Ryan Ormonde

The Notecards

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seekers of lice writes and prints The Notecards.

Rebecca Cremin and Ryan Ormonde of press free press each receive a set of The Notecards from seekers of lice in the post.

Rebecca Cremin of press free press receives the metronome from seekers of lice in the post.

Ryan Ormonde of press free press receives the folding ruler from seekers of lice in the post.

Identical costumes are chosen.

The Notecards are performed in the Reading Room of Arnolfini in Bristol as part of ’4 Days’ and in association with VerySmallKitchen on 26/4/2013.

The Notecards wait to be performed again.

Press Free Press Respond

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press free press RESPOND: A monthly series of active reading. Each month we choose two publications available to read in the Poetry Library – the selection is based on browsing and instinct. We are mostly interested in reading new work. In the library we each have 20 minutes to read each publication. Outside the library we are talking and writing in response: talking (5 minutes) / writing (5 minutes) / reading each other / repeat x 4. Resulting 12 documents are unedited recordings of live talking and unedited transcriptions of live writing. We hope this series will encourage dialogue between poets and books. This month, ‘Waffles’ by Matthew Welton and ‘Appeal in Air’ by Philip Davenport:

Poets for Pussy Riot – the videos

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A week after the news that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich of the Russian punk collective, Pussy Riot, were sentenced to two years in prison, over 30 contemporary poets came together at the Rich mix arts centre in Brick Lane, London for a unique evening of readings intended as an act of solidarity through the medium of poetry, and a celebration of the courage and spirit of fellow writers of this generation.

Films of the event are now online, including this collaborative piece by recent Other Room readers Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde. The full list as follows:

Becky Cremin & Ryan Ormonde – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7cmQ0lnoa4

Ryan Ormonde – A Preview

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Preview of July 19th 2012 performer Ryan Ormonde who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe, and Hazel Smith. See blog entries below for previews of Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe & Hazel Smith.

Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012

Ryan Ormonde

is one of the four poet performers who collaborate as ‘press free press’ in various live publishing and writing projects; the others are Becky Cremin, Sejal Chad and Karen Sandhu. Alone, Ryan is interested in finding an intuitive writing method that is evidence of reading two or more different texts, or that is the written outcome of making a text from criteria suggested while sitting somewhere outside, or from walking around. Ryan has a chapbook and a book-book published with The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. The book-book is called ‘The of of the film of the book and the of of the book of the film’. Ryan is the longest serving member of staff at a certain West End cinema.

See his websites at :

http://poeticpracticejournal.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://www.pressfreepress.com/

 

Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – A Preview

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Preview of July 19th 2012 performers Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Ryan Ormonde and Hazel Smith. Ryan Ormonde to follow. See blog entries below for Hazel Smith.

Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012

Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe are working for the third time on a collaboration commissioned by The Maintenant reading series.

Above is their current literary postcards project. More HERE

The second project HERE

And the first HERE

Chris McCabe

was born in Liverpool in 1977. His published books are The Hutton Inquiry (Salt, 2005), Zeppelins (Salt, 2008) and a play Shad Thames, Broken Wharf (Penned in the Margins 2010). He has also recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive. His third full collection, THE RESTRUCTURE, was published in May 2012. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London.

Tom Jenks

has two collections, A Priori and *, published by if p then q (http://ifpthenq.co.uk). His work has appeared in a range of digital and print publications including Department magazine, onedit, Cleaves, Blackbox Manifold and the 18s anthology. He organises the avant objects imprint zimZalla (http://zimzalla.co.uk) and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website (http://otherroom.org). Gnomes, a collaboration with Chris McCabe, was published by The Red Ceilings Press in 2011.

Hazel Smith – A Preview

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Preview of July 19th 2012 performer Hazel Smith who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Ryan Ormonde and a collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks. Previews to follow.

Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012

Hazel Smith is active in the areas of poetry, performance and new media. Her work has appeared in numerous international literary magazines and in literary, musical and multimedia anthologies. She has published three volumes of poetry: Abstractly Represented: Poems and Performance Texts 1982-90, Butterfly Books, 1991; Keys Round her Tongue: short prose, poetry and performance texts Soma, 2000 and The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works, Tinfish Press, 2008 (accompanied by a CD-Rom of works with Roger Dean).

Hazel has also, with Roger Dean, made three CDs of her performance work, Poet Without Language, Rufus Records 1994; Nuraghic Echoes, Rufus Records, 1996 and Returning the Angles, Soma Recording and Publishing 2001. She has collaborated with Roger Dean on many ABC radio commissions including Poet Without Language, 1991, Nuraghic Echoes, 1994, The Erotics of Gossip, 2001, Returning the Angles 1998, for The Listening Room, and The Afterlives of Betsy Scott, 2007, for Airplay. Her performance collaborations, such as the writer the performer the program the madwoman 2004, the space of history 2006, Mid-Air Conversations 2006 and Minimal 2007 are showcased on many poetics websites such as PennSound (US), and in internet journals such as How2 (US). One of her collaborations with Roger Dean, Poet without Language, was nominated by the ABC for the Prix Italia in 1992.

Hazel is co-author with Roger Dean of numerous new media works, such as Wordstuffs: the city and the body, 1998, Intertwingling 1999, the egg the cart the horse the chicken 2004, soundAFFECTs 2004 (with Anne Brewster) and Time the Magician 2007. She has also collaborated on several occasions with visual artist Sieglinde Karl, and their joint work has been exhibited in many art galleries in Australia and overseas. She has performed her own work extensively nationally and internationally in Europe and Australasia. She has been co-recipient of numerous grants from the Australia Council, The Australian Film Commission and Arts Tasmania.

Some links to work:

the writer, the performer, the program, the madwoman

the egg, the cart, the horse, the chicken

wordstuffs

The Other Room July update

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We can confirm the performers for our July gig at Leeds Gallery (not Leeds Art Gallery). A very special visit from Hazel Smith, Ryan Ormonde coming from London and The Other Room’s Tom Jenks’ and Chris McCabe’s uproarious shindig collaboration Gnomes; now in its third guise. Before that of course at our new home in Manchester, The Castle, we welcome Peter Jaeger, Ira Lightman and Helmut Lemke on June 12th, details in the column to the right. August 14th in Manchester sees Frank Kuppner, Nathan Jones and David Gaffney whoop it up.

Openned presents ‘basemeta’

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In the basement of the Foundry, Old Street, London, from 18:30 to 23:30 on the 25th of March 2009, poets Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde documented the entire Openned poetry reading from before it started to well after it had finished. This reading was the eighteenth in the series. From this they produced a document called basemeta.

In some of the recordings of the 18th Openned night you can catch occasional glimpses of them or hear the gentle tap of typewriter keys as they produced the documentation.

basemeta was performed at the next Openned night and their performance of this document can be viewed here. However, the documentation also stands as a poem in its own right and is an excellent piece of work and is available here for free and will be permanently available from our Nights Documentation page.

Click HERE to link to blog entry for free downloadable pdf and links to visual material