myth, and a verse novel (CaNToS of JoaN).
Rhys Trimble is a Welsh poet, performer, avant garde chef and honey badger enthusiast, studying for a PhD, author of 10 or more chapbooks, recents include: SWANSEA AUTOMATIC (experimental novel) (Aquifer), REJECTAMENTA (contraband) and HEXERISK (knives forks and spoons).
Rhys Trimble residency and events at AiR Space/Craft Swansea
The launch of Rhys Trimble’s latest book Swansea Automatic, as he uses Bernadette Mayer’s writing experiments to take us on an experimental poetic exploration through Swansea.
“Pick a word or phrase at random, let mind play freely around it until a few ideas have come up, then seize on one and begin to write. Try this with a non-connotative word, like “so” etc” – Bernadette Mayer.
Swansea Automatic (Aquifer Press) is an experimental novel by poet Rhys Trimble. It celebrates Swansea through the creative writing advice of Bernadette Mayer – an author associated with the American l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e poets. In the novel Trimble attempts every one of nearly a hundred pieces of ‘advice’, the results of which are a cross between an epic poem, a surreal semi-autobiographical comic novel and a notebook exploring the springs of creativity.
To launch the book Rhys Trimble will be in residence at Swansea’s AiR art and craft space, there’ll be an evening launch event and creative workshop where those that attending can try out some of Mayer’s innovative ‘experiments in writing’ for themselves.
Residency: 24th – 26th of September in AiR building
Launch party: 25th September 6.30pm
Workshop: Saturday 26th September 1 – 3pm, £5
30 High Street, Swansea, United Kingdom
Rhys Trimble video from The Other Room’s Welsh night
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Issue 6 of Rhys Trimble’s online magazine out now, here.
The Other Room – tonight
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John Goodby: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
John Goodby is an expert on Dylan Thomas and has edited a version of his Collected Poems – see an interview HERE
Read about and download a sample of John’s cut-up sonnet sequence, Illennium, at Shearsman – LINK
Rhys Trimble: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Rhys Trimble is one of the performers and will make his second appearance at The Other Room. Lots of things can be trimbled at Rhys’ website – LINK
Nia Davies: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Follow this LINK to read an interview with Nia Davies in Wales Art Review
Chris Paul: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Hear Chris Paul read from his Veer publication stenia cultas handbook – LINK
Or some poems at onedit – LINK
Lyndon Davies and Graham Hartill: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details. Below is a recent collaboration between two of the our performers, Lyndon Davies and Graham Hartill.
Knives Forks and Spoons book launch
Lucy Burnett, Tom Jenks, Paul Sutton, Rhys Trimble, Debbie Walsh. 7 March at 20:00. The Britons Protection 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, M1 5LE.
CAESURA #28
Edinburgh’s monthly night of experimental words and performance featuring writers and artists from across the UK and abroad. Avant jive for the masses.
For the first event of 2015 we’re back in Summerhall’s Demonstration Room with a Welsh word-terrorist, a Newcastle-based dictaphone tickler and vocal goof, a Bath-based innovative poet and academic, and a local modernist poet and multimedia merchant.That is:
Rhys Trimble
Posset
Samantha Walton
Rodney Relax
£5 entry (£4 concessions)
7.30pm for 8pm start.
Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL. More here.
Of Orhpeus
Rhys Trimble: Herserix
Out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Storm and Golden Sky
Friday 30th May, 7 PM start. The Caledonia, 2 Catharine Street, Liverpool, L7 7DX. Joanne Ashcroft and Rhys Trimble.
BOSCH Harvest Festival
Robert Sheppard in Bangor
18th October, The Blue Sky Café, Bangor, North Wales 7.00-10.00. Reading from A Translated Man as part of an event organised by Rhys Trimble.
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