Tom Crosher took a number of photos of our night in October. Super thanks. There are more photos via the link under these photos.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RMBMb2hxWiZ6MOYQ2
Scott Thurston
Change of line-up for 31st October
Unfortunately, Pascal O’Loughlin is unable to read at our our next event on Tuesday 31st October. His place will be taken by Scott Thurston, who will be reading from his brand new book Poems for the Dance. See above for a film of Scott performing with Steve Boyland and one from our own archive.
The other readers will be James Davies and Stephen Mooney. We will still be at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester and the Other Room will still be, as always, free. We hope to see you there.
Scott Thurston is a poet, mover and educator working in higher education in Manchester, UK. He has published twelve books and chapbooks of poetry, including three full-length collections with Shearsman: Hold (2006), Momentum (2008) and Internal Rhyme (2010). More recent work includes Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer, 2011), Figure Detached Figure Impermanent(Oystercatcher, 2014) and, just out, Poems for the Dance (Aquifer, 2017). He edited The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk (2007) and in 2011, Shearsman published his collection of four long interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Caroline Bergvall and Andrea Brady, called Talking Poetics. Scott is founding co-editor of the open access Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and co-organizer of the long-running poetry reading series The Other Room in Manchester. Since 2004, he has been developing a poetics integrating dance and poetry which has seen him collaborating with dancers in Berlin and New York as well as in the UK.
Poems for the Dance (Aquifer Books, 2017) contains an essay and poems occasioned by Scott’s engagement with Five Rhythms and other improvised dance and movement practices over more than a decade. The book is a multi-faceted enquiry into the relationship between poetry and movement, exploring the shared vitality dynamics of both artistic forms as it seeks for personal, social and political truths. With an introduction by Camilla Nelson and photographs by Roger Bygott.
Scott Thurston’s Poems for the Dance
Containing an essay, and poems, occasioned by the author’s engagement with Five Rhythms and other improvised dance and movement practices over more than a decade, Poems for the Dance is a multi-faceted enquiry into the relationship between poetry and movement, exploring the shared vitality dynamics of both artistic forms as it seeks for personal, social and political truths. With an introduction by Camilla Nelson and photographs by Roger Bygott. Full details here.
Gramophone RAY GUN 8
Intersections: local and international poetry in Manchester
A unique evening of international and local poetry exploring how words connect people from very different parts of the world. This special event proudly presents award-winning poets from Canada alongside poets who live and work in the Manchester and Salford area. Plus, you can meet the poets after the event. Free, but book via Eventbrite.
Featuring Jeanette Lynes, Catherine Graham, Albert F. Moritz and Ian Burgham from Canada and Scott Thurston, Amy McCauley and Tom Jenks from Manchester.
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY. 7 PM start.
Arvon Experimental Poetry course
Sep 18th – Sep 23rd 2017. Lumb Bank, The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Heptonstall , Hebden Bridge, HX7 6DF. With Scott Thurston, Harriet Tarlo and Maggie O’Sullivan.
This course is suitable for poets who would like to explore innovative poetic techniques, throw over old habits, or push their work further. You will be encouraged to explore a diversity of poetic forms and uses of language, such as open form, collage and juxtaposition. Your tutors will bring to bear their background in the UK’s innovative poetry scene, introducing you to the approaches of British and American experimental poets as a means of encouraging you to play and take risks in your own work. They will also help you explore some of the many ways of setting off into the unknown, and returning enriched, wiser, changed. More details here.
Arvon Experimental Poetry Course with Scott Thurston and Harriet Tarlo, & Maggie O’Sullivan as guest reader
Arvon Experimental Poetry Course
With Scott Thurston and Harriet Tarlo, & Maggie O’Sullivan as guest reader
Sep 18th – Sep 23rd 2017
Suitable for new poets and more experienced writers who would like to explore innovative poetic techniques, throw over old habits, or push their work further. You will be encouraged to explore a diversity of poetic forms and uses of language, such as open form, collage and juxtaposition. We will bring to bear our background in what is often referred to as the UK’s ‘innovative’ poetry scene, introducing you to the approaches of British and American experimental poets as a means of encouraging you to play and take risks in your own work.
More at the LINK
Scott Thurston and Nathan Walker on The Verb
Other Room organiser Scott Thurston and Other Room reader Nathan Walker will be on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb on Friday, 3rd February at 10 pm. The programme will be available online after broadcast here.
The Other Room website rebooted!
The Other Room website has been running the whole duration we’ve been running our nights and has started to bulge and bulge. So we decided to do a bit of a spring clean in order to make it easier to navigate. We’ve also tidied up all those inevitable missed links which Mick Weller celebrates HERE.
If you’re old or new to the site have a look around our massive archive of blog/news posts, video archive from most of our readings, video and print interviews, book reviews, reviews of our events, poster archive and photos. Don’t forget of course to check out our upcoming events and annual anthology.
James, Scott & Tom
The Other Room: a review
“Our eighth birthday event was initially billed as a sound art night, but as it turned out, two of our performers decided to deliver their poetry, setting up some delicious counterpoints for the evening. In time-honoured fashion we had to have a gimmick – on this occasion it was a complete copy of the annual anthology turned page by page into paper aeroplanes which got fired at various points during the evening at an increasingly wary audience.”
Scott Thurston’s thoughts on our eighth birthday event. Read them in full here.
Storm and Golden Sky
FRIDAY 26th February 2016. Storm and Golden Sky at the Caledonia. Lizzie Nunnery and Scott Thurston. Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7.30 pm spot-on start (but slightly later start than previously)!
The Curly Mind
The second issue of The Curly Mind is now online and contains poems by The Other Room’s Scott Thurston.
An Educated Desire: for Robert Sheppard at 60
Scott Thurston has edited a festschrift in celebration of Robert Sheppard’s sixtieth birthday, out now on Knives Forks and Spoons and available to buy for the reduced price of £10 until the end of December.
Scott Thurston on The Verb
Scott Thurston is the Podcast Extra on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, episode from 27th November 2015, reading his poem inspired by Buber’s ‘I and Thou’, and examines the relationship between his poetry and Buber’s philosophy.
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PhD opportunities at Salford
From The Other Room’s Scott Thurston…
Once again, as part of the North West Consortium of universities (NWC), the University of Salford is keen to receive proposals for PhDs in a variety of Arts and Humanities subjects. If your proposal is accepted then you may be eligible for funding. We are initially looking for expressions of interest accompanied by a draft proposal by 3rd December 2015. If viable you will be asked to submit a formal proposal to Salford by the 22nd January and, if accepted at this stage, you’ll be asked to submit a funding proposal to the NWC by 12 February
Because of the nature of this email list, I would like to let you know that I am particularly interested in receiving proposals for PhDs in Creative Writing, with a focus on innovative poetic practice. I work in the context of the English Language, Literature and Creative Practice research group, which is also keen to receive proposals for PhDs in Literature across a range of areas.
Please see the following link for more details:
More information will be available on the Salford website in due course. Michael Goddard is the official contact for the School of Arts and Media (m.goddard@salford.ac.uk) to discuss your proposal, but please also contact me directly at S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you have an idea that you wish to discuss.
The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry relaunched
The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry edited by Scott Thurston and Gareth Farmer is re-launched at the Open Library of the Humanities.
You can find out more HERE
James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston at Verbose
Last year at Sheffield’s Midsummer Festival The Other Room organisers performed for the first time together – the first time in 7 years.
Only one year on and it’s happening again, this time on home turf in Fallowfield, Manchester, at Verbose:
Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 22 June. This month, our special guests are James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston, the three organisers of long-running, Manchester-based experimental poetry reading series The Other Room. No slouches on the publishing front, with over 20 books between them, James, Tom and Scott also collaborate extensively with other writers and run various other enterprises: if p then q independent publishing house (James), zimZalla avant objects (Tom) and Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (Scott).
There will also be an open mic of prose and poetry – visit the Verbose website for instructions on how to sign up. Your host is Sarah-Clare Conlon. It’s free entry and doors are at 7.30pm – get there then to bagsie a seat. Verbose takes place every fourth Monday of the month at Fallow café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M14 6NA. See http://verbosemcr.wordpress.com/ for more details.
Wrogowie
Films from SJ Fowler’s Anglo-Polish collaborative project are now online, including this by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese and Scott Thurston. They’re all available at the Enemies site.
Poetry and Experiment course at The Arvon Centre with Scott Thurston and Harriet Tarlo
Nov 23rd – Nov 28th 2015
Lumb Bank
During the week, participants will be encouraged to explore a diversity of poetic forms and uses of language, such as open form, collage and juxtaposition. We will bring to bear our background in what is often referred to as the UK’s ‘innovative’ poetry scene, introducing you to the approaches of British and American experimental poets as a means of encouraging you to play and take risks in your own work. Suitable for new poets and more experienced writers who would like to explore innovative poetic techniques, throw over old habits, or push their work further.
Single room price: £725
Shared room price: £680
Of Orhpeus
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